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| Ariel's Bar & Restaurant opened this week in Tinley Park next to the Wingate Hotel. |
Southland Savvy
Another bit of the auld sod has come to Tinley Park with the
opening Monday of Ariel’s Bar & Restaurant at 18401 North Creek Drive next
to the Wingate Hotel.
The bar had been under construction since last winter and
had originally been scheduled to open in June.
Ariel’s says the menu will offer traditional Irish cuisine,
such as fish and chips and shepherd’s pie, along with contemporary dishes, such
as Moroccan barbecue salmon and seafood paella, in its dining room that has
seating for about 80.
The bar seats about 50 and will feature craft beers as well
as an assortment of Irish whiskies.
There are another 140 seats on an outdoor patio.
Ariel’s is open from 11 a.m. to midnight Monday to Thursday,
from 11 a.m. to 1 a.m. on Friday and Saturday, and from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. on
Sunday.
For information, call 708-928-8080 or visit the website at www.arielsirishbar.com.
Tilted Kilt still
planned for Orland Park
Even though it has been a year since the Tilted Kilt planned
for the former Fat Ricky’s location at 16255 S. LaGrange Road in Orland Park
was supposed to have opened, plans for the sports bar have not been shelved.
“Tilted Kilt is still scheduled to
be in Orland Park,” Joseph La Margo, deputy village clerk and public
information officer for the Village of Orland Park, said earlier this month.
La Margo said permits had been
pulled for the bar, which is known for its waitresses dressed in plaid
miniskirts.
Last year, the Orland Park Plan
Commission approved plans calling for adding more than 1,500 square feet to the
north end of the building. Plans also called for removal of a turret,
elimination of a drive-through and the building of an outdoor dining area.
The closest Tilted Kilt franchises are operating in
Bolingbrook, Joliet and Chicago Ridge.
Bonefish Grill now
hiring in Orland Park
Bonefish Grill, a 5,800-square-foot seafood restaurant under
construction at 15537 S. LaGrange Road in Orland Park next to the LongHorn
Steakhouse has announced it plans to open its doors on Sept. 16 and has begun accepting
applications for 100 positions ranging from kitchen staff to servers.
Applications are being accepted now through Sept. 16 at www.bloominbrandscareers.com/Bonefish. Interviews will be conducted with qualified
candidates that apply online.
Applications are being accepted for various positions
including angler (server), host, bartender and kitchen staff.
Florida-based Bonefish Grill got its start in January 2000
and has grown to more than 100 locations in more than a dozen states.
The Orland Park location will be the chain’s fourth in
Illinois and the first in the Southland. The building has an estimated cost of
$1 million.
The project is the last outlot in the Lowe’s Home Improvement
footprint, and makes for quite a restaurant row with LongHorn, Chick-fil-A, Red
Robin Gourmet Burgers and Jersey Mike’s lined up along that stretch of
LaGrange.
For information, visit www.bonefishgrill.com.
Zoup! opens Orland
Square Mall location
The newly remodeled food court at Orland Square Mall in
Orland Park welcomed a Zoup! Fresh Soup Company restaurant on July 25.
Zoup! is a
fast-casual eatery that is in the midst of an expansion push in Illinois. The
Orland location will be the company’s fifth location in Illinois and its first
in the Southland. The company now has 51 locations in nine states, the District
of Columbia and Ontario, Canada. A store opened two weeks ago in Aurora and another
is expected to open in downtown Chicago this fall.
Owners of the Orland
franchise are Mohammad Mansour and Faris Ballouta. It’s their first Zoup!
location.
“We are excited to bring the Zoup! brand and culture
to Orland Park,” Mansour said in a release. “The wide variety of healthy
choices, including soups, salads and sandwiches provide a great dining
alternative for our community.”
Zoup! features hundreds of award-winning soup recipes with
12 rotating daily varieties, including low-fat, low-cal, vegetarian, dairy-free
and gluten-free options, all served with a hunk of freshly baked bread, the
company said in a release. Customer favorites include Chicken Potpie, Lobster
Bisque and Vegetarian Split Pea. The menu also features made-to-order salads
and sandwiches, and all items are available in convenient catering sizes for
groups of 10 or more.
The new restaurant will employ about 17 team members and
will be open from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Saturday, and from 11 a.m.
to 6 p.m. on Sunday.
For more information, call 708-966-3010 or visit www.zoup.com.
If you see a
new business in town or wonder what happened to an old favorite, drop me a line
at bobbong@hotmail.com.
You can also
follow business happenings at Comings & Goings.
