Let It Snō

HAVING FOUND SUCCESS as a chef-partner at Crustacean, an acclaimed restaurant in Beverly Hills, the affable Tony Nguyen had offers to open a restaurant in several cities across the country. Instead, he and his wife, Jessica (who’s a chef and a marine scientist), elected to move to St. Louis to open their inaugural restaurant, Snō (3611 Juniata), in Tower Grove South, minutes from where Tony spent part of his childhood. “It’s kind of in the middle of everywhere,” he says.

Did you both grow up in St. Louis?

I grew up in St. Peters. I worked at Old Hickory and Whitmoor [two St. Louis country clubs] before going off to the CIA [Culinary Institute of America] in Hyde Park. I became part of the