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Lost Tables collects the culinary memories of lost St. Louis restaurants.

12/06/2025

By popular demand, chef and restaurateur Greg Perez is back for more!

Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lost-tables/id1749639527?i=1000739881244

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6lV7Gpi4Ukn8b9tSvC91qb?si=hUTnAxiOR1C6O5xiCiTNjA

11/22/2025

Someone once called Greg Perez the Forrest Gump of restaurants. From Rich & Charlie’s, to his Flying Saucers at Blue Water Grill to his award-winning Painted Plates, to the Grateful Inn, it was indeed, “Run, Greg, Run!” from one project to the next.

Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lost-tables/id1749639527?i=1000737799880

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6OclekPf73br0jM0EYkQU2?si=BCC5QpqDRTqlZKRzKAPDuw

11/15/2025

Monarch opened for business on Manchester Road in Maplewood in 2003, and thrived for almost 10 years. Aaron Teitelbaum and Jeff Orbin talked with me about their restaurant at Teitelbaum’s Kingside Diner in Clayton.

Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lost-tables/id1749639527?i=1000736787741

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/7qLyT7qn0g309oCVbStUxA?si=wboLTcB1SM6f_GUhhxfcyA

11/08/2025

La Tropicana Market was an institution on the corner of Lindenwood and Hereford for over 30 years. Rafael Trabanco told me his family’s story when I talked with him at his longtime office on South Broadway.

Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lost-tables/id1749639527?i=1000735748972

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/49eHp4V0uVpyjafpKjmE8J?si=JMJTRVvHSh6iAhKpPUWhzg

10/18/2025

Gregg Mosberger ran his own catering company – Gregory’s Creative Cuisine – for 34 years. But Mosberger began his career as a dishwasher at Richard Perry’s Jefferson Avenue Boarding House.

Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lost-tables/id1749639527?i=1000732290722

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3E7yS4VDOU0OZms8sNahq9?si=PpyQNPofRWKflPw8dt2g6g

09/27/2025

Culpeppers was an institution in the St. Louis area for almost 80 years. Its Central West End location was the first to open and had the longest run.

Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lost-tables/id1749639527?i=1000728574360

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2Eo89IPBIqH8P2BwQAclx5?si=A3pfhzWaROuC62USYH1GIA

08/30/2025

Louis Fiddleman operated Louie’s Delicatessen from 1955 to 1987. I talked with Alan Fiddleman about his father over a noisy breakfast.

Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lost-tables/id1749639527?i=1000724048816

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3NwtwFkFkqDK0JWXUiZsIc?si=KrTRWhuISVaHaYj_BRi88w

08/23/2025

Harry Giessow owned The Candlelight House on Clayton Road. He and his son, Gary, owned the Howard Johnson’s in Kirkwood and the Howard Johnson’s on Clayton Road, which Gary morphed into Layton’s. I talked with Gary and his wife Lil at their home in Ladue.

Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lost-tables/id1749639527?i=1000723090124

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6eDeEVk090cXRAUIzFcWTm?si=U_wdO1J_Qie_aUG49hrFHg

08/16/2025

Michael Del Pietro has opened more restaurants than he wishes to remember. I talked with Michael about growing up in his parents’ restaurant, training at The Culinary Institute of America, and opening his first restaurant, Portabella.

Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lost-tables/id1749639527?i=1000722055252

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/58uHXw7fXm1Qa8jw5X3KMu?si=I8q_qcmKRn6jghQoSD9sUw

08/09/2025

Ken Bland may be less well known that some of his restaurants, such as The Leather Bottle, Cork ‘n Cleaver and Dierdorf & Hart’s. I talked with Ken about his restaurant career at his home in Clayton.

Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lost-tables/id1749639527?i=1000721193088

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0btW9HzMF1n6JsMK8xjF8U?si=S3oU6gvHRoeEuv9yAX7YTQ

08/02/2025

Kopperman’s was an institution in the Central West End for over thirty years. Myron Kopperman passed away in 2019. But Sanford Rich is still alive and well and living in Miami.

Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lost-tables/id1749639527?i=1000720225459

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6GJWNtv3EUSaa9z9s8ZB2P?si=a8RDrM-_SYW2stEMjvJayQ

07/26/2025

Mel and Alan Sherman opened Sherman Brothers Deli in 1963. From its longtime home at Olive & Mosley to the Pastrami Joynt to Shermies, the family business thrived for almost 40 years. Mel Sherman’s sons, Mark and Stuart, shared the story of knishes and corned beef and more.

Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lost-tables/id1749639527?i=1000718987532

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3q7OzETi009cQ3AvdKML3m?si=SnpQpPWeQc6MJ2wjXk_GqA

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