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Address: 1 E. Main St. Champaign, IL 61820
Phone: (217) 531-1177
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Downtown Champaign’s Jim Gould Restaurant will be stepping up the holiday cheer beginning Dec. 11. by inviting Pete Vrinios and his family to make candy canes in the restaurant. This is the second year the Vrinios Confectioners will have made canes at Jim Gould’s. The candy cane making will be on display in the front of the restaurant for diners and passerby to observe. Tanya Gould said Vrinios would be bringing his marble table to make his family’s famous canes, which include the orange flavored, orange and blue Illini canes. The Vrinios family has been making candy canes since 1898.

Other candy cane flavors include chocolate mint in a green and brown cane; traditional peppermint in a red and white cane, as well as a red, green and white cane; cherry in a red, white and blue cane; root beer in brown and white; wintergreen in green and blue; and cinnamon in red and yellow. Children will be allowed to help make canes.

“This will be very nostalgic for older people,” said Jim Gould, the owner of Jim Gould’s Restaurant.

The canes will be on sale not only at Jim Gould Restaurant, but also at the following CU locations: Sun Singer Wine & Spirits, Walnut Street Tea Company, Sweet Indulgence Bakery, The Cake Artist’s Studio and International Galleries and Kitchens. The IGA in Mahomet will also sell Vrinios canes.

Vrinios will make his canes at Jim Gould Restaurant Dec. 11 to Dec. 13 from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m.; Dec. 14 Dec. 17 from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. and Dec. 18 to Dec. 20 from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m.

Please email Vrinios at mailto:vrinioscanes@aol.com or call 217-714-7001 for questions or special orders.