Experience The Best Italian Cuisine In St. Louis At Charlie Gitto’s Restaurant!

In town for a #gunsandroses concert…and to our luck the concert was cancelled. Good Friends, Good Eats…We made the best of it.

For over 40 years, Charlie Gitto’s has been one of St. Louis’ best Italian restaurants.

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[Music] okay cool I’m I’m Michelle one of the host Melle all right nice to meet you Jason hello thanks for having me yay this would be fun I’m excited yeah I know a lot of people are excited about you that’s awesome thank you so we are in St Louis for a Guns and Roses concert here’s what happened and it’s crazy so we actually get on the plane we’re on Southwest and we find out that the Guns and Roses concert has been cancelled so it’s my Uncle Tony you guys have seen him before you own clean packed Foods I worked for him when I was younger Scott the farmer uh best friend from here locally just a hobby Farm otherwise owns Maple Metal Products they do a great job with wall plates actually and electrical boxes all stainless steel kind of stuff that’s his thing Miller Light that’s what he likes PS do they have PS I don’t know I don’t know no p no not surprising Derek Frost I played with him at Northern Iowa he was actually a punter in the NFL for four different teams ended up with the Green Bay Packers at the end of his season or end of his career so we were all planning on going to this concert we get out here and there’s no concert but Hollywood Casino and St Louis took care of us we had an awesome time and met a lot of cool people and um they suggested we go to this restaurant Here Charlie gidos it was a lot of fun we ended up eating here for a couple nights dereck’s always a riot to be around had a lot of fun let me know what you think of this dinner and review is coming we ordered toasted ravioli the calamari the eggplant yep the signature shrimp and the meatballs I’m excited for the meatballs and we got some really really good wine coming so excited about this all right it’s looking good thank you the shrimps thank you looks pretty good guys mind if IA fresh szer go for it y parmesan and the eggplant all right go trim you can’t there we are thank you really world famous meatballs they really are we’re trying so they said the toasted ravioli is the best right I need a lot of restaurants FR up I think it’s all right jerck what do you think I think it is pretty good in terms of how it normally is it is definitely fresh is it hot good I don’t want to waste the shrimp sh the shrimp is amazing garlicky but buttery that’s really good did you try yet Scott noted they get them right out of the Mississippi here right out of the river fresh it’s really good really big perfectly done so cold EG plant egg eggplant Parmesan I’m heavy need a lot more flavor but and that’s the the meatballs they you guys try them [Music] yep the shrimp might be my favorite eat one no thank [Music] you all right 15 bought am okay that’s fine yeah [Music] perfect start with anyone in particular should I go supp yeah we’ll do them both not going to try it it’s going po you want to taste first or I’ll try a little bit yeah thank you yeah that’s unbelievable that’s great [Music] yes so this is the 4 point [Music] actually those beans are really good in there too up [Music] je they need flavor there’s just missing salt something you should dip them into the the butter there thank you leave a little bit in there if you want to try some more of that never what do you do all that looks at on the sh yeah just look at it it’s a good investment Cherry I would love a shot of the sure thank you what’s your favorite thing to eat here mine yeah oh that’s a hard one uh I like the chicken Roni that’s really good um our calone is really good kind depends is really good that’s been a favorite recently Chim noodle serve that in a cream sauce it’s going to be with beef tips and mushrooms cherry tomatoes and spinach topped out with sour green onion $2 scallops scallops how big are those sorry are they large should be three sometimes they might give you four depending on the size bed it’ll be pan SE then over a bed of capalini noodles and a San tomato sauce with spinach and mushrooms and we to that with the 12 oil show that for $50 you got a 14 oz uh ribon top that with a B butter tonight to serve with mashed potatoes and aspar it’s ni for six what is the Siciliano top sicil steak is after they cook your steak they roll that we very quickly top that with cheese and mushrooms and a white wine lemon and butter sauce which is quite good the nunzio style is also very good that’ll be topped with cheese and gimle crab meat and then the white one oh what kind of cheese it’s a blend a third blend it’s going to be fontin proone mozzarella and car okay is it a lot of cheese is it is it just a you know good of cheese not tell no cheese cheese Tony what do you want ready I think I’m going to try the 8 oz filet with the crab the N Nuno I’ll try that yeah like 8 oz normally rare plus but medium rare probably yeah do medium