At their previous restaurant in Springfield, Illinois, chef Ryan Lewis and general manager Carina Flesch sometimes struggled to educate customers about the concept of small plates.
"It was kind of a foreign concept there because no one else did small plates," Flesch notes. But at Pig & Pickle Eatery(5513 Pershing Ave., 314-349-1697), their new Southern-inspired concept in the DeBaliviere Place neighborhood, they've had no such trouble.…