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Gopuff Chicago: Announcing Our Local Partners in the Windy City
From Wow Bao to Carol’s Cookies, Gopuff Chicago delivers locally loved products around the city and suburbs.
October 6, 2020
Passionate about connecting with and uplifting each of the communities in which we work and deliver, Gopuff regularly partners with local brands across the U.S. to deliver their locally loved products to customers’ doors in minutes.
Since launching our first Chicago facility in 2016, Gopuff has spent the last 4 years growing delivery zones by opening 11 additional facilities, launching partnerships with a dozen local brands and engaging with the community, including donating personal protective equipment to Roseland Community Hospital.
From Phoenix to Miami to St. Louis, local products are quickly becoming customers’ go-to choices on Gopuff. Read about our local Chicago partners below and reach out to us at local@gopuff.com if you’re interested in having your own product(s) made available on Gopuff!
Chicago Sweets
**Sweet Shot Cookies**
Sweet Shot Cookie founder Hallie Schwartz wanted to put her own unique twist on a classic treat, so she started injecting sweet fillings into her cookies with a literal syringe full of flavor. Her gooey treats include everything from Funfetti cookies injected with vanilla frosting to chocolate chip cookies injected with dark chocolate ganache. Schwartz’s cookies are so irresistible that they’ve been featured in a BuzzFeed Food video. Order your own Sweet Shot cookies from Gopuff Chicago here.
Beatrix
Beatrix is a neighborhood coffeehouse, restaurant and meeting place with multiple storefronts throughout Chicago and in Oak Brook. Now, customers can get select varieties of Beatrix’s famous desserts delivered to them in just 30 minutes with Gopuff. From cookies to cakes to gluten-free marshmallow crispy bars, these iconic treats are a local staple. Order here.
Carol’s Cookies
For over 40 years, Carol’s cookies have been turning heads and making mouths water! After having People rate her cookies the 4th best in the entire country just 6 months after she started selling them in Chicago Carol knew she was on to something. Several judges even voted her cookies ahead of mainstays like Mrs. Field and Famous Amos.
With such national recognition, Carol was able to start selling her treats throughout the United States. To this day, Carol still uses the same recipes and quality ingredients giving her cookies the same homemade taste for over 40 years. Order this Chicago classic here.
Graeter’s Ice Cream
A Midwest favorite, Graeter’s Ice Cream is a family-owned business with over 150 years of experience making ice cream by hand, 2.5 gallons at a time. Through its unique French pot process, Graeter’s is able to freeze high butterfat with very little trapped air, resulting in a denser and creamier ice cream.
Graeter’s also uses high-quality ingredients, from its buttermilk to its mix-ins, and even makes its own chocolate chips! Order this tried-and-true treat here.
Chicago Meals
Wow Bao
This Chicago favorite fuses centuries of tradition with modern Asian street food to create its signature large Chinese steamed buns, known as bao. Wow Bao’s bao buns and pan-seared potstickers are made with high-quality ingredients, including proteins that are locally sourced, sustainably raised, non-GMO, and antibiotic- and steroid-free. They’ve been featured in everything from Forbes to Esquire to the Travel Channel. Order these popular Asian delights here.
Home Run Inn Pizza
In 1923, the original Home Run Inn storefront opened on Chicago’s South Side. Founders Mary and Vincent Grittani took over in 1947, giving the Inn its name after a baseball from the neighborhood park smashed through one of their windows—a home run!
At the time, they served pizza as a snack to customers enjoying the tavern’s cold beers. In the 1960s, a long-time customer requested that the Inn make him par-baked pizzas to bring home to his ice box in Wisconsin, and the Home Run Inn frozen pizza business was born.
The Home Run Inn pizza recipe is filled with all-natural, high-quality ingredients and hasn’t changed since 1947! Chicagoans can now order this local staple with Gopuff. Order here.
Chicago Snacks & Spreads
Smoke Daddy
Smoke Daddy is a world-class BBQ in the heart of Wicker Park and now, the heart of Wrigleyville. Since 1994, Smoke Daddy BBQ has held the belief that BBQ is a true homegrown American meal.
With a firm belief in lip-smacking, slow-cooked, savory goodness, Smoke Daddy partnered with Gopuff to bring select products like their Sweet and Smokey BBQ Sauce and Habanero Bloody Mary Mix to customers throughout Chicago. Order your new favorite condiments here.
Corey’s Bagels
Corey’s Bagels founders, Corey and Laurie Kaplan, are bringing the Big Apple to the Windy City. At Corey’s NYC Bagel Deli, customers can find their favorite NYC-style deli eats, from kettle-boiled bagels made fresh by hand daily to pastrami sandwiches.
They also serve up other fun treats like homemade cream cheese and Corey’s Bagel chips in flavors like cinnamon raisin and everything bagel. Order Corey’s Bagel chips and cream cheese here.
Think Jerky
Think Jerky Founder Ricky Hirsch wants you to think before you eat! After he discovered most jerky products are pumped full of sugar, he set out to make a better-for-you jerky. His jerky is made with 100% grass-fed, pasture-raised beef or free-range turkey with no hormones, antibiotics, gluten or nitrites. Plus, all of his jerky minimizes sugar and salt use.
But the best part? Each flavor is crafted by a different celebrity chef, including world-famous restaurateur Doug Sohn, creator of the iconic Chicago restaurant Hot Doug’s; Michelin Star and James Beard Award winner Gale Gand and two-time BaconFest champion Matt Troost. Order this paleo-friendly product here.
Chicago Drinks
Love Cork Screw
Love Cork Screw is a wine and lifestyle brand dedicated to providing consumers with a line of wine varietals that offer the sophisticated and novice wine enthusiasts a range of whites, reds & rosés for any palate.
While each sleek wine bottle is colorful, whimsical and fun, their products seek to accentuate the five senses – titillate the palate, stimulate the tactile and arouse the aural and the aroma. The grapes for Love Cork Screw wines are carefully selected from various vineyards to give complexity, balance, and intensity of flavors that make Love Cork Screw varietals the selection of choice for many. Order your wine delivery here.
Jon Basil Tequila
Jon Basil Tequila is distilled from 100 percent perfectly ripened Agave plants masterfully blended from the high and low lands of Jalisco, Mexico.
The Agave plants are slow-cooked in order to extract the sweet agave nectar. It is then fermented, infused with fresh rainwater, double distilled, oxidized, assembled and examined by hand. Jon Basil Tequila’s unexplainably smooth finish provides a uniquely premium experience suitable to enhance every occasion. Order your liquor delivery here.
Dark Matter Coffee
Chicago’s newest local partnership is with Dark Matter Coffee, a Chicago-grown coffee company that adheres to a philosophy where quality coffees are sourced based on traceability, innovation and social responsibility. Since launching in 2007, Dark Matter Coffee has opened seven brick and mortar stores, including coffee shops in Avondale, Bucktown and Ukrainian Village, with two more on the way.
But, as many shops closed due to COVID-19 health concerns, Dark Matter Coffee sought a new avenue through which it could bring its locally loved products to customers quickly and safely. Now, with Gopuff’s Non-Contact Delivery, customers in the Chicago area can have their Dark Matter Coffee delivered on a whim to enjoy from the comfort of home. Order your coffee delivery here.