By TONY SCOTT tscott@kendallcountynow.com
Tony Scott - tscott@kendallcountynow.com
1836 Drink Lab & Provisions will be locating in the former Cobblestone restaurant site at the northwest corner of Van Emmon and Route 47/Bridge Street in downtown Yorkville sometime in April. dining area will be changed to make it “more of our style.” “It will be more like 1920s, ’30s Gothic-type atmosphere, a little darker but not too sinister,” he said. “And we’re going to redo the bar and it will have a ton of display space for all the wines and whiskeys we’re going to be housing.” Lewis said new high-back leather booths will be added to the dining room area. The former Mongolian 211 and Bridge Street Cafe space will be broken up into two spaces, and part of it will be used as a workspace for meat processing. He said the meat processing for the restaurants has been in high demand. “Now that we’re adding a third restaurant, and two more in Plainfield, we’re going to need more room to process and dry-age more of our beef, make our sausage, pork loins, stuff like
BRIEF Oswegoland Woman’s Civic Club will meet next Wednesday The Oswegoland Woman’s Civic Club will meet at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 22, at Celebrate Differences, located at 5375 Route 34, Oswego, in the strip mall near Seattle Sutton. Co-hostesses will be Ann Lannert and Cynthia Mayer. At each club meeting, a raffle is held which benefits the Kendall County Community Food Pantry. The club will be attending the Oswego Connects Community Rally from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. March 11 at Oswego East High School in the Atrium, along with many other volunteer groups. Club members
look forward to sharing with the community the contributions they continue to make and the activities they are involved in that benefit our community. The club was founded in 1928, so members have a lot to tell the community. The club welcomes anyone interested in joining or just learning more about us to attend the Feb. 22 meeting. For more information, call President Kathy Guseman at 630-554-5848 or Vice President Judy Siedlecki at 630-551-1852. Information is also available on the club website and Facebook at OswegolandWomansCivicClub.org.
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that,” Lewis said. The meat production space will open before fall, he said. The main dining space in the former Mongolian restaurant will become a processing area, he said. The former
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The owners of Crusade Burger Bar are planning to open their next project on that same block of Bridge Street in downtown Yorkville sometime this spring. 1836 Drink Lab & Provisions is set to locate in the former Cobblestone Bakery & Bistro space at 101 W. Van Emmon St., with an opening planned for sometime in April. Dale Lewis, owner/partner of the restaurant, said it would be a farmto-table concept restaurant similar to Sovereign restaurant in Plainfield, of which he is also owner/partner. “1836 will have a similar style of menu,” he said. “It’s going to be locally-sourced products, no freezer, no microwave, a chef-driven menu, prepped daily. It will be just good old American comfort food, slightly elevated. And we’re going to focus on wine and cocktails.” The restaurant will offer smallbatch spirits and wines made in the United States, he said. Lewis said there will be changes to the building’s interior from when it was Cobblestone. He said there were five different entrances to the building, which confused customers. The main entrance will be off Van Emmon, with double doors, and the former bakery area will “become part of the foyer.” “So that people will clearly know where to go in to get to the restaurant,” he said. The at-grade east entrance along Bridge Street will remain for those who need access, he said. The former western entrance will be blocked off, he said. The former wine tasting area will become a beer bottle shop, he said. “That will be a retail-type establishment, once we get that done,” he said. Lewis said the interior of the main
hibachi area will be turned into a meat counter sometime next spring probably, he said. “We’re going to turn that into a meat counter so that people can come in off the street and buy dry-aged loins that we age in house,” he said. The beef comes from R. Cooper Farms in Yorkville, he said. “We’re going to showcase all their beef,” he said. The pork will be supplied by local farmer Jeff Brummel, he said. Also, the room that was a lounge as part of the Mongolian space will be turned into “a little dive bar, kind of like a hangout,” he said. “We’re just gonna focus on old man beers that our grandfathers used to drink, and it will just have bar snacks, nothing crazy,” he said. “Just a place to be casual and hangout and not have to worry about ordering food or dressing up or being pretentious.” That bar probably will be the last project they open in that block, he said. Lewis said Crusade Burger Bar, down the block at 209 S. Bridge St., is “killing it.” “Yorkville’s been good to us with that store,” he said. “It’s done an amazing job. Revenues are solid, staff is solid, you couldn’t ask for a better environment.”
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