Morissa Bennett opened The Vine in 2024, at 215 E Main Street, in the middle of downtown Princeville. The plan was not complicated. Bake it ourselves, sell it ourselves, and keep enough tables that nobody feels rushed out the door.
We opened with coffee and pastries. The menu kept growing. Now there are cinnamon rolls and caramel rolls, scones, cookie bars, macarons, brownies, and pies, plus sandwiches and paninis once the lunch crowd shows up.
Cakes and decorated cookies are made to order, which means we mostly bake whatever Princeville is celebrating that week. We have done a tractor, a cow, a 76th birthday, a retirement, a wedding, and a cake for the class of 1964. We have iced sugar cookies for the cross country team and for a bridal party. If you can describe it, we will have a go at it.
We turn out for Christmas in the Village every year and for other civic events, and the Princeville Civic Association counts us among the town's small businesses. Enjoy Illinois and Discover Peoria have both pointed travelers our way. If you are one of them, we open at 7:00am, Tuesday through Saturday.