A dog-friendly eatery on the former IHOP location in Buffalo Grove might be open by subsequent summer time, a consultant of Lazy Dog Restaurant and Bar instructed village board members Monday.
Village trustees Monday accepted the preliminary plan for the proposed 7,500-square-foot restaurant being constructed at 51 McHenry Road, in The Grove purchasing middle.
Buffalo Grove Community Development Director Nicole Woods mentioned the restaurant will assist rework The Grove right into a extra fashionable retail middle.
The Lazy Dog additionally has areas in Naperville, Oak Brook and Vernon Hills, and plans to open one other subsequent 12 months in Northbrook.
“This is a full-service household eating restaurant,” consultant Jared Taylor mentioned. “We’re large believers in Buffalo Grove. We’re right here for the long run and for a long-term partnership.”
Customers will probably be welcome to carry their dogs to dine on the restaurant’s 1,400-square-foot coated patio. A canine menu consists of rooster, rice and water served in single-use cardboard disposable bowl.
For human diners, the restaurant served will probably be open for lunch, dinner and brunch on the weekends, serving sandwiches, burgers and different meats, fish and salads, in addition to a kids’s menu.
It additionally gives a “Lazy Dog Beer Club,” with wine and beer provided for off-site consumption.
Dogs will not be allowed contained in the restaurant, except they’re service dogs.
“It doesn’t grow to be doggy day care,” Taylor mentioned. “You’re nonetheless chargeable for your canine.”
If there’s a disturbance, prospects might be requested to depart, he added.
A pet waste disposal will probably be simply exterior the patio, in addition to a landscaped space the place dogs can handle their business.
