Currently taking drum lessons here. I had no rhythm until Ben started showing me techniques. This place is great. One of sycamore’s jewels.
My daughter will start band this fall and we wanted her to get some experience before school starts. We signed up for the six lessons and two lessons into it we cannot be more pleased. She knew nothing about playing her instrument and Adam has given her great direction. She is gaining much more confidence with each lesson.
visually, the shop is awesome. Frank and Conner are very friendly, knowledgeable and helpful. top quality tech work, reasonable prices on new and used instruments. they put a guitar I had been searching for for 10+ years in my hands less than 10 days after letting them know about it so yeah, Aurora aims to please 🙂
I had a setup and some minor repairs done. They turned it around incredibly fast and the price was extremely reasonable. Lots of cool gear to look at and it looks like they’re setting up a section in the back for records too. This will be the go-to place from now on. Thanks guys.
Great place. Great people too
4. Christian Connection
Address: 337 W State St, Sycamore, IL 60178 , Sycamore , Illinois , United States
Nice place and real stuff!! Good, fair prices, owner very knowledgeable and nicely done. There’s something for every body there !! Give it it a go !!
Came across this small but gem of an antique store on my antiquing journeys just yesterday. While it is more small than most antique stores and malls, the items here were quality and the owner was extremely friendly. Some things were costly on the price tag but he was kind enough to negotiate fairly on prices. I left with some lovely pieces I’m very happy with 🙂 Worth checking out if you’re in the area!
Five stars, owner extremely knowledgeable.
Truffle fries and beer/cider selection were great! The pizza was very good, just needed a bit more sauce to balance the cheese out. We will be back!
Nice store, lots of dishes. We thought it was over priced.
Made a special trip to this store today. Their advertised hours are Wednesday through Saturday opening at 10am. Today is Wednesday, got there at 11am. Not open. Bad business I would say.
6. Ax-In-Hand Guitar Specialists
Address: 817 W Lincoln Hwy # B, DeKalb, IL 60115 , Sycamore , Illinois , United States
Excellent little shop. Took my acoustic in to get the neck straightened and the action lowered – they did a superb job at a very affordable price. They have all sorts of used and new equipment, do open mics, have lessons. I’ll definitely be going back.
I found them online looking for drums. They had a complete kit that at the time was looking for. I contacted and we worked out details. The Customer Service was Fabulous. There was No Pressure on Pick Up and that was Top Notch!! Great Place to Work With!!
Great place! I’ve been going there since I was 14, I’m 21 now. Especially with Wes in charge I love this place hopefully more people start coming because this place deserves it. Stop going to Guitar Center and support your local stores. Hope this place never closes and only gets bigger and better.
They did a great job of fixing my guitar. My ax was really messed up and they got her back up and playable. Thanks guys.
Very helpful friendly staff.
Very helpful great service
7. Redbox
Address: 1340 Dekalb Ave, Sycamore, IL 60178 , Sycamore , Illinois , United States
One of my favorite places to shop in Sycamore. Staff is always friendly and store is always clean.
Always good experience. Large store
Great place!
Big store. Lots to look at. We went around 7 – 830 and the pallets were blocking me from getting to the other side of the aisle. Such a wal-mart move
Friendly staff, doesn’t have all my favorite brands, but still a nice, clean store. Fairly large pet section.
Is a good place to buy groceries.
The absolute worst curbside service I’ve ever had. The first time we did curbside I had to call after 20 minutes of waiting (I told them I was on my way 15 minutes before arriving) and it still took them another 10 minutes to bring out my order. I decided to give them the benefit of the doubt and order again. The second time I again had to call after 20 minutes (After purposefully checking in 20 minutes early). The worker told us their online check-in system hasn’t been working all week. There weren’t any signs outside at the pickup telling people their system wasn’t working. After another 10 minutes of nobody coming out we pulled up and went inside to ask someone. Then almost 10 minutes later we finally got our order. I will not be doing curbside again here. We still do love still Meijer’s products though!
Great experience
Bad experience with online order pickup, they missed an item but I was charged for it. I doubt this is something to do with the third party company Shipt Shopper that Meijer work with for online pickups. I tried to call customer service but was on-hold for an hour then I gave up.
