Name: S2 Express Grill - Ford Heights
Address: 801 E Lincoln Highway, Ford Heights, IL, 60411
Price range: $

S2 Express Grill - Ford Heights

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📍 801 E Lincoln Highway, Ford Heights, IL 60411

Ford Heights hadn't had a sit-down restaurant in over 60 years before S2 Express Grill opened on East Lincoln Highway — a fact that got Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle and the village's mayor both showing up for the opening, which tells you this wasn't just another restaurant launch.

Ford Heights' first sit-down restaurant in over 60 years — real plates (lamb chops included) from the husband-and-wife team behind the Harvey S2 Express Grill.

It's the Chicago area's tenth location for owners Suheir and Andre Williams, the same husband-and-wife team behind the Harvey location a few towns over, and Suheir has been explicit about the mission: real plates, not just fried food, so residents “didn't have to go downtown for a lamb chop.” That's the headline dish, alongside a menu mixing American standards with globally-inspired options — a deliberate step up from the fast-food-and-fried-fish options that otherwise dominate this stretch of the south suburbs. It's open seven days a week for lunch and dinner, with breakfast service planned down the line.

The restaurant is expected to bring 30 to 50 jobs to a village that's had chronically few, and Suheir Williams put the business philosophy plainly: “Most people who don't want to come in certain communities, those are the communities we want to come into.” There's no discount special tracked here — the story is the restaurant itself, a real sit-down option in a village that's gone without one since before most of its current residents were born.

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S2 Express Grill - Ford Heights

Ford Heights hadn't had a sit-down restaurant in over 60 years before S2 Express Grill opened on East Lincoln Highway — a fact that got Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle and the village's mayor both showing up for the opening, which tells you this wasn't just another restaurant launch.

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