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The restaurant was founded in 1971, [1] and does a thriving business to good reviews. [2] Similar to other Greek restaurants in Chicago, it serves saganaki, but has above-average seafood. [3] In January 2008 it was featured on the Food Network's The Hungry Detective. [4] There is a second location in Lombard, Illinois.
The Billy Goat Tavern is a chain of taverns located in Chicago, Illinois. Its restaurants are based on the original Billy Goat Tavern founded in 1934 [1] by Billy Sianis, a Greek immigrant. It achieved fame primarily through newspaper columns by Mike Royko, a supposed curse on the Chicago Cubs, and the Olympia Cafe sketch on Saturday Night Live.
Almost a decade later, in 1882, a group of nearly one thousand Greek immigrants resided in Chicago's Near North Side area. [5] The original Greektown district on Halsted Street began with the Jane Addams Hull House, which acted as a meeting point for the Greek population within Chicago and provided a basis for community to be built from 1889.
The festive blue and white exterior of The Greek Islands Restaurant holds a warm family-owned taverna where the moussaka gets the lion's share of the shoutouts. Layers of eggplant, potato, and ...
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After opening a second Athens location in 2004, Lefkes Estiatorio expanded again in 2017 opening a restaurant on the Greek island of Santorini in 2017. They then made the leap across the pond and ...
In 1913, there were "several hundred Greek-owned lunchrooms and restaurants in Chicago." [13] It is estimated that approximately 7,000 Greek restaurants existed in the U.S. by the beginning of the Great Depression in 1929. [12] However, many U.S. Greek restaurants went out of business due to the Great Depression. [12]
The same restaurant is called Olympic Taverna in Palm City and Spiros Kouzina in Melbourne.) Here in Vero Beach, Spiro’s is in the Indian River Plaza on U.S. 1, and has indoor and outdoor dining.