A Shiloh café brings back its supper club, offering four-course tasting menu
Velora Beauty opens this week at Belleville Crossing and will kick things off with a three-day Blocktober Bash.
Posts on the beauty supply store’s social media have details for the grand opening celebration, which include entertainment, giveaways, games, kids activities and a Halloween costume contest. Food will also be available during the event.
Festivities take place 3-7 p.m. Friday and noon to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.
Velora Beauty is located at 5541 Belleville Crossing Street in Belleville. Open interviews are available 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday-Friday, according to a notice at the store’s entrance.
For more info, visit facebook.com/beautybyvelora.
Supper club returns for a third year
A Shiloh café announced it will bring back its supper club for the winter season.
June’s Breakfast + Patio will host four, after-hours events starting in November, each featuring a four-course tasting menu, cocktails and coffee digestifs, stated a recent news release.
The supper club began as a passion project for owners Jon and Liz Welzbacher and has “blossomed into a beautiful showcase of locally sourced seasonal ingredients that make for a try unmatched experience,” stated the release.
Dates for the event are Saturdays, Nov. 15, Dec. 13, Feb. 14 and March 7.
December’s event will feature a pairing event in collaboration with Scratch Brewing and Beer. February’s event, set for Valentine’s Day, will focus on couples, but all are invited.
June’s Breakfast + Patio is located at 430 S. Main St. in Shiloh. Regular hours are 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday-Saturday and 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday.
For tickets to the supper club events or additional info about the business, visit junesinshiloh.com.
Fall flavors are currently available at an area pizza chain
Following a limited-time pizza featuring Skyline chili offered earlier this month, Dewey’s Pizza announced the return of fall flavors at all of its locations.
“The Smashing Pumpkin is the savory answer to the annual pumpkin craze, inspired by both the Pumpkin Spice Latte (PSL) trend and the growing demand for savory pumpkin dishes,” stated the release.
This particular pizza pie, available now through Sunday, Nov. 9, includes a whipped pumpkin ricotta base topped with mozzarella cheese, crumbled Italian sausage, roasted shallots and toasted pumpkin seeds.
Also available at Dewey’s is the Harvest salad, which combines field greens, toasted pumpkin seeds, figs, Boursin cheese, applewood-smoked bacon and a house-made apple cider vinaigrette.
The Harvest salad is available through the end of the year.
Metro-east Dewey’s Pizza locations include 425 Regency Park in O’Fallon and 112 E. Vandalia St. in Edwardsville. Hours at both locations are 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday-Thursday, 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Friday-Saturday, and 4-9 p.m. Sunday.
For more info or to place an order, call 618-726-3366 in O’Fallon or 618-656-2200 in Edwardsville, or visit deweyspizza.com.
Ready for a taste of the holiday season?
Although it’s still pumpkin (and pumpkin spice) season, some businesses are already gearing up for Christmas.
Clementine’s Naughty & Nice Creamery will launch its Holiday Cookie Exchange Collection Tuesday, Nov. 4, in all of its ice cream parlors, according to an Oct. 28 release.
The collection is “a collaboration with six acclaimed pastry chefs from around the country: Abi Balingit, Anna Gordon, Fany Gerson, Justine Doiron, Megan Garrelts, and St. Louis’s own Reine Keis,” stated the release. “Together, they’ve transformed signature cookie recipes into nostalgic, limited-edition ice creams that reimagine the warmth and creativity of the holiday cookie exchange through the lens of pastry craftsmanship.”
Fans of cookie exchanges may appreciate flavors that include Garrelts’ Nana’s 7 Layer Bar, a brown butter ice cream (nutty, toasty and golden) with “generous pieces of chewy-crunchy bar and rippled with silky butterscotch sauce” folded in, or Keis’ Thick Mints, an “ultra-creamy malted non-dairy ice cream, packed with chunks of thick mint cookies, creating a crisp, chocolate-dipped, and refreshingly cool flavor profile.”
The ice cream collection will be available at all Clementine’s locations, including 6185 Bennet Drive, Suite A in Edwardsville.
If you think it’ll be too cold for ice cream, warm up with some coffee.
Beginning Saturday, Nov. 1, Scooter’s Coffee will offer drinks and food items featuring holiday flavors inspired by the movie “Elf.”
Offerings will include flavors of maple, peppermint and cherry, with drinks served in cups with designs based on Buddy the Elf and Jovie’s North Pole.
Menu items will include:
- Candy Cane Forest Mocha (espresso with mocha and peppermint, mocha drizzle, whipped cream, peppermint chips)
- Swirly Twirly Sugar Cookie Latte (espresso with cookie butter and mocha flavors, whipped cream, sprinkles)
- Buddy the Elf Maple Caramelicious (espresso, caramel, maple, shipped cream, caramel drizzle, maple candy pieces)
- Buddy the Elf Maple Chai
- Son of a Nutcracker Brewed Coffee (with notes of dark chocolate, roasted nuts, warm brown sugar bread)
- Candy Cane Forest Hot Chocolate
- Candy Cane Forest Cinnamon Roll
- Swirly Twirly Sugar Cookie Sandwich
- Snowball Fight Cake Bite
The themed items will be available throughout the holiday season at area Scooter’s Coffee locations.
For more info or a list of area locations, visit scooterscoffee.com.
