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Why Joe’s Rules Chicago Country
NUGGETS..................................................... 12 CHEF PROFILE: CAMILA ELIAS-BOYER................... 15 AROUND CHICAGO: JOE’S BAR ............................ 17 CHICAGOLAND NEWS ....................................... 21 CARY MILLER ............................................... 28 CHEF PROFILE: JEREMY MCDEVITT ..................... 31 DIRECTORY OF SERVICES ................................. 41 CLASSIFIEDS ................................................ 43
From the Publisher
Any time of year the lines wrap around the exterior of Joe’s Bar, 940 W. Weed in Chicago. This is how we spell “success.” The Lincoln Park venue is known as an outstanding sports bar, but when country comes to town, it plays hard at Joe’s, stage to numerous local bands but home to Eric Church, Brad Paisley, Miranda Lambert, Dierks Bentley, and Randy Houser. Joe’s live acts are a magnet for a wild night: Salt N Pepa filled the house in 2014, as did Michelle L’amour’s All Star Revue. Welcome to a sports bar without peer. Joe’s continues on page 17.
Now in our 33rd year, our magazine, directories and Hot Leads Report have guided multitudes of successful businesses. Like you, we look forward to a prosperous new year in this exciting, creative, daunting and delicious world of foodservice. 2015 also welcomes back our biennial Pocket Buyer’s Directory, the slim and essential guide that is a must-have for when you absolutely need reliable contacts, services or equipment now. If your business needs to be included, call our office today as demand often exceeds space. This edition will be Blaze Pizza Chain Fires Up Their 3 Minute Pizza Sites polybagged with your March issue. Blaze Fast Fire’d Pizza continues its expansion in the Chicagoland area. Blaze offers fresh ingredients Keep in touch. Remember: When you aren’t procombined with an under-3 minute cook time. Each Blaze Pizza features an interactive assembly-line format moting your business, your competitors are. Call us that allows guests to customize one of the menu’s signature pizzas or create one by choosing from a over 40 today for advertising information in print, web and ingredients for under $8. The 11-inch pizzas are sent to an mobile devices. We reach qualified decision-makers open-flame oven “where a dedicated pizzasmith ensures who are looking for YOU. that the thin-crust pies are fast fire’d and ready to eat in Valerie Miller, Publisher just 180 seconds.” Blaze Pizza launched locally in 2013 and recently opened their fourth area location at Westfield’s Old Orchard Shopping Mall in Skokie. Other locations are: 953 W. Belmont, 227 E. Ontario, Presidential Towers at 24 S. Clinton and the new Evanston location at 1737 Sherman Avenue. Blaze Pizza is being developed in the Chicago area by Levy Family Partners under a 15-store franchise development agreement.
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