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I saw this display of fruit in the lobby of the Green Star Co-op where I shop.
Giving the luxury option a go, and what a go'er it was!
Tender, soft and very tasty. Packed full of beef flavour.
I left the skirt of fat on to let it baste itself, and I smeared on a paste of rosemary, garlic, black pepper, salt and olive oil. It then went onto the barbecue at full bore for a minute or so, then back down to the lowest flame for about 4 minutes, and the same with the other side, with a wok lid to cook it though. Then I rested it for another 5-10 minutes on the cool side of the barbecue. This resulted in a great piece of meat that was ... overcooked :)
Well, it was medium well in some places and medium rare close to the bone.
We also had a few links of the well fermented chorizo sausages from Casa Iberico and some tofu steaks.
Rib Cutlet AUD22/kg
nett weight: 0.480kg
total price AUD10.56
Little Creek Cattle Company Pty Ltd.
190 Douthie Rd
Seville 3139 Victoria Australia
ABN: 84 217 237 984
0419887712
Casa Iberica
(03) 9417 7106
25 Johnston St
Fitzroy VIC 3065
The White Hat Guide to Spanish & Hispanic food stores & ingredients in Melbourne
If you are shopping for Spanish or South American ingredients in Melbourne, then your first stop is likely to be the Casa Iberica.
A hotdog seller making faces for the camera, they carry over 40 kilogram of equipment on their backs to avoid being penalized for opening illegal foodstore, a very hard life but they still keep the cheerful mood.
Right next door to that shop selling the famous Guilin chilly paste was another one selling the same thing. This store has more aggressive signage though. Guilin chili sauce, also known as the Guilin Sambo has a history dating back to over one hundred years. The Guilin and Guanxi area are famous for hot red chilly peppers due to their climate, which make them very amenable to growing of this vegetable.Chilly sauce aside, other famous dishes from the area are Guilin rice noodles, Yangshuo beer fish, Li River fish soup and many others. Not to mention the famous LiQ or Liquan beer. (Guilin, China, May 2017)
conveyor belt blur - a red IGA parcel pickup bin is in motion on the rollers and conveyor belt headed to the pickup room.
Grand opening - Aldi store in Katy, near Houston. Finally!! :)
Every free standing store looks architecturally pretty much the same, in every country. Some stores are located in a shopping strip or in a ground level of a commercial building, then you will recognize it by the signature sign.
Rokin 28/08/2015 14h36
One of Paris most active street artists Gregos has visited Amsterdam in August 2015 and has put around 50 of his faces on the walls of Amsterdam. About 30 'large' and 20 'small' faces. I tried to find some of them with a result of 16 of his faces in the center of Amsterdam.
This small but very colorful face is located next to the DUTCH FOODGIFTS store in between Wijde Kapelsteeg and Duifjessteeg on the Rokin.
GREGOS
Born in 1972, Gregos, grew up in the northern suburbs of Paris (Gonesse, Villiers le Bel). Self-taught, his first steps in street art were in Graffiti painting during the late 80s, early
90s. In 1997, after 2 years in Athens, Greece, he starts experimenting with sculpting and molding techniques. In 2003, he leaves for Boston, Massachusetts, USA where he
initiates himself to acrylic and oil paintings. Back in Paris in 2006, he goes back to his first love : street
art. In the Montmartre district where he now lives, he decides to participate and mingle in the ever present street art in this area of Paris. He invents his own 3D concept using all the
techniques he has developed and taught himself over the years, and creates a replicate of his face, with different humors, that he paints and glues on the walls of Paris.
Each face is a sort of self-portrait of the day to express his humors, his past, present, and future, everything that makes Gregos…
As of today (2015), more than 1000 faces have been installed, in Paris mostly, but also in other towns of France (Lyon, Lille, Marseille, Nice and more) and of the world (Berlin, Los Angeles, Seattle, Tokyo and even Zone 51 in Nevada). And in August 2015 Gregos put around 50 of his faces in the public space of Amsterdam.
