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Mirabell To Become Mirabella, Gene & Georgetti Chef As Owner

By Patty Wetli | September 26, 2016 9:48am
 The longtime German restaurant is going Italian, with a Gene & Georgetti vet as chef/owner.
The longtime German restaurant is going Italian, with a Gene & Georgetti vet as chef/owner.
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IRVING PARK — With the addition of a single letter, Mirabell is going Italian.

Mirabella, 3454 W. Addison St., is coming soon, replacing the longtime German restaurant and its short-lived successor M Pub.

Owner Arturo Aucaquizhpi is a 20-year veteran of Gene & Georgetti steakhouse, where he worked his way up from line cook to executive chef.

A native of Ecuador, Aucaquizhpi moved to Chicago in 1992 at the age of 16. Coincidentally, one of his earliest jobs was as a bus boy at the Golden Ox, another dearly departed German restaurant.

Mirabell, owned by the Heil family since 1977, closed for good in July after a year-long "farewell tour," including briefly reopening as M Pub.

 

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