Empire Builder: Immigration

Milos Dept: But this is a holiday night. And, outside the resto, it's a parking lot on the aptly named Park Ave. Construction -which the city figures will last a few years, which could mean a decade -has reduced the road to one lane in each direction and has created perpetual gridlock and headaches for motorists. Even pedestrians have to be agile enough to hurdle the myriad obstacles preventing them from entering their destinations of choice, according to Montreal Gazette. This goes a long way toward explaining why Costas Spiliadis, the Milos mastermind, founder and empire-builder, is smiling. He has accomplished the nearly unthinkable on the local restaurant scene. Milos, with its minimalist, crisp-white Mediterranean decor, has not only flourished since opening here 30 years ago, but Spiliadis has been able to parlay that success on a grander scale, having ta York City and Athens by storm with operations that require reservations weeks in advance and milos is packed this evening. No surprise there. Milos, unarguably Montreal's most renowned Greek restaurant, is always packed for dinner. And lunch and late night noshing, too -thanks in large part to a moderately priced menu in the latter two instances. Yet, clearly, when the tummy hankers for Milos, nothing will deter the diehard. Now, that's how success is defined in the rough-and-tumble resto trade. As reported in the news.
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