More information: www.gregosart.com
Group on Flickr: Gregos Group Flickr
Some stores have/had really simple car order systems with nothing more than a short strip of rollers at the front of the store. Ex-A&P store #386 was different, and it's system rivalled those of some Steinberg's locations, especially in Montreal, with their parcel pickup zones in the middle of the parking lot. Only the old Dominion at St-Laurent Mall was the only place in Ottawa like that. A roller section of the upper & lower two old car order/parcel pickup/commande à l'auto conveyor belts at ex-A&P store #386. This is near the point at which there was a 50m long straightaway section of belt. The store closed in November 2005, but the car order operation was shut down 10 years prior to the store's closing in 1995 as evidenced by the junk on the rollers...the grocery chains were sadly shuttering them en-masse in the mid-1990s. I wonder if more of them would still be in use today were Steinberg's still around.
Back in the heyday of stores in Ontario & Quebec having a car order service, several of them had two conveyors - with one to send out customers' orders and the other to return empty bins back to the cash registers. This store was rather unique in that both belts were used to transport customers' orders out to the parcel pickup room, which was located in west corner of the store by the truck receiving doors. The reason for this is that the mall entrance was midway down the length of the store's entrance and there were 6 cash registers on either side, each with their own car order conveyor. Therefore, when the cashiers need more empty bins, the direction of 1 of the 2 belts would be reversed to return empties. After the store closed, the conveyors were removed and the old parcel pickup drive-thru doors are all that remains of the car order operation. Today the store is Food Basics store #870.
Aldi - Frankfurt
This is Aldi-South, little different from Aldi North. The two operate independently, each within specific areas. Aldi Nord is owner of the Trader Joe's chain while Aldi Süd operates as Aldi.
Aldi-South store is bigger and has a wider selection.
I was in that store short before closing time (8PM) and it looks a bit chaotic and some items are almost sold out. Aldi has limited number of workers, who perform several jobs at the store. It is cleaned up and filled with ware during the day, when they have time, and the rest is done after the store is closed. This is a pretty busy location, though...
Even I only used this transport interchange for maybe 1 or 2 times when I was a kid, the unique spatial arrangement of the complex still evolved from my memory when I re-visited and entered the fenced off, narrow queue of the terminus.
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Construction started in 1983, with the multi-storey car park opened in April 1986. The Transport Complex connected to the pier with ferry services serving mainly between Tsuen Wan and Central. The Complex provides passage interchanges to the bus, van and taxi services directly from the pier. The building programmes also included government departments (e.g. Identical Card issue), and other retail booths & food stores. The building has however been disconnected to the central Tsuen Wan areas since the Tsuen Wan MTR service operated even before the completion of the building. The ferry service was closed in 2000 due to the more convenient use of road transport from Tsuen Wan to Central through the West Cross Harbour Tunnel, causing the Complex to be further under-used.
The use of individual staircase connecting to each of the bus stop termini was first used in this building - an unique machine-like design to avoid large loads of pedestrians to cross the bus platforms for safety reason.
The most interesting moment of the building was the establishment of a driving school on the 9th and 10th floors of the building since 1999.
Most of the bus routes using the Complex have relocated their termini to Tsuen Wan West Station Public Transport Interchange in 2003, and left a larger area of the building into disuse. Under the MTR Corporation's TW5 property development project, the carpark Complex is planned to be closed from 5 Feb 2013 and will be demolished and replaced by residential towers.
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Even I only used this transport interchange for maybe 1 or 2 times when I was a kid, the unique spatial arrangement of the complex still evolved from my memory when I re-visited and entered the fenced off, narrow queue of the terminus.
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Construction started in 1983, with the multi-storey car park opened in April 1986. The Transport Complex connected to the pier with ferry services serving mainly between Tsuen Wan and Central. The Complex provides passage interchanges to the bus, van and taxi services directly from the pier. The building programmes also included government departments (e.g. Identical Card issue), and other retail booths & food stores. The building has however been disconnected to the central Tsuen Wan areas since the Tsuen Wan MTR service operated even before the completion of the building. The ferry service was closed in 2000 due to the more convenient use of road transport from Tsuen Wan to Central through the West Cross Harbour Tunnel, causing the Complex to be further under-used.
