Where to buy good shortbread
Where to buy good shortbread
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Where to buy good shortbread
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Post #1 - December 29th, 2010, 9:09 pmI want to buy some for my wife as a gift. Looking for suggestions. Thanks.
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Post #2 - December 30th, 2010, 1:32 amI think I saw some at Whole Foods in the bakery section when I went there yesterday. I have not tried it. They also probably have the Walkers brand too where they keep the cookies.Toria
"I like this place and willingly could waste my time in it" - As You Like It,
W. Shakespeare
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Post #3 - December 30th, 2010, 5:23 amYou could give Vanille Patisserie or Delightful Pastries a call. If either of them have shortbread, you can bet that it'll be great stuff.
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Post #4 - December 30th, 2010, 11:47 amI don't know why these things are so addicitve. But, Trader Joe's sells a shortbread cookie with a little dollop of chocolate in the middle. They are butter and chocolatey like one would expect a great homemade shortbread to be.
It starts off so innocently. I have one. Then another. Maybe just one more...and in two hours, the whole platic tub of them is gone.
They're not gift variety cookies. But, boy are they incrediblly good.
On another note, the Whole Foods off of North Avenue in Lincoln Park sells some rerally beautiful and delicious varieties of shortbread, too.
I just can't stand paying $12 for a box of 8 Walker Brothers Cookies.
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Post #5 - December 31st, 2010, 12:21 amYourPalWill wrote:
I just can't stand paying $12 for a box of 8 Walker Brothers Cookies.
This time of year, places like World Market are selling them at 50%+ off.
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Post #6 - December 31st, 2010, 10:17 amI was gifted very good shortbread from Floriole a few years ago, but the cafe will be closed until January 14. I don't know their Green City Market situation. Also, I may have seen their shortbread (or someone else's) at the Downtown Farmstand.
Floriole
1220 W Webster Ave
Chicago, Illinois 60614
773-883-1313
Downtown Farmstand
66 E Randolph St
Chicago, IL 60602
312-742-8419
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Post #7 - January 1st, 2011, 8:00 pmjlawrence01 wrote:YourPalWill wrote:
I just can't stand paying $12 for a box of 8 Walker Brothers Cookies.
This time of year, places like World Market are selling them at 50%+ off.
Also check Costco. Around Thanksgiving, they had giant tins (1-foot cubes, if I recall) of Walker Brothers shortbread on hand. I don't remember for sure, but I want to say they cost $38 each.
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Post #8 - January 2nd, 2011, 10:30 pmjlawrence01 wrote:YourPalWill wrote:
I just can't stand paying $12 for a box of 8 Walker Brothers Cookies.
This time of year, places like World Market are selling them at 50%+ off.
Heck, I don't want to pay $6 for them when i can get that big tub at Trader Joes for $4.99.
I'm an ogre. I know.