Hibachi Grill evicted from Orland Park location in Home Depot plaza

Hibachi Grill was evicted last month from its Orland Park location.

By Bob Bong
Southland Savvy

Hibachi Grill & Supreme Buffet, which opened in November 2012 at 7260 W. 159^th St. in Orland Park in the Home Depot plaza, was evicted from the premises by Cook County Sheriff's Police on Feb. 27.

A green "no trespassing" notice is affixed to the front door of the restaurant, which featured Chinese, Japanese and American cuisine. The 10,865-square-foot site is listed as available on the DDR Corp. map of the property.

Calls to owner Jacky Chen at his buffet locations in Matteson and Forest Park were not returned.

Cooper's Hawk Winery to open in Oak Lawn
 
Countryside-based Cooper's Hawk Winery & Restaurants announced last week that  it would be opening a new location in Oak Lawn's Stony Creek Promenade at Cicero Avenue and 111th Street.

The Oak Lawn location would be the chain's eighth in Illinois and 20th nationwide. It will be one of six Cooper's Hawks opening in the next year. It would be only the second location in the south suburbs.

Plans call for the Oak Lawn site to be about 10,000-square-feet and will feature a Napa-style tasting room, wine club and retail shop. The new location is expected to employ about 150 people.

The new Cooper's Hawk is slated to open in the first quarter of 2015.

Founded by Southland native Tim McEnery, Cooper's Hawk first opened its doors in Orland Park in 2005.

Simply the Best closes

Simply the Best restaurant, which opened last summer at 5611 S. Archer Ave. in Summit, closed recently. The eatery was in the former location of the Green Acres restaurant.

Countryside OKs smoke shop

Countryside aldermen approved a business license last week for Seaside Tobacco smoke shop at 5501 W. Plainfield.

Free coffee at Mickey D's

McDonald’s will be offering free coffee during breakfast hours to its customers starting this week for a limited time as the world’s biggest hamburger chain tries to stake a claim for its early-morning business.

Participating U.S. locations will offer small cups of McCafe coffee at no charge during breakfast hours from today through April 13.

The Oak Brook-based company hopes the coffee giveaway will bring in new customers and get existing customers to pick up a breakfast item.

Breakfast makes up about 20 percent of the company's U.S. sales.

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