Best road-trip restaurants in Missouri
Start here: 70 route-useful dining stops in Missouri, grouped by town and filtered by cuisine or price. This is the curated road-trip layer, not every restaurant in the state.
Updated 2026-07-01. Check current hours, reservations, and seasonal closures before you go.
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Kansas City4
Family-owned since 1954, preserving traditional Northland Italian recipes through generations in a warm, old-school setting.
James Beard winner Michael Smith's modern Italian with an oyster bar. (Crossroads)
Homey Italian tavern credited as the birthplace of KC's chicken spiedini. (Columbus Park)
Chef Lidia Bastianich's rustic Italian flagship in the Crossroads, known for its daily fresh pasta trio and handmade regional dishes.
Saint Louis5Town guide →
Family Hill favorite winning repeated best-toasted-ravioli honors alongside Italian-Greek dishes like steak modiga and cioppino.
Storied Hill restaurant that claims to have invented toasted ravioli, serving homemade breads, pastas, and classic Italian-American fare.
Three-generation Hill kitchen widely called the area's king of toasted ravioli, plating half-moon pillows and classic red-sauce dishes.
Cozy Hill trattoria, the former Oldani's, claiming to be the accidental birthplace of the toasted ravioli and beloved for hearty pastas.
St. Louis's oldest Italian-American restaurant on The Hill, famous for frozen fishbowls, toasted ravioli, and old-school pasta plates.
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