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12 | January 12, 2017 | The Lockport Legend lockport lockportlegend.com 22ND CENTURY MEDIA PRESENTS FREE ADMISSION! FREE PARKING! FITNESS CLASSES! This event will be the answer to getting the New Year’s resolution off to a solid start by offering healthy screenings, fitness tips, healthy eating ideas and more to start off the New Year with a New You Vendors scheduled to appear: 22nd Century Media Arbonne Bath Planet Be Healthy Be Green Body Tech Total Fitness Cheesewich Factory Chiro One Wellness Center Clarendale of Mokena ClearCaptions Dan Mosca State Farm Defend UR Health Essentia Water Event Tees Inc. Great Lakes Caring Health Nutz Natural Foods Heart & Sole Dance Hidden Knoll Apiaries Ingalls Health System Isagenix International Krave Jerky Le-vel Thrive Mamma Chia Natural Healing Centers Palos Community Hospital Palos Imaging & Diagnostics PH+ Cleanee Inc. Physicians Immediate Care Planet Fitness Plexus Worldwide, Inc. Prudential Advisors Reconstructed Fitness Renewal by Anderson The Sheet Lady Theracore Physical Therapy Tinley Park Apothecary Vitality Health System Weight Watchers Young Living Essential Oils And more to come! FREE 30-minute fitness classes from: Body Tech Total Fitness Heart & Sole Dance Natural Healing Center - yoga Planet Fitness FREE Healthy Living Cooking Demo Joliet Junior College Chef Tim Bucci Chef Colin Turner of Tin Fish For more info, call (708) 326-9170 ext. 16 or visit www.22ndcenturymedia.com/events The New Lenox Patriot • The Orland Prairie • The Tinley Junction • The Homer Horizon • The Lockport Legend • The Mokena Messenger The Frankfort Station
lockportlegend.com DINING OUT the Lockport Legend | January 12, 2017 | 13 The Dish Side Street combines unique flavors with entertainment Brittany Kapa, Assistant Editor Side Street American Tavern offers more than just good food. Accurately named, Side Street American Tavern is nestled off 183rd Street and Harlem Avenue at 18401 North Creek Drive in Tinley Park. The restaurant not only offers a wide range of meal options on its menu but also seemingly can adjust to anyone’s entertainment needs. Side Street has a private dining room for all occasions. The restaurant also can shift into a sports bar when needed, with 25 televisions throughout. It truly is a chameleon of a restaurant, featuring seasonal menu items to boot. Owner Jimmy Kollintzas has been working in the industry his entire life. He wanted Side Street to be a middle ground for residents. Kollintzas is a Tinley Park resident but grew up in Indiana. He has worked as a bus boy, on the line and now has opened yet another restaurant. He also owns a fast food concept restaurant in Joliet, World Famous Jimmy K’s Gyros. “In high school, I started off working in a family diner and worked my way up into owning my own restaurant,” Kollintzas said. He opened Side Street with his business partners and cousins on March 17 of this past year. “Being on the south side, you have sports bars and you have very fine dining restaurants,” Kollintzas said. “We wanted to be a unique experience where you could have a little bit of both.” Since the Tinley Park Convention Center is close, and the restaurant itself is This BBQ Burger ($12) at Side Street American Tavern in Tinley Park features an antibiotic-free patty with cherrywood bacon, onion strings, cheddar cheese, lettuce and BBQ sauce, garnished with a pickle and seasoned fries. Brittany Kapa/22nd Century Media surrounded by hotels, it provided a good opportunity to play around with the menu and add some more highend dishes. Kollintzas said they wanted to be able to offer everyone a good variety of options for dinner. “What I’ve learned: Our biggest asset as an independent is that we’re hands on,” Kollintzas said. “I’m here every day. We’re really getting to know what our customers want and getting customer feedback.” Customer feedback has played a major role in what is offered on the extensive menu. Patrons can come in with friends and share the generous portion of Side Street Nachos ($10). Options with the dish include adding chicken ($2) or steak ($4). “We wanted unique items on the menu — wow items,” Kollintzas said. “I think it’s very important, because people eat with their eyes.” Kollintzas always is willing to hear what customers have to say about his restaurant. And recently, Side Street opened for lunch, per customer request. “Our menu added a couple more items that people wanted,” Kollintzas said, noting with the cold weather people were craving heavier options. Uniquely named, the Weezee is a creation from his store in Joliet that has been brought to Tinley Park. A repeat customer visited, and, at the time, Kollintzas was trying out a new beef sandwich. The customer loved it so much that he brought his friends the next day. Kollintzas decided to name the sandwich after him. “He was a truck driver, and his name said ‘Weezee’ on [his shirt],” Kollintzas said. “He was a bigger guy, so we called it the ‘Big Weezee.’” The ‘big’ has been dropped, but the Original Weezee ($12) can be found on the menu, complete with beef, mozzarella and signature seasoning, known as sottaceti. Since the space is so large, Kollintzas has capitalized on this fact. And there are events throughout the week — live entertainment during the week, as well as live bands on the weekend. The restaurant also has indoor bags and trivia nights for those interested. “This restaurant is very unique, because it’s such a beautiful building,” Side Street American Tavern 18401 North Creek Drive in Tinley Park Hours • 11 a.m.-midnight Monday-Thursday • 11 a.m.-2 a.m. Friday- Saturday • 11 a.m.-11 p.m. Sunday For more information ... Web: www. sidestreettavern.com Phone: (708) 928-8080 Kollintzas said. “We wanted to incorporate everything here. There are so many restaurants and so much competition that you have to make yourself stand out a little bit.” THE FRANKFORT STATION Coming in February We want to know your favorite local businesses! Tell us your favorites in categories such as: Beauty ★ Health ★ Dining ★ Education ★ Fitness & Recreation ★ Pets Services ★ Shopping ★ Vehicles Honor your favorite local businesses by voting for them in the Southwest Choice Awards presented by 22nd Century Media. Look for the ballot in your 22nd Century Media paper or vote online at www.22ndcenturymedia.com/swchoice starting Thursday, Feb. 2. Ballot ads are now available! To reserve your space, call (708) 326-9170! THE LOCKPORT LEGEND THE NEW LENOX PATRIOT THE HOMER HORIZON Service and savings from businesses that you can trust, all in one place. Publishes Reach more than 88,000 homes and businesses! Space reservation deadline: FEB 3rd, 2017 Ad approval deadline: FEB 9th, 2017 THE ORLAND PARK PRAIRIE THE TINLEY JUNCTION THE MOKENA MESSENGER FEB 2 3rd, 2017 Call The Classifieds Department at 708-326-9170 visit us online at www.lockportlegend.com
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