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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.
Mag calls their new Wise Guys restaurant the “first of its kind in this area.” Wise Guys started in Godfrey, according to Mag. They opened in 2016 at 3200 Godfrey Road and closed in 2018-19.
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 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.
Olga's Kitchen is an American chain of Greek-American family restaurants located primarily in the U.S. state of Michigan, founded by Olga Loizon in 1970. The company is based in Livonia, Michigan , and currently has 26 locations: one each in Illinois and Massachusetts , and the rest in Michigan.
Saganaki, lit on fire, at the Parthenon Restaurant in Greektown, Chicago. In many Greek restaurants in the United States and Canada, after the saganaki cheese is fried, it is flambéed at table (often with a shout of "opa!" [4]), after which the flames usually are extinguished with a squeeze of lemon juice.
Greek immigration to Chicago began in the 1840s and accelerated after the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. By 1882, approximately 1,000 Greeks, primarily Laconia and Arcadia, lived in Chicago. Greek immigrants initially settled near their workplaces, primarily on the Near West Side. By the 1920s, Greeks dominated Chicago's restaurant, ice cream ...
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