Fast forward a couple years and after many visits to train themed places around the Chicagoland area Brad and I decided that what downtown Forest Park needed was a train themed family restaurant. Madison Street in Forest Park is full of great restaurants and many were family friendly but none of them offered entertainment for the kids.As parents of 3 young kids we regularly ate out in Forest Park and recognized that a restaurant for kids would complement the other restaurants in this area.

From that point we worked toward designing a restaurant that was fun for the kids, comfortable for the parents and one that would offer a variety of delicious, healthy menu options for everyone. You couldn’t have a train restaurant without a train for the kids to play with so we have a large interactive model train table. Since the area doesn’t have many kid focused establishments we recognized that having a party room would also be popular so that parents would have a place to hold birthday parties or other kinds of celebrations.