Boltwood

What Boltwood does

Boltwood is a single-location, sit-down restaurant operating from 804 Davis St, Evanston, IL, with phone contact (847) 859-2880. The establishment serves dinner under a casual, trendy ambiance with a full bar, waiter service, bike parking, credit-card acceptance, and a reservation-based go-to-market. Its menu is organized into five daypart-spanning categories — Brunch, Bar Snacks, Vegetables and Salads, Main Dishes, and Desserts — covering signature items such as house-cured bacon, Pozole Verde, Sourdough Pancakes, Boltwood Burger, Roasted 1/2 Chicken, and a Gooey Butter Bar, supported by a full beverage program.

The operating model is a traditional independent full-service restaurant: guests dine in for breakfast/brunch and dinner, with bar service throughout, and the unit's primary use case is group/social dining in a trendy-casual setting. There is no evidence of delivery, catering, packaged goods, franchise, licensing, or subscription revenue streams; the business is sold per-visit via dine-in service. The only third-party surface referenced is a listing on restaurantlistings.com, which publicly carries menu content and dietary-filter metadata (carbohydrates, sodium, saturated fat, calories, sugar), but no Boltwood-operated mobile app, API, SDK, loyalty platform, or proprietary technology stack is disclosed.

The single observable operational signal in the dataset is that the listing platform displays "Store is closed" for this location, and no reopening, hiring, partnership, funding, or ownership information is available. Company type, legal entity name, founded year, and management team are all undisclosed in the source material, leaving the business profile as a single-unit independent restaurant with limited verifiable growth or strategic signals.

Name

Boltwood

Website

https://boltwoodevanston.com

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Boltwood is a single-location independent restaurant in Evanston, IL, offering brunch, dinner, and full bar service with reservations, serving local dine-in guests from one Davis Street address.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Evanston

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Supply Chain, Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales

Core offering

Boltwood is a single-location restaurant in Evanston, IL offering dine-in service with a full food and beverage menu. The menu is organized into five categories: brunch, bar snacks, vegetables and salads, main dishes, and desserts. The restaurant provides table service, a full bar, and accepts reservations for dinner service in a casual, trendy setting.

Product overview

Boltwood is a single-location restaurant offering a unified dining service with a full food and beverage menu. The restaurant operates as a single integrated offering rather than a platform-plus-modules architecture. Its menu is organized into five distinct categories: Brunch, Bar Snacks, Vegetables and Salads, Main Dishes, and Desserts. The establishment provides dine-in service with a full bar, casual trendy ambiance, and serves dinner to guests who make reservations.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Brunch Menu

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves3 records

Direct peers

• Table No. 1: Evanston full-service restaurant offering contemporary American cuisine and cocktails; comparable target customer and operational format.
• The Peckish Pig: Evanston gastropub offering scratch cooking and a deep beer/cocktail program in the same Evanston dining corridor.
• Farmhouse Evanston: Evanston farm-to-table restaurant with brunch, dinner, and cocktail program — directly comparable daypart mix and full-service dining model.
• Found Kitchen & Social House: Farm-to-table Evanston restaurant serving a similarly seasonal, chef-driven American menu with full bar service in the same Evanston market.
• Lula Cafe: Logan Square, Chicago seasonal restaurant known for brunch-to-dinner service with a rotating, market-driven menu — comparable chef-driven full-service format.
• The Duck Inn: Bridgeport, Chicago neighborhood restaurant with a chef-driven seasonal menu and craft cocktail bar; comparable trendy full-service concept in the Chicago metro.

Regional players

• Union Pizzeria: Evanston-area pizzeria and bar with casual sit-down service, operating in the same suburban-Chicago market as Boltwood.

Market position

Strengths3 records

Weaknesses3 records

Competitive moat1 record

Key risks4 records

Key highlights4 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/boltwood

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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