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Thursday, March 20, 2025Beloved by chefs, Chicago’s rare tea mastermind Rod Markus makes his retail move
WBEZ Chicago / by Maggie Hennessey / March 19, 2025 Master tea-blender Rod Markus will pour hot water over just about anything edible. I learned this within moments of sitting down at Rare Tea Cellar, his Ravenswood laboratory stocked with unusual and hard-to-find ingredients. Markus steeped a Mallorca Melon tea blend of Spanish melon, pineapple, hibiscus and Seville orange with a few paper-thin slices of nutty cured jamón ibérico de Bellota, or acorn-fed ham from free-roaming Spanish pigs. The ham lent a
Thursday, March 20, 2025Shop at Piccadilly Market
CBS News / Jumpstart with Jackie / March 19, 2025 Head to Lincoln Square with Jackie Kostek and get some groceries at Piccadilly Market. View More Here.
Thursday, February 27, 2025Around Town - Piccadilly Market
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Tuesday, February 25, 2025Four Popular Chicago Small Businesses Join Forces in a New Lincoln Square Corner Store
WTTW / by Daniel Hautzinger / February 21, 2025 A hospitality group known for welcoming pubs and bars is opening a corner store in Lincoln Square with the chef favorite Rare Tea Cellar, imaginative Pretty Cool Ice Cream, and mini chain Backlot Coffee – that will also offer treats from further Chicago stalwarts Doughnut Vault, Katherine Anne Confections, and Publican Quality Bread. Piccadilly Market opens at 2559 W. Lawrence Avenue on February 25, with grand opening celebrations planned for the weekend of
Tuesday, February 25, 2025A Popular North Side Restaurant Group Unveils a Specialty Grocery Store and Cafe
Eater Chicago / by Ashok Selvam / February 22, 2025 Next week, Lincoln Square will welcome a new grocer that will stock products from local vendors including drinks from Backlot Coffee, looseleaf tea from Rare Tea Cellar, and pops from Pretty Cool Ice Cream. That formula may sound familiar, but it’s a popular restaurant group, Fountainhead Hospitality — the company behind favorites Bar on Buena, Fountainhead, The Green Post, and The Northman — that’s driving this concept. Piccadilly Market is scheduled to
