Restaurateur Danny Meyer is firmly planted in New York City, with eateries like the Union Square Café, Gramercy Tavern and Shake Shack. But Danny’s roots stretch across the country to St. Louis, where he grew up exploring many of our city’s Lost Tables.

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Frank and Helen’s became a Lost Table on December 8th of this year. This is the second of a two-part podcast celebrating the restaurant’s long history.

 The second half of the Frank and Helen’s story will be told by told by the individuals who owned the restaurant after Frank Seitz sold it in 1991. First, Bob & Betty Oddy, then Scott and Mary DePolito, and finally, Patrick and Rebecca Horvath, with the help of longtime employee, Rose Hepler.

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Frank and Helen’s will become a Lost Table after its dinner service on December 8th of this year. This is the first of a two-part podcast celebrating the restaurant that became famous for its pizza and broasted chicken.

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We once again return to Duff’s, with another voice and another perspective. Ginger Carlson’s perspective. Ginger was Duff's first chef. This is her story – a story she wanted to tell.

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Kemoll’s, one of the oldest family-owned restaurants in St. Louis, became a Lost Table this past New Year’s Eve. Owner Mark Cusumano made that decision. 

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Adalaide Balaban left her restaurant and the Central West End over 30 years ago. But from her home in Silsbee, Texas, the memories came flooding back.

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John Clark opened a bar near St. Louis University right out of college. This spawned a restaurant career that would lead to Lucius Boomer, Clamorgan, Jake's Steaks and more.

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Bob and Barbara Suberi opened Bobby's Creole in University City in 1977. Two years later, they moved across the street, and six years after that, they closed their restaurant and went sailing.

In 1997, the Suberis resurrected their restaurant as Bobby’s in Maplewood. It thrived until 2003, when they closed up shop and bought a blueberry farm in Alabama.

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Mary Rose Del Pietro grew up in the restaurant business. Her parents, Roy and Nina Russo, opened Rossino’s in 1954. Mary Rose and her husband, Mike, opened their own restaurant, Del Pietro’s, in 1976. I talked with Mary Rose, the 81-year-old matriarch of the Del Pietro family, this past July.

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Chris LaRocca opened his Crushed Red concept in 2012. The road to that opening started at his father’s restaurant, when he was 9 years old, with stops at Crazy Fish and a host of other Lost Tables along the way.

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