Historical December 1992 article. Dates, prices, services and contacts describe the source period; current availability has not been established.
For those who find pizza in St. Louis to be possessed of a cracker-like crust and not much variation, an alternative will soon be at hand. Tim Hirsch, a native of the metropolitan area, intends to open Wildflour Pizza and Cafe on Pershing in DeBaliviere Place about January 15. Hirsch now has all necessary permits and only is awaiting the delivery of carpeting and the last final touches. Wildflour Pizza is opening in the site formerly occupied by Cafe Alexander.
The cafe will seat 50 indoors with additional space outdoors for 20 more patrons during the warmer months.
The menu will include sandwiches, soup, salad, and perhaps pasta as well as pizza. Pizza will be made with homemade dough, prepared on the premises fresh daily.
In fact, everything served at Wildflour will be homemade. Hirsch had always wanted to have a restaurant like this.
He has worked in restaurants since he was 16. He’s 25 now.
His father read about the Wildflour Pizza establishments in California—six in all—and felt this might be what his son was looking for. Hirsch went out to California and learned the entire business from the owners there.
He is now in partnership with them.
After returning from California, Hirsch looked everywhere in St. Louis to find a suitable locale for the Wildflour Pizza and Cafe.
He wanted an area that wasn’t saturated with pizza places and that would work for the kind of place he wished to open. DeBaliviere Place represented the ideal site. Hirsch intends to decorate his cafe with artwork furnished by local artists.
He is taking very old tables and having them painted black.
It appears that the ambience will be somewhat bohemian. Wildflour Pizza and Cafe will be open 7 days a week.
It will be open from 11:00 am. to 11:00 p.m. Monday through Saturday and from 3:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.
In addition to table seating, there will be carryout service and delivery.
Originally published in The Times of Skinker-DeBaliviere, December 1992.
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Archival transcription note: Hours give Monday–Saturday 11–11 and then 3–10 without explicitly naming Sunday; preserve absent weekday.
Original source: SD_Times1992_12.pdf, printed page(s) 6; PDF page(s) 6.