The use of individual staircase connecting to each of the bus stop termini was first used in this building - an unique machine-like design to avoid large loads of pedestrians to cross the bus platforms for safety reason.
The most interesting moment of the building was the establishment of a driving school on the 9th and 10th floors of the building since 1999.
Most of the bus routes using the Complex have relocated their termini to Tsuen Wan West Station Public Transport Interchange in 2003, and left a larger area of the building into disuse. Under the MTR Corporation's TW5 property development project, the carpark Complex is planned to be closed from 5 Feb 2013 and will be demolished and replaced by residential towers.
Digested & quoted from:
zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%8D%83%E7%81%A3%E9%81%8B%E8%BC%B...
Even I only used this transport interchange for maybe 1 or 2 times when I was a kid, the unique spatial arrangement of the complex still evolved from my memory when I re-visited and entered the fenced off, narrow queue of the terminus.
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Construction started in 1983, with the multi-storey car park opened in April 1986. The Transport Complex connected to the pier with ferry services serving mainly between Tsuen Wan and Central. The Complex provides passage interchanges to the bus, van and taxi services directly from the pier. The building programmes also included government departments (e.g. Identical Card issue), and other retail booths & food stores. The building has however been disconnected to the central Tsuen Wan areas since the Tsuen Wan MTR service operated even before the completion of the building. The ferry service was closed in 2000 due to the more convenient use of road transport from Tsuen Wan to Central through the West Cross Harbour Tunnel, causing the Complex to be further under-used.
The use of individual staircase connecting to each of the bus stop termini was first used in this building - an unique machine-like design to avoid large loads of pedestrians to cross the bus platforms for safety reason.
The most interesting moment of the building was the establishment of a driving school on the 9th and 10th floors of the building since 1999.
Most of the bus routes using the Complex have relocated their termini to Tsuen Wan West Station Public Transport Interchange in 2003, and left a larger area of the building into disuse. Under the MTR Corporation's TW5 property development project, the carpark Complex is planned to be closed from 5 Feb 2013 and will be demolished and replaced by residential towers.
Digested & quoted from:
zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%8D%83%E7%81%A3%E9%81%8B%E8%BC%B...
Apte Foodstore
(03) 9482 2991
538 Heidelberg Rd
Alphington VIC 3078
Last year, delicious. magazine asked you where the best cafes in the country are and the response was overwhelming! Thousands of votes poured in for the second annual delicious Cafe Awards and the winners are... Overall favourite cafeSarah's delicious banana bread
APTE: 538 Heidelberg Rd, Alphington, Victoria
telephone: (03) 9482 2991
Reviews:
- Apte, Alphington - The Breakfast Blog - Saturday, December 15, 2007
truly delicious corn, pea and feta fritter, drizzled with dill-infused sour cream and topped with a mountain of Tasmania's finest smoked salmon.
...
Or go sweet with toasted, house made banana and coconut bread (with honey labna, pistachios and roasted seasonal fruit).
- Apte - Epicure, The Age by Dani Valent, Reviewer May 14, 2007
- APTE - Epicyre, The Age by Matt Preston, Reviewer July 25, 2006
APTE's crunchy-edged banana bread - when you eventually find it under a mound of stewed rhubarb and honeyed labna - is sweet, sticky and loaded with coconut, while the ricotta hotcakes are plump, light and golden and served with poached fruit and a ricotta flavoured with orange zest.
- Espresso March 3, 2009, Epicure, The Age by Larissa Dubecki March 3, 2009
Apt time to move on
IN OTHER cafe news, Alphington's APTE, recently named Delicious magazine's cafe of the year in a popular vote, has been sold. Nathan Toleman, who with his wife Sarah Foletta opened the former milkbar three years ago, said the couple would be handing over the reins at the end of the week to an unnamed buyer new to hospitality.
