Latina sisters expand their family’s Mexican restaurant group with new concepts

Sam Sanchez sits with his daughters Korina (center) and Samantha Sanchez at a table inside their family’s Moe’s Cantina restaurant in River North. (Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-Time)

Raised in the restaurant business, sisters Korina Sanchez and Samantha Sanchez know what it takes to make it in Chicago’s vibrant dining scene.

After the height of the COVID-19 pandemic shut down businesses all across the city — some for good — the two joined forces to create some new concepts in the city’s restaurant/bar scene. They enlisted the help and guidance of their father, restaurateur Sam Sanchez, who’s been working in the industry since he was a teenager.