Ange of the North, this was an amazing delicatessen that made me think of you and other foodie friends, when we saw it. The pictures only show a portion of the shop (since I felt a bit like I shouldn't be waving my camera around in full view of everybody!).
It is actually billed as the Village butcher's.
However, it is the most wonderful butchers shop I have ever seen.
It doesn't have a strong meaty smell like all the other butchers shops I've ever been in. In fact, if anything, there are delicious aromas emanating from the other cooked foods one can purchase there. There is a huge and varied selection of beautifully presented cuts of meat, and all sorts of delicious fine goodies like olives and sundried tomatoes and vine leaves and roasted garlic etc, all laid out in clean, bright display cabinets that run down one length of the shop. Some of the cuts of meat, I'd never seen before! Everything was so well displayed! There were chandeliers in the ceiling, shelves and cold chests stuffed full of the most delectable and exotic foodstuffs, and a "Display Kitchen" area with chairs around it for cooking and sampling sessions!
The Display Kitchen area has sinks and cooktop, oven, spice racks, cookware, and bookshelves with cookbooks from some of the top international culinary names.
We spent a lot of time just looking and salivating (and wrinkling up our eyebrows at other stuff)!
Wild rice from Burma, duck fat (!), hundreds of spice mix variations, organic preserves, local pestos, exotic vegetables and fruit etc etc.
The perfect shop for "This goes with That, and That goes with This"!!!
E took this photo. That's an "Academic in the midst of assignments", clinging on for dear life to the lifegiving properties of The Endless Cup of tea!
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