Whats new, you ask? Well, theres Baileys Cafe (56 Baltimore Avenue, site of last years Beach Dawgs) featuring exotic upscale meals. Breakfast is served, beginning 7 a.m., with creative egg dishes, waffles and pastries. Lunch includes goat cheese-stuffed chicken with roasted red pepper sauce, grilled salmon burgers, and caesar salad with filet mignon. Jeff Bailey has been in the catering business for 3 years and opened his new space on Easter weekend. With a frequently changing menu, hell also cater your party, so check it out! Then, theres True Essence Perfumes and Aromatherapy (29 Baltimore Avenue, former site of Earthly Wonders) where you can buy a designer fragrance or create your own signature fragrances for moisturizers, massage oils, perfume, soaps, and more. Also, aromatherapy and essential oils are available. From floral and citrus to the 15 kinds of musk, there are about 580 bottles of fragrances to choose from, including 250 already mixed. Youre sure to find something to "create your own aura" as the very helpful owner Suparna Mehra says. The Rehoboth Sport & Kite Company, known for its boardwalk store, opened a beautiful second location at 67 Rehoboth Avenue for all your kite, windsock and flag needs. And, for your financial planning, insurance and investment needs, Alex Yearley has opened Community Pride Financial Advisors right in the CAMP courtyard at 39 Baltimore Avenue next to Loris Cafe, Lambda Rising and CAMP Rehoboth.
So then, where on earth is Earthly Wonders? Carla Boynton has moved her fabulous shop to 137 Rehoboth Avenuewhere the Strand used to beand expanded her merchandise to include new lines of home decor, artsy cards, fine and funky jewelry from India, Sweden, Central America and more. Nassau Gallery, for all your framing needs, moved to Rehoboth and Second, former site of South Moon Under (are you keeping up with all this?) L. A. Connection moved to 127 Rehoboth Avenue and has expanded its lines of offerings of watches, clothes and tempting gifts. Splash (now a home accessories and design store) has moved from its First Street address to 102 Second Street in Lewes where it shares space with the Rio Mining Company, a custom jeweler, but well tell you more about these two fabulous shops when we present our Day in Lewes in an upcoming issue.
Where does he find all this stuff? Peter Antolini has nearly 3,200 items in his Gourmet by the Sea (37 Baltimore Avenue), all of them fabulous, many of them hard to find. His shops front room has pasta in dozens of shapes, flavors and sizes, including porcini mushroom shaped like mushrooms, and tropical island shaped like sailboats and palm trees. Another room has just about everything you can think of for oriental cooking, while another covers south of the border with walls of salsas and sauces and peppers. There are shelves stuffed with relishes, syrups, beans, mustards; oils include everything from many varieties of olive to avocado, lemon and orange. In the summer, fresh cheeses, sausages and pats are also stocked. Great gift items are available, and always a warm smile from Peter.
Down the street at The Wooden Indian (25 Baltimore Avenue) there are "gifts of distinction" for men and women, from fragrances and soaps to lamps, picture frames, tea pots, cookbooks, prints, gourmet food items, and writing paper. But its the Waterford crystal room and that refrigerated section of Godiva chocolates that sets the Wooden Indian apart from the rest.
In Penny Lane Mall, in the beach block between Rehoboth and Wilmington, Bill Sievert and John Theiss Fever lives up to its tagline of "way past cool clothing and accessories." The 70 lines of clothing carried here run the gamut from comfortable, breathing cotton to "trendy, slinky things", from board shorts and activewear to great shoes, sandals, casualwear, and way cool watches. Color is back...limes, bright blues, oranges, as well as great earth tones. All hot stuff. Can you get out of here without a purchase? I dont think so!
Business Beat is a periodic column designed to provide some helpful shopping hints to our visitors. Over the course of the summer, well cover the area and let you know what our advertisers and supporters have to offer that you cant live without!
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5/30/97 Issue. Copyright 1997 by CAMP Rehoboth, Inc. All rights reserved.