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Written by Administrator | 21 April 2010

Giorgetti's is now open in Washington Park

Michigan City - New Buffalo-based Giorgetti’s Pizza is opening the doors for family dining in Washington Park’s Yacht Club facility, offering pizza and sandwiches reminiscent of Old Chicago neighborhood style recipes. The facility is also home to the Michigan City Yacht Club, and the public is invited to relax in the Yacht Club Pub, a Maritime theme bar featuring Great local Micro brews and top notch Martinis. In the warmer season, the outdoor Sunset Bar & Deck and will be open for breakfast and Wi-Fi.

Known throughout Harbor Country Michigan, Giorgetti’s Pizza recipe is a traditional Chicago-style thin-crust pizza. We make our dough and Italian sausage every day along with our fifty-year-old sauce recipe. We hand slice all of our fresh vegetable toppings and bake our pizzas in traditional deck ovens. Everything is prepared fresh daily by Executive Chef Adam Brown including the handmade Italian sausage, which is used on the pizza and hand linked for Giorgetti’s old school grilled Italian sausage sandwich. We offer a family size 16 inch sausage pizza that will only cost you about $16.50. And our sandwiches are all under 7 bucks.

“The kids are going to love this place” explains Steve Vargas, General Manager. “Being so close to the beach and the Washington Park attractions, we hope to offer all the boaters and families a great family dining venue while visiting the area. What could be better than pitchers and pizza after a day on the beach.”

The Yacht Club Pub seats 75, and the newly remodeled dining room seats 150. As for the Sunset Deck, there is seating for 100 including an outside bar under shade trees and umbrellas. Watch the wonderful sunsets every evening from the comfort of your table, and be sure to bring a camera. We will hold weekly photo contests featuring our patrons own photography taken from the deck. Prizes will be awarded every Sunday in the form of free pizzas.

Giorgetti’s will also be hosting many Yacht Club events as well as the Super Boat Race held annually. Our 3500 square foot Pavilion building will be providing additional accommodations for the large crowds expected at the upcoming events.

Giorgetti’s Restaurant and Pizza is open all year from 11am - 9pm, with breakfast beginning in late May and ending in September. The Sunset Bar & Deck will open and close as weather prevails. And please join us in our cozy Yacht Club Pub all year round. The public is always invited.

Driers Meat Market In Three Oaks

  Visit Drier's and experience a trip to the past. What was originally a wagon repair shop, the building that houses Drier's Meat Market was converted to a butcher shop in 1875 by an Englishman named Alec Watson and called it The Union Meat Market. Ed Drier, Sr. was hired by Alec Watson when he was only 10 years old for a 25-cents-a-week delivery boy. Ed was eventually promoted to clerk at $6 a week and, in 1913, he bought the store from Watson.

     Drier's Meat Market has been recognized by as a National Historic Site since the time of it's opening in 1875 which means it has been in continuous use as a butcher shop since shortly after the Civil War. It has a pre-Civil War front and many of the original elements of the building still exist, including the four-paned windows that pre-date plate glass. There's sawdust on the floor, old butchering tools and a meat rack with ornamental cows. The smoke house used to produce Drier's famous ham's, bacon and ring bologna (spelled “baloney” by Ed Sr.) is more than 100 years old.

     The ring bologna was a favorite with the Michigan Central Railroad workers, who made special stops in Three Oaks to pick some up. The famous bologna is actually a kind of small salami in natural casing shaped like a horse shoe. Of course, the family recipe is a secret but it is an all-beef sausage with salt and pepper.

     Drier's has been written about in the Chicago Sun Times and Tribune, Michigan papers from Benton Harbor to Detroit and in many Travel Magazines (such as Food Finds magazine.) The theme is always the same:  It's a pleasure to see a family doing something they enjoy for so long and doing it so well.

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