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Flight Restaurant and Wine Bar becomes Glenview’s ‘neighborhood hangout’
Martin Carlino
Editor
Steve Fenton believes
the moment you walk
into Glenview’s Flight
Restaurant and Wine Bar,
you should be treated like
family.
And with years of experience
in the industry,
Fenton, the restaurant’s
general manager, feels
providing diners with topnotch
service makes all
the difference.
That’s why Fenton
and staff members work
to instill a strong sense
of community and a
customer-first approach.
“We definitely go by
the motto of treat people
how you want to be
treated,” Fenton said. “I
think there’s not enough
of those places around
anymore. … The treatment
of people is kind of
getting lost. And I don’t
believe in it being lost, I
believe in a staff that cares
and treating people like
family.”
Now 16 years after
founder Steven Herzon
opened Flight Restaurant
and Wine Bar at 1820
Tower Drive inside The
Glen Town Center, it’s a
spot known to many in the
community as Glenview’s
neighborhood hangout.
“I think we definitely
are the neighborhood
hangout and a place where
everyone comes to meet
up or comes after Glenbrook
South or Glenbrook
North games,” Fenton
said.
From its plexiglass panels
hanging on the ceiling
meant to mimic clouds, to
its airplane wing-shaped
bar, the restaurant stays
true to its aviation-based
theme throughout both its
design and menu.
While its name may indicate
a restaurant known
for its wine and cocktails,
Flight’s extensive food
menu offers guests a bevy
of food options.
Fenton said the restaurant’s
menu has nearly tripled
in size over the last six
years, and is now altered
roughly every month, with
new specials being rolled
out and tested before they
are officially added to the
menu. Approximately 25
percent of offerings can be
changed out when an alteration
to the menu is made,
per Fenton.
Fenton always tried to
keep some of the restaurant’s
longtime staples,
like its herb fries, duck
mac and cheese, and signature
Flight burger as
menu constants.
Chefs at Flight use
high-quality and fresh ingredients
in the makings
of the menu’s entirety.
Fenton said the restaurant
tries to be as locally
sourced as possible, with
many of its baking needs
delivered five times a
week from Northbrook’s
Highland Baking Co.
Those headed to Flight
for its wine and cocktail
offerings surely won’t be
disappointed, as it offers a
substantial menu for both.
Fenton said the alcohol
menu features 36 wine offerings
by the glass, more
than 200 different bottles
of wine and nearly 20 signature
cocktails.
Among some of the
specialties are its sage
cocktail, its up in smoke
Manhattan, the Flight old
fashioned and the Mediterrian
mule.
The restaurant’s drink
menu is changed over
about twice a year, with
more minor adjustments
compared to its food
menu. Fenton said about
25 percent of the wines are
switched out each year.
Flight Restaurant and
Wine Bar
1820 Tower Drive,
The Glen Town Center,
Glenview
(847) 729-9463
Flightwinebar.com
4 p.m.-12 a.m. Monday-Friday
4 p.m.-2 a.m. Saturday
4 p.m.-11 p.m. Sunday
Flight Restaurant and
Wine Bar offers many
nightly specials like halfpriced
snacks and appetizers
from 4-6 p.m. Monday-Sunday,
half-priced
bottles of wine all night
on Monday and Tuesday
and select signature cocktails
for $8 on Wednesday
and Thursday.
Editors from 22nd Century
Media headed to The
Glen to test out some of
Flight’s food offerings.
We started out with
diver sea scallops ($18).
The gluten-free offering
is served with a rainbow
swiss chard, bacon, butternut
squash and topped
with a hazelnut vinaigrette.
Fenton said the
dish is made with the
highest-grade scallops.
We next tested out the
signature Flight Burger
($15.95). The half-pound
burger is made with Meyer
ranch beef, topped with
sugar-cured bacon, aged
white cheddar, red wine
onions and served with
beer-battered fries and a
side of truffle aioli sauce.
The hearty burger offering
was full of taste and
certainly will satisfy the
taste buds of most burgerlovers.
Those looking for
chicken offerings also
have plenty of options at
Flight. We sampled its
chicken francaise ($20)
dish, which featured a
Flight Restaurant and Wine Bar’s chicken francaise ($20) dish features a pan-seared
chicken breast served with roasted potatoes, French green beans and topped with a
lemon-garlic pan jus. Photos by Nick Fraizer/22nd Century Media
The restaurant’s cedar plank roasted salmon ($33) is prepared with a citrus-soy
marinade and served over a peppery stir-fry and rice noodles.
pan-seared chicken breast
and was served with roasted
potatoes, French green
beans and topped with a
lemon-garlic pan jus.
We next tried Flight’s
cedar plank roasted salmon
($33). The salmon is
prepared with a citrussoy
marinade and served
over a peppery stir-fry
and rice noodles. A taste
of the prosciutto and fig
flatbread ($13) concluded
our visit. The popular
flatbread choice is served
with boursin, caramelized
onions, sliced figs,
The Glenview eatery offers many flatbread options,
including its prosciutto and fig ($13) flatbread.
calabrese chilies, sliced
prosciutto, arugula, and
topped with olive oil and
lemon. Flight Wine Bar
and Restaurant offers several
flatbread options, all
of which can be prepared
gluten free.