When one of his restaurants failed, owner Tom Schmidt had no choice but to immediately flip the script and open a new one.
He talks about the birth of Salt + Smoke, St. Louis as a food town and the gamble that paid off when he decided to open a restaurant downtown.
This video is part of a new series, Winning STL, in which Post-Dispatch publisher Ian Caso sits down with St. Louis business and civic leaders who, through their time, energy and resources, have bet big on our region.