Cortex-Based Restaurant Vicia Lands at #2 on 2025 STL Best Restaurants List

Eight years after Tara and Michael Gallina opened Vicia, the Central West End restaurant continues to compel national accolades. Most recently, Vicia chef de cuisine Jane Sacro Chatham is a 2025 James Beard Award semifinalist for “Emerging Chef,” a nationwide category. Leading Vicia’s kitchen for the Gallinas and their business partner and culinary director Aaron Martinez, Chatham upholds Vicia’s agenda-setting standard: sometimes hearth-fired, often vegetable-forward, always delicious.