rare is fine medium rare yeah please does it come with any sides or no it does not card perfect can we also get the scallops we’re going to share those in the middle sure and then we’re also going to share the canalone in the middle all right I want to try the French onion sure it’s baked yes cool nice all right see I’m just going to change it up I’m going to this need please I’m going to do it uh what’s Marcel style I should probably know that it’s musroom Marcel wine aome mushrooms a sweet Marcel wine let’s do that what size size wa no order some you think I’m fine I don’t you got baked potato garlic mash asparagus broccoli I’ll take I’ll take a broccoli sure is that a family style for the table no it’s maybe one maybe two r it’s not a bad [Music] idea uh 6 F 6 how do you like that uh medium this is a man of self-control so he says no to the top of that uh yeah we got two Scout PLS right Derek yeah of course Derek why not Aaron so let me know in the video let me know if you guys think he looks like Aaron Rogers from the side so he actually played for the Packers in 2007 and what was 2008 what was your Halloween costume that Year Aaron Rogers Aaron Rogers dressed up as Aaron Rogers for H so that was back when the the locker room was divided because of Favre right no he was gone you had the Favre the Favre players though that still like and then you have the people that still like you still like Favre I’m not even from Wisconsin I don’t know what you’re talking about all right so there were a lot of there were a lot of Jets number four jerseys in the stand at you you remember that so just so people that now that Rogers is with the Jets wasn’t it far went to the Jets before minnes so now Rogers is going to end up with Minnesota so yeah exactly so for people that don’t know so Derek actually we went to college together and he was a punter but in high school Derek was an allconference punter kicker all right that’s normal and then he was an allconference quarterback so I could see that but also linebacker what was that Derek I don’t know maybe it’s a bad competition bad so this guy is the complete athlete he also played college baseball so you remember that yep y i remember brand Backus trying out with me that was hilarious no one’s going to understand that but us the good old days exactly what we got we cashed out oh no well the brolo there’s a bunch yeah oo here we go maybe I can still order a l look at this are you a french onion guy it’s it’s not an easy soup to make people think it is but it’s not you know what I mean when you got to cut that/ half inch thick cheese you know you know what I’m saying it’s over seasoned a lot and this is actually right I think it could use a little bit more cheese but it’s it’s really good good and it’s not too hot that’s no this [Music] is you guys want to try some some yeah you like it just stick I like a little bit more cheese that I can like rip it off and eat it after you’re a guy where like punch yep I do like that they didn’t go over the HP with the bread I think it’s good that that flavor coming bread it’s like mold and hot cheese it’s a type of cheese that when you bite into it it sticks to the roof of your mouth and if it’s hot you can’t get it off you know what I mean it’s like almost like hot oil on your skin yeah but uh it’s kind of weird and tangy but that’s how it goes and then it’s got a cardboard crust like literally cardboard it’s a very tiny thin crust and it’s very dry and like crispy that s little style pizza and some people love it ha it but it’s very and I will say it’s very different you guys should try it before you move cardboard St Lou style Emos you want to do Emos we pretty much done yeah who wants the last hunk of uh Emos is probably considered St you I’m waiting for my I’m waiting it’s like this guy man man of self-c control I’m waiting for my uh the man that’s this that’s Scott the farmer Scott the farmer that he said we here he didn’t say not yet give us some time well he looks good on camera he has a he has a weird thing coming out in the middle of his chest just so you know like a third nipple or it’s a flux capacity it’s like that with the Iron Man H yeah you know it’s kind of like you are so you are Iron Man yeah it’s kind of like pretty much like what I have in my chest but it’s like always put my glasses on put my glasses on people say they look like Iron Man glasses what do you think Tony Stark I can’t really see I got to get in there closer no you look like Kim Kardashian yeah I don’t think they’re working for me your prescription’s super light you know I laser I had laser ice Sur he’s got like this this weird bump right here in his chest there I used to be I used to be twice below the legal limit for blindness I’m yeah 20 over 400 20 over 400 that’s right I used to get laugh he actually got an eye transplant Kyle used to laugh at me cuz I used I couldn’t I had to go see I had to go like this to see the TV like what are you watching couldn’t see [Music] it know that story Kyle PE on my computer yeah Kyle he’s not going to watch