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The owner says the new restaurant will be like a “beer hall meets elegant picnic.”

South Bend Chocolate Company founder Mark Tarner has more than 600 dinosaur bones he's collected from private land he leases in Montana.

South Bend Chocolate Co. founder Mark Tarner says his plans to build a new factory, dinosaur museum and restaurant are again moving forward

ABC57 News in South Bend, Ind. covers all of Michiana including St. Joseph, Elkhart, Kosciusko, LaPorte and Marshall counties in Indiana and Berrien, Cass, Van Buren and St. Joseph counties in Mich.

The idea was born before construction at the newly redeveloped Howard Park in downtown South Bend even began. City of South Bend Venues Parks and Arts executive director Aaron Perri wanted to bring a new and different amenity to the ice skating rink and open green space. He wanted to bring a restaurant. “We were thinking something that was open for four seasons, would be family friendly, where a group of colleagues could go to get a drink and something that was local and something that fit the park’s look and feel,” he said. The city submitted a request for proposals for the sp...