Charlie Gitto’s on the Hill — In a city as dynamic as St. Louis, businesses come and they go.  Nowhere is this more true than in the city’s thriving, and at times, fickle restaurant industry.  As a Midwestern culinary center, St. Louis has been home to ingenuity and innovation in the industry.  

We’ve seen the births and deaths of thousands of individual restaurants over the decades.  So when a restaurant comes along that satisfies our collective appetites and keeps doing so for decades, it’s worth noting.  Staying power is a rare commodity in this modern world, and even more rare when linked to the fickle tastes of restaurant customers, who seem to relentlessly crave something new.  So it is no small measure of success when a local restaurant not only survives 36 years in business, but thrives and grows over those decades.