Garozzo's

Michael Garozzo is the owner and operator of Garozzo's Italian restaurants, celebrating its twentieth Anniversary in April 2009. Michael was born and raised on the Hill in St. Louis. He started his restaurant career as a busboy, with a dream of one day owning a restaurant. His father, Salvatore and his uncle Alfio, both waiters in fine restaurants all their lives, encouraged Michael. He opened the 1st Garozzo's in 1989 in the historic Columbus Park neighbor-hood. Today there are four popular places in the Greater Kansas City area.