Want to reminisce more about restaurants in Toledo? Click here to be whisked away to 1980!īEST prime rib in this city….JOEY’S Supper Club on Detroit Ave. They turned up in The Blade’s coverage of the 1965 Palm Sunday tornadoes: It was owned by the Kostopulos brothers, according to this obit from 2012. It is gone now, too, as I understand it, and is now an Indian restaurant!Īnd finally, the quaint Green Derby at Monroe and Sylvania, which closed in 2000. From The Blade, May 8, 1982.īrauer’s (the Colony, right at Central and Monroe) or Siegel’s delicatessens (somewhere in the Kenwood area, if I recall correctly).
The Blade, July 12, 1971.ĭominic’s Italian Restaurant, 2121 South Reynolds Rd., undoubtedly dragged down by the sinking of Southwyck. Can’t tell you when it closed but I can definitely tell you when it opened, according to this ad they ran the day before: Thursday, May 6, 1948.įarrell’s at the Franklin Park Mall. The Willows, 4844 Monroe St., just east of the Franklin Park Mall. Apparently the Toledo Zoo recently bought the former site of that restaurant. Ligibel collection, courtesy of the Toledo-Lucas County Public Library, obtained from. Kewpee Hamburgers, 1993 (though those cars look kind of older to me). There are still three in Lima, but Toledo had a few of these. Ted’s Hamburger Shop, circa 1940, courtesy of the Toledo-Lucas County Public Library, obtained from. Ted’s Hamburger Shop, circa 1970, courtesy of the Toledo-Lucas County Public Library, obtained from. It closed in 2000 after a vehicle struck the building. Voudouris (whose uncle, Ted, originally opened the restaurant) and his son, Ted, according to John’s 2015 obituary. Google Maps tells me the building was still standing as of July, 2014.Ī little research revealed the building dates from the late 1930s and was run by John V. The Secor Road McDonald’s, circa 1965, courtesy of the Toledo-Lucas County Public Library, obtained from. Central, I think it’s the one at 3138 Secor Road, though obviously, this one in the picture was demolished ages ago. While the block card collection says this is the McDonald’s at 3128 W. I can only guess it was a hopping place in the ’50s but by the late 1970s it was kind of a ghost town, a relic to an earlier era. White Hut and Suzy-Q Donuts, Secor and Sylvania. The Wheel restaurant is further down the street. We are looking north on Superior from Jefferson. District Court ruling to overturn that little tradition. The Blade’s food critic loved it in 1991, but was panning Dyer’s a year later as inconsistent and “like watching the descent into old age of a dear old aunt or uncle.” Dyer’s was always a good birthday dinner request for a kid in 1960s-70s Toledo.ĭid you know that until 1972, Dyer’s was strictly men only at lunch? It took a U.S. Superior location until it closed in 1993 after a slow and steady decline. Dyers could trace its beginnings to 1905, and spent 76 years at its 216 N. ĭyer’s Chop House, a real shining light downtown for the longest time. The Eppes Essen, circa 1963, courtesy of the Toledo-Lucas County Public Library, obtained from. The Blade’s Seymour Rothman can tell that story better than I can, however. Eppes Essen, which means “something to eat,” opened in 1939 by Harry Levinson and closed in 1984 by his sons, Manny and Sidney, who took over the business.
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