Rock & Brews will occupy the stand-alone building at 17258 Chesterfield Airport Road in the Chesterfield Commons shopping plaza.

The space has housed several restaurants in the past but has been vacant since Estancia Mexican Restaurant closed in May 2015. It will be the 18th Rock & Brews chain location. Stanley and Simmons founded the chain with the restaurateur and hotelier Michael Zislis and the concert promoters and brothers Dave and Dell Furano.

The Chesterfield Rock & Brews is not only the chain’s first location in the St. Louis area but also its first in Missouri. There is a location in the Kansas City suburb of Overland Park, Kan..

“Our relationship with St. Louis goes back to the KSHE Kite-Flying contest,” Stanley said. At that event, the KISS lead singer remembers “being driven out in a van without windows into a field, not knowing where we were going and playing as a new band cutting our teeth.”

“We’ve been at the Checkerdome, we’ve been all over,” Stanley continued. “I can remember going to salvage yards that had stained-glass windows that came out of the older houses. I’ve spent a good amount of time in St. Louis.”