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Skip the schlep! CURE de Repos, a luxury beauty & wellness oasis, arrives in Ardmore

January 13, 2025 by Caroline O'Halloran

For the crème de la crème in beauty and wellness, you could head to a destination spa, a swanky resort or a high-end day spa in Center City.

Or you could skip the schlep and visit the new CURE de Repos in Ardmore.

Locally owned and operated, CURE is 2800 sq. ft. of luxurious indulgence in Cricket Flats, the new mixed-use complex on Cricket Ave.

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Ardmore, Beauty, Cricket Flats, day spa, European day spa, facials, massage, spa, wellness

Making Malvern a Hallmark town; Aiding Wynnewood’s Gaudios; Easttown in a pickle; At the bar At the Table in Wayne; Ugly rubble in Berwyn; Ho Ho Ho for the Hoeys; DFB is a BFD; Hot headlines & more

December 19, 2024 by Caroline O'Halloran

Step aside, guys.

Powered mostly by women, Malvern is poised for a mini-renaissance.

King Street has new merchants, the borough’s biggest boosters have joined forces, and everyone – shoppers and shopkeepers – seems bullish about Malvern’s singular, small-town charms.

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Andrew Gaudio, At the Table, Bernadette Gaudio, berwyn demolition, berwyn roof collapse, Berwyn Square, dfb, dom pecors, DP Partners, Easttown, Gaudio, GoFundme, home invasion, Main Line crime, patrick hoey, pickleball, pickleball noise, UMLY, Upper Main Line YMCA, Wayne restaurants

SAVVY Main Line, The Podcast: WHOA Baby! Egg Freezing, IVF & America’s first “test tube baby”

December 9, 2024 by Caroline O'Halloran

Listen on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. 

In this episode, Caroline gets super personal with three guests:

*Her daughter, Kara O’Halloran, who shares her decision to freeze her eggs at age 32. Why did she do it and what was it like?

*Local mom Sarah Shafer who spent seven years and millions of dollars to have her two daughters through IVF in her later 30s and early 40s. Her journey inspired her to form a nonprofit helps couples pay for IVF and a create a lux skincare line based on breast milk.

*America’s first “test tube” baby, Elizabeth Jordan Carr, explains her life under the microscope of public opinion and her efforts to keep IVF legal. She also tells us about how to support her IVF advocacy work.

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Dapper & delightful: The Jockey Tavern giddyaps into Malvern

November 26, 2024 by Caroline O'Halloran

Near the heart of horse country – ten minutes from Radnor Hunt and eight miles from Devon – sits the new Jockey Tavern: horsey, handsome and … HAPPENING.

Crowds have swarmed place – the former McKenzie Brew House on Rte. 30 – since it opened November 14.

And for good reason: The décor is smashing, the booze is bountiful, and the food is on the money and fairly priced. In racing parlance, a superfecta.

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: equestrian, frazer, jockey tavern, Main Line, Malvern, Radnor Hunt, Restaurants, tavern

‘Sonnez les matines’ in Wayne. Open just a week, Matines Café is already rousing crowds.

November 21, 2024 by Caroline O'Halloran

No need for Frère Jacques to ring those morning bells – the Main Line is already making its way to Matines.

Talk about a new café hitting the sweet spot.

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: french bakery, french cafes, main line cafe, matines cafe, Wayne

(re)Turning the page? Barnes & Noble is coming back to Bryn Mawr. Just don’t expect a carbon copy.

November 18, 2024 by Caroline O'Halloran

Barnes & Noble is getting a do-over. Eighteen years after it closed, the bookstore chain is reopening in the same building.

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: barnes & noble, bookstores, Bryn Mawr, Main Line retail, new retail

Holy Macaroni! Ardmore’s new Mac Mart is a mac ‘n cheese lover’s dream

November 12, 2024 by Caroline O'Halloran

What’s WAY better than Kraft, MUCH better than Annie’s, and LIKELY better than homemade? The gourmet mac ‘n cheese at the new Mac Mart in Ardmore.
 
Now open in a blaze of yellow glory on Rittenhouse Place, Mac Mart is all mac ‘n cheese all the time and in myriad iterations – for eat-in, take out and catering.

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Ardmore, fast-casual franchise, mac n cheese, Main Line, new restaurant, takeout restaurants

Trader Joe’s expands to Berwyn

November 6, 2024 by Caroline O'Halloran

What was  long-rumored is now a fact: SAVVY has learned that Trader Joe’s is coming to the former CVS/Acme space in Berwyn.

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No Vacancy!!! Downtown Wayne is filling fast; Our all-local visual tour of Campaign ’24: ground games, stars & our ‘closing message’; Plus, hot headlines & This and That

October 31, 2024 by Caroline O'Halloran

Our clocks “fall backward” this weekend but it sure feels like spring in Wayne: the town about to burst forth with new life. Here’s a rundown of what’s going to plug those big ole holes we’re tired of seeing on Lancaster Ave. 

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Who needs Black Friday? A bargain hunter’s nirvana, the CCC (Community Clothes Charity) Sale comes to Wayne this weekend. Here’s why you should shop it.

October 28, 2024 by Caroline O'Halloran

If history holds, about 100 women will stand outside the old Gap building this Friday morning, $30 in hand, itching for the doors to open at 11. Out-of-staters and locals know to arrive as early as 6 a.m. Some will tote lawn chairs, others coffee. Who needs sleep when there are bargains to be had?

Friday is the first and most pivotal day of the Community Clothes Charity’s now biennial sale. $30 gives first-day shoppers first dibs.

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