New Irish-American Restaurant to Open in Late June

Ariel's Bar and Restaurant, located west of Harlem Avenue and 183rd Street, will offer a variety of traditional Irish dishes as well as contemporary cuisine. Find out what else will be on the menu.

A new Irish-American eatery, just west of Harlem Avenue and 183rd Street, will open in late June, according to a release from the owners. Ariel’s Bar & Restaurant, 18401 North Creek Dr., will serve a mix of Irish and contemporary cuisine, as well as offer a selection Irish whiskeys and craft beers, the release stated. Here are some other quick facts about the new restaurant, according to the owners, PSS Ventures LLC: The release also emphasized the restaurant's proximity to the Tinley Park Convention Center and the surrounding hotels as a positive business factor. Plans for Ariel's have been in the works since July 2011, when the owners petitioned the Village of Tinley Park for site approval and variances at the North Creek Drive location…

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Isabella Owners to Open New Caribbean Restaurant

El Coco Mio will open in early July at the old location of Bogart's on Oak Park Avenue and serve tropical and Latin food. Find out why the new restaurant is a dream come true for owners Fanny and Carlos Guzman.

CORRECTION (1:40 p.m. April 12): An early version of this story incorrectly used Fanny's maiden name. The current version is corrected. This summer, the owners of Isabella Italian Cafe will opening a new restaurant on Oak Park Avenue. El Coco Mio will be at 17344 Oak Park Avenue, the former location of Bogart's Charhouse, and will specialize in tropical and Latin foods, according to co-owner Fanny Guzman. Menu items will contain a variety of dishes from Latin American countries, such as Honduras, and feature tropical fruits and vegetables that some Tinley Park diners might not be familiar with, such as yuca. READ: Job Hunters: Who's Hiring in Tinley Park and Oak Forest? (April 11) Carlos Guzman, co-owner and Fanny's husband, will be the …

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Business Comings & Goings: Face-Lift for Food Court at Orland Square Mall

New name and look for Jordan's Pub. Great Escape closes outlet store. Tinley Irish Parade is next Sunday.

Orland Square Mall has started remodeling its food court as part of the mall’s face-lift that started last year. In addition to new tables and seating, the food court will be getting two new tenants when the overhaul is finished by the end of the April. Minnesota-based ChikWich is a restaurant that specializes in chicken sandwiches. The Orland location will be the chain’s first in Illinois and the first outside of Minnesota. The original location is in the Mall of America. Zoup! is a soup and sandwich shop that features a dozen rotating varieties every day. The company was founded in Michigan in 1998 and the Orland location will be the chain’s third in the Chicago area. Two new stores are also expected to open this spring at Orland Square …

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Business Comings & Goings: Community Mazda Now Open in Tinley Park

All five Fashion Bug stores in Southland closing, including Orland Hills • Skyn Spa opens in Orland • Italio Modern Italian Kitchen restaurant coming to Orland Park Place • Cooper's Hawk adds brunch • Middle Eastern bakery opens.

Community Mazda has completed its move from its longtime home in Oak Forest to its new home at 8325 W. 159th St. in Tinley Park. For information, visit Community Mazda of Tinley Park or check out the dealer’s Facebook page. Fashion Bug, a national retail chain that carries women’s fashions in sizes 6 to 30 and caters to plus-size women, is being phased out by its new corporate parent Ascena Retail Group. Ascena earlier this year completed its buyout of Charming Shoppes Inc., which owns Fashion Bug, and now plans to close the remaining several hundred Fashion Bug stores by early next year. The Fashion Bug store at 9295 W. 159th St. in Orland Hills is among five Southland stores the retailer will be closing after the Christmas shopping …

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Business Comings & Goings: LBK Boutique Opens in Tinley Park

Cosi closes Orland Park location • Graystone Golf Links closes for good, becomes sod farm • Women's fashion and accessories store Love Culture sets up shop in Orland Square Mall • Orland Civic Center to hold open house.

If Lisa Kopas had not started selling wedding accessories online in 2005 the Tinley resident would never have dreamed of opening her own store, LBK Boutique, 7913 W. 171st St., in the Tinley Downs Shopping Center. “I would never have done it without having the online store,” she said. “But I was successful online and was determined to try and do this myself.” Kopas decided to open the brick and mortar version of LBK Boutique after she lost her job as a controller at a power plant in Ford Heights when it closed. Kopas, 45, opened the store last month and said business was great until a road and sewer construction project started at the intersection of 171st and 80th Avenue. “Business has been half of what it was,” she said. “We sell …

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Business Comings & Goings: Office Depot Moving From Orland Park Place

Little Joe's opens third location, Orland Township to host a free job fair at the township Activity Center and other business news.

