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Travel Tips & Tricks
We have been travelling quite a bit these days and want to share with you the cool places we've discovered while on tour. So pack your bags, load up the car and hit the road with us!
Champaign, IL
The Highdive
The Highdive in Champaign,IL is one of our favorite venues to play! It's sparwling art deco bar and amazing stage is ideal! With over 25 beers on tap, cozy booths and a great staff and sound system we highly recommend you spend an evening in this fabulous venue!
The Highdive
51 E. Main St.
217-359-4444
Hungry?
Kopi
If you find yourself in Champaign at mealtime, we suggest you stroll on over to The Kopi Cafe! A quaint coffee house/cafe with a relaxing feel, fabulous food, juices and the best coffee! We all recommend the tuna pita salad (capers in it, yummy) and if you are there for breakfast don't skip the garlic & chive cream cheese for your toasted bagel. Actually, scratch the bagel and just ask for a spoon!
Kopi
109 N Walnut St.
The Courier Cafe
Located in Urbana - this restaurant is a real find. It's filled to the brim with amazing antiques, super great service and amazing ice cream sundaes!
111 N. Race St.
217.328.1811
www.couriersilvercreek.com
Oakley's Family Restaurant
Need some 24 hour power? Oakley's serves up burgers, great steak fries and your basic regional diner goodies!
On Neil Street right by the Intersate 74 on and off ramps.
Shops & Stuff
Dandelion
Thrifty vintage shoppers' delight! This fantastic store is jam packed with racks upon racks of great scores! With moderate prices ($10-$50) and clothes from the 1950's through the 1980's, this store is fun for the whole family!
Dandelion
217-355 WEED (right around the block from Kopi)
Carrie's
Got money to burn or an apartment to furnish? Hop over to Carrie's for some truly scorable scores! 100% silk, three-piece oriental suits from the 1950's, lace 1940's cocktail dresses, turn of the century feather boater hats and more line the walls of this classy shop, as well as mod lamps and furniture that would make interior decorators weep with joy! This store is a gold mine for the professionally minded vintage shopper and a museum stroll for those just passing through! Prices go from moderate to mega!
Carrie's
204 N. Neil (downtown)
Champaign, IL 61820
(217)352-3231
M-Sat 10-5, Sun 1-5
Old Main Bookshoppe
Tara, the bookworm could spend the day thumbing through the thousands of dusty treasures in this fantasy book shop! You'll feel like you're in the attic of someone's super cool grandmom when strolling the aisles of this gem, just don't step on the black cat! From first edition copies of renound literature to 1950's "The Dead Don't Care" pulp novels to scores of second hand cd's, vinyl and tapes you can pass the day away in this cozy alcove, and the proprietor Steve is just the greatest!
Old Main Bookshoppe
116 N Walnut St
217-355-6400
Ippatsu
When we Pontani's pull into a town after a long day and sometimes night on the road, we can always use a little pampering. In Champaign, we head directly for the Ippatsu Salon where a pedicure treat awaits our tired dancin' feet! Manicures, pedicures, cuts, color and more. Get refreshed at Ippatsu.
Ippatsu Salon
122 North Neil St.
Champaign, IL
217-356-6547
The Historic Lincoln Hotel
This hotel was straight out of haunted history books! It was so decadent and ornate. We just loved it (as you can see in all the pictures we took there). If you find your self in Urbana - Champaigne you MUST stay here. And, they have an amazing restaurant where you can eat your breakfast. If you can, go when it's snowing - bring a bottle of wine and sit in front of their huge fireplace. Since we were there in the middle of summer we could only imagine how wonderful this would be... Next time!
www.historiclincolnhotel.com
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