Lost Tables
Lost Tables collects the culinary memories of lost St. Louis restaurants.
Lost Tables
Ray Gallardo: Casa Gallardo
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Harley Hammerman
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Episode 62
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Eighty-eight-year-old Ray Gallardo first came to the United States from Mexico as a young man, working as a dishwasher at the Biltmore Hotel in Santa Barbara. His next visit to the Biltmore would be as a successful restaurateur.
Ray told me his story at his office above the City Coffee & Creperie in Clayton, which he owns with his wife Ann.