Business & Tech

What New Business Did You Fall in Love with in 2012?

From a tea shop opened by Smashing Pumpkins frontman to a drive-through grocery store, what were your favorite businesses to open on the North Shore and why? Tell us in the comment section below.

It’s time to brag about that new restaurant or business you fell in love with in 2012. Patch wants to know of the many new businesses that opened on the North Shore last year, which were your favorites and why? Tweet them, Facebook them and spill the secrets of why you love them in the comment section below! 

Did we miss a new business that opened in your community? Add them in the comment section. 

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Artisanal Wilmette

 

A. Perry Homes

 

Art Post Gallery

 

Bedding Experts

 

Authentico

 

Avail & Company

 

Big Blue Swim School

 

Baby Take a Bow

 

Dailey Method

 

Benjamin

 

Lake Forest Taxi

 

Bright Horizons

 

Dowize Bistro

 

Cafe Fleurette

 

El Mexican Restaurant

Biaggi’s Ristorante Italiano

 

 

Market House on the Square

 

Bucephalus Bikes 

 

The Big Black Dog Tavern & Grill

 

Flee

 

Ross

 

Bobby’s Deerfield Opens With Full House

 

Mark David Design

 

 

Central Street Metra

 

Velosmith Bicycle Studio

 

Lake Shore Acupuncture

 

TITLE Boxing Club

 

Cilento Photography

 

Pasquesi Home & Gardens

 

Chicken and Waffles

 

Walgreens

 

Once Upon a Bagel

 

Wild Pita

 

Cre8 Workshop

 

Re-Invent

 

Found Restaurant 

 

 

Robert Bryan Home

 

Yogen Fruz

 

Essence Pilates

 

 

Gather

 

 

Skandal

 

 

Frost

 

 

JT’s Bar and Grill

 

 

The Yard

 

 

Golf Tech

 

 

Leonie's Delice Bakery 

 

 

Trifecta Grill

 

 

Madame Zuzu’s

 

 

Papa Romeo's 

 

 

 

 

Menchie's

 

 

Planet Fitness

 

 

 

 

Moderno (soon to be Royce)

 

 

Plus 2 Architects

 

 

 

 

Noodles and Company

 

 

Prana Café On Oak

 

 

 

 

Real Urban Barbecue

 

 

Safari Natural Herbs and Tea

 

 

 

 

Peapod

 

 

Smylie Brothers Brewpub

 

 

 

 

Rosebud

 

 

Sol Café

 

 

 

 

Sign-A-Rama

 

 

Tailia Boutique

 

 

 

Tom and Eddie’s

 

 

Terra American Bistro

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Alcove

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ward Eight 

 

 

 

 

 

 

World of Beers

 

 

 

 

 

 


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