It's genuinely two businesses sharing one roof in Plaza del Lago: a sit-down cafe running full lunch, brunch, dinner, kids', dessert, and gluten-free menus with its own wine list, and a market stocked with prepared Italian dishes -- pastas, pizzas, vegetable sides, grains and legumes -- plus sandwiches, salads, bakery items, and a lasagna program substantial enough to get its own menu heading. The target customer, per the business itself, is deliberately "everyone": people grabbing dinner on the way home, people buying ingredients to cook themselves, and people sitting down for a full meal all get served out of the same space.
Hours shift seasonally, stretching later into the evening in spring and summer.
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