Chicago icon and Brooklyn native Ina Pinkney closes famous restaurant
All Roads Lead Back to Brooklyn
In the past two decades, Brooklyn native Ina Pinkney has become one of Chicago’s most beloved restaurateurs, affectionately known in the Windy City as “The Breakfast Queen.”
She recently published a cookbook with memoirs titled Taste Memories: Recipes for Life and Breakfast, and officially announced that after 33 years in the food business, she will simply close the doors of her famous Ina’s restaurant on the last day of the year. As she said in a recent interview with the Brooklyn Eagle, “on the first day of the year I’m closing it forever, no party, thank you very much, that’s it.”