The pair has another project on the boil, a cafe that will be similar to APTE, this time on the Carlton/Brunswick border. They hope to open around July.
I was in Gorseinon earlier on and Saw Spar taking their delivery.The Scania belongs to Ceric John Transport of Rogerstone,once a coach operator though they are long gone now.
Spar was once one of the main places to go for your weekly shop an had two old Transits providing a local delivery service.The original shop was demolished back in the 70's an rebuilt on the same spot.There was an old bookies next door which fell down when the demolition was going on so that was rebuilt at the same time.
Like any other town centre,Gorseinon has seen many changes over the years.Liptons Supermarket was where Coral's bookies are now an the Co-op where there are now new flats.Kwik Save was built on the site of a tyre service an is now a Sainsburys' Local.If you go in there note the air ventilators in the ceiling.I delivered them!! Somerfielld was built where there was once a sawmill an ASDA and Aldi stand where there were once Ironworks.Spar remains as the longest established foodstore though,open all hours ,even Christmas day.
Even I only used this transport interchange for maybe 1 or 2 times when I was a kid, the unique spatial arrangement of the complex still evolved from my memory when I re-visited and entered the fenced off, narrow queue of the terminus.
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Construction started in 1983, with the multi-storey car park opened in April 1986. The Transport Complex connected to the pier with ferry services serving mainly between Tsuen Wan and Central. The Complex provides passage interchanges to the bus, van and taxi services directly from the pier. The building programmes also included government departments (e.g. Identical Card issue), and other retail booths & food stores. The building has however been disconnected to the central Tsuen Wan areas since the Tsuen Wan MTR service operated even before the completion of the building. The ferry service was closed in 2000 due to the more convenient use of road transport from Tsuen Wan to Central through the West Cross Harbour Tunnel, causing the Complex to be further under-used.
The use of individual staircase connecting to each of the bus stop termini was first used in this building - an unique machine-like design to avoid large loads of pedestrians to cross the bus platforms for safety reason.
The most interesting moment of the building was the establishment of a driving school on the 9th and 10th floors of the building since 1999.
Most of the bus routes using the Complex have relocated their termini to Tsuen Wan West Station Public Transport Interchange in 2003, and left a larger area of the building into disuse. Under the MTR Corporation's TW5 property development project, the carpark Complex is planned to be closed from 5 Feb 2013 and will be demolished and replaced by residential towers.
Digested & quoted from:
zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%8D%83%E7%81%A3%E9%81%8B%E8%BC%B...
The ex-car order room with the end of line for the conveyor that used to serve the left-side cashiers. You can see that it turned into a storage room for junk and broken shopping carts.
Tote Boxes 26 & 34 are sitting on the rollers in the tunnel that connects the inside and outside of the store.
Even I only used this transport interchange for maybe 1 or 2 times when I was a kid, the unique spatial arrangement of the complex still evolved from my memory when I re-visited and entered the fenced off, narrow queue of the terminus.
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Construction started in 1983, with the multi-storey car park opened in April 1986. The Transport Complex connected to the pier with ferry services serving mainly between Tsuen Wan and Central. The Complex provides passage interchanges to the bus, van and taxi services directly from the pier. The building programmes also included government departments (e.g. Identical Card issue), and other retail booths & food stores. The building has however been disconnected to the central Tsuen Wan areas since the Tsuen Wan MTR service operated even before the completion of the building. The ferry service was closed in 2000 due to the more convenient use of road transport from Tsuen Wan to Central through the West Cross Harbour Tunnel, causing the Complex to be further under-used.
The use of individual staircase connecting to each of the bus stop termini was first used in this building - an unique machine-like design to avoid large loads of pedestrians to cross the bus platforms for safety reason.
The most interesting moment of the building was the establishment of a driving school on the 9th and 10th floors of the building since 1999.
