There’s nothing like going out on the open water, catching your own dinner, then coming home with one of those wacky blown-out hairstyles only salt water can create. People have been doing this for ...

Whether you pronounce it "yeer-ro", "jai-ro" or "gear-o," gyros are tasty and popular Greek-American sandwiches that you don't need to be able to pronounce to enjoy. What is a gyro? Gyros are ...

There is lamb. There is beef. And then there is gyro meat. San Franciscans have learned over the past few decades to distinguish between shawarma and gyro, despite the fact that the two share the same ...

While gyros were undoubtedly invented in Greece, enterprising Chicagoans played a surprisingly important role in popularizing the meaty sandwich across the United States. Starting in the 1970s, local ...

When Jimmy Bannos Jr., acclaimed chef at The Purple Pig, decided to open a gyros restaurant in the Wells St. Market (209 W. Wacker Drive), a new food hall in the Loop, he settled on the name Piggie ...