“I provide free meals for people in need in Port Colborne. “We do about 150 people a month now on the streets in need,” Annibale said. It’s something he plans to continue in Fort Erie. Through his catering company, Annibale has been helping to feed people in need. New offerings being served up by Annibale include his own homemade lasagna and a prime rib he plans to serve on weekends. “He's bringing in some of his Italian flair, you know, with his lasagnas and things that we never did before.” The food is the same,” Koutroulakis said. The transition, Koutroulakis added, has been seamless. And that's the thing that we discussed, and like he was very agreeable and said, ‘Why would I change it? ’” The continuity in the menu offerings by Annibale is something of a relief to Koutroulakis, who wanted to see the Bistro continue to be the restaurant its regulars have come to love. “I’m originally from Fort Erie I went to Fort Erie Secondary School,” Annibale said. The Buffalo-born chef decided to take the plunge after meeting with Koutroulakis. Kourtroulakis had recently sold the building where the Bistro is located on Jarvis Street and continued to operate the restaurant as a tenant when he decided the time had come to call it a day in the restaurant business. “Just try to bring a little bit of my old culture into today.”Īnnibale currently operates a catering business in Port Colborne and was in search of a restaurant to hang his spatula in when he learned of the Old Bank Bistro opportunity. “I would just bring in different pasta dishes and traditional foods that no one's ever seen that are from our (family’s) hometown in Sicily,” Annibale said. When Peter Kourtroulakis decided to hang up his apron for good, he wanted to make sure the Bistro, a fixture on Jarvis Street in Fort Erie since it opened in 2005, was in good hands.Īnd as of the beginning of September, the eatery - and the ghost said to inhabit it - are now the concern of Al Annibale, who will add to the Bistro’s current steak, seafood and ribs offerings rather than make wholesale changes. There’s a new face in the kitchen at the Old Bank Bistro.
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