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Epik Diner & Bake Shop co-owner Daniela Kavourakis shows off a Cotton Candy Shake she built at the diner on Whalley Avenue in New Haven Dec. 2, 2021. The shake consists of blue, pink and pearl chocolates on the outside of the glass and inside is a strawberry milkshake with whipped cream, cotton candy, rock candy and a rainbow lollipop.<\/p>\n

Arnold Gold \/ Hearst Connecticut Media<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n

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The Kavourakis family \u201cwill bring you to Flavortown\u201d at Epik Diner<\/a>, lending decades of industry experience to their new restaurant and bake shop on Whalley Avenue<\/a>. (Potato-crusted salmon, a signature entree by family patriarch George Kavourakis, caught the attention of \u201cDiners, Drive-Ins and Dives\u201d host Guy Fieri when the TV star visited his Baltimore diner in 2009.) It\u2019s on the colossal menu at the new restaurant, which opened Nov. 17, joining a dizzying variety of classic and specialty dishes for breakfast, lunch and dinner. <\/p>\n

Kavourakis\u2019 wife, Daniela, is the \u201cin-house executive pastry chef\u201d who handles desserts, including 25 kinds of cheesecake, and she crafts the restaurant\u2019s \u201cEpik Shakes,\u201d crowned with toppings like whole slices of cake, cotton candy, cookies and ice cream sandwiches. <\/p>\n

1426 Whalley Ave., 203-397-1556, @epikdiner<\/a>. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Epik Diner & Bake Shop co-owner Daniela Kavourakis shows off a Cotton Candy Shake she built at the diner on Whalley Avenue in New Haven Dec. 2, 2021. The shake consists of blue, pink and pearl chocolates on the outside of the glass and inside is a strawberry milkshake with whipped cream, cotton candy, rock candy and a rainbow lollipop. Arnold Gold \/ Hearst Connecticut Media The Kavourakis family \u201cwill bring you to Flavortown\u201d at Epik Diner, lending decades of industry experience to their new restaurant and bake shop on Whalley Avenue. (Potato-crusted salmon, a signature entree by family patriarch… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-connecticut-cbd-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}