Sunday, December 23, 2012
New owners are Andy and Dee Dee Kohn, teamed with veteran restaurateur Chris LaRocca.
EdgeWild Restaurant & Winery is opening a second location at the former Busch’s Grove in Ladue. Owners Andy and Dee Dee Kohn are teaming up again with veteran restaurateur and EdgeWild proprietor Chris LaRocca to open the new establishment in early summer 2013. The original location is near Chesterfield Mall at 550 Chesterfield Center and opened in November, 2011. LaRocca and EdgeWild’s Executive Chef Aaron Baggett are developing the menu for the new location. Executive Chef Baggett will oversee the kitchens and culinary teams at both locations. According to a press release from the comapny, the new location will continue EdgeWild's focus on inventive American cuisine and wine while having a greater emphasis on the bar and an increased …
Friday, April 27, 2012
Manager: "She was part of the Edgewild family."
"She's a good girl," said Chris LaRocca, manager of Edgewild Restaurant and Winery, in Chesterfield. He was talking about Amber Wood after he learned of her death Friday. Wood, 23, and longtime server at Edgewild, was killed early Friday in a hit-and-run when she crossed Broadway in St. Louis, with friends. "I lost a child too," LaRocca said Friday afternoon to Chesterfield Patch. "So I spoke with Amber's mother this morning. She's just a wreck." Wood was crossing Broadway about 2 a.m. when what police described as a grey or silver Pontiac Grand Am struck two of the group. A man was hospitaized, and Wood's body was identified at the scene by her mother, Georgie Busch. LaRocca said when a parent is called to a scene like that, and sees the…
Thursday, March 1, 2012
Reviewers praise the restaurant’s food and dessert but are less impressed by the noise and wine list.
Finding a quality, independently owned eatery among the abundance of chain restaurants in Chesterfield can be a challenge. “The biggest disappointment with Chesterfield over the years has been the lack of original, local restaurants,” said Aaron Lademann, who moved to the city from downtown Clayton. “Chesterfield is truly ‘chain-city, USA.’” But Lademann said that changed for him when he found EdgeWild, the new modern American restaurant and winery that promises a “wine country experience.” Lademann, along with hundreds of other diners, reviewed the restaurant online after opening in the Bahama Breeze site at Chesterfield Mall in November. Lademann ranked EdgeWild an 8.5 out of 10 in his review on Urbanspoon. Here’s what other reviewers …
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Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Renovation includes a wine-making room, a barrel room.
Edgewild Restaurant and Winery is expected to open up by the end of the year at the long-empty former Bahama Breeze site, in Chesterfield. It's in Chesterfield Mall parking lot. The Winery is to have a wine-tasting bar, food and music, according to Edgewild's website. There will also be a wine barrel room, and space for 250 patrons. Winemakers from Missouri, California, Oregon and Washington State will supply wine and Edgewild's own label. The Winery secured a liquor license from the city in August, to sell alcohol by the drink, by the container, and on Sundays. The owner of Edgewild is Andy Kohn. Contrary to earlier information, Chandler Hill Vineyards' CEO/Managing Partner Chuck Gillentine said Chandler has no part in the new Edgewild, …
Gabrielle Biondo
12:58 am on Monday, December 24, 2012
I love EdgeWild!!! We celebrated my birthday there earlier this year and go there a lot for dinner and drinks! GREAT food and wine!:) more ›