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While growing up, Matt always had a passion for food and cooking. Starting as a kid watching his grandmother cook for family dinners, he would sit and watch – enjoying the smells and tastes that came with it. He started to focus in on cooking shows, watching Julia Child and Jacques Pépin. As he grew up, he started reading cookbooks and trying the recipes on weekends. This eventually lead to his first job answering phones at a pizzeria in his hometown of Tinley Park. After finally getting the chance to work the appetizer station, he was hooked.
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As a kid growing up in Tinley Park, Lucas’s first passion, much unlike his brother, was not food. It was dreams of October baseball and the ivy of Wrigley Field that filled Lucas’s head. As with most kids baseball was not a viable option as a future, so in search of a calling he pursued his love of history. Following high school Lucas studied History at the University of Illinois-Champaign-Urbana.
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Two brothers open Solstice Restaurant “Everything is sourced from the Midwest,” Lucas said. “We know our farmers, we sit down and have conversations with them every week. It’s nice to have a face to where you’re getting your food from and to ensure the quality.” For the Bumba brothers, it’s all about doing things the […]
Now open in Western Springs. Newcomer Solstice, a restaurant serving breakfast and lunch, is enlivening the dining scene… “Our concept is to use locally sourced ingredients with an eye on seasonality. Toward that end, Solstice cures and smokes its own bacon and grinds its breakfast sausage on the premises.” Read the full story here.
