Vosges Haut-Chocolat can be found in several places outside of Chicago. But I greatly enjoyed the little shop a friend and I stumbled upon and decided to check out. We went to the chocolate shop at 951 West Armitage. This Vosges Haut-Chocolat is right outside the Armitage brown/purple line. Vosgest Haut-Chocolat makes chocolate inspired by [...]
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Reckless Records
Reckless Records can be found in Wicker Park. It is a large used record and music shop with some other media to be found such as movies. You can spend hours going through what they have and you can even sell some of you old music or records. If you find what you want you [...]
The Boring Store
A friend of mine volunteers at The Boring Store, which is not an awesome spy shop store. All of the stores proceeds go towards 826Chi which is a non-profit organization that helps out kids from 6-18 years of age with writing and tutoring. The Boring Store even sells some of the works the students create. [...]
Quimby’s
Quimby's is an independent bookstore for zines. The store is rather quiet and one of a couple stores in the area that doesn't allow phone calls. It has a strange air, the workers don't talk much, but the store has a nice collection of zines and independent comic books. They do have other things like [...]
Myopic books
Myopic books is a used bookstore in Wicker park. It is about 3 and half floors. The basement has a low ceiling and contains mostly biographies but also things like suspense, horror, true crime, and sci-fi. The main floor is where they'll take any large bags from you and give you a card for while [...]
Pagoda Red
Pagoda Red is an Antiques store the specializes in Chinese art and items from the 18th and 19th century. This showroom is fun to look at and full of furniture and beautiful artwork. This shop can be found in Bucktown. Just the entrance itself is beautiful. A friend and I had lunch in the area [...]
Aroma Workshop
Out of curiosity one day I ended up making plans to go to the Aroma Workshop. (2050 N. Halsted St) It was a bit of a walk from the train station and the shop was a little busy when I went in with my friend but the workers were friendly and happily explained their shop. [...]
Renegade Craft Fair
The Renegade Craft Fair happens usually in early September in Wicker Park. It's a traveling craft fair. A person could spend all day looking at each of the booths, at all of the interesting wares. Because it's outside there tend to be several dogs out walking around with their owners and sometimes there are even [...]
Aji Ichiban
The Aji Ichiban can be found in Chinatown in the new part of chinatown. You walk through the courtyard of the zodiac and to the right. It's a candy shop. The shop has many asian candies, walls lined with pocky and chocolate covered snacks. There are also many different kinds of dried snacks, whether their [...]
Adagio and Blending Teas
Chicago has an Adagio tea shops. The shop is set up with a display at the front and a long wall of teas. There is a shelf that lines the wall with glass jars filled with loose leaf teas for you to try and smell. Below are the bags filled with loose leaf tea or [...]