Located on Pleasant Street in Watertown, this market addresses every culinary impulse I have ever had. On your way into the stoor you pass what is essentially an outdoor market with gorgeous fall plants and flowers and several bins of potatos, apples, pears, even coolers filled with fresh apple cider! Then you step into the stoor and immediately (if you are like me) are rendered completely silenced in awe of the beautiful produce surround you. Gorgeous, perfect fruit stacked high
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Vibrant green leaves from Arugula to Basil and beyond.
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Every kind of fresh fruit and vegetable you can imagine and some you can't. Fresh pasta, cheeses from around the world,
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a huge refrigerated case along an entire wall filled with free-range chicken, pork, and veal cutlets, a salad bar, the best collection of fresh breads I have ever seen and do NOT get me started on the pastry counter. Mein Gott.
I left there with a random assortment of items: A tub of Labne (Middle Eastern cheese spread), fresh basil (99cents for a HUGE bunch! how can you beat that?), fresh green beans, huge wheels of pita bread, manchego and some gnocchi.
I am telling you, the quality is BETTER than Whole Foods (gasp! I know) and the prices are super reasonable.
It has definitely become a once a week habit for me.
Russo's Market
560 Pleasant Street
Watertown, MA 02072
617-923-1500
www.russos.com
2 comments:
I love Russo's. Their cheese and produce are to die for. Good biscotti too. I can't even buy produce elsewhere knowing that I can get it at a much better price and quality at my beloved Russo's.
sigh.i know. i went today and, among other things, bought an enourmous amount of fresh basil for around $2. it's like a year round farm stand in there!!
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