Maryland has modern supermarkets for efficiency, but sometimes grocery shopping is much more fun when the store feels like it has its own personality.
This family-owned country shop mixes bulk foods, deli meats and cheeses, made-to-order sandwiches on homemade bread, sweets, kettle corn, soft-serve ice cream, and even handcrafted rustic furniture, which is quite a lot more entertaining than another fluorescent aisle of cereal.
The appeal is that you can walk in thinking you need one small thing and suddenly find yourself mentally reorganizing the pantry, planning lunch, and wondering where a new piece of furniture would fit…