Established 2015 (2015) Head chef Aaron Whitcomb Street address 2 Woodfield Mall Date founded 2015 | Current owner(s) Namco Entertainment Food type Contemporary American State Illinois City Schaumburg (village) | |
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Level 257 is a contemporary American restaurant located at 2 Woodfield Mall in Schaumburg, Illinois. The restaurant and entertainment destination is inspired by Pac-Man and the name refers to the famous kill screen, which occurs when the player reaches the 256th level of the original Pac-Man game, meaning "the next level of dining and entertainment". The restaurant celebrated its soft opening on March 2, 2015, and its grand opening in April 2015.
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The restaurant is owned and run by NAMCO USA INC. It sits on 42,000 square feet which was previously used as a warehouse for a Sears department store. In addition, the restaurant also features sixteen boutique bowling lanes, table tennis and social sports, as well as video and board games in the Lost & Found Game Lounge. The interior decor is up-scale modern urban-chic in style and include subtle references to the video game character 257 uses for inspiration, Pac-Man. The menu also features references to well-known video game terms of the 1980s, such as "1-UP", chocolate "power pellets", and "Game Over".
History
The restaurant was first conceived as a prototype in 2013, when Namco announced that the restaurant (codenamed Level 256 at the time) was being developed in partnership with a restaurateur in Kansas City, saying that were eyeing the Chicago area for possible locations. The restaurant celebrated its soft opening on March 2, 2015.
Events
The restaurant celebrated the 35th anniversary of Pac-Man on Friday, May 22 2015. They featured a Live Performance of "PAC-MAN Fever" by Jerry Buckner of Buckner & Garcia.