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 Bobak's Sausage Company
5275 S. Archer Ave.
Chicago, IL
Tel: (773) 735-5334
Website: http://www.bobak.com/
Email: info@bobak.com
In a city that takes its pierogi and kielbasa seriously, Bobak Sausage Company offers some of the finest traditional Polish munchies to be had. Located just a few blocks from Midway, the space features a fully packed grocery store that would make your grandmother clutch her babushka in joy.
Bobak's offers at least eight different kinds of pierogi, a variety of kielbasa and some seriously pungent meats in the deli case. You'll also find a wide assortment of Eastern European cookies, rice and cereal on the orderly shelves...just about anything your Polish-lovin' heart desires.
 
 Catering, Chocolate
1712 N. Wells St.
Chicago, IL 60614
Tel: (312) 397-0090
Fax: (312) 397-0119
Website: http://www.cobeyfoodsandcatering.com/
Email: jayshindler@cateringchocolate.com
Besides homemade lavender, cinnamon, pistachio and caramel ice cream, the shop makes truffles, cookies, cakes and pastries. Oatmeal butter cookies, flourless chocolate cake, pineapple upside-down cake, mango sorbet and small molten chocolate cakes also tempted the tummy on a recent visit. Truffles come in an array of flavors, including dark chocolate, Grand Marnier, amaretto, coffee, vanilla bean and mint. They can be packaged in gift tins, bags or boxes, and shipped across the country if necessary.
 City Olive
5408 N. Clark St.
Chicago, IL 60640
Tel: (773) 878-5408
Website: http://www.cityolive.com/
Email: karen@cityolive.com
City Olive focuses mainly on products made from olives, not on the brinish little fruits themselves. Bad news if you only care about eating olives; good news if you enjoy tasting high-end treats like imported olive oils, tapenades, infused vinegars and sea salts, as well as Spanish sausage, Italian pastas and Greek cookies made with olive oil and wine.
A European Style Boutique located in the heart of Andersonville - Find Fine Olive Oils, Vinegars, Pastas, Sea Salts, Tapenades & Specialty Products
 Dinkel's
3329 N. Lincoln Ave.
Chicago, IL 60657
Tel: (773) 281-7300
Website: http://www.dinkels.com/
Online Store: http://www.dinkels.com/site/epage/16590_457.htm
Email: norm@dinkels.com
Dinkel's history reads like a storybook; the bakery was founded in 1922 by Joseph Dinkel, one of a long line of master bakers in his native Dinkelsbuhl in Bavaria. The European bent beats on in this Lakeview shop, as do the original recipes, including one for Dinkel’s famous stollen. The Old World formula includes a mix of toasted cashews, almonds, pineapple and golden raisins, all dipped in rum and brandy before baking. For a slightly different taste, try the cinnamon stollen. Strudels are another no-fail choice; choose from varieties like poppyseed, cherry cheese and almond and apricot. More
 Embrace (Eat and Shop)
29 E. First St.
Hinsdale, IL 60521
Tel: (630) 325-1996
Website: http://www.embraceyourstyle.com/
Email: info@embraceyourstyle.com
Located in a converted 1920s theater, this spot does double duty as a boutique in front and 75-seat bistro in back. The bistro menu offers soups and salads for lunch and entrees like free-range chicken with rosemary, citrus juice and chipotle polenta as well as red-pepper ravioli stuffed with asparagus, goat cheese lobster. The place hosts live music on Saturday evenings from 8-11 p.m.
 Fine Wine Brokers
4621 N. Lincoln Ave.
Chicago, IL 60625
Tel: (773) 989-8166
Website: http://www.fwbchicago.com/
Email: finewines@peoplepc.com
Whether you're an avid consumer of wine or a first-time buyer who thinks the best wine is a beer, Gary Rohr can recommend something you'll want to buy again and again. A friendly shop with a European feel, Fine Wine Brokers covers two rooms and every conceivable country. For those not sure what to try, Rohr opines, "We're all creatures of habit; we all tend to buy that which we always buy. Whether purchasing for yourself or someone else, try something new, but with good quality."
 Isaacson & Stein Fish Co.
800 W. Fulton Market
Chicago, IL
Tel: (312) 421-2444
If you've every been at one of the city's top restaurants, enjoying blackened mahi mahi or a grilled tilapia, chances are they bought it from Isaacson's. Lucky you, Isaacson's sells to the general public, in addition to chef-run kitchens. This wholesale supplier carries a large selection of fresh seafood and fish, most sold whole, though they will fillet it for you. Though not as cheap as some neighborhood markets, prices are reasonable.
