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The Melon Patch

3.8 (4 reviews)
Closed • 6:00 am - 5:30 pm
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Baesler's Market - Filet, au gratin potatoes, and fresh broccoli. Who could ask for more?

Baesler's Market

(74 reviews)

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I've been there a few times. The meat sectionn is the only ones that will do the cuts we ask for!…read moreThey are amazing! The next thing I want to applaud is the guy doing the cheese/wine. This guy, (Adam maybe?), is a durn genius! He helped us once with finding a very sharp and tangy cheese. Next time we told him we are doing an au gratin potatoe and he pulled up a greener cheese that just sent it thru the roof. I hope you are paying these people very well as they can make a huge impact upon the food your customers are serving! We now have a place that can supply the cuts of meat we want, the accompanying cheese we need, and we greatly appreciate all the wonderful service these people provide!

I really do like Baeslers. It's locally owned, a manageable-size store, the meat selection is…read moreexcellent, the hot bar is one of my favorites, the bakery is great, selection is curated and the location is easy to get to, and checkout is usually quick. I'm writing this review mainly because I hope management sees it. Two things keep this from being a 5-star experience for me. First, sale pricing. I would estimate that around 80% of the time I buy something advertised as on sale, the discount doesn't ring up correctly. That makes it hard to shop with confidence. Second, I really, really, really wish the store had self-checkout lanes. Partly so customers can easily verify prices as they scan items, but mainly because I've noticed some food-handling habits at checkout that are concerning. For example, I once bought hot bar food (which you open and eat right away), and the cashier was eating crackers with both hands so fast you'd have thought those crackers owed her money while ringing up my ready to eat, while the bagger was picking at her lip gloss with her fingers. That's not what most people expect when handling ready-to-eat food. I've also seen cashiers lick their fingers before counting cash back. That is gross. For both of us. Having worked in banks, I could horrify you telling you in detail how disgustingly dirty is money. After the lip picking incident I haven't been buying as much hot bar and that's bad for me and bad for their business. Self-checkout would help avoid all those issues and make an already good store perfect. Its not the cheapest place in town but it could be the best. If pricing accuracy improves and self-checkouts are added, this would easily be a 5-star grocery store for me.

Spiessl Produce

Spiessl Produce

(1 review)

In the UP, seems there are few places that have produce reasonably priced. Most grocery stores…read morecharge double or more for the same fruits or veggies that I can get in my area near Chicago. For example, the 79-cents a pound plums are more like $2.29 in the UP at the store. Luckily, there's a roadside produce stand like Spiessl's on the edge of Neugaunee along US-41, right next to the "Welcome to Ishpeming" sign on the road, if you're headed westbound. This place is nothing more than a series of tents and some tables with no distinguishing signs to draw attention on the road. You just have to know it's there and stop in if you're headed to or from Marquette. The Spiessl name is that of the family who runs the business, which is what the girl at the cash register told me. The place is a pretty bare-bones operation with the tables, a scale, cash register and boxes of produce marked with hand-written prices. During the growing season, it's open from morning till sunset every day. The corn here is usually the bi-color yellow/white variety, always succulent and soft. They also have cherries, blueberries, raspberries and tomatoes brought in from the Lower Peninsula. Perhaps my favorite find on this trip were the freshly picked Michigan peaches, all soft and fuzzy and juicy, not like the flavorless rock apples from California you buy at the supermarket. There were still green leaves attached to some of the fruits! They also have awesome sweet mini-watermelons the size of cantaloupes. And they carry another Upper Michigan specialty - the club-like 2-foot long monster-sized zucchini that you can probably use to bludgeon a person to death. And you never know what you may find there. Last summer, I got a cluster of mid-sized, perfectly round and flavorful tomatoes. I asked where they are from and to my surprise - Israel of all places! Amazing how they turned up in the Michigan UP. They were so good that I saved the seeds to plant in my garden next year. Finally, it seems they have the best deal on bananas too, 40 cents a pound, for my hungry Stunt Boy who runs on banana fuel sometimes. Hard to beat that even in Chicago.

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