- June 30th, 2014
- lisa
- Comments Off on Our Goods at Hot Dougs – On Top of The [encased] World
We’ve been kicking up our preservation efforts and started rolling out to wholesale. For our first accounts we wanted to go big and thought of our beloved encased meat purveyor:...
- June 13th, 2014
- lisa
- Comments Off on Zarlengo’s Gelato Cup – Carry A Scoop of Heaven
It’s simple enough, real ingredients, churned into a delicious frozen treat powered behind the force of real flavors. Amongst the rumble-stripped Joe Orr road, as if dropped from above, a...
- June 12th, 2014
- lisa
- Comments Off on Spicemode – A Fresh Take The Real Deal
Authenticity isn’t something you can manufacture, pour in, or add a pinch of. It’s there or it isn’t, and one of our newest items on our shelf has it –...
- June 9th, 2014
- lisa
- Comments Off on SenTEAmental Moods – Hand-Blended Chicago Teas
Pick up a container of SenTEAmental Moods and prepare to be whirled into a delicious frenzy of teas, herbs, fresh dried veggies & fruit. Each blend is mixed to an...
- June 9th, 2014
- lisa
- Comments Off on Our New Featured Artist – Mark Yee
There is that art that is meticulously planned, sketched, worked through and essentially is ‘never done’. Our newest featured artist lets the art happen, making it a kind of surprise...
- June 5th, 2014
- lisa
- Comments Off on On The Menu – Chili-nib Roasted Pork Sandwich
We aren’t going to pretend we know how the mind of our Chef, Derrick, works – but suffice to say we’re glad it works the way it does. His recent...
- May 22nd, 2014
- lisa
- Comments Off on Eggs & Grits – Midwest Country-Style
In the cool mornings of spring and breeze-beaten days of summer we are at odds with heavy breakfasts. We like the warm comfort of our baked almond oatmeal, but need...
- April 29th, 2014
- lisa
- Comments Off on Lillie’s Q Dry Rubs – What Your Meats Been Asking For
We’ve been long standing fans of Lillie’s Q for a while now, and we were itching to get their dry rubs when finally the call came in. We picked up...
- April 24th, 2014
- lisa
- Comments Off on Our Featured Artist – Jenny Stocker
History has bestowed upon us a great many techniques of crafting impressionable art. Watercolor, oils, mixed media, sculpture, and so on – the list is as long as it is...
- April 17th, 2014
- lisa
- Comments Off on Ludwig Farmstead Creamery Cheese – Local Cheese Done Right
In the flat-earth portion of Illinois, where the ground and sky meet at the very edges of the horizon, and short drive east from Urbana – it’s there great cheese...