Christmas crackers and sea salt caramels at Lincoln’s Old Pasadena holiday pop-up
The Pasadena restaurant and gift shop has opened a holiday pop-up in Old Town through mid-January.
If you’ve spent any time at Lincoln, the year-old cafe on the northwestern edge of Pasadena where you can order a breakfast salad, olive oil cake or a bowl of warm bulgur laced with lemon verbena and cream, you’ll know that it’s also an excellent place to go shopping. The large, lofty space is filled like a candy shop, and there’s also a gift shop in the old building adjacent to the restaurant, which is now loaded with cookbooks, ornaments, candy and all manner of holiday stuff. If your idea of fun is trolling Etsy for Christmas garlands, you may be there right now.
To make your holiday shopping easier, Lincoln owners Christine Moore and Pam Perkins have opened a pop-up gift shop, open now through probably mid-January, farther south in Old Pasadena. The shop has been set up in a candy-striped Tuff shed, like some sort of elf hut, in the Indiana Colony court on Colorado Boulevard — which is what they call the lofty space near Intelligentsia where you can find Pie Hole and Coolhaus.
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Inside the hut are shelves packed with Le Cirque chocolates, marzipan horses, holiday glitter, chocolate tree ornaments, Châteauneuf-du-Pape tea towels, cookbooks — Zoe Nathan’s “Huckleberry,” for example — and boxes of festive Christmas crackers. There are also, unsurprisingly, plenty of Little Flower Candy Co.’s sea salt caramels and marshmallows, since Moore’s first shop is just a mile or so west of Old Town.
This is the first time that Moore and Perkins have done a pop-up, although some would say that both Little Flower and Lincoln operate as holiday pop-ups in their own fashion. If this one goes well, Moore says that they may do it again, likely for Valentine’s Day and Easter — or maybe just keep this one up. Because, if you love chocolate and caramels, pretty much every day is a holiday.
Lincoln’s holiday pop-up, 10:30 a.m.-9 p.m., Wednesday through Friday; 10:30 a.m.-10 p.m., Saturday and Sunday, not open Christmas Day.
59 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, lincolnpasadena.com.
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