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Le Pita Fresh to Bring Mediterranean Food to Bustling North Broadway

By Benjamin Woodard | October 30, 2013 6:49am
 Owner Ramsen Sheeno plans to open Le Pita Fresh in CJ Grill's former location on North Broadway.
Owner Ramsen Sheeno plans to open Le Pita Fresh in CJ Grill's former location on North Broadway.
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EDGEWATER — Ramsen Sheeno plans to open his second Mediterranean restaurant, Lé Pita Fresh, within a few weeks on a stretch of North Broadway that's undergoing a broader redevelopment.

The restaurant would replace CJ's Grill, which closed at 6141 N. Broadway earlier this year.

Edgewater "is coming up like Bucktown did," said Sheeno, 36, while sitting at a table in the renovated restaurant. "I think this area here needs a place like this."

Sheeno, an Assyrian born in Iraq, said he spent $50,000 to fix up the storefront by adding a stone facade and exposing the brick on one wall inside, among other improvements.

He said he plans to turn a back porch into a seating area and a hookah lounge if he can get the alderman's support.

He bought his first Lé Pita Fresh restaurant in suburban Niles from a previous owner. He also plans to open a third location in the Northwest Side's Forest Glen neighborhood sometime in March.

Lé Pita Fresh will join a dozen other new developments and businesses sprouting on Broadway, a strip that for years has been home to stagnant and vacant properties.

The restaurant, serving shawarma, falafel and kabobs, will be open from 11 a.m.-11 p.m. Mondays to Saturdays and from 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Sundays.