Burr Ridge's Biggest Restaurant Opening In Winter

BURR RIDGE, IL – Pella, which is set to be the largest restaurant in Burr Ridge, is expected to open this winter.

On Monday, Mayor Gary Grasso said he had walked through the building at Village Center where the restaurant is planned.

"What an enormous space," Grasso told the Village Board. "It's going to be a very imposing space."

Asked when it would open, Village Administrator Evan Walter said it was expected to happen between November and January.

"They're moving very quickly," Walter said.

According to village documents, the Mediterranean restaurant would be 13,000 square feet and accommodate up to 500 people at a time. It would be at 720 Village Center Drive, in the old space of LOFT and Banana Republic.

Last year, Alexander Kostandinov, who is proposing the restaurant, told the Village Board that this would be his first restaurant. A resident of Burr Ridge for four decades, he works in the transportation industry.