this no Kyle thought his computer was the toilet he lifted it up and feed in it but then he blamed it on some water water balloons yeah we used to throw we used to fill up garbage hands and throw them out of the seventh floor and then went hit the mud pile and just it was not me it was everyone else were you in this the one time when you filled up a trash bag and dump it out like somebody but hit him tell me this how do they have Windows that we can even take the screen off and shut that up that was a bad idea was terrible that was a bad idea that was funny I wake up in the morning and there’s like liquid all over my computer I’m like what the [ __ ] happened here like cow’s like W uh it must have been Branch water balloons I’m like I’m looking okay so the water balloon is coming straight down here’s the window like I’m pretty good at physics like I don’t and the keys are slightly sticky I’m not really sure over there but he lifted it up like it was on top of a toilet seat no he was he was known to be a drunk uh uh uh definitely a pisser drunk in your in your in your closet at night yeah just open the door and go Kyle and Brent they’re they they come back in the room they turn the light on I’m like what what’s going on they’re like they’re laughing so hard they can’t talk they took the hinges off the door to the food hall went down and they had like a bag they thought they had like a hunk of cheese and like a bag of bread and like one of them was eating like Fruity Pebbles and they thought it was like the best thing ever we sit there I’m like I don’t condone that I think that’s illegal you know they they were on the meal plan it’s all included it’s all inclusive exactly yeah scholarship meal yeah you and I I blame that we us we used to dump tons of salt in people’s milk I’ve never seen more people drink milk it must be like an Iowa thing everyone was drinking tons of milk and you would you take the salt and whe they got up you just pour a ton of salt in there they didn’t know and then they’d start drinking and spit it out cuz they had no idea we we had the little pizza bar so you can like make your own little pizza and then it goes to oven and then I was introduced and then you go right to the salad bar and fill your plate up with ranch that’s something to dip it in right now very very Kramer would make us run if we lost too much weight remember that no me Jason Iowa yeah Northern Iowa yeah you wouldn’t be running anymore Jason Y no I would definitely not be running do it go yeah you want to get some Nappa cab do you have any uh do you have any wine that’s off list or is it all on the list No it should be all on there a little Derek I think you’re really stuck on like 2019 cake bread or do you want to do a duck horn Mero you’re not going to do Mero although Everyone likes you want Nappa or alexand even the what the row think about this is it does it does what w giv you love all right so this is the special special way y cooked perfectly medium rare [Music] I don’t know about the stuff on [Music] top I just like straight rubber what up D it’s a lot of R it’s rubber the cheese the cheese is I do without oh wait so I got the I got the same no I I do the cheese yeah it’s like a mozzarella or something it’s sticky sticky didn’t you order the St didn’t you order plane he probably cheese he’s a man of self control he is that’s what he is that’s a little appetite e we have more coming flavor great try this give a try I’m K I like I like this you going to feed me feed you wait hold up this corner here get some mushrooms on there get a couple shrooms on there sa that’s a good do it down what do you a little piece it’s actually what is that the marsala yeah it’s a very very thick marsala yeah and it’s actually really good yeah it’s got a great it’s good I like the I like the choice it’s better than mine d you like I like it Tony how’s yours good awesome to the outside of my [Music] house I pay [Music] thank you we are the joy of wine all right let’s do [Music] it don’t was yeah you’re not going to drink [Music] no all right let’s try one more time so we can see it cheers guys cheers y’all cheers all right to the concert that never happened might be a good thing to new friends we’ll make up we’ll make up for it when we go to to the to the luggage that almost never came the luggage that the plane that almost never took off yeah yeah the center for every extra I’m probably not going to eat anything tomorrow put them are you zooming in my Crouch yep a little bit and these bottles I can take out of the way yes please that one’s little bit the other one throw in here actually a lot more are scalps look like they’re cooked very very there awesome thank you got a couple of spons help kind of ser that so that like so they cooked perfectly a few of these out of the way for thank youat up Jason a little bit maybe a little too much a little bit just just a hair but very very they’re really good scalps scallops try one they are good I right what is this the Cana whatever lones yeah what does she whates she say good some