Most of the bus routes using the Complex have relocated their termini to Tsuen Wan West Station Public Transport Interchange in 2003, and left a larger area of the building into disuse. Under the MTR Corporation's TW5 property development project, the carpark Complex is planned to be closed from 5 Feb 2013 and will be demolished and replaced by residential towers.
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"Monaca" is not pronounced like "Monica." Rather, the stress goes on the middle syllable, and it rhymes with "alpaca."
A "quickie" is a brief sex act.
We are expected to understand that there is only one Quickies Food Store here at this site, not multiple Quickes Food Stores, despite what the sign says.
Weirdly, the actual name of the business on its building is "Mamula's Mini Mart," and a Google or DDG search for "Quickies Food Stores" turns up zero exact matches as of July 2022.
My favorite part of the sign is the black plastic rectangle of the "FOOD STORES" portion.
Of the numerous businesses in the U.S. that sell refrigerated multipacks of hot dogs, most do not routinely advertise the price on roadside signs, nowadays.
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In Monaca, Pennsylvania, on July 10th, 2020, at the southwest corner of 9th Street (Pennsylvania Route 18) and Indiana Avenue.
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I am quite certain that the meandering soffit dates to the A&P era of this store. May not date to 1963; I'm pretty sure this store was expanded slightly when a new facade was added circa 1970. Possibly the former produce department?
Also worth noting: older Archway cookie display and a second newer freezer case.
Apte Foodstore
(03) 9482 2991
538 Heidelberg Rd
Alphington VIC 3078
Last year, delicious. magazine asked you where the best cafes in the country are and the response was overwhelming! Thousands of votes poured in for the second annual delicious Cafe Awards and the winners are... Overall favourite cafeSarah's delicious banana bread
APTE: 538 Heidelberg Rd, Alphington, Victoria
telephone: (03) 9482 2991
Reviews:
- Apte, Alphington - The Breakfast Blog - Saturday, December 15, 2007
truly delicious corn, pea and feta fritter, drizzled with dill-infused sour cream and topped with a mountain of Tasmania's finest smoked salmon.
...
Or go sweet with toasted, house made banana and coconut bread (with honey labna, pistachios and roasted seasonal fruit).
- Apte - Epicure, The Age by Dani Valent, Reviewer May 14, 2007
- APTE - Epicyre, The Age by Matt Preston, Reviewer July 25, 2006
APTE's crunchy-edged banana bread - when you eventually find it under a mound of stewed rhubarb and honeyed labna - is sweet, sticky and loaded with coconut, while the ricotta hotcakes are plump, light and golden and served with poached fruit and a ricotta flavoured with orange zest.
- Espresso March 3, 2009, Epicure, The Age by Larissa Dubecki March 3, 2009
Apt time to move on
IN OTHER cafe news, Alphington's APTE, recently named Delicious magazine's cafe of the year in a popular vote, has been sold. Nathan Toleman, who with his wife Sarah Foletta opened the former milkbar three years ago, said the couple would be handing over the reins at the end of the week to an unnamed buyer new to hospitality.
The pair has another project on the boil, a cafe that will be similar to APTE, this time on the Carlton/Brunswick border. They hope to open around July.
I was going to make an elaborate diorama of a food store similar to Fauchon in France, but after almost a year of not being able to complete it, I've given up. This is all I have completed.
Even I only used this transport interchange for maybe 1 or 2 times when I was a kid, the unique spatial arrangement of the complex still evolved from my memory when I re-visited and entered the fenced off, narrow queue of the terminus.
-
Construction started in 1983, with the multi-storey car park opened in April 1986. The Transport Complex connected to the pier with ferry services serving mainly between Tsuen Wan and Central. The Complex provides passage interchanges to the bus, van and taxi services directly from the pier. The building programmes also included government departments (e.g. Identical Card issue), and other retail booths & food stores. The building has however been disconnected to the central Tsuen Wan areas since the Tsuen Wan MTR service operated even before the completion of the building. The ferry service was closed in 2000 due to the more convenient use of road transport from Tsuen Wan to Central through the West Cross Harbour Tunnel, causing the Complex to be further under-used.