9. Ski’s All American Pub
Address: 1001 W State St, Sycamore, IL 60178 , Sycamore , Illinois , United States
Great food awesome people ,two for one pizzas on Tuesday
Great fish fry, service, price and a comfortable place to hear classic rock! My wife and I, “WE’LL BE BACK!”
Cheap beer and good food
Nice place. We went for the all you can eat fish fry but the fish was rubbery and over cooked. The oil tasted like it needed to be changed.
But overall the prices were good I hear the pizza is awesome. We will be back to try another meal.
Nice place tuesday buy one get one free pizza
Ski’s atmosphere is great! The service is good and so are the drink prices.
Terrible. Food was cold
Bartender was very very unpleasant!!!! It waa like I was asking to much for a Margarita and when she made it that was the WORST I’ve ever tasted. Left it full on the bar. Never again.
Inattentive, rude bartenders. Would not recommend this place to people because if they had the experience my group did they wouldn’t like me afterwards.
10. Redbox
Address: 220 W Peace Rd, Sycamore, IL 60178 , Sycamore , Illinois , United States
What a wonderful man Roger is. I was so happy with my visit!
Ummm
The only guy in the area who I trust with my instrument repairs. He can fix anything, and won’t make you pay an arm and leg for it. We need more people like him
12. Banner Up Signs
Address: 1170 E State St #9576, Sycamore, IL 60178 , Sycamore , Illinois , United States
Great response time. Pricing was great compared to comps- local and online. Design and corrections were fast.
No matter how small or large the project, Banner Up is perfect for taking care of all of our signage needs!!! Reasonably priced, professional, & quick turnaround time!!! Highly recommend!
Needed a sign in a hurry and they delivered! Friendly, professional service and great quality.
Quality work. Friendly staff.
Wanted lettering and graphics on my new truck. Phone conversation started out well and then quit all together. I am on limited time schedule and recieved no communication from this company after sending pics and ideas as requested. Phone calls were sent and texts as well with no response. I will take my business and money elsewhere. This idea started on a Tuesday and now it’s Friday afternoon and nothing… I dealt with Ken
13. Green Tangerine Records
Address: 838 W Lincoln Hwy, DeKalb, IL 60115 , Sycamore , Illinois , United States
This place is awesome, especially if you have one of those quirky relatives or friends you need a gift for. It’s a cool store for people who like cool things. Staff is very helpful and friendly.
Very helpful sales girl
Big fan of this place. Staff is incredibly nice, and the selection is quite good, and if they don’t have something you want, you can ask them to order it and it’ll be there next week. 10/10 would reccommend
Great small little store. Very friendly and decent selection
Wide assortment of vinyl, some seem overpriced for what they are but you can still find some gems in the discount boxes.
The staff is very attentive and helpful, they’ll even offer you water or soda for you to drink while you’re browsing through their collection. They have a lot of older used records in varying conditions but not as many newer records. They also have cassette tapes, CDs, DVDs, Blu-ray, shirts and hats.
Went to this record store awhile ago and had lots of records but if your looking for Hip-Hop/R&B this is not the place unfortunately all they had was a small box labeled Rap with only a few vinyls inside so if looking for New Rap/R&B this is not the place
14. Blain’s Farm & Fleet – Sycamore, Illinois
Address: 1300 Dekalb Ave, Sycamore, IL 60178 , Sycamore , Illinois , United States
If farm and fleet doesn’t have it you don’t need it.
Great place for your farm needs.
Online order and curbside pickup was super fast and convenient. Ordered online, was ready within 30 minutes. Arrived in the designated area, greeted, brought my purchase out, 5 minutes and was on my way!!! Perfect.
I was like a kid in a candy store.
Store looks a bit dated but the prices are always good.
Steven
In Paint Dept. Went outa his way
Twice to service me…
Poor inventory, poor customer service, poorly managed store. They have no idea what they have in stock and if out of stock when they might replace the stock. They actually tell people that they would be better off shopping at Meijer. If employees are telling customers to shop elsewhere it probably is.
