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12 July 2023 at 11 : 22 AM
Back to the FUTURE
Cover Story Costas Lazaridis revives Drama’s ancient glory days of winemaking. By Constantine N. Kolitsas One might say that Greek winemaker Costas Lazaridis has lost his marbles. Well, sold them off, to be precise. The scion of one of Greece’s greatest marble producers, his name today is synonymous with some of the best wines of the Greek wine ...
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13 June 2023 at 14 : 22 PM
The Food Event of the Season
COVER STORY The Specialty Food Association’s Summer Fancy Food Show kicks off in Manhattan. By Constantine N. Kolitsas I’m a food geek; I admit it. And as other geeks get excited about events like Comic Con, I get just as crazy when the Summer Fancy Food Show rolls into town. And it’s rolling in this month to Manhattan’s cavernous ...
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11 May 2023 at 13 : 49 PM
San Francisco Success Story
COVER STORY The inspiring journey of Charles Bililies and Souvla. By Michael Kaminer A leftover sandwich changed Charles Bililies’ life. The year was 2010. Bililies, who was working as a chef at some of San Francisco’s top restaurants, hosted a lamb roast in his backyard. “I made myself a sandwich the next day with what ...
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13 April 2023 at 16 : 52 PM
Expectations
COVER STORY We may be seeing the dawn of a golden age for Greek wines. Greek producers are expanding their range, harnessing the country’s astonishingly varied terroir. Some are focusing exclusively on Greece’s 300 varieties of indigenous grapes. Small producers, who control every step of the winemaking process, are yielding bottles of ...
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11 March 2023 at 09 : 24 AM
Greek Cuisine’s New Wave
COVER STORY Chefs embrace tradition while setting a course. for the novel and new. By Nicholas Vlamis Over the past five years, the pages of Estiator have chronicled the opening of new Greek restaurants around the country, a signal that from coast-to-coast the cuisine has finally grown from its diner/pizzeria begin- nings (where ...
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11 February 2023 at 06 : 12 AM
Concepts, Classes, and Cookbooks
COVER STORY To promote Greek food, three food professionals take their own paths. By Michael Kaminer What does it mean to be an estiator in 2023? Does the path forward for our industry, promoting the benefits and joy of Greek food, always begin and end at a restaurant? With that question in mind, Estiator talked to three people charting their ...
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13 December 2022 at 09 : 21 AM
Exit, Stage Left
COVER STORY By Constantine Kolitsas Selling your restaurant in the post-Covid era. Once upon a time, a restaurant owner could look at their business as an investment, with the notion that at some point in time, they could cash out, selling to a young, eager buyer for a handsome profit upon which they could retire. The paradigm has ...
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9 November 2022 at 11 : 27 AM
Viron Rondo Osteria
PHOTOS BY WINTER CAPLANSON COVER STORY Famed restaurateur Viron Rondos creates a Mediterranean dining oasis in Cheshire, CT. ΕΠΙΜΕΛΕΙΑ ΜΑΡΙΑΝΝΑ ΣΤΕΦΑΝΟΥ Here you are, lolling in a Mediterranean garden, lush, colorful, soothing. As you sit at a perfectly appointed dining table, you are lulled further as a glass ...
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11 October 2022 at 15 : 05 PM
Forward-Focused at 50
OLYMPIA FOODS, a giant in the Greek and Mediterranean specialty foods space, remains at the forefront of product development and technological innovation. By Constantine N. Kolitsas It’s hard to imagine an American foodscape without gyro. Once an ethnic curiosity, gyro has become so ingrained into the country’s culinary zeitgeist that ...
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8 August 2022 at 14 : 11 PM
Learning from Leaders
COVER STORY At a tough time for our industry, leading lights share lessons. By Michael Kaminer It feels like this year has been two steps forward, three steps back. Just when we think we’ve emerged from Covid, our industry gets hit with soaring costs, a shrinking labor pool, and protracted supply-chain issues. But our community has never ...
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