I’ve often been very intrigued by the classic fountain of youth story and am always curious when I see people who are in their 40s who look like they could be in their 20s. They tell me that it has something to do with how hard your life is, but I’m not really entirely sure. I think when you’re a woman you probably tend to focus on a lot more than men would. That’s just our sexist society, I suppose, and it’s been this way for the past 1000 years, it certainly probably going to stay the same.

foyOne of the things that I’ve always been proud of over the years has been the comments that I get about my skin. Many people always comment when they find out my age and asked me just why my skin seen survivor. Well, up until about five years ago, there really wasn’t any specific secret. I think I was just born with relatively good genes and an overall Mediterranean sense of loving life. I just went about my day to day, tried to eat healthy, everything came in line.

But then suddenly one day I discovered that I was starting to develop a couple of wrinkles under my eyes. These are things that don’t necessarily come slowly: in fact, I found that wrinkles will usually just attacking quickly like some kind of a mosquito. It’s all pretty crazy, but for a moment I had a little crisis. I think this gold myself for this kind of vanity, but I was wondering if this was the end of the line. What I look like my mother in about a year or two?

Well the answer was “no” to that question. After discussing a lot of the issues of aging skin with some friends of mine, I was recommended to check out a product that turned out to be the best anti-aging cream available. I know that a lot of these websites and testimonials are fake, because when people say that these creams are working, they are actually not. So fortunate that I managed to find a website like this that has so many real testimonials from real women.

It was nice to know that I am not going to turn into my mother within a couple of years ;) No woman really wants to admit that she’s aging, but when it happens, it just is something that you have to attack right away. I feel like personal appearance is so important for everyone, and especially me as an entrepreneur trying to open up my own restaurant and getting in front of potential investors all the time.

But, it may not work for everyone. I just have to find an anti-wrinkle cream that is probably one of the closest things to the fountain of youth that I will ever find. And if I don’t know you, and you asked me “how old are you?”, I’m probably going to lie about it. Aging changes things, especially for women. If you try to tell me there is a woman in her 40s who does not care at all about aging and is doing fine with it, I will tell you are a liar. And I’ll be right.

Chitown at night!Not a lot of people really have any idea what kind of work it takes in order to open up a successful restaurant in either Chicago, or really any big city in the United States. I can only imagine what some of my friends in Europe feel because the barriers there is opening your own business are pretty amazing. I had a friend named Nick who told me about a restaurant that he opened up in Athens about 20 years ago and he said that it was all very corruption based. I think not a lot has changed there. If you want to open up something that stood the test of time, you had to make sure that there were some pockets filled, and that you had just the right kind of protection in order to continue running your business successfully.

Chicago may not be the absolute picture of honest business, but all the other hand we certainly are not some of those places in Europe. Times do change a lot Chicago and I quite frankly am glad that I didn’t make a move to Los Angeles in the 1990s when I was thinking about it. Yes, I would probably have a far more expensive house and perhaps a little bit of a larger business, but at the same time I simply would not have had the kind of characters that have come into my restaurant over the years in Chicago.

That really for me is the beauty of Chicago. I mean, it’s where president Barack Obama is from, after all. So many of the greatest people in the world are from Chicago so I am very happy to make it my home. Reading a Greek restaurant has always seemed like something that I could really sink my teeth into, so when we are opening up over the next couple of months, you will begin to see my exact take on Greek cuisine in general. Is going to be a really good era I think, because I’ve been involved in several restaurants before, but never one that was truly my own: developed directly from my own thoughts and hopes and dreams.

But it will take some time. There will definitely be a lot of construction over the next couple of weeks as we announce exactly where we are going to end up. Sure, there are always going to be those detractors that say that our food is not as authentic as theirs, but I can tell you that we will offer one of the best experiences you can find as far as Greek food goes in Chicago.

My father once said that if you are going to run a business, you had better make sure that you love that business more than you love your firstborn. Well, I know that my son would probably pretty angry if he thought that was the case, let’s just say that this will be a very key passion in my life over the next while.

Thanks for staying interested in us. I’ll try to keep you updated with this website over the next while while we work out our menu and some of the other issues.