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The original location, at 928 W Belmont, was in the Lakeview neighborhood on Chicago's north side. The restaurant is known for its Chicago-style pizza and Italian food. [2] Leona's was a pioneer in the pizza delivery business. In the 1950s she purchased a small fleet of cars and mounted them with neon signs for delivery.
The restaurant was successful, and at one point operated four locations in Chicago. [5] Leon's restaurants typically served food to customers through a bulletproof glass divider for safety reasons. [6] [7] The restaurant was scheduled to be the largest concession at the 1982 ChicagoFest but pulled out of the festival due to an ongoing boycott ...
The Berghoff restaurant, at 17 West Adams Street, near the center of the Chicago Loop, was opened in 1898 by Herman Joseph Berghoff and has become a Chicago landmark. [1] In 1999, The Berghoff won a James Beard Foundation Award in the "America's Classics" category, which honors legendary family-owned restaurants across the country.
Gino's East was opened in 1966 [1] by Sam Levine, Fred Bartoli, and George Loverde. Previously, they had opened the original Gino's in 1960 at 930 N. Rush Street. They bought a building on East Superior Street "but didn't know what to put in it," Levine told a Tribune reporter in 1983, when the restaurant was sold to new owners.
In 1986 and 1996 frozen manufacturing plants were constructed, one in Chicago and the second in Woodridge, Illinois. Home Run Inn is now distributing their Chicago frozen pizza to over 30 states. [3] [4] [failed verification] Home Run Inn has nine locations, four locations in Chicago and five in the Chicago suburbs. [5]
The Pump Room was a restaurant established on October 1, 1938 by Ernie Byfield.It closed in 2017, then reopened under different names. [1] It is located in the Ambassador Chicago hotel, formerly known as the Ambassador East, on the northeast corner of State Parkway and Goethe Street in Chicago's Gold Coast area.
Since 1954, the restaurant has been owned and operated by the Hastert family. Robert Hastert Sr. was the first family owner-manager. Hastert had begun as a wholesale poultry dealer at the Aurora Poultry Market during World War II and later owned the Harmony House restaurant in Aurora, Illinois, which he had opened four years before he bought White Fence Farm. [2]
As of the 2024 Michelin Guide, there are 19 restaurants in Chicago with a Michelin-star rating. The Michelin Guides have been published by the French tire company Michelin since 1900. They were designed as a guide to tell drivers about eateries they recommended to visit and to subtly sponsor their tires, by encouraging drivers to use their cars ...