The use of individual staircase connecting to each of the bus stop termini was first used in this building - an unique machine-like design to avoid large loads of pedestrians to cross the bus platforms for safety reason.
The most interesting moment of the building was the establishment of a driving school on the 9th and 10th floors of the building since 1999.
Most of the bus routes using the Complex have relocated their termini to Tsuen Wan West Station Public Transport Interchange in 2003, and left a larger area of the building into disuse. Under the MTR Corporation's TW5 property development project, the carpark Complex is planned to be closed from 5 Feb 2013 and will be demolished and replaced by residential towers.
Digested & quoted from:
zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%8D%83%E7%81%A3%E9%81%8B%E8%BC%B...
Rosario's recently restored animated pig neon sign. The pigs jumping into the grinder come out the end to spell out the word Sausage. See video elsewhere in this photo stream...
8611 South Pulaski Road. The animated neon pig sign to the left has undergone a recent restoration. Rosario's was going to close in 2012 but stayed open after so many complaints from loyal customers...
The neon portion of the sign was 16 feet long. The remainder was 34 feet long.
Rosario's closed for good on December 31, 2016
Here's a video of the sign in action. flic.kr/p/7gGieg
Update: The neon / plastic signage was removed from the building around February 2019. The Building is up For Sale. The pole mounted sign in the parking lot is still there.
Apte Foodstore
(03) 9482 2991
538 Heidelberg Rd
Alphington VIC 3078
Last year, delicious. magazine asked you where the best cafes in the country are and the response was overwhelming! Thousands of votes poured in for the second annual delicious Cafe Awards and the winners are... Overall favourite cafeSarah's delicious banana bread
APTE: 538 Heidelberg Rd, Alphington, Victoria
telephone: (03) 9482 2991
Reviews:
- Apte, Alphington - The Breakfast Blog - Saturday, December 15, 2007
truly delicious corn, pea and feta fritter, drizzled with dill-infused sour cream and topped with a mountain of Tasmania's finest smoked salmon.
...
Or go sweet with toasted, house made banana and coconut bread (with honey labna, pistachios and roasted seasonal fruit).
- Apte - Epicure, The Age by Dani Valent, Reviewer May 14, 2007
- APTE - Epicyre, The Age by Matt Preston, Reviewer July 25, 2006
APTE's crunchy-edged banana bread - when you eventually find it under a mound of stewed rhubarb and honeyed labna - is sweet, sticky and loaded with coconut, while the ricotta hotcakes are plump, light and golden and served with poached fruit and a ricotta flavoured with orange zest.
- Espresso March 3, 2009, Epicure, The Age by Larissa Dubecki March 3, 2009
Apt time to move on
IN OTHER cafe news, Alphington's APTE, recently named Delicious magazine's cafe of the year in a popular vote, has been sold. Nathan Toleman, who with his wife Sarah Foletta opened the former milkbar three years ago, said the couple would be handing over the reins at the end of the week to an unnamed buyer new to hospitality.
The pair has another project on the boil, a cafe that will be similar to APTE, this time on the Carlton/Brunswick border. They hope to open around July.
This Co-op has followed the expected branding over recent years from Shell to Total and on to own brand here. In the early Streetview we see the store was branded as a Co-op Rainbow Foodstore which I have seen in a couple of other places but it's a name that has disappeared now. It's actually a very hard forecourt to photograph depending on where the sun is so I had to find some angles where it didn't interfere.
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Grocery Store, now CVS Drug, 5011 Main St, Kansas City MO 64112
Don't know what store this was, originally. In fact, I'm embarrassed to say I don't remember any of what it's been for the 30 years I've lived here. Don't get over there that much.
Look at the impossibly small parking lot, as shown in this Bing.com view.
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Update: It was a Milgram for at least part of its life.
