Riding along the quiet, immaculately-manicured streets of idyllic Eastmoreland, it’s a delightful surprise when the stately brick manors and quaint bungalows briefly part to reveal a tiny gourmet market filled with organic produce, wines, meats, bread, Spanish and Italian specialty groceries, Illy coffee, fresh Voodoo Doughnuts, and exceptional sandwiches. Natives, accidental tourists, and intrepid sandwich seekers alike can be found nose deep in one of this well-hidden neighborhood favorite’s sandwich creations, like the popular Smoked Turkey and Goat Cheese with housemade chutney and grilled onions, hearty Rueben with corned beef and housemade pickle slaw on rye, and marvelously meaty Muffaletta–a fresh ciabatta roll gripping seemingly endless layers of paper thin ham, salumi, mortadella, swiss, provolone and spread with a feisty olive, caper and pickled vegetable relish. Dine in at one of the cafe tables up front or pick up a bottle of Broadbent vinho verde, a bag of Kettle chips, organic Willamette Valley pears, oatmeal cherry cookies by Finale Fine Cakes and Desserts and a bar or two of Theo chocolate, and you’ve got the makings of a mighty fine picnic, if you can ever find your way out of this utopian neck of the Southeast woods and over to one of the nearby city parks.
