For the first time since 2020, Evanston residents have the option to shop and attend school entirely maskless. Today’s conditions are the result of over two years of drastic changes in public policy. As COVID-19 infection rates fluctuate, the city has sought to balance protecting citizens from the virus, supplementing revenue losses and rehabilitating the.
At the start of the pandemic, Scott Anderson, Prairie Moon’s marketing director, was at a loss. Anderson was considering opening a second restaurant centered around Italian food, but Prairie Moon couldn’t even serve its own patrons indoors. He decided they would still open an Italian concept, Pasta Luna, but this time from inside Prairie Moon’s.
It was Medill freshman Alexia Kadota-Browner’s last night of Fall Quarter in Evanston. She finished packing, scheduled an early morning Lyft to the airport, grabbed her bedazzled pink cowboy hat and headed out to Tuesday Trivia Night at Bob’s Pizza. A Northwestern student favorite in downtown Evanston, Bob’s Pizza began as a ghost kitchen, a.
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One restaurant closes, another opens two doors down on Davis
A popular bar/restaurant on Davis Street downtown has shut its doors, the 10th eatery to close in Evanston since the coronavirus pandemic hit in March.
The Whiskey Thief Tavern at 616 Davis St.
A popular bar/restaurant on Davis Street downtown has shut its doors, the 10th eatery to close in Evanston since the coronavirus pandemic hit in March.
Whiskey Thief Tavern, in the 600 block of Davis, is now out of business.
But two doors down, the Sherpa Curry House has just opened in what used to be the Olive Mountain Mediterranean restaurant. Curry House owner Raj Thapa says while this may not be the best time to open a restaurant, “it’s a good time to buy.” Thapa, who has similar restaurants in Chicago and in Highwood, says he’s “wanted to come to Evanston for a long time.”