The appeal is breadth: a custom sandwich bar built to order, a full-service catering operation for everything from office lunches to weddings, an artisan bakery turning out breads and pastries, plus a case of prepared soups, entrees, salads, sauces, fine pates and cheeses, and fresh seafood and quality meats for anyone cooking at home. It's less a restaurant in the traditional sense than a one-stop gourmet grocery-and-prepared-food hybrid, which is exactly why it's lasted long enough to spawn three sibling locations elsewhere on the North Shore.
Not an independent original, but a genuinely useful North Shore institution worth knowing about regardless.
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