The lines form about an hour before the 9 a.m. opening time, with customers waiting outside Fat Peach Bakery hoping to grab a treat like a strawberry milk…
Read more Inside Bridgeport’s Smash-Hit Bakery With Long Lines Fueled by Strawberry Milk Croissants and Mexican MochasIn hindsight, Tuesday morning’s news that Milk Bar would finally arrive in Chicago shouldn’t be a surprise. A release blasted the news nationwide, an announcement befitting of Tosi’s…
Read more Christina Tosi and Boka Will Finally Bring Milk Bar to ChicagoFour and half months after suddenly closing stores in Chicago, Texas, and Washington, D.C., Foxtrot will attempt a comeback by opening its first store this week. Outfox Hospitality,…
Read more Foxtrot Will Reopen First Store This Week, Nearly Five Months Since Sudden ClosuresWhen Foxtrot relaunches in September and reopens its Gold Coast store, the chain of shoppy shops will stock items from many local brands familiar to fans. Foxtrot co-founder…
Read more Foxtrot Brings Back 45 Former Vendors as September Return Inches CloserTwo key North Side Foxtrot locations will not be part of the comeback plan led by the chain’s founder. CoStar reports that Hotel Chocolat, a company founded in…
Read more Foxtrot Won’t Reopen Locations on Armitage and SouthportIt’s official: the co-founder of Foxtrot on Wednesday, June 5 announced plans to reopen select stores in Chicago, Dallas, and Austin, Texas, this summer. Rumors have swirled for…
Read more Foxtrot Will Rise Again — Sort of: Here’s What You Need to KnowOn the first official weekend of farmers market season in Logan Square, a report about food and produce vendors being shunned in favor of non-food vendors has many…
Read more The Vibe is Off for Logan Square Farmers Markets VendorsIn April, when Outfox Hospitality suddenly closed all 33 of its Foxtrot locations in Chicago, Texas, and the D.C. area, plus a pair of Dom’s Kitchen & Market…
Read more Inside the Foxtrot and Dom’s Kitchen ImplosionThe debris continues to fall in Chicago where earlier this week, the city saw all 15 Foxtrot convenience stores and two Dom’s Kitchen & Market locations suddenly close.…
Read more Foxtrot and Dom’s Face a Lawsuit While Former Vendors Scramble For SolutionsAfter more than eight decades, Blommer Chocolate is closing its factory at the end of May. The factory opened in 1939, and while chocolate connoisseurs can’t find Blommer…
Read more Blommer to Close Chicago Chocolate Factory After 85 YearsUpdate: Added statement from Albertsons The $24.6 billion deal between Albertsons, the parent company of Jewel; and Kroger, the parent company of Mariano’s now faces an objection from…
Read more FTC Wants to Block the $24.6 Billion Deal Which Would Combine Jewel and Mariano’s
