I Don’t remember Cyranos, I was more of a White Castle and London & Sons Winghouse kind of guy :-)
I lived in the the Chase Park Plaza/Barnes Hospital/Wash Univ Med School area...right by the Park.
Bicycled around the 4 mile bike trail in Forest Park almost every day.
St Louis was great back then, not so much today :-/
Cyrano’s was a Little Italian place in the basement of a shop. When you went down the stairs there was at least one maybe two big ol reel to reel tape decks playing chamber music as I recall.
The one specialty I recall was the Cleopatra, IIRC it was about 1 pint of very rich French Vanilla ice cream covers in a hard chocolate shell covered in real whipped cream with various nuts and of course a cherry on top! It was delivered in a large silver bowl on a small pedestal.
The cost was real reasonable for a poor high school kid only a buck or two at the most. So of course it made for a cheap but impressive date:-)
I was going to take my wife there shortly after we were married but my dad said it had burned up:-( This was around 1976 or so. A sad day for sure!
Have a great day I is going to have to call it a night
Regards
alfa6 ;>}