Famous Chicago Berghoff Restaurant Closing
In a few months The Berghoff — one of this food-loving city’s oldest and most beloved restaurants — will become history itself, leaving its hordes of devoted patrons crying in their German lager.
Third-generation owner Herman Berghoff, 70, announced Wednesday that he and his wife, Jan, will close the restaurant in February. Their retirement will dim the lights on a Chicago institution that has quenched cravings for warm apple strudel and cold beer for generations of tourists and trade workers, politicians and lawyers.
“You just don’t get places like this anymore,” said 65-year-old Peter Schauer, a German immigrant and Berghoff regular for more than 40 years. He stood sipping a dark red beer Wednesday evening while tapping the restaurant’s polished oak bar. “It really reminds you of the old country. It is solid.”
Source: CBS News.
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