Penzey’s spice shop is at Oak Park towards the end of the Green Line near Harlem. It is a big store filled with rows and rows, of spice bottles and shelf after shelf containing spices grouped by type. I liked the layout as it is clean and easy to navigate around. Each spice or…
Category: Green Line
Marion Street Cheese Market – This is a “destination” Cheese Shop
I really was not sure what to expect as I rode the Green Line out to the end of the line at Harlem. To be unkind I was not expecting the best, not a ghetto as such, but not an oasis of delight either. What I did find was a lovely little section of streets…
Panozzo’s Italian Market – Great Porchetta, Great Beef, Great Meatballs
About a year ago I was watching Guy Fieri on his Diners, Drive-ins and Dives show while he visited Panozzo’s Italian Kitchen in the South Loop and it looked so good that I really had the best of intentions to head down there, days and weeks passed and it became a distant memory of a…
The Chicago El Stop Food Hunt Project 