Get your new boots on and snag a snazzy coat to wander the streets of Glen Ellyn and Wheaton to find this week's deals around town on cooking accoutrements, sushi, bikes, baby boutiques, hardware and more.
1. Anthropologie—Oakbrook, Geneva and online The Deal: If the only thing your coat and boots are made for is taking out the trash, then you might want to twalk yourself over to your nearest Anthropologie for 30 percent off all full-price outerwear and boots through Oct. 9. Offer Good: Through Oct. 9 2. Marcel’s—Glen Ellyn The Deal: Foodies, cooks, and eaters can now unite and congregate in Glen Ellyn. To celebrate their Grand Opening, Marcel’s Culinary Experience, a gourmet retailer and cooking school, is offering gourmet food tastings, product demonstrations and gift basket raffles in scheduled festivities from 10am to 6pm on October 8th. Designed as a place to “cook, create, and celebrate,” the Marcel’s event will also include an …
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Carlson True Value Hardware
125 E Front St, Wheaton, IL
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The Stork's Cradle
210 W Wesley St, Wheaton, IL
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A Glen Ellyn resident opens the doors to a new culinary retail store and cooking school.
To formulate her new business, Jill Foucre mixed in her family heritage, a love of cooking from her late grandfather and her business skills to concoct a store to attract food lovers from throughout the area. Last week, curious Glen Ellyn downtown strollers peered through large windows to see Foucre and her staff organize cookware, fine linens and other items on shelves as they prepared for today's (Monday, Sept. 26) soft, unofficial opening of Marcel’s Culinary Experience, 490 N. Main St., Glen Ellyn. The store will open at 10 a.m. A grand opening is scheduled for 10 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 8. The retail store offers fine cookware, specialty foods and tableware, and an assortment of day and evening cooking classes offered in a state-of-the-…
Kenneth Cooke
8:57 am on Monday, October 17, 2011
Wow, this is fantastic. Jill gave me my first career break back in 1992, I was the only job candidate without a limp handshake. I'm glad to see she is doing we'll and will definitely visit when we go out to see my brother in-law. more ›