Downtown Trader Joe’s By End of Year
The end of 2006 cannot come fast enough for this home cook. According to two features in Sunday’s Sun-Times (here and here), the much-anticipated downtown Trader Joe’s will open by the end of the year on Ontario between Rush and Wabash. Heck, that’s not even as far as I walk to go to Whole Foods (or as I prefer to call them, Foods Prices As If They Were Filled With Gold). Not that I don’t do most of my shopping at my local Jewel, but sometimes you just want to splurge on something decadent and unusual without having to pay a Whole Foods or, God forbid, Fox & Obel fortune (although for a Queijo da Serra fix or a schmaltz emergency F&O has been very good to me).
So soon, no more dragging out the passport for a CTA run up into the hinterland (read that as Clybourn and Armitage) for a bottle of three-buck Chuck or a box of Trader Ming’s pot stickers. This will be one Trader Joe’s definitely made for walking. Now if only the Korean Chicago Food Corporation would open a kimchi- and pork-belly-carrying outlet down here, I’d be all set.
(Follow this link for a nifty Sun-Times pop-up map listing all existing, planned, and eminently walkable downtown groceries.)
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Hello,
I saw that last time I was walking to Whole Foods.
I am looking forward to this opening too.
I was wondering when they would open, now I’m fixed.
Thanks !
Hi, linked to this site looking for trader joe’s locations. I used to work at a whole foods and we called it whole paycheck. I also worked in another grocery store back home (st. louis) and we had not-so-nice-names for ALL the stores
Agh….try living out in the middle of no where and you will soon love to fork over your dough to Whole Foods and Fox and Obel. I travel about once a month to stock up at Trader Joe’s. Hopefully they will have a good selection for you. I have visited about 4 different locations in the Chicagoland area and I must say what you will find at one you won’t find at another. The two buck chuck is standard fare but don’t count on finding everything at every one. I couldn’t find my teriyaki bbq chicken one time and I must say it made me cranky!