The Spice House in Evanston will be closing briefly on March 22-24 to install a brand new floor. We will be open our regular hours on Sunday, March 21, and then be closed Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. While we may reopen Wednesday afternoon if possible, we will be back to our regular hours on Thursday, March 25. All our other stores will remain open during the construction in Evanston, so if you need to contact us you can call us in Old Town at 312-274-0378, Geneva at 630-262-1777, or Milwaukee at 414-272-0977. We apologize for the inconvenience, and we hope you'll come by after March 25 to see our shiny new floor!

Location and Hours

1941 Central Street
Evanston, IL 60201

 
847-328-3711 (Phone)
847-328-3631 (Fax)

Hours:

M-F	9:00am-6:30pm
Sat	10:00am-5:00pm
Sun	11:00am-3:00pm

History

Tom and Patty opened the second Spice House location in Evanston, Illinois in 1996—close enough to home and parental business consulting to be comfortable, yet far enough to feel it was their own adventure.

Located right next to the Central Street stop on the Union Pacific North line or Metra, and a short walk from the purple line of the El, our Evanston shop is easily accessible from Chicago.

The opening of the shop in Evanston had coverage by both the Chicago Tribune and the Chicago Sun Times. Wonderful things happened in this venture, culminating with the Evanston Small Business of the Year award in the year 2000 and a morning segment on FOX news.

Patty and Tom have become members of several organizations involved in the culinary arts, and participated in many programs combining restaurateurs and chefs with educational spice programs. They’ve spoken at events for the Culinary Historians of Chicago, Slow Food, Les Dames d’Escoffier, and were selected by the American Institute of Food and Wine as participants in the Best of the Midwest Festival. They were on the circuit tour as educators for the AIWF, although their daily duties as shopkeepers limited them to mostly events in the Midwest. They lecture regularly for Kendall College’s Culinary Program in Evanston and Chicago.

Another notable event was Alton Brown’s taping of a segment for his Food Network show “Good Eats” in the Evanston shop. He began at 7am and was dragged out by his camera crew at 7pm—only because they were from Atlanta and their baseball team was playing in the World Series that night. The “fruitcake” episode has now aired four years in a row at Christmastime (Patty has delusions that she is just like Jimmy Stewart in “It’s a Wonderful Life”!).

Since then, we’ve hosted National Public Radio’s Michelle Norris here, for a segment on cinnamon. Even a few years later we continue to have customers tell us they first heard about our store on All Things Considered.

The Evanston store also hosts several tours groups and lectures every year.

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