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Korakianitis Brothers Made Kalamazoo’s Failed Junglebird Greek Eatery

The Junglebird restaurant in Kalamazoo, Michigan had what it thought was a good idea – a Caribbean menu – but turned out it didn’t have any chefs from that region who knew how to make the dishes, relying mostly on Youtube recipes.

Didn’t work out so good but consultants and brothers Dimitris and Ilias Korakianitis led a rebranding into Dimi’s Greek House and the secret was as simple as great Greek food.

“The big difference here is that Greek chefs came and taught us how to do it,” General Manager Falyn Johnson told Michigan Live. “That training is really important. You can read a recipe all day long, but there can be technique that you’ve never learned and that’s cultural,” she said.

The most fun menu item is the traditional Greek dish of saganaki , a range of Greek cheeses fried in a cast iron pan and lit on fire at the table with a shot of ouzo, the news site said. “That’s when everyone yells ‘Opa!’” Johnson said. Sounds better than “Junglebird!”

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