Sauce on the Side is growing up and moving out of its original downtown home at 903 Pine St. Co-owner Brendon Maciariello announced that he has signed a lease for 411 N. Eighth St., as reported by the St. Louis Business Journal. The move is planned for mid-June.
The new location, which has sat vacant since Shula’s 347 closed in 2012, will give the Sauce on the Side crew another 1,000 square feet of space. Maciariello said that means a bigger kitchen with another oven, four draft beer taps (instead of only bottled brews) and 50 to 80 additional seats inside and on a large patio. “It would be nice to put your arms out lengthwise during dinner service,” he joked. An expanded kitchen will equate to shorter delivery times during lunch, too. “It will be nice to accommodate those needs,” he said. “It will be a better experience for the guest.”
Sauce on the Side hit the ground running in August 2012. Two years later, it opened a second location at 7810 Forsyth Blvd.
-photo by Greg Rannells
This article appears in May 2015.