The Kitchen Sink is opening in the Skinker-DeBaliviere neighborhood on September 17. The 12-seat diner is located at 280 DeBaliviere Ave., formerly home to Wing Express, in the building adjacent to the MetroLink DeBaliviere Station.
The Kitchen Sink is owned by Anthony Ellerson Jr., a St. Louis native who has worked in the restaurant industry since 1996, getting his start as a busser at Rigazzi’s on The Hill. Most recently, Ellerson could be found in the kitchen at Market Pub House in The Loop. He left that post in March to bring The Kitchen Sink to fruition.
The Kitchen Sink will offer burgers, sandwiches, wings, salads and a smattering of Southern fare such as jambalaya, étouffée, seafood gumbo, and shrimp and grits. The restaurant sources all of its ingredients locally, with bread coming from Companion and Fazio’s Bakery. Ellerson noted that all of the meat is fresh instead of frozen, and the meat for the burgers is ground in-house.
The name is based on the idiom “Everything but the kitchen sink.” For this endeavor, Ellerson explained that the phrase meant that he’s “putting everything into the food — all the love for my food, all of myself.”
The Kitchen Sink opens doors this coming Monday. Hours of operation are weekdays from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m., and weekends from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. The restaurant doesn’t have a website or Facebook page yet, but the phone number is 314.261.4455.
This article appears in September 2012.