Popular on Patch: Bottle and Bottega in La Grange Celebrates Grand Opening

Open since December, the downtown La Grange location is the eighth for the growing franchise of BYOB casual "art-party" studios.

Bottle and Bottega in La Grange Celebrates Grand Opening

Open since December, the downtown La Grange location is the eighth for the growing franchise of BYOB casual "art-party" studios.

Don’t think you can paint? Try it with a glass of wine, a friendly laid-back atmosphere and the company of perhaps equally inexperienced friends—and you might discover you’re not so hapless after all. That’s the type of “art party” offered at Bottle and Bottega, one of La Grange’s newest businesses, which has been open since Dec. 8 and held its formal ribbon-cutting on Thursday with the La Grange Business Association. Invited guests each took a crack at their own canvas in the relaxed, goldenrod-colored BYOB studio.  “The idea behind it is to take away a little of the intimidation of the blank canvas,” said Stephanie King-Myers, founder of the growing, Chicago-based franchise, which now has eight locations as far-flung as Denver and New …

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