Hub’s
About
Hub’s is a family-run restaurant on Dempster Street in Skokie, owned by Tony Thanoukos since he and his brother John bought a small eatery there in 1976. The menu has grown from 10 items to 165, built around barbecue ribs, rotisserie chicken, gyros, shish kabobs and burgers, plus Greek dishes such as pastitsio and moussaka drawn from the brothers’ mother’s recipes.
What to know
- Hub’s marked 50 years in March 2026 with a half-price promotion that drew lines toward McCormick Boulevard, The Record reported.
- A 1993 Saturday Night Live sketch with Chris Farley and Adam Sandler was set at Hub’s, according to the same report.
- The Skokie dining room has been expanded three times.
- Thanoukos emigrated from Greece at 16 and started out washing dishes at a Des Plaines restaurant.
- His son, Bill Thanoukos, works in the kitchen.
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