A chef with a national audience for his cooking videos is opening a restaurant in downtown Crown Point in a few months.

Billy Parisi has amassed millions of social media followers. He’s a classically trained culinary school grad whose ancestors hail from Sicily. He worked in high-end restaurants and then at a Chicago media company, making videos for Lettuce Entertainment restaurants like Big Bowl.

During COVID, he started making YouTube videos teaching cooking. A sourdough bread video went viral. He ended up with 860,000 YouTube subscribers.

Parisi teaches viewers classical French and Italian cooking, applying fine dining techniques to home cooking.

He plans to open Parisi’s La Famiglia Italian Kitchen on the square. Restauranteur Chris Pappas offered him the Ricochet space, saying he

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