Restaurateur Eric Smith made his home here 10 years ago and recently chose his adopted hometown to bring some of his favorite flavors with which he grew up on the other side of the river.

“The whole idea was to bring over here what you can get over there, like provel cheese on our pizzas, toasted ravioli and gooey butter cake,” the St. Louis native from North County said. “We are not ‘The Hill.’ I grew up eating the pizzas over there, in North County, from places like Pirrones and Faraci’s.” The former is in Florissant and the latter is in nearby Ferguson, Missouri.