A Grocery Store That's a Restaurant?

After arriving in Camden, Maine for our month%26#39;s vacation, my wife and I sought out a local place for groceries and take out food. French %26amp;Brawn met all of our expectations. With my dog, I am up early each day and out for coffee and a newspaper, and French %26amp; Brawn is where we head. The coffee (';New England Coffee';) is terrific with about four choices, and there are many local and national newspapers. The muffins are freshly made with your choice of about six. (This is really a grocery store with a huge

offering of fresh foods.) At lunch, there are two soups, and fortunately, they always offer the clam chowder (around $5 for a large bowl) with lots of clams. And all of this food is served up by knowledgeable people that are nothing less than cheerful.

Whether in Camden for a month or just driving up Highway 1, visit French %26amp; Brawn for fresh, fairly-priced food. (and very nice people)

A Grocery Store That's a Restaurant?

True. And also Matincus Market. Lovely food and desserts, right next to a stream. Great prices, too!

A Grocery Store That's a Restaurant?

Hi Scottish!

Maine is like that, isn%26#39;t it!

At Northeast Harbor, on Mount Desert Island, we found a bakery with rather appealing cinnamon rolls. Wishing to sit down and eat them, we heard that there were some tables out back, so we took a look. There aren%26#39;t just tables, but a substantial full-service restaurant!

At any other place on the globe, such an establishment would display an illuminated sign boasting ';Restaurant.'; Maine, however, seems delightfully unassuming about things like that.

So, Scottish, I%26#39;ll see your ';Grocery Store'; and raise you the ';Economy Shoe Shop.'; If you come to Halifax, Nova Scotia (which is NEW Scotland, in Latin, as you know) and go restaurant hopping, you%26#39;ll come across the sign for the Economy Shoe Shop. It%26#39;s not a shoe shop at all, of course, but an eclectic restaurant popular with the arts community and avant-garde types, and it%26#39;s been there for quite a few years now.

Its story is that the location once was, literally, a shoe store several decades ago until it went out of business and got forgotten. Then one day, restaurant promoters who thought that the space might be a good location to open an eatery inspected the premises and found the overhead sign for the old Economy Shoe Store. A proverbial light bulb flashed on in the promoter%26#39;s head, and the rest like they say is history. They erected that sign once more and named their new restaurant the ';Economy Shoe Store,'; and the eclectic character of the old sign won out over what might otherwise be the unfavorable connotations of the name.

Such are the wonders of business!

David

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