Chefy's Kitchen Announces It's Closing

JOLIET, IL — Chefy's Kitchen & Catering, a popular Joliet restaurant on Plainfield Road that was featured by the Joliet Patch during the 2020 coronavirus pandemic, has announced it is closing this month.

"After months of deliberation, Jason (Chefy) and I have decided to close Chefy's," Paula Taylor announced Thursday on Facebook. "We want to thank everyone for your faithful business over the years. We have been honored over the last 9 1/2 years to cater weddings, baptisms, birthday parties, retirement parties and celebrations of life."

The last day of business at Chefy's will be Oct. 24.

The Taylors operated Chefy's inside Fritz's Pour Houes at 1511 Plainfield Road the past six years. Before that, they were located at J.C. Catchers Tap in Crest Hill.

"We do everything homemade," Jason Taylor told Joliet Patch during last year's interview. "We bread our own cheese sticks, tenderize our own poor boys, and we grind our own burgers here."

Chefy's was best known for its breaded cheese sticks. They are giant. Chefy's gets its cheese from a well-known local business that has been on Mills Road for decades: Mancuso Cheese Company.

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