Fairmount1 Wrote:
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> No deep dish in St. Louis.
Somehow I do not feel old recalling races run nearly 40 years ago, but I feel
old having to correct my young friend Fairmount, who was not yet born when I
was wandering the streets of his hometown.
Way back when, at the corner of Lindell Blvd and North Skinker Blvd, near the
northeast corner of the Washington University campus, near the northwest corner
of Forest Park, was Talaynas. Talaynas served Chicago style (pan pizza = deep
dish) and NY style (thin crust) pizza and pitchers of Anheuser Busch products.
Open till 3am each day. The interior was decorated with stained glass.
Mike Faille, owner of this and other Talaynas restaurants, passed in 2011.
Seeing him work his place in the 1970s reminded me of some of the colorful
Staten Island sorts I remembered from my youth. The pie wasn't bad and the beer
was always cold.
After the first year my alderman visited, I let him know that I preferred the
pizza from Pizza A Go Go on Grand Ave in south St. Louis, and the next two
years that is just what he brought me.
