Dom's Doubles Up with Second Chicago Store
The grocery-food hall-convenience store concept gets all grown up
Dom’s Kitchen & Market x 2
Dom’s Kitchen & Market opened its second store this morning in Chicago’s Old Town neighborhood. And that ginormous Eli’s Cheesecake — being cut by Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot and (from left) the Dom’s leadership team of Don Fitzgerald, Bob Mariano and Jay Owen — was not the only thing big about the Grand Opening ceremony.
The new store, located at 1233 N. Wells St., is very much modeled after the innovations of the first store that opened in June 2021 at the north end of the Lincoln Park neighborhood. It too is an experiential combination of grocery store, grab-and-go convenience store and food hall (with all the same restaurants from Store #1 repeated at Store #2).
But there is a big difference. The new store is much larger, with about twice as much space as the original, which has enabled roughly a doubling of the grocery products the store is carrying. While the food service is in the center of the first store, it is located in a corner of the perimeter of the second store, which has more of a grocery shopping feel to it, with neatly organized center aisles and a perimeter for the much-larger produce selection, the meat and fish counters (see photo below), and the cold cases.
I’ll have more on the Grand Opening, including excerpts from the statements by store leaders and Mayor Lightfoot. In the meantime, enjoy these photos from today’s Grand Opening.
Dom’s co-founder Bob Mariano spoke at the Grand Opening as co-founders Don Fitzgerald and Jay Owen and Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot looked on.
Dom’s co-founder Jay Owen.
That fresh fish display looks amazing!