best new restaurant Balkan Treat Box
If you want to get to Balkan Treat Box, you’d better go early. The brick-and-mortar location of the wildly popular food truck, which opened earlier this year in Webster Groves, Missouri, frequently sells out well before closing time. And for good reason: Chef-owner Loryn Nalic’s wood-fired, Balkan-inspired fare is irresistible. Fans of the truck will be relieved to see that the pide (Turkish flatbread) and cevapi (beef sausages) made the move, but an expanded kitchen means the menu also includes new dishes such as pljeskavica (a grilled Balkan burger) and patlidžan (wood-fired eggplant in airy somun bread). So plan to arrive early – but don’t worry, the line moves fast. –H.R. balkantreatbox.com PHOTO BY spencer pernikoff
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