About
Hi, I'm Dick Portillo and I welcome you to The Portillo Restaurant Group and its four different concepts (Portillo's Hot Dogs, Barnelli's Pasta Bowl, Key Wester Fish & Pasta House and Hemingway's Bar and Luigi's House and Julian's Bar). I hope you will find the time to visit each of the concepts and enjoy them as much as I have enjoyed developing them. Following is the history of how this all came about. Dick Portillo was born at 1333 West Van Buren in Chicago, Illinois. His family then moved to a government-subsidized housing project on Mohawk Street, called Mother Francis Cabrini Housing Project, now part of Cabrini Green. After his father started earning an income of $2,000 a year,...