Odd Gift Card Question - recommended chain?

We are going to a wedding Friday, and we thought of giving a restaurant gift card and small check as a gift. However, the couple will be living in Plainfield, an extra hour's drive from the wedding location (Hickory Hills). Unfortunately, I have no time to get to that area to pick up a card before the wedding.

I wonder if there is a restaurant that you can recommend in the area that has an outpost up here. Or an upscale food-related store like Pastoral, etc.?

Thanks!

Do you happen to work downtown?

LEYE (Lettuce Entertain You) has tons of locations, and you can pick up their gift cards - I believe - at any location. I usually go buy them at Petterino's downtown and my parents use them almost always at Wildfire in Oakbrook.

-Ellen

We just gave a wedding present of a Restaurant.com certificate, which can be used all over at selected restaurants. You could check their website and see which ones are out their way.

smellen wrote:Do you happen to work downtown?

LEYE (Lettuce Entertain You) has tons of locations...

-Ellen

No, but I can go to the Wildfire in Glenview.

The Scott Harris empire has several Francesca's locations (Bolingbrook, Frankfort and a couple in Naperville) that might be more convenient to Plainfield than the nearest LEYE outpost which would be a Maggiano's in Naperville. The next closest LEYE's would be a few spots in Schaumburg or Oakbrook--neither of which is all that close to Plainfield. Not to say that they'll never set foot in Chicago again but if that was the case, there are probably a few other spots that you might want to choose than LEYE...