stuffed stuffed pasta it’s not bad need a bigger bite though all right someone try the scal yet very good little overcooked just the hair and a little UND seasoned be this one season Heavy was it yeah Tony why don’t you try some of that pasta oh no oh open up it’s a tomato you going eat it a big Cherry all right so the bill was just under $11,000 so how does it work here oh lot of self control on that you know so it it depends on the casino so some casinos obviously this time Jason was there but I do a lot of high limit gambling a full money we’re going to go give to the casino tonight just kidding they have something called pen cash here so you can actually download your money right onto the machine you can play but um so some casinos you can get your wine or your beer your alcohol comped others you can’t so this is one that you actually can some casinos will pay for your tip others will not so we’ll find that out here too I want to make sure that they’re they’re taken care of here they did a nice job for us tonight but um overall I think to get the service started started was a little rocky it took a little bit of time they actually had a they had a they had a like internet actually went down yeah Spectrum or whatever so they went down and uh they pulled it together they pulled it together and came back strong they did a nice job tonight so um we had a lot of food Tony sticking out his belly see it look at him he’s he’s trying to suck it in now Tony do this do this thisam and then the circle thing Tony will show off for you some other time but um there is Eric Scott we used to call him Scott the farmer and Aron Rogers that’s Derek Frost look him up played the NFL for like 5 years he only had one negative kick what negative yard KCK seven yard seven yard it like negative pretty much it hit behind the line of scrimage and bounc forward somehow just kidding it did that but I okay is this a is this a place that is a drive by or a must try you know I get I I don’t know I don’t know if I can I would say it’s uh say 8 and half out of 10 8 and half out of 10 so I didn’t ask that if you’re here like you got to do it yeah so it’s a it’s a must try I would agree with that so it was really good so originally we’re going to go to the steakhouse the steakhouse here is only open on weekends and usually you’re in trouble cuz it’s hard to find help for some like that but this is a this is a good this is nice good variety yeah big variety steaks pasta the wine list is okay it’s a little light I think but but the choice great but it worked out and they were out of one of them made a good recommendation in there so seems like spectacular Bara though yeah guy inside fantastic ridiculous seem like good value for the wi absolutely you know they have three bottles of wine and all this food th000 bucks it’s a really good deal well the uh stle emis we didn’t even order $95 for a $65 bottle we didn’t order but I mean that’s that’s a great deal yeah the wine is marked up like 30 to 40% it looks like 2x yeah it’s a great deal so some some steak houses you go to you can see three apps oh yeah yeah way to one shop it’s ridiculous so but get over here try this place out say Mr handay sent you someday you can say Jason was there sent you but no one’s going to really know that yet so just say Mr Hampe the guy the really big guy with the the bag on his chest give me a thumbs up feel like Uncle Tony just kidding Tony Tone thanks for watching there’s a fridge in the room there’s fridges in the room how many Charlie gidos gidos are there Jos Jos D um I believe there was three once upon a time I think there was only the two left now the one on the hill and the one right here there were two or three I think there was one in my chest I want to say Chester Field I’m not from thisa I think there is one yeah and that I heard that was the big one but they just recently closed it down that’s the big one where where’d you move from Florida Coco Beach you should go back what’s your name again what it’s extremely expensive Jerica Jer Jerica Jerica you a nice job thank you you I don’t know what I’m going to do this I’m going to take it and then throw it away later well then leave it there well so put it in the bathtub with the ice and then create friction to warm it up tomorrow morning let the sun let the sun just hit it right so we did figure out uh this casino so they will give like a minimum tip they’ll give 15% tip so was with tax was just about 1,000 bucks so normally they’re going to give a tip that’s you know quite a bit less so we’re going to double that we’re going to give another 150 so we’re going to give him like just about a $300 tip overall so that’s true what happened um just saying that they give about a 15% tip so it’s going to be around 150 we’re going to double it they did a nice job so uh we’re going to give another 150 so three hundo all in but Jericho Jer Jericho yep oh Chris Jericho I was thinking about okay you’re Jericho wrestler you’re Jerica from Coco Beach yep to great job thank you thanks for [Music] watching [Music] m