The new Harmon's Grocers opened today on Social Hall Avenue in downtown Salt Lake, and it was a happening. People all over the place, grinning like children, because this store is way cool (and when do I ever say that?). Cool like the Whole Foods in Columbus Circle in NYC. Maybe cooler.
Oh thank you, Lord, for giving me everything I ever wanted in my own hometown: a grocery store with a gigantic deli and seating for 300 people, cooking classes, and a variety of food choices that I doubt even Nefertiti had all within a block and a half of my apartment.
But Tom and I took a bike taxi home for fun. I'm still smiling.
The rest of City Creek opens March 22. Whoopty doo!
Be nice to the cute little pharmacist named Carmen. She's going to be my sister in law as of March 19th.
ReplyDeleteI love that you still say "Whoopty doo", in a world where there is so much profanity it's so refreshing. I wish I lived that close to a great grocers. It's just calling for an impromptu picnic come spring.
ReplyDeleteIt is pretty great to live within walking distance of everything you need. I was just telling my husband we would have be offered a lot, lot more money to consider ever leaving our current home. It is within 1/2 mile of the grocery, post office, bank, pizza joint, Chinese food, sub shop and ice cream parlor. I don't need another thing.
ReplyDeleteENVY. This is a slice of bigfat envy coming your way.
ReplyDeleteIt's open now? Yipeee!
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ReplyDeleteWe live 12 miles out in the country. There are obvious perks to country living, (great constellation-viewing), and one thing I did not anticipate honing was my organizational skill in household and grocery maintenance.
ReplyDeleteBut envious I am, after reading your blog this morning. I would like to have a gigantic, 300-people-seating deli in my neighborhood. (But the Angus steers across the road might be offended.)
I visited the whole foods in mid-town and confess that our neighborhood Sobeys would give it a run for its ridiculously overpriced bread.
ReplyDeleteHow good are their eclairs? They have a bakery, right? It might be worth a trip to SLC.
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