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Gioia's Deli Made the Most Epic Fish Fry Sandwich Ever

By Cheryl Baehr

Owner Alex Donley realizes that Gioia's Deli's (multiple locations including 1934 Macklind Avenue, 314-776-9410) King Cod sandwich goes against everything sacred about the Catholic season of Lent. Gluttonous, decadent and an object of pure pleasure, the Hill institution's answer to the church basement fish fry is more an act of sin than one of penance.

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click to enlarge Phuong Bui Farotto's is one of the area's original St. Louis-style pizzerias. Jeffrey Parrott is humble when he talks about Farotto's (9525 Manchester Road, Rock Hill; 314-962-0048), the restaurant he runs with his sisters Lindsay Parrott and Lisa LaRuffa. Though there's no question the Rock Hill institution was one of the trailblazers of St. Louis-style pizza, he's quick to note that at least three other pizzerias came before his, and that they were all wonderful in their own right. However, if there is one slice of Provel-inflected lore he will put his foot down about, it's that the square cut that's come to define the Gateway City's pie started more than a decade before Imo's.

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