The lower of the two old car order/parcel pickup/commande à l'auto conveyor belts at ex-A&P store #386. This is the point at which the 50m long straightaway section switched over to electric powered rollers on a curved section, that then brought the bins to another straightaway belt to transport them up to the car order room. The store closed in November 2005, but the car order operation was shut down 10 years prior to the store's closing or in 1995...the grocery chains were sadly shuttering them en-masse in the mid-1990s. I wonder if more of them would still be in use today were Steinberg's still around.
Back in the heyday of stores in Ontario & Quebec having a car order service, several of them had two conveyors - with one to send out customers' orders and the other to return empty bins back to the cash registers. This store was rather unique in that both belts were used to transport customers' orders out to the parcel pickup room, which was located in west corner of the store by the truck receiving doors. The reason for this is that the mall entrance was midway down the length of the store's entrance and there were 6 cash registers on either side, each with their own car order conveyor. Therefore, when the cashiers need more empty bins, the direction of 1 of the 2 belts would be reversed to return empties. After the store closed, the conveyors were removed and the old parcel pickup drive-thru doors are all that remains of the car order operation. Today the store is Food Basics store #870.
Looking at the west side of the building.
Owner Retiring, Selling Freshline Foods In Oak Lawn
Beloved family-owned grocery store closing after 47 years in Oak Lawn.
By Lorraine Swanson, Patch Staff | Jul 11, 2018 3:49 am ET
Owner Retiring, Selling Freshline Foods In Oak Lawn
OAK LAWN, IL --
After 47 years of serving the Oak Lawn community, the owner of Freshline Foods is retiring and selling the grocery store. John Siakotos announced he would be selling the family-owned business in a letter to customers on the store's website.
"We are beyond grateful for your loyal business and support throughout the decades. It has been a pleasure to serve you all."
The Skiatos family first opened the grocery store at 5355 W. 95th St. under the name Freshline Certified, a retailers cooperative serving independently owned grocery stores, in 1971. Operating now under the name Freshline Foods, the store employs approximately 60 people.
Siakotos said the store would remain open and continue business as usual until all inventory is cleared from the stores shelves. In the meantime, customers will receive 30 percent off their grocery purchases until the store closes. The owner did not indicate a closing date or if there were any interested buyers.
"Our commitment to providing you with the highest quality products and friendly service is still our top priority … We look forward to seeing each of you in the store these final weeks to thank you personally."
A few weeks after the store closed it was announced that Pete's Fresh Market would be moving in.
Update: 2023. The land is for sale at the present time. The deal to built Pete's Fresh Market fell through.
The lower of the two old car order/parcel pickup/commande à l'auto conveyor belts at ex-A&P store #386. This is the point at which the 50m long straightaway section of belt started. It switched from electric powered rollers on a curved section, that then brought the bins from another straightaway belt that transported them up from the rollers at the right-side cash registers. One common trait amongst many original Dominion stores from the 1970s & early 80s (this store opened in 1981), was that the rollers in front of the cashiers were powered, meaning the cashiers didn't have to give the bins a push on manual rollers to get them started down the conveyor. The Dominion at St-Laurent in Ottawa was also like this, while the Dominion at Merivale (today a Farm Boy) was only rollers, where they were powered in the store then as bins entered the car order room there were unpowered rollers where gravity & momentum took over.
The store closed in November 2005, but the car order operation was shut down 10 years prior to the store's closing or in 1995...the grocery chains were sadly shuttering them en-masse in the mid-1990s. I wonder if more of them would still be in use today were Steinberg's still around.
Back in the heyday of stores in Ontario & Quebec having a car order service, several of them had two conveyors - with one to send out customers' orders and the other to return empty bins back to the cash registers. This store was rather unique in that both belts were used to transport customers' orders out to the parcel pickup room, which was located in west corner of the store by the truck receiving doors. The reason for this is that the mall entrance was midway down the length of the store's entrance and there were 6 cash registers on either side, each with their own car order conveyor. Therefore, when the cashiers need more empty bins, the direction of 1 of the