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Balkan Treat Box opens doors at 8103 Big Bend Blvd. in Webster Groves on Wednesday, Feb. 13. Credit: Meera Nagarajan
From left, Balkan Treat Box co-owners Edo and chef Loryn Nalic Credit: Meera Nagarajan
The 50-seat dining room features tables made by local woodworker David Stine and a view of the open kitchen. Credit: Meera Nagarajan
Clockwise from top left, dishes at Balkan Treat Box include sopska salad (a mix of diced cucumber, tomato, red pepper and feta), pide, lahmacun, a rice pudding dessert and cevapi. Credit: Meera Nagarajan
Food truck fans will recognize popular menu items like cevapi, grilled beef sausages stuffed inside wood-fired somun with kajmak (a sour cream-like condiment), raw onion and cabbage salad. Credit: Meera Nagarajan
The pljeskavica, also called the Balkan Burger, features a grilled beef patty topped with cheese, kajmak, tomatoes and pickles stuffed in somun and served with a side of ajvar. Credit: Meera Nagarajan
Loryn Nalic created the colorful stained wood-block wall at the end of the dining room. Credit: Meera Nagarajan
In addition to traditional beef, chicken and cheese pide, customers can also order the daily vegetable topping like wood-fired oyster mushrooms. All pide include cheese, kajmak, ajvar (a roasted red pepper spread) and herbs. Credit: Meera Nagarajan
Chef Loryn Nalic prepares somun for the copper-coated, wood-fired oven. Credit: Meera Nagarajan
Balkan Treat Box’s oven reaches a roaring 900 degrees. Chef Loryn Nalic uses it to fire somun, the freshly baked, pita-like bread that serves as the base for most dishes. Credit: Meera Nagarajan
The balik ekmek features a daily fresh fish (like sea bass, for example) grilled and tucked inside somun with lettuce, tomato, onion, sumac salad, herbs and house BTB Sauce. Credit: Meera Nagarajan
Patlidzan is a grilled eggplant sandwich piled with marinated hardboiled egg, cabbage, cucumber, tomato, lettuce, pickles, herbs, kajmak and an apricot-pomegranate molasses. Credit: Meera Nagarajan
Lahmacun is a wood-fired Turkish flatbread topped with either spicy beef or tofu, a chili-spiked, yogurt-based house BTB (Balkan Treat Box) Sauce, herbs, onion and sumac salad, then rolled and sliced. Credit: Meera Nagarajan
Guests can finish the meal on a sweet note with sutlija, a rice pudding topped with crushed pistachios and rose petals. Credit: Meera Nagarajan

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