Category: Retail
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Turtle Ridge Showcases Asian-Inspired Apparel
Chie Okada is a designer who was born and raised in Japan, has lived in Japan and America as an adult, and today resides in Hawaii. She creates Asian-inspired apparel collections for global women in free-size silhouettes, fitting women size 6 to 18. In collaboration with another Japanese designer, Okada chooses a motif from the […]
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Bea’s Ho-Made Makes Food & Wine List
The prestigious foodie publication Food & Wine recently released a list of 100 great bakeries that deserve support during this challenging time. Bea’s Ho-Made Products in Ellison Bay was included as “an essential part of the Door County experience for roughly half a century.” You can read the full mention and see the full list […]
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Siren Shrub Wins with Seaquist Cherries
Siren Shrub Company of Stevens Point earned the award for innovative local sourcing during the recent, sixth annual Feast Local Foods Marketplace, which an estimated 1,500 visitors and nearly 100 vendors from Minnesota, Wisconsin and Iowa attended. Siren Shrubs are flavorful concentrates made from organic apple cider, vinegar, fresh fruits, roots and herbs, and sweetened […]
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Five Superfoods to Sustain You This Winter
Are you already stuck in the gloom and doom of winter? Fantasizing about sunshine and 70-degree days? We all have a tendency to get a little down when the cold and snow start rolling in, but sometimes the best way to beat winter is to embrace it. And because there’s no better way to embrace […]
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Goose & Twigs Announces a New Dining Concept: Vivir
The green lodging establishment Goose & Twigs in Sister Bay, which opened in the spring of 2019 with an attached coffee shop and marketplace, is reinventing the dining portion of the business. With the assistance of its newly hired chef, Cait Ciaccio, Goose & Twigs owners Gustavo and Renata Gallardo are reshaping their business to […]
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Get Real Cafe Reaches 5-Year Milestone
In September, Get Real Cafe marked the five-year anniversary of its opening on Sturgeon Bay’s west side. For owner and operator Veronica Ripp, the cafe has been a childhood dream come true. After growing up in the Sturgeon Bay supper-club atmosphere, her career has come full circle, and she has more in store for her […]
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Kick Coffee’s Creative & Locally Sourced Cuisine
The story began with great coffee, but it has grown to incorporate so much more at Kick Coffee in Sturgeon Bay. The cozy cafe opened in 2001, becoming the city’s first dedicated coffee shop. Two years before that, Colectivo Coffee got its start in Milwaukee, and Kick began sourcing from Colectivo to serve its roasted […]
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This Weekend in Door: Pumpkin Patch, Apple Fest & Lighthouse Festival
Fall festivals are back and it’s a busy weekend in Door County! Outside of the big events, there’s still a lot on the calendar too, with live music, theater, art galleries, markets and outdoor spaces to explore. Pumpkin Patch Weekend in Egg Harbor One of the great weekends for family fun in Door County returns […]
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Veteran Carl Releases Second Cookbook
Carl dedicated his first cookbook to the nonprofit SALUTE, which helps veterans and their families, and now he’s created a second cookbook called Carl’s Cookbook II: Tasty Start and Sweet Finish. It offers more than 100 appetizer and dessert recipes, with some submitted by special guests, including Chicago Cubs announcer Pat Hughes; the “Barefoot Contessa,” […]
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NutMeg Spice Delights with From-Scratch Bakery and More
Cookies, croissants, cake pops and pies – oh, my! NutMeg Spice Bakery and Cafe in downtown Sturgeon Bay is a haven for homemade bakery goodies that rely on old-fashioned recipes and from-scratch preparation. The enterprise is the creation of owner and baker Megan Jutrzonka, who has come to call Sturgeon Bay home since the business […]
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Uncle Tom’s: This Schoolhouse Rocks with Candy
by Craig Clayton for the Peninsula Pulse Carrying bags full of tasty loot, a 40-something brother and sister, their spouses and their mom strolled out of Uncle Tom’s Newport School Candies. “I have peanut brittle, pancake mix, milk-chocolate caramel-cashew sea-salt bark …” said Val (Stahl) Edwards of Sister Bay as she approached her father, who […]
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Door County: a sliver of the Midwest that’s synonymous with endless, sunny shores and an ambience of relaxation. Yet despite being a haven of natural beauty and landscapes for summer vacationers for more than a century, the dining scene has been a bit of an afterthought. It’s not hard to understand why: after a day […]