Gas stations can make great little restaurants

There was a time in America when there was either a drugstore or a gas station (a full-service one!) on almost every street corner. That’s ancient history now, but there are still a lot of re-purposed gas stations located in urban neighborhoods.

Restaurateur Todd Schulte just opened his Genessee Royale Bistro in a long-defunct service station in the West Bottoms; it had been, most recently, a towing yard. How many other restaurants in the metro have similar origins?