Valentine’s Day is tomorrow, and I feel a tiny thaw in my curmudgeonly, cynical, skeptical, several-sizes-too-small heart. My wife and our cats will be delighted to hear this. There may even be gin.
Consequently, I’m suspending my customarily trenchant chain/franchise repudiation for a Skyline Chili tout. We all have our bump-outs, escape clauses and exceptions.
Skyline is one of mine. The pop/rock group Chicago is another.
Don’t bother remonstrating; I’m unrepentant. The song was a hit when I was preparing to embark on my first European journey, and even Grinches like me may wax nostalgic.
Let’s turn now to Louisville Business First’s Shea Van Hoy for the official word on Skyline Chili’s fourth Louisville area location, which opened recently in the East End (Springhurst) at 10641 Fischer Park Dr.
Skyline Chili opens fourth Louisville location in East End
The new Springhurst restaurant will offer Skyline’s full menu of signature items, including Cheese Coneys, Ways and Chilitos, along with carryout and delivery options for guests. It will also feature a drive-thru.
For those culinary completists interested in the many ways Americans have found to top hot dogs with chili, there is a page.
What is National Chili Dog Day?
Cheese Coney Hot Dog – In Greater Cincinnati, Coney Islands (without the cheese) or Cheese Coneys are hot dogs in buns that are topped with cheese, mustard, onions, and Cincinnati chili, which is a Greek-inspired meat sauce.
Perhaps more specifically, Macedonians from territories lying in present-day Greece. Kat Kinsman explains.
Where did Cincinnati chili come from?
The history of Cincinnati chili is — like many of the best things in American culture — an immigrant story. According to food historian Dann Woellert’s gloriously comprehensive book The Authentic History of Cincinnati Chili (he is also the author of Cincinnati Goetta, Cincinnati Candy, Historic Restaurants of Cincinnati, and Cincinnati Wine: An Effervescent History so yeah, the man knows his local lore) in 1920, brothers Tom and John Kiradjieff immigrated from Hroupisa, Macedonia, (now a part of Northern Greece) to Cincinnati, where their older brother Argie had established himself as a grocer two years prior. The downtown area in which the brothers settled had become an enclave for Macedonian men who had immigrated during pre-World War I unrest. When the younger brothers set up shop as the Empress Chili Parlor in a corner of the Empress Burlesk...Read more