Not as it was 10 years ago. It’s a bummer
I dont know what happened to this tractor/seed and feed store but I can no longer get standard sized boltz… or anything else i need to rebuild any type of farm machinery. but I can buy wrangler Jean’s that I dont want or need …
15. McDonald’s
Address: 1660 Dekalb Ave, Sycamore, IL 60178 , Sycamore , Illinois , United States
Fast drive thru. Food was hot. Fries perfectly fried
It has great food and it came quickly
I only go to McDonald’s everyone’s in a while to get my kids some nuggets when they earn it. But it’s always been decent location.
Great breakfast menu and new self checkout is really efficient.
Staff was polite. Tables were a bit dirty even though they were not very busy. Play place was nice for the kids but not very big. Was only 1 ball for the kids to share
They are getting so expensive, you can eat at a steak house for almost the same price……almost.
Pésimo servicio
They were closed at 630 am but open at 3 am…..
16. Audio Brew
Address: 229 Palmer Ct, DeKalb, IL 60115 , Sycamore , Illinois , United States
Had a problem concerning some computer items, after looking around for things myself, I asked an associate named Kevin what would help/solve my dilemma. He walked me across the store and took me right to the item that would work. He knew where it was, what it looked like, and how it would help me. Truly amazing memory.
If you need computer assistance, see this guy. You can’t miss him. He’s got tons of tattoos up and down both of his arms, and has more things in his face than a pin cushion, but the guy knows his stuff.
I love going to this place and looking at all the electronics I can never afford.
Everyone was super helpful and greeted us promptly. Qasim D and Ariana W answered all our questions and were friendly and professional. They both gave us a lot of useful information!
They try to be helpful.
Bought a TV for a great price and went to get it via curbside pickup! Unfortunately, I waited for about 40 minutes for someone to bring it out only to later go inside the store to learn they’re having difficulties with the curbside system so no one knew I was outside. The employees were great about assisting me once they realized and I got my TV within 10 minutes of having gone inside but if you have a curbside you may have to go into the store to avoid additional delay.
The staff is friendly, but come in with a smartphone; they price match big box stores’ websites, as well as items sold by Amazon, Newegg, and Tiger Direct. (not from third parties, make sure it’s SOLD by amazon, newegg, or tiger direct)
If you need something quick and don’t have Amazon Prime shipping, it’s great to be able to get it right away.
DO NOT BUY AN APPLIANCE FROM BEST BUY!!! I bought a refrigerator for my new home. Waited a week. The night before delivery day I was told the next day from 12-5. I took a half a day off of work and sat all day. At 5:30 pm…still no refrigerator. I called Best Buy and it took a half an hour on the phone to find out my delivery was listed as “pending reschedule”. I got another person who called the trucking company and they said the truck broke down. I think they just didn’t want to deliver that late because I am far away but maybe they did break down. Either way, I didn’t get a phone call. Then I asked when will I get it. They said tentatively December 8th. That was a whole week away. PLUS I would need to take more time off of work. I called this morning and escalated it and spoke to 3 different people asking, “if my delivery was scheduled for yesterday after already waiting a week, why am I moved to the back of the list?” They all said, “it is our system and there is nothing we can do”. Needless to say, I cancelled my order.
No one answers the phone EVER
People seemed not to know what they had other than electronics there
18. Mr G’s Music Studio
Address: 308 W State St, Sycamore, IL 60178 , Sycamore , Illinois , United States
Great teacher. Patience, humor, and knowledgeable.
I have 2 kids going to Mr. G’s for lessons. Our daughter began with guitar and has since added ukulele. Our youngest started guitar about 4 months ago. We have had a great experience and would highly recommend him for lessons. Our kids like it when he plays the chords along with them- it gives them a taste of what it sounds like to play melody and harmony.
Mr. G taught both of my children to play the piano with patience and care.
They enjoyed their lessons. Highly recommend!
My experience with the shop owner has been very pleasant. He has worked patiently teaching piano to my daughter, and has been understanding if we could not make it. I would recommend him to anyone looking for music lessons.
