Carrie Rengers

1 week ago | kansas.com | Carrie Rengers

There aren’t many businesses so invitingly idyllic that you’d want to pop by with a sack lunch, plop down on a vintage glider and escape reality over your lunch hour. You can at Hillside Nursery. Tall trees line the front of its 8 acres at 2200 S. Hillside, making it appear more like a mini arboretum than someplace where financial transactions occur. “You almost take a deep breath when you come here,” said co-owner Katie McHenry.

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Carrie Rengers

There aren’t many businesses so invitingly idyllic that you’d want to pop by with a sack lunch, plop down on a vintage glider and escape reality over your lunch hour. You can at Hillside Nursery. Tall trees line the front of its 8 acres at 2200 S. Hillside, making it appear more like a mini arboretum than someplace where financial transactions occur. “You almost take a deep breath when you come here,” said co-owner Katie McHenry.

1 week ago | kansas.com | Carrie Rengers

When Mama Love’s Kitchen opened in Old Town in 1998, The Wichita Eagle reported that the soul food restaurant’s walls chronicled “four generations of one of Wichita’s best-known black families.”Now, someone from the family’s younger generation — Adrian Love, grandson of Mama Love’s founder Ahnawake Love — is opening Love & Co. Kitchen & Cocktails in the former Donut Whole space on East Douglas just east of Hydraulic. “All my life, I always told my grandma I wanted to reopen Mama Love’s,” he said.

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Carrie Rengers

When Mama Love’s Kitchen opened in Old Town in 1998, The Wichita Eagle reported that the soul food restaurant’s walls chronicled “four generations of one of Wichita’s best-known black families.”Now, someone from the family’s younger generation — Adrian Love, grandson of Mama Love’s founder Ahnawake Love — is opening Love & Co. Kitchen & Cocktails in the former Donut Whole space on East Douglas just east of Hydraulic. “All my life, I always told my grandma I wanted to reopen Mama Love’s,” he said.

1 week ago | kansas.com | Carrie Rengers

As a child, Illene Major would run around the music store and venue that her late grandfather, Clif Major, had for four decades at Douglas and Hillside. “I kind of grew up there in a way,” she said of C Major Guitars & Banjo. She said she never expected that one day she would be working out of the space in a different business. “I’m turning that same space into a place for a new kind of art: nails,” Major said.