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Erdal Bengogullari opened Purple Onion Grill, 1840 N. Academy Blvd., last year as the pandemic was building. “We had been renovating the place and the day I opened I learned we were going to have to shut down for COVID-19,” he said. “It has been rough, but things are looking up now.” I searched out…

Pierre Osborne is the new executive pastry chef at Edelweiss Restaurant, 34 E. Ramona Ave., having stepped into former pastry chef Alfred “Freddie” Hiltbrunner’s position. The chefs have known each other since 1973. “Freddie was in his 30s and I was a teenager working in the kitchen here,” Osborne said. “He started training me in…