Sauce on the Side will open a new location at the corner of Manchester and Tower Grove Avenues in the Grove district of Forest Park Southeast. This will be the third edition of the calzone restaurant, which opened downtown in 2012 and in Clayton in 2014. (The downtown Sauce on the Side moved to a larger space last year.)

Co-owner Brendon Maciariello told the Post-Dispatch that the Grove "fits our personality."

With Sweetie Pie's drawing fans of its reality-television show and the high-profile addition of the Urban Chestnut Brewing Co. Brewery and Bierhall, the Grove has become a dining destination in recent years, but Maciariello said it wasn't just the restaurant scene that attracted the Sauce on the Side team.

"All the things happening over there we really like," Maciariello said. "There's the residential (component), the music venues, some salons -- there's some really good positive growth happening."