 Kids' Table
2337 W. North Ave.
Chicago, IL 60647
Tel: (773) 235-COOK
Website: http://www.kids-table.com/
Email: info@kids-table.com
While parents aim to instill a love of fruits and veggies in their little ones, most kids still hide peas beneath their plates. For picky tots, their exasperated parents and anyone else who could use a refresher course on the fun of carrots, local mom, entrepreneur and foodie Elena Marre built The Kids' Table, a cooking school bent on moving little fingers beyond Easy Mac and Wonder Bread.
In cooking courses, which change weekly, kids of different ages learn appropriate lessons about where food comes from, how to prepare it and what it can do for their bodies. They then take their new knowledge to a kid-sized kitchen lab, where they create meals they're stoked to feast on. Classes, like Dynamite Dips and Mexican Munchies, are geared toward groups of two- to three-year-olds, four- to six-year-olds or seven- to 10-year-olds (parental attendance is mandatory for the youngest set and optional for the middle group, but older kids can come on their own).
At the front of the bright, lofty storefront space is The Kids' Table store, where shoppers can find cookbooks for both kids and adults. They can also stock up on child-size cooking equipment, aprons, lunch boxes and other goodies for budding Trotters and Baylesses.
 Mindful Meals Kitchen
250 N. Evergreen Ave.
Arlington Heights, IL 60004
Tel: (847) 398-7480
Fax: (847) 398-7481
Website: http://www.mindfulmealskitchen.com
Email: info@mindfulmealskitchen.com
What's For Dinner? The answer is simple when you've made a trip to the Mindful Meals Kitchen, where you can come and make up to a month's worth of meals in less than 2 hours! We create the menu, shop, and chop the fresh ingredients. You show up, follow our easy recipes and have all the fun!
Mindful Meals kitchen is a healthy dinner solution unlike any other. At Mindful Meals, we really do take the terms "healthy" and "nutritious" very seriously. It's not only about the great taste and goodness of your food, it's about what's NOT in your food, as well. Who wants transfats,growth hormones,unnecessary antibiotics,and harmful additives in their family dinner? See How It Works
 My House
3304 W. Fullerton Ave.
Chicago, IL
Tel: (773) 656-7177
Website: http://www.myspace.com/myhousecoffee
MY HOUSE 3304 W. FULLERTON AVE NEXT TO WALGREENS 773-656-7177 Long time coming We are a coffee shop located at 3304 West Fullerton Right off the corner of Fullerton and Kimball We offer organic fair trade coffee, hot chocolate, tea's, and chocolate bars. Our pastries come from a local Guatemalan bakery located in Portage Park. Our food menu consist of organic home style foods. There are several board games (including scrabble!) you can come in and enjoy or just sit on one of the comfy couches and read a book. Now offering an organic food menu, and FREE WIFI
 Oil & Vinegar (old orchard)
82 Old Orchard Center, Suite F82
Skokie, IL 60077
Tel: (847) 763-1446
Fax: (847) 763-1505
Owners: Debbie and Hakan Gokhan
Website: http://www.Oilvingar.com
Email: orchardmall@oilvinegar.us
With outposts in twelve countries, the European-based gourmet shop features 29 oils on tap plus tons of edible goodies.
 Olive & Well
133 N. Oak Park Ave.
Oak Park, IL 60301
Tel: (708) 848-4230
Website: http://www.oliveandwell.com/
Email: info@oliveandwell.com
Map: http://www.oliveandwell.com/contact/
Olive & Well is a specialty food shop that specializes in the finest Extra Virgin Olive Oils and Balsamic Vinegars from around the world. Olive & Well's founder, Sondra Elder, traveled the small villages of Europe and the quaint towns of the United States savoring the fresh, unique flavors of the world. Now Sondra is bringing those delicious and unique specialty foods to you.
We are unique because our customers are able to taste our olive oils and balsamic vinegars before making the selection that they love the best. Their selection is bottled from the same Fusti (stainless steel tank) that they sample, so our customers know that they are taking home the freshest, most delicious products to enhance their recipes and make their palates sing.
