The restaurant will have high tops and booth tables, an outdoor patio and bar, two stages for music performances, a wood-fired pizza oven, a private party rental room upstairs and lots of low windows to create an inviting, open-air environment. Unlike Zia’s Trattoria, Zia’s Social won’t be as focused on a sit-down, fine-dining atmosphere rather, Calabrese wants to attract the weekend brunch crowd and offer ample seating for big parties wanting to get out and socialize. To bring in a food-driven place is our vision.” Credit: Colin Boyle/Block Club Chicago Zia’s Trattoria at 6699 Northwest Highway in Edison Park on May 25, 2021. “There really has been nothing but pubs and taverns in this neighborhood up until now. “The neighborhood is ready for a restaurant,” Calabrese said. Calabrese said he wants to give back to the neighborhood where he grew up. The couple also owned Zia’s Lago Vista in Lakeview, which is being replaced by a five-story apartment building. Northwest Highway in Norwood Park in October.Įxecutive chef and co-owner Joe Calabrese opened Zia’s in 1997.Ĭalabrese also owns Café Touché in Edison Park with his wife. Northwest Highway, plans to close its Edison Park location in September and reopen as Zia’s Social at 6158 N. If you have any questions, please contact us via email or by calling PARK - An Edison Park staple is ready for a revamp, including a new name and location just down the road. Note: Vermilion Restaurant Week is hosted by Main Street Vermilion. ![]() ![]() Marilou Suszko, Executive Director, Main Street Vermilion Be sure to thank your local independent restaurants for hanging in there and providing the local flavor that makes dining in our Small Town on a Great Lake so memorable. Free dessert? Yes, please with each pasta entree at Jim’s Pizza Box or with a home-cooked meal at the VFW on Poorman Road, where the public is welcome, and the talk is all local.ĭiscover what’s cooking during Vermilion Restaurant Week by visiting our website and following Main Street on Facebook and Instagram where we’ll be talking about, looking at and eating delicious food this month. Spend it at Salvatore’s Italian Restaurant & Pizzeria and welcome the new owners who opened during a pandemic. You can go to Touché for a prixe fixe dinner for yourself (because you earned it) or you can go to Martino’s International Cafe and feed the family on Old World Samplers ($10.99 each) featuring cabbage rolls, pierogis and paprikash and have money left over to take home a couple of gyros ($5.99 each) for lunch. There are 13 participating restaurants preparing to make your visit delicious and memorable with something for every taste and budget. How do you help? How do you say, “Thanks”? Come out for our first ever Vermilion Restaurant Week, Sunday, March 21st through Saturday, March 27th. If they made it look easy, it wasn’t but they made it happen. They reinvented themselves quickly and frequently. You’ve watched them keep it together, create a safe and comfortable new experience, do what they could to keep staff employed and work in the short term to get from one week to the next. And your favorite waiter knows your brew and as you walk in the door, you can see them fetching it from the cooler.Ĭhances are you also know what your favorite restaurants did to make it through 2020, a year of restrictions, compliance measures and shutdowns, and that 2021 is still hard. Perhaps you know a particular restaurant’s menu so well that you order without one. They feed us as we move through life events. ![]() Our local restaurants are where we go for birthdays, engagements, weddings, girls’ night, breakups, makeups, reunions and more. Maybe you’ve watched guys like Jeremy and Joe from Pavilion Grill evolve from busboys to wait staff, cooks to sous chefs to operating two, soon to be three, awesome Vermilion restaurants. Hang out in their restaurant enough and by now you are surely friends. You know the owner, the chef, or the wait staff because your kids go to school together, or they’re your neighbors. In a small town like Vermilion, the Restaurant Week experience is more personal. It’s a New York City tradition that started in 1992 with lunch specials and has been embraced in urban areas across the world to build customer loyalty, offer savings and create opportunities to try a new restaurant.
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