Maria's Pasta Project will soon serve up noodles with various sauces in Valparaiso.

John Christodoulakis hails from a restaurant family whose extended family owned Christo's in LaPorte, Plymouth and Knox and Round the Clock in Valparaiso. He went to Greece to visit family and came across a fast-casual restaurant that served fresh pasta, wondering why they had nothing like that back home.

So he's opening Maria's Pasta Project, which is named after his mom.

"My mom made me fall in love with cooking," Christodoulakis said. "She was the one who got me interesting in cooking at a young age."

The fast casual restaurant will be located at 3008 Calumet Ave. on Valparaiso's north side, near Subway, El Amigo, Anytime Fitness and Ace. Christodoulakis looked into opening in the new Link downtown,

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