Wu’s opens new ramen restaurant in Orland Park
A new restaurant that combines ramen and poke has opened at the corner of 159th Street and Harlem Avenue in Orland Park.
Wu’s Ramen & Poke recently opened in the former Five Guys location at 15840 S. Harlem Ave. next to Home Depot.
It’s the third Wu’s Ramen location in the south suburbs. Others are in Oak Lawn and on LaGrange Road in Orland Park.
The restaurant features ramen, a Japanese noodle dish that has its roots in Chinese noodle dishes. The noodles are served in a broth typically filled with pork or some other ingredient.
Poke is a relative newcomer to the south suburban culinary plate. It’s a Hawaiian-based dish of raw fish and is gaining popularity in the south suburbs.
The new location is open from 11:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. Monday to Thursday, from 11:30 to 9 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, and from noon to 9 p.m. on Sundays.
Crumbl Cookies to open next week in Tinley Park
Tinley Park’s sweet spot is about to get bigger with the scheduled Jan. 6 opening of the new Crumbl Cookies, at 15943 S. Harlem Ave. in the Tinley Park Plaza shopping center.
Store owners, Derek and Michelle Hincks, say they can’t wait to serve delicious treats in Crumbl’s pink boxes.
The couple have spent months perfecting the Tinley Park location.
“As local business owners, we are looking forward to cultivating a fun and uplifting environment that shares delicious cookies with our neighbors,” they said in a release.
The grand opening week menu will offer six of the 200-plus weekly rotating flavors, including Crumbl’s award-winning Milk Chocolate Chip. Some of Crumbl’s specialty flavors include Cornbread, Cookies & Cream, S’mores, Key Lime Pie, Peppermint Bark, Caramel Popcorn, Buttermilk Pancake and Galaxy Brownie.
For the first five days, customers can order in person. Starting Jan. 11, delivery, curbside pickup, catering and nationwide shipping will be available via the Crumbl App and online at Crumbl.com.
The store will be open from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. on weekdays and from 8 a.m. to midnight Fridays and Saturdays.
The new store will provide more than 60 new jobs. It will be the third Crumbl Cookies in the south suburbs. Other locations have opened in Orland Park and Mokena. There’s also a location in LaGrange.
Crumbl was founded in 2017 in Logan, Utah, by Jason McGowan and Sawyer Hemsley. In just five years, Crumbl has grown from a humble cookie shop to a booming franchise with over 500 locations in more than 40 states.
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Cafe, car wash come to Lyons
Two new businesses have opened in Lyons along with the grand reopening of a community favorite.
Darla’s Deli & Café, 8319 Ogden Ave., and Lyons Hand Car Wash & Detail Center, 8128 W. 47th St., opened last week.
Darla’s Deli & Cafe serves freshly sliced deli sandwiches as well as salads, wraps, soup, and more. It also offers video gaming.
The Lyons location is the third for the chain, which is owned by Durbin’s founder Tom McAuliffe.
Lyons Hand Car Wash & Detail Center offers exterior hand wash as well as a full-service exterior and interior detail.
Culver’s, which first opened in Lyons in 2009, reopened Monday after it was closed for several days for remodeling.
Instead of standard, cafeteria-style eating, the restaurant will now feature configurations that enhance privacy and the guest experience. The Lyons restaurant’s remodel is part of a broader modernization plan for dozens of older Culver’s restaurants.
La Petite Pastry closing near Midway
Another longtime Southland business will be shutting down this week.
La Petite Pastry Shop will be closing this weekend after a 55-year run on Chicago’s Southwest Side.
La Petite owners Bill and Kim Goebel are retiring and their son, Chris, will not be taking it over. He is general manager of Talerico-Martin Bakery in nearby Summit.
Goebel launched La Petite in 1967 at 2640 W. 63rd St., in a space that had been the home of Hoss Bakery. In 1972, the shop moved a couple of blocks west, to its longtime home at 2809 W. 63rd St., a storefront that had been the longtime home of Kiltz’s Bakery.
In 1976, La Petite opened a second location nearly four miles west, at 5610 W. 63rd St., in a space that was once home to Stadler’s Bakery. They prospered and have been there ever since. They maintained the original location until 1998.
As for the building, which Goebel owns, there is a chance that the Chicago Department of Aviation could purchase the building and raze it as part of its ongoing plans to make it easier for pilots to take off and land more safely at Midway Airport. The city did just that with the historic Crane & Moreland Building, a 1927 structure that stood next to La Petite until it was demolished in 2014.
La Petite also could become home to another independent bakery.
The business, including all equipment is “definitely for sale,” Goebel said. “We could negotiate a price. It already has everything you’d need.”
Bob Bong is a freelance columnist. He can be reached at [email protected].