Browsing Tag Chicago restaurants
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11 February 2021 at 07 : 44 AM
Over the River and Through the Woods
As city dwellers reconsider their urban lifestyles, what does that mean for restaurateurs? By Robert Balzi Americans have adapted to the pandemic in hundreds of ways: from how they work and learn to how they spend their leisure time and how they worship. Within the restaurant industry, we’ve responded to the changes in eating ...
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11 June 2019 at 06 : 30 AM
Chicago Area Reastaurant News – June 2019
By PETER J. POULOPOULOS Did you know? Four fun facts about restaurants WHO INVENTED THE FIRST MODERN RESTAURANT? National Geographic tell us that, as legend has it, a soup salesman named Boulanger opened the first modern restaurant 250 years ago in Paris. WHICH WAS THE FIRST CHAIN RESTAURANT? According to Wikipedia: “Arguably, the ...
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15 May 2019 at 07 : 09 AM
Chicago Area Reastaurant News – May 2019
CHICAGO AREA RESTAURANT NEWS By PETER J. POULOPOULOS Personal Thoughts and Comments IF THE ECONOMY IS THAT GREAT, WHY ARE SO MANY PEOPLE NOT FEELING IT? Government officials, news people, and so on are describing the greatness of the U.S. economy. They point to the low unemployment rate and high stock market to make their point, and they are ...
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8 April 2019 at 16 : 07 PM
Chicago Area Reastaurant News – April 2019
By PETER J. POULOPOULOS Personal Thoughts and Comments SILENCE IS GOLDEN. If one searches a dictionary for the definition of this maxim, he will find the following description: “Keeping one’s mouth shut is a great virtue, as in Don’t tell anyone else about it—silence is golden.” Although this precise phrase was first recorded ...
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10 March 2019 at 10 : 09 AM
The Winds of Changing Greek Cuisine
By CONSTANTINE N. KOLITSAS TRADITION AND EVOLUTION ON CHICAGO’S RESTAURANT SCENE Riding the tailwinds created by America’s love affair with Greek yogurt, the nation’s Greek restaurants are being rediscovered in a new light by diners from Bangor to Brentwood. But as most Greek Americans will concede, the city where Greek cuisine is most deeply ...
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15 February 2019 at 10 : 16 AM
Chicago Area Reastaurant News – February 2019
By Peter Poulopoulos DO NOT MISS NEXT MONTH’S ISSUE: Estiator plans to honor Chicago area restaurants and food pioneers. This is a unique opportunity for restaurants, manufacturers, distributors, and importers of Greek foods and wines in Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin to advertise their products and services in this special edition of Estiator. For a ...
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16 January 2019 at 13 : 16 PM
Chicago Area Restaurant News – January 2019
By Peter Poulopoulos Wishing you and yours a Happy New Year: These thoughts were written in December 2018. By the time you read this column, it’s already 2019. I am certain that many of us attended New Year celebrations to exchange wishes and welcome the new year; in other words, we followed the process that we follow every year. Let me quickly add that ...
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15 May 2018 at 14 : 08 PM
Chicago Area Restaurant News – May 2018
Metropolitan Athenagoras (Aneste) of Mexico at Blueberry Hill Café in Oak Brook. When we stopped at Mr. George Nikolopoulos’ Blueberry Hill Café in Oak Brook, IL we had the chance to meet with Mr. Nikolopoulos’ associates Mr. Zervakis and Mr. Alexopoulos. Moreover, we had the honor to meet with the His Eminence Metropolitan Archbishop ...
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22 January 2018 at 10 : 56 AM
Chicago News – January 2018
Our best wishes for a wonderful New Year 2018 PERSONAL THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS: OUR best wishes for a wonderful New Year 2018. For many of us, when one year ends and another one begins, euphoria settles in our minds. We feel happy and self-confident. We look into the future and expect or wish for us and others that things may be better during ...
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