LoRusso's Cucina•St. Louis, MO

Italian•$$$

…in 1977 in an Italian Ristorante where Terri and I met. She was 15 years old and worked there as a busgirl. I was 18 and just starting out as a cook. We married in 1982 and four years later we opened a small twenty-eight-seat cafe. By 1989 we outgrew the space and moved to our present location on Watson Road. Born and raised on the Hill, our recipes initially were family staples, mostly Sicilian that I learned at my mother’s side… the same way she learned from my Nanna Serafina. Other recipes w...More