Office Depot will be closing its store at Orland Park Place on Dec. 12 and is expected to move sometime in 2013 into a much smaller space across the street in Ravinia Plaza. The move is part of the office supply retailer’s move away from larger stores into much smaller stores. “During the past few years, Office Depot has been focused on improving the in-store shopping experience for our customers by remodeling stores into a smaller format, which makes them more intimate and easier to navigate,” Office Depot communications manager Julianne Carelli said in an email. “The current store is nearly 22,000 square feet and does not fit in with our new format plans. “The relocated, smaller format store will be about 7,000 square feet and is …

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Tinley Couple Cuts the Ribbon on New Bakery (Photos)

Sweet Dreams Cakes has been open since August in Frankfort, but the new sweet shop was officially welcomed by the village chamber of commerce with a ribbon cutting.

The Frankfort Chamber of Commerce hosted a ribbon cutting for new local business Sweet Dreams Cakes at 9 a.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 3. “We’re thrilled to have the new business in town,” said Karen Blake, executive director for the chamber. “It’s a great addition.” READ: Tinley Park Couple to Open New Bakery by End of June The bakery, which opened in August at 7956 W. Lincoln Hwy., in Frankfort, is a family affair. Sweet Dreams is owned by Tinley Park husband and wife team Deon and Vicki O’Bryant, and is staffed by their friends and family, including their three daughters, Candace, Gabrielle and Caprice. “It’s awesome,” said Vicki. “I just want to let people know we are here.” According to O’Bryant, Sweet Dreams is special because of the sheer…

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First Look: Dave and Buster's Opens in Orland Park (Photos)

The restaurant, sports bar and entertainment complex held its grand opening Saturday, with a portion of proceeds going to Do It Stevie's Way, in honor of a committed student and athlete from Mokena who died from heart complications at 17.

Dave and Buster's new location opened in Orland Park on Saturday, Sept. 22, with patrons enjoying an array of games, food and drinks, but also supporting a local charity. Up to $5,000 of Saturday's proceeds were set aside for Do It Stevie's Way, a charity dedicated to 17-year-old Steven Bajenski of Mokena. Bajenski was a baseball enthusiast, playing for both the Illinois Sparks and Mount Carmel High School's team, and a strong student. He died in 2009 after surgery to correct a lifelong heart problem. "We knew we had to do something to keep his spirit alive," said Karen Bajenski, Steven's mother, while at Dave and Buster's on Saturday, about starting the charity. The company first learned about the charity through Gina Chinino, who aided …

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Business Comings & Goings: Peppo’s Dili-Deli Coming to Tinley

Also in this week's business roundup: Smoothie shop Red Mango set to open in the first week of October in Orland Park • New Dave & Busters starts the fun and games Saturday • BMW of Orland Park holds official grand opening Thursday.

Peppo’s Dili-Deli, a popular sub shop since 1976 in Palos Hills, is coming to 6905 W. 159th St. in Tinley Park. “We’re hoping to be open in early October,” said Robert Peplowski, 28, a partner in the business and the son of its founder, Jim Peplowski. Both men live in New Lenox. “We’ll have the same menu as the Palos Hills location,” said Peplowski, who added that the sub shop might have additional expansion plans in mind. “If it works out in Tinley, we’ll open more,” he said. “We’ll continue to move south.” The Tinley location will employ about 10 people, Peplowski said. “We’re now taking applications online.” For information, call 708-237-1755 or visit online at Peppo’s Dili-Deli or check out the sub shop's Facebook page. Red Mango, a …

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Who Wants Free Pizza for a Year?

Orland Park's new Cici's Pizza gives free monthly buffet to the first 100 diners today.

If you like pizza and you like buffets, we have the place that's right for you. A CiCi's Pizza will open its doors Monday at 11 a.m. at 9218 W. 159th St. in the Park Hill Plaza center in Orland Park. The owners are from Orland Park and Tinley Park. Texas-based CiCi's is a pizza buffet restaurant, and the first 100 to buy a buffet on opening day will win a free buffet each month for the coming year. The restaurant's hours will be Sunday through Thursday from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m., and Friday and Saturday from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. “This really is a dream come true for us. I think it’s the American dream to go from a corporate position to owning your own business," said Matt Eichberger of Tinley Park. His co-owner, Sagar Patel, is from Orland Park…

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