Not your yiayia’s Greek food: New restaurant Kouklas in Niles serves up cross-generational Mediterranean fare

Jimmy Bannos Jr.’s earliest memories are of working in his father’s restaurant. After spending plenty of time at Heaven on Seven, his dad Jimmy Bannos Sr.’s now-closed Cajun restaurant in the Loop, he’d always dreamed of opening a restaurant. At the tender age of 25, Bannos Jr. made that dream happ...