Four Popular Chicago Small Businesses Join Forces in a New Lincoln Square Corner Store

WTTW / by Daniel Hautzinger / February 21, 2025

A hospitality group known for welcoming pubs and bars is opening a corner store in Lincoln Square with the chef favorite Rare Tea Cellar, imaginative Pretty Cool Ice Cream, and mini chain Backlot Coffee – that will also offer treats from further Chicago stalwarts Doughnut Vault, Katherine Anne Confections, and Publican Quality Bread. Piccadilly Market opens at 2559 W. Lawrence Avenue on February 25, with grand opening celebrations planned for the weekend of March 7 to 9.

Located in the same building as The Green Post pub, Piccadilly Market is owned by the same team, which also operates The Bar on Buena in Uptown and The Northman Beer & Cider Garden on the Chicago Riverwalk. Unlike those other businesses, Piccadilly Market is a retail shop that also offers cafe drinks; sandwiches, soups, and salads; and desserts. It has 20 seats available, and on Tuesdays will allow customers to sit in The Green Post with the purchase of something from Piccadilly Market. (The Green Post will no longer have cafe hours during weekday mornings.) But it’s more of a store: think L&M Fine Foods or Foxtrot Market, whose abrupt but mourned closure demonstrated the appeal of this type of establishment. Read More Here.