{"id":13325,"date":"2024-06-11T15:02:52","date_gmt":"2024-06-11T15:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.l3corp.net\/wordpress\/?p=13325"},"modified":"2024-06-21T14:45:54","modified_gmt":"2024-06-21T14:45:54","slug":"sauci-pasta-slated-to-open-in-st-charles-this-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.l3corp.net\/wordpress\/2024\/sauci-pasta-slated-to-open-in-st-charles-this-spring\/","title":{"rendered":"Sauci Pasta Slated To Open In St. Charles This Spring"},"content":{"rendered":"

Original Article By: St. Louis Magazine <\/a><\/p>\n

Author: Cheryl Baehr<\/a><\/p>\n

From the family behind Fratelli’s Ristorante, the fast-casual concept will feature house-made pastas and salads that are prepared to order.<\/p>\n

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A decade in the making,\u00a0Sauci Pasta<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>(1990 1st Capitol Drive, St. Charles<\/em>)\u00a0is\u00a0slated to\u00a0open its doors this spring\u00a0in St. Charles\u2019 University Commons Plaza, just across the street from Lindenwood University.\u00a0From the family behind\u00a0Fratelli’s Ristorante<\/a>, the fast-casual concept will feature house-made pastas and salads prepared to order.\u00a0Here’s what to know before you go.<\/p>\n

The Menu<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cEveryone is doing burritos and pizza, but we wanted to carve out this style for the pasta market,\u201d says co-owner Ben Alagna.<\/p>\n

For the restaurant\u2019s signature offering, the Build-A-Bowl,\u00a0guests choose from a variety of noodles\u00a0(spaghetti, fettuccini, rigatoni, canestri, fusilli, or gluten-free penne),\u00a0then dress up their bowls with a variety of sauces (red, white, rose, meat, pomodoro, carbonara, basil pesto, or garlic oil and herb), proteins (chicken, meatballs, or prosciutto), cheeses (mozzarella, burrata, ricotta, or Provel), and vegetables (broccoli, peas, eggplant, red peppers, or spinach). They can then watch as their dish is cooked to order.<\/p>\n

Although Sauci is embracing the fast-casual, customizable concept, there’s a notable difference: Rather than the ingredients being pulled\u00a0from steam tables, dishes will be customized in front of the guest and\u00a0cooked to order in pans behind the line. \u201cFood will be made in real sauce pans,\u201d Ben says. \u201cPasta needs to be hot, and it all needs to meld together.\u201d<\/p>\n

In addition to customizable bowls, Sauci has several composed offerings, such as spaghetti and meatballs, chicken fettuccine, shrimp bruschetta and deconstructed lasagna. Salads (Caesar, Cosmopolitan, and\u00a0Mediterranean) use Fratelli\u2019s signature house dressing. Breadsticks, pasta salad, and zeppole (Italian-style ricotta doughnuts) will also be available.<\/p>\n

For those who choose to dine in, food is delivered to the table via a number system. Customers also have the option\u00a0to take their items to go, with\u00a0online ordering available.<\/p>\n

The Atmosphere<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ben describes Sauci as having a modern, fast-casual feel, outfitted in neutral colors with small splashes of red. \u201cIf Fratelli\u2019s is classical music, Sauci is jazz,\u201d Ben says. \u201cIt\u2019s a little edgier and sexier but still comfortable for families, business people, and college kids.\u201d<\/p>\n

The owners\u00a0are especially excited about the restaurant\u2019s pasta-making area, located in the main dining room and\u00a0sectioned off by a half-wall, so guests have a 360-degree view of the process. The area will be surrounded with counter seating, allowing diners to take in a pasta-making show while enjoying the noodles made fresh that day. Additional tables and chairs will provide ample seating.<\/p>\n

The Backstory<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sauci Pasta co-owners\u00a0Ben and Adam Alagna\u2019s father,\u00a0Joe Alagna,\u00a0founded Fratelli\u2019s<\/a>\u00a0with his brother Tom Alagna in Delwood in 1983. They\u00a0drew upon what they learned while growing up in their parents\u2019 North County staple, Tommasso\u2019s. After a 13-year run, the pair relocated Fratelli\u2019s to its current home in St. Charles County. It’s since\u00a0become an essential part of the area\u2019s dining scene, garnering legions of regulars for the pastas, pizzas, and such specialties as eggplant parmigiana, chicken spiedini, and filet.<\/p>\n

In 2014,\u00a0Adam\u00a0came to Ben with the idea of a fast-casual riff on the family\u2019s beloved Italian restaurant. At the time, the brothers were living in California and Florida, respectively, though each planned\u00a0to return to their\u00a0home town at some point, with the understanding that they would be called upon to be involved in the family business in some capacity. Sauci Pasta, it seemed, provided a way to do so while putting their own spin on it.<\/p>\n

Yet\u00a0there was always something\u2014another out-of-state move, their uncle\u2019s retirement, the pandemic\u2014that kept them from realizing their dreams. \u201cWe\u2019ve been nurturing this idea for 10 years and are finally moving on it,” says Ben.\u00a0“It\u2019s surreal, because you dream it for so long that it doesn\u2019t feel real. But now, it\u2019s really happening.\u201d<\/p>\n

The goal, the brothers explain, is to create a vibrant, fast-casual pasta brand without sacrificing the handmade, fresh food that people have come to expect from the family.\u00a0\u201cI feel like, for some reason, every restaurateur who does Italian goes high-end and goes big\u2014and there\u2019s nothing wrong with that,\u201d Ben says. \u201cBut what I want as a dad, or even when I was\u00a0 in college, is to have access to that fresh-cut pasta that’s just as chef-driven but at a reasonable price point and quick. This is high-end, restaurant-quality pasta that’s cut fresh and made in house for everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ben and Adam, who are now involved in both concepts, following their uncle\u2019s retirement, are thrilled to be offering a new way to experience their family\u2019s food, which they hope will be\u00a0accessible to a\u00a0wider audience. \u201cWhen we sell food, we\u2019re not really selling pasta; we\u2019re selling the emotional outcome that people get when they dine with us, which is comfort,\u201d Ben says. \u201cWith Sauci, we\u2019re not approaching it any differently. We\u2019re still telling the same story here: It\u2019s comfort, but we are doing it in a slightly different way.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Original Article By: St. Louis Magazine Author: Cheryl Baehr From the family behind Fratelli’s Ristorante, the fast-casual concept will feature house-made pastas and salads that are prepared to order. A decade in the making,\u00a0Sauci Pasta\u00a0(1990 1st Capitol Drive, St. Charles)\u00a0is\u00a0slated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":13326,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.l3corp.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Sauci.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paJlAd-3sV","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.l3corp.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13325"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.l3corp.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.l3corp.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.l3corp.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.l3corp.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13325"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.l3corp.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13329,"href":"https:\/\/www.l3corp.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13325\/revisions\/13329"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.l3corp.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.l3corp.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.l3corp.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.l3corp.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}