You better believe this small shop merits five-stars. With stock loudly clattering to the floor as an employee worked on a display this shop merits five stars.
Why, you ask? Yes, the gentlemen who made a point of letting us know he was available to help us find something was friendly and soft-spoken. It's always a plus when staff make sure they acknowledge your presence with a nice greeting.
Was it seeing the same exact cheese slicer that I just bought off Amazon last week? Well, a bit maddening but not really it.
It was finding two cookbooks my wife and I haven't seen anywhere else. For my wife it was the kind she'd been looking for, a muffin cookbook, Do You Know The Muffin Pan? (what a great title) with a wide range of creative and original ideas spanning savory to sweet, from appetizers to dessert.
For me it was finding a Mexican cookbook I didn't know I needed. Now, I've been a Danny Trejo fan a long time. Seen him in the movies and on TV. I knew he owned a popular Mexican restaurant in L.A. because he's guest judged on numerous TV cooking competition shows. But finding his cookbook, Trejo's Tacos, just gave me all the recipes I've always wanted but have never seen anywhere else--at least the way his restaurant prepares them.
So, for the joyful experience of culinary discovery alone this store merits five stars. Oh, what was maddening about finding that cheese slicer was that I'd have preferred to have bought it from a local merchant instead of online. At least we bought the cookbooks. read more