 Papa Lena's
1438 W. Chicago Ave.
Chicago, IL 60622
Tel: (312) 455-8100
Website: http://www.papalena.com/
Online Store: http://www.papalena.com/Papa_Lena_store.htm
Email: MLena@papalena.com or papalena@sbcglobal.net
Are you looking for a healthy, crunchy, 100% natural, vegetable snack with no starch fillers, chemical additives and NO Trans Fats? Well, Papa Lena's line of 100% vegetable chips fit the bill.
100% Authentic Healthy Gourmet Vegetable Snack Chips
With a patented cooking process originating from an old Lena family recipe, these handmade specialty chips are unlike anything you've ever tasted! Made only by roasting fresh vegetables high in natural flavor, then kissed with Italian olive oil, Mediterranean sea salt and the finest spices, you are assured of a burst of flavor in every bite with NO Trans Fats!
 PIE
615 N. State St.
Chicago, IL 60610
Tel: (312) 642-4192
Website: http://www.piechicago.com
Email: pie@piechicago.com
Welcome to PIE, the best, fast and freshest way to get gourmet pie into your home. Baked fresh daily, PIE offers hand-made artisanal pies with the freshest natural ingredients we can find.
Stop into our store and pick up a freshly baked PIE, have PIE hand-delivered by us or take a frozen PIE home to bake yourself and allow the aroma of freshly baked PIE to fill your kitchen, as if you had spent all day baking yourself.
PIE offers sophisticated flavors and tastes on classic PIE recipes. PIE even offers contemporary recipes that are unique to us. If you can dream it, we can create it.
 Spice House
1512 N. Wells St.
Chicago, IL 60610
Tel: (312) 274-0378
Other Stores: http://www.thespicehouse.com/info/stores.html
Website: http://www.thespicehouse.com/
Contact Form: http://www.thespicehouse.com/contact.html
 From Adobo Seasoning to Za'atar, we mix it up fresh at The Spice House. We grind and blend our spices by hand, in small batches to bring you the highest quality spices, herbs and seasonings available. If you haven't used our spices before, you'll be surprised how intense the flavors can be when they're freshly ground.
We make our exquisite spices, herbs and seasonings affordable by offering our products in bulk quantities and selling shaker jars separately. We love what we do, and that's why home cooks and professional chefs have come to us since 1957. You can find our spices, herbs and seasonings alphabetically by name, or browse by category and cuisine type if you prefer. Either way, you're bound to find something your kitchen needs to expand the flavors in your spice collection.
 TeaGschwendner (Lincoln Park)
2142 N. Halsted St.
Chicago, IL
Tel: (773) 525-0671
Website: http://www.teagschwendner.com
Email: info@teamerchants.com
Think sounding out the name is hard? Try picking out a tea. TeaGschwender manages to raise teatime to an intellectual activity: Everywhere you look in the small, tranquil shop you'll find tea with lofty-sounding properties and impossible-to-pronounce names. Selecting your perfect brew means sifting through leaves of Ayurveda, Rooibush, Mate and SchwuppTeaWupp (turns out the latter just is an instant tea with a sweet, creamy flavor. But saying it in German is just too much fun.)
TeaGschwender offers teapots of glass and porcelain as well as teapot warmers, tea warming candles and candy sugar. For an on-the-go treat (there's no seating), try the $3.50 teapuccinno, a sweet, spicy alternative to your Starbucks standby.
 Tommy's Rock & Roll Cafe
2548 W Chicago Ave.
Chicago, IL 60622
773-486-6768
Website: http://www.tommysguitars.com/
Email: tguitars@comcast.net
Tommy's Guitars & Cafe is a guitar shop in Chicago, Illinois. We fully stock our store with over 300 guitars, amps, & accessories. Our staff is friendly, knowledgeable and professional. We value your business and will work hard to make sure we find a guitar that personally suits you.
 Zelda's Sweet Shoppe
4113 Main St.
Skokie, IL 60076
Tel: (847) 679-0033
Fax: (847) 679-0030
Website: http://www.zeldas.net/
Email: inquiry@zeldas.net
We begin with only the best - the finest European chocolate and the most flavorful fruits and nuts. Working entirely from scratch, our artisan chefs carefully craft these ingredients into taste tempting chocolates, mouth watering cookies, and the most memorable gourmet gifts you'll find anywhere.
At Zelda's, we never compromise on taste, quality or style - because we know our work is a reflection of you. That's a responsibility we appreciate, and a confidence we value every single day.
Whether you need one dazzling gift basket for that special occasion, or ten thousand custom creations for your very best friends and clients, count on Zelda's to get you the results you need and the notice you deserve!
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