06/10/2025
So. The Winchelsea (Lorne) Shire were very, very pissy at Dad.
They had decided that this upstart Greek immigrant needed to be taught a lesson and the Greeks in Lorne needed to be taught a healthy respect for the ‘nature’ of things.
They made it clear that Pink was inappropriate and went against bla bla bla (insert political bs here). They had it in mind to close the restaurant, which was well within their power to do.
There was one little problem. Chris’s Restaurant had become the local haunt for the Lorne elite. This included non-resident ‘residents’ besides politicians, judges, actors, media celebrities, artists, fashion designers…(and so on…) to a number of very prominent legal professionals. Yes. Lawyers.
One thing led to another and the Winchelsea Shire was given the message that closing Chris’s Restaurant would not be without consequences…
The Winchelsea Shire faded until long term customer and Chris’s long term faithful JK amalgamated them out of existence. That was in ‘94. Had nothing to do with us! Agricultural corn and cow towns struggle to run coastal tourism towns. Just ask Colac. Apollo Bay looks like Lorne…in the 70’s!!
End result. Chris’s gets final coat of paint. Hot pink. Legal team gets the best table in the house. Little restaurant in Lorne becomes famous. So famous other restaurants in town started having to stop peddling pot and start working harder to handle the inflow!
Now. How much of this is true I leave to the reader. Chris’s Tshirts were seen in Paris. Thats true!
I’m looking for a photo of the pink Chris’s. There was a painting entitled ‘something like Chris’s’ by Bob Coy that burned in the Skenes Crk fire with another by Barry Humphries ‘for Chris’.
