Three Flags Tavern Has Closed

This one hurts.

Three Flags Tavern(4940 Southwest Avenue), hailed as the RFT's best new restaurant of 2014, has closed its doors, St. Louis Magazine reports.

Restaurant owners John and Cathy O'Brien blamed low revenue, caused in part by the Kingshighway closure that has rerouted traffic from the immediate vicinity for more than a year.

The bridge reconstruction was supposed to wrap up by late 2016, but delays have stretched the project until at least April.…