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Sunday, March 9, 2008
We Like Wegman's
My first trip to a Wegmans was in the Baltimore area and I loved it. If you like food, if you like to food shop, you'll like Wegman's, too. Take the Di Bruno's on Market Street, expand each department by 100%, add a large grocery store and you have Wegmans. What's good about that? Well, their deli has very good meats at more of a grocery store price than a gourmet market price. The bakery is respectable. The salad bar for lunch is a pretty good meal and if you want generic brands of peanut butter and other essentials, they have them. Plus, you have a friendly, service-minded staff and managers on duty. And there are plenty of good foods to taste as you walk around and explore. Do they have the best of everything? No, of course not, but the fresh foods are just that fresh and well managed.
You'll find a few Wegmans' stores in the Philadelphia area, including Cherry Hill and Warrington.
When my wife and I moved back to Philadelphia, after 25 years raising our family in Texas, we were surprised to find very few online food reviews of the locally owned cafes, pizza parlors and restaurants. There are plenty of reviews of the big name restaurants. But we're pretty much done with all that. We wanted the best cup of coffee, hamburger, cheese steak, bagel, sushi, hot pretzel, slice of pizza, or almond croissant. So we review the everyday places to spend a Saturday or Sunday afternoon. We like food, music, politics, religion, movies, books, shopping, walking, and exploring new places. We have as many failures as successes when we are exploring new places. I hope you enjoy both.
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