J's Pitaria delivers delicious, healthy Mediterranean flavors

Sauce 75: the essential St. Louis restaurants right now

Owners Josi and Zamir Jahic make it their mission not only to deliver delicious Mediterranean flavors, but healthy ones produced from lovely things like handmade somun flatbreads stuffed with cheese, falafel sandwiches and dizzyingly fresh salads. One of our favorites, the Sarajevski cevapi, features grilled, housemade beef sausages stuffed into somun with kajmak, the clotted cream of the Balkans (and technically a cheese). You’ll want to take some kajmak home in a jar, and happily you can, because J’s sells it in 8-ounce pots. We also featured their spinach and cheese pie in our Eat This column in 2021.

91 Concord Plaza Shopping Center, Sappington, 314.270.8005, jspitaria.us

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The Sauce 75 is a photomosaic of the best in St. Louis dining in 2024. This list is a celebration of the diverse skills, techniques and culinary traditions that meet across our region. In sum, it tells a story about where St. Louis has been, where it is now and where it’s going next. Many great and good St. Louis restaurants have not made the cut. (Seventy-five is a lot fewer than you think!) Restaurants are constantly growing and evolving and go through ups and downs. Newly opened restaurants can take time to find their feet: There are a few exciting new places we’re cheering for, but which we feel haven’t yet fully hit their stride. Read the entire list here.