Just months after they closed their last downtown Elgin dining venture, Matthew Habib and his wife, Jennifer Polit, are planning to resurrect The Red Poppy Bistro — this time as a shopping center r…
The Red Poppy Bistro, with its original sign from its downtown Elgin location seen on the right, is being resurrected in a new location on South Randall Road in South Elgin.
“It was dumb luck that we found this space,” Habib said. “Now we’re shooting for an opening in early May.” At the time Rogue’s closed, Habib cited two reasons — his recovery from injuries suffered in a November car accident in Wisconsin and chef/kitchen manager Jon Kiley being diagnosed with cancer and needing to undergo surgery.
As was true with the original, this version of the Red Poppy will retain its ties to Habib and Polit family recipes, reflecting Polit’s Polish and German roots and Habib’s mother’s experience as a French pastry chef known for pot pies. Habib and Polit’s first foray into the Elgin dining scene was in 2016, when they launched Legit Dogs & Ice as a food truck business and then opened inside Dream Hall at 51 in downtown Elgin the following year. The business closed in 2019.
They’ve been able to keep going with the financial support of developer Andrew Cuming and his wife, Britta, who own the Highland Avenue location and continue to back the couple at their South Elgin location, Habib said.The menu at the new Red Poppy Bistro in South Elgin will be similar to the one the owners had when the restaurant was in downtown Elgin, focused on family recipes, home cooking and from-scratch methods. “I like their food. I like the restaurant industry,” Cuming said.
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