In December, The Scoop reported that a large portion of the former Busch’s Grove Market was expected to become home to a second location for EdgeWild Restaurant & Winery. EdgeWild owners Andy and Dee Dee Kohn, along with restaurateur and EdgeWild proprietor Chris LaRocca, had planned to open doors in the Ladue space in early summer 2013, as stated in a press release issued on December 18. At that time, a letter of intent had been signed, but a lease had not. The plan has since fallen through, as reported by the St. Louis Business Journal.
“Construction costs continued to go higher and higher,” said LaRocca in a follow-up interview with The Scoop last Friday. “It was beyond our threshold of comfort.” LaRocca noted that he and the Kohns continue to seek the right space for a second EdgeWild.
Another of LaRocca’s projects – the expansion of Crushed Red Urban Bake & Chop Shop – is moving forward, however. The Scoop announced last September that the owners of Crushed Red were pursuing more locations for their pizza and salad restaurant – one in the Central West End, the other in St. Louis county. Per LaRocca, the latter, located at 140 S. Kirkwood Road, is slated to open May 7; the former, at 313 N. Euclid Ave., previously home to a Pasta House Co., is expected to open in late July. The menu at these locations will be identical to the original Crushed Red location in Clayton.
This article appears in March 2013.