How can a restaurant be all things to all people? That’s a tough one.

Katrina and Johnny Giavos seem to have figured it out.

While Kuba Kuba is dedicated to Cuban cuisine, The Giavoses’ other three restaurants share similarities that can only be described as The Giavos Touch: Staff that is friendly and efficient; food that you can’t get anywhere else (Greek nachos); and a convivial ambience that is uniquely their own.

Their most recent venture, Kitchen 64, spread their restaurant empire beyond the Fan, where their other ventures—Three Monkeys, Sidewalk Café, and Kuba Kuba (with Manny Mendez) pack people in every day and night.

Like Sidewalk, Kitchen 64’s booths seat six comfortably; eight if you like each other. Dress is whatever you want it to be (within Department of Health codes). The extensive menu covers every mood, every taste, whether it’s mussels in white wine sauce, a BLT, or the best Huevos Rancheros north of the border.

Best of all for parents of young children, the kids’ menu isn’t just your bargain basement nuggets-and-fries listing. You can elevate their little tastes with pasta, or you can take the easy way out with a burger or a hot dog which, by the way, is Hebrew National. A finicky soccer mom recently confirmed that the Hebrew National brand “shows they really care about their food.”

Both Katrina and Johnny were born into their families’ restaurant businesses, making their wedding as much a merger as a marriage. Katrina’s mom, Stella Dikos, fed scores of writers, artists and journalists over the years at the VCU area restaurant named for her. Before retiring, Stella opened another restaurant on Main.  Johnny, as he is universally known, spent teen years helping out at his family’s restaurant Athens, also in the Fan.

Kitchen 64 is a departure in a way, spreading the Giavos empire beyond the Fan.  “Years ago, when Johnny and I started having kids, we started looking for a bigger home,” she recalls. “All our friends with kids were moving to Northside.” Katrina fell in love with the area. But with three restaurants in the Fan, moving miles outside it didn’t make sense. Although they never moved from their Fan home, Northside remained appealing.

They approached the venture with some trepidation. “We thought no one would come here,” says Katrina, who spends her time managing Kitchen 64 while Johnny is perpetually making rounds at all the others.

They couldn’t have been more wrong. Katrina has found that the location is accessible to many more areas. Sitting at the crossroads of Westwood Avenue and Robin Hood Road, right where the Boulevard becomes Hermitage Road, Kitchen 64 has cultivated loyal customers from all over the metro area. More importantly, 64 has quickly become a highlight for its neighbors. “We really feel like part of this community,” says Katrina.

With its high, stamped-tin ceiling and its black and white tiled floor, it isn’t too far a cry from what it looked like in the ‘60s, when it was a large neighborhood drugstore. A bar seats about a dozen, with two TVs that provide company without competing with diners’ conversations.

And there’s more good news. The Giavoses are prepping to open their latest venture, Gibson’s, in the old National Theater.

Why the name? “It’s a guitar, and it’s a drink,” says Katrina, “a play on those things.”

Expect to sample the Giavos Touch in its newest location around August.