One of the best Sunday Routine Times’ stories I’ve seen. I didn’t know that Chris Siderakis – owner of Kellog’s Diner – had died. His wife Irene took over the restaurant about three years ago. She seems to be doing pretty well at it, pandemic and all.
Sunday Routine: How the Owner of a 24/7 Diner Spends Her Sundays
The Scrappy Brooklyn Restaurant That Forever Changed New York’s Food Scene
The shocking thing about Diner isn’t necessarily that it helped to usher in a whole new generation of restaurants across New York and the country that were serving grass-fed beef and local cabbage; it’s that Diner, despite the influx of condos and salad chains to its neighborhood, is still cool — and not just cool, but also nice about it.