The advent of spring and easing of COVID-19 restrictions that had seen many a restaurant go out of business also has brought the end of the popular Chicago eatery Santorini, with landlords seeking to recoup losses too.
Greektown has changed in the city as well, with people and restaurants they like moving to the suburbs, and even a popular spot like Santorini couldn't survive the one-two punch of the pandemic and neighborhood shifts.
“The closing was abrupt,” George Reveliotis, the commissioner for the special service area group (SSA) that serves Greektown restaurant and business owners told the site Chicago Eater, Santorini having a 31-year run.
He said Santorini’s owners have struck a deal to redevelop the space, as part of a grander scheme to reinvigorate the neighborhood corridor and that another restaurant may surface there.
“The alternative to a rebirth is death or abandonment, right?” he said, as he's working to keep Greektown going. He co-owns Artopolis Bakery & Cafe, which has spent 21 years there and is planning some renovations too.
“We believe in the area, we believe in the concept so much,” Reveliotis said.
Food Network host Guy Fieri, who gets around the United States and now lives in Florida, went to the Hellenic Republic restaurant in Coral Springs and said he had “hands down, the best Greek food he's had.
FALMOUTH, MA – The police in Falmouth have identified the victim in an accident involving a car plunging into the ocean on February 20, NBC10 Boston reported.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
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