Gioia’s Deli will open third location in Creve Coeur

Good news for sandwich fans: Gioia’s Deli will set up shop in West County in the new year. The popular sandwich shop will open a Creve Coeur location at 623 N. New Ballas Road by April 1, according to co-owner Alex Donley.

Gioia’s food truck has hit the Creve Coeur area since 2014, and Donley said it almost always sells out. That success, coupled with an increase in Gioia’s catering business in the area, made opening a brick-and-mortar location there a no-brainer.

“We were just waiting for an opportunity,” he said. “This space came across our bow in October, and we’ve been working [to get it] ever since.”

Donley said the menu will be the same as the other two Gioia's locations to start. The space will have 40 seats and possibly some outside seating, too, as well as a 60-space parking lot. Donley said the building, which most recently housed a Goodcents Deli Fresh Subs, would only require some aesthetic tweaks to get it up and running.

“We just have to make the space our own, and give it that Gioia’s charm,” he said.

Matt Sorrell is staff writer at Sauce Magazine.