Grille No. 43 Owner to Open Whiskey Bar, Restaurant in Lake Forest

Grille No. 43 owner Ted Boufis plans to open a whiskey bar and a French/Asian fusion restaurant in Lake Forest later this summer.

Both spaces will be in the same strip mall in Westwood Square, Boufis explained in an interview with Patch last week. The whiskey bar will be where King Maa was, and the restaurant will be where the Burger King was, Boufis explained.

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"The Whiskey Bar is going to be more of a lounge setting," Boufis said. "Westwood Bistro is going to be a full service restaurant sort of like Grill 43 in Lake Bluff."

Boufis is still working on the menu for the restaurant. He's also working to compile a group of local distilleries to be served at the whiskey bar.

"I've been looking for space in Lake Forest for the past couple of years," Boufis said. "It's a great community."

Construction on both places is set to begin in the next two weeks. Boufis says he's still in the permit phase for each location, but he plans to have the bar open by the end of August and the bistro open by the end of September.

"We're trying to do something that's quite a bit different," Boufis said. "We want to differentiate ourselves from everyone else."

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