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11 November 2024 at 16 : 48 PM
2025 Is Going to Be Wild
COVER STORY From “next-level spicy” to dirty sodas to revived childhood flavors, Estiator rounds up food forecasts for the coming year. By Michael Kaminer If the crystal balls are accurate, your customer in 2025 might soon request Greek bowls or spicy snacks loaded with extra protein and exotic mushrooms, all washed down with a ...
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14 October 2024 at 19 : 59 PM
Sibling Revelry
COVER STORY With Skopos Hospitality, Thomas and Dean Maroulakos find a winning formula in celebrating New Jersey. By Michael Kaminer If Dean and Thomas Maroulakos had just opened restaurants, their success story would seem impressive enough. After working in Manhattan bars and clubs for years, the brothers opened their first venue, Cowan’s ...
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11 September 2024 at 17 : 03 PM
Greek Glam in the Sunshine State
Cover Story Georgia Dumas opens Lefkes in Florida; a hit in New Jersey, the restaurant has roots in Athens. By Michael Kaminer The success of Lefkes, a restaurant and supper club in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, is a family affair. But as owner Georgia Dumas will admit, her customers deserve some credit for her new location in Delray ...
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11 August 2024 at 07 : 08 AM
Design Trends For Unpredictable Times
COVER STORY Design Trends For Unpredictable Times Diners crave “sensorial decadence and emotional comfort,” experts say. Here’s how to deliver it. By Michael Kaminer Redesigns, rethinks, renovations, and rebrands used to be seasonal. You’d wait until business quieted down, hang up the “Closed” sign, and work on making your business ...
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13 July 2024 at 13 : 16 PM
The New Greek Imports
COVER STORY Concepts born in Greece are planting a flag in the U.S. From left: Stevi Tsapis, Giovanni Sandri, Chrysanthos Llaci, Egidio Guerreri & Nikos Nanou of Bakalo. By Michael Kaminer As American restaurant brands expand massively overseas― a new KFC location opens somewhere in the world every 3.5 hours, according to Nation’s ...
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12 May 2024 at 17 : 44 PM
How Costas Spiliadis Conquered the World
COVER STORY After half a century, Milos keeps raising the bar for Greek gastronomy. By Michael Kaminer On a frigid December night in 1979, Costas Spiliadis opened a modest restaurant on a bustling block of Park Avenue, the heart of Montreal’s Greek community. He called it Milos―“a name that sounded round, light, easy to pronounce, ...
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21 April 2024 at 10 : 04 AM
Hitting the High Notes
COVER STORY With NYC’s Carnegie Hospitality, Stathis Antonakopoulos creates a hit. By Michael Kaminer Stathis Antonakopoulos Even as an 11-year-old busboy in his grandfather’s seaside restaurant in the village of Likoporia, Stathis Antonakopoulos knew hospitality would be his future. “I worked there until I was 18, and I realized ...
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12 March 2024 at 13 : 36 PM
Does Around-the-Clock Still Rock?
COVER STORY Betting big on 24-hour dining at a tough time for late-night. By Michael Kaminer Stratis Morfogen, the New York author and entrepreneur, has made a career of breaking rules. He even titled his 2022 book "Be a Disruptor: Street-wise Lessons for Entrepreneurs." But Morfogen’s latest venture might be his most audacious. ...
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10 February 2024 at 06 : 34 AM
Tapping Nostalgia, Striking Gold
COVER STORY Stamford’s Peter Valis scores another Hit with The Americano. By Michael Kaminer Once you’ve opened a hugely popular Greek restaurant and a smash-hit Italian spot, what’s your next act? If you’re Peter Valis, the Connecticut nightlife impresario turned restaurateur, you go back to the future. Valis, ...
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18 January 2024 at 06 : 11 AM
A Specialty Food Legend’s 50-Year Odyssey
COVER STORY Grecian Delight / Kronos is just getting started. By Constantine N. Kolitsas It’s not often that a company that’s been around for five decades has the same energy, drive, and ambition as start-up, but that’s exactly what you find when you sit-down with Peter Parthenis, Jr., the CEO and president of Grecian ...
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