Published July 9, 2021 •
Updated on July 9, 2021 at 6:00 pm
Spiaggia - regarded as one of the top Italian restaurants in Chicago and the nation, announced Friday it won t reopen, explaining the fine dining establishment was unable to reach an agreement with its landlord.
The restaurant at One Magnificent Mile, as well as its more casual sister property, Café Spiaggia, on the corner of Michigan Avenue and Oak Street, initially closed as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Don t miss local breaking news and weather! Download our mobile app for iOS or Android and sign up for alerts.
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For a city once dubbed the “Second Croatian Capital,” ithere are very few Croatian restaurants in Chicago.
“This is just such an amazing culture with such great, amazing food, and it doesn’t get spotlighted somehow, especially for a city where we have such a big Croatian and Balkan population,” says Joe Flamm, former executive chef at Michelin-starred Spiaggia, “Top Chef” winner and owner of soon-to-open Croatian-Italian restaurant, Rose Mary.
According to the 2015 U.S. Census, about 6,000 Cook County residents identify as Croatian, but because Croatia didn’t have political autonomy when many immigrants arrived, they were counted with Slovenians or Yugoslavians. Community leaders estimate the actual number of residents with Croatian heritage to be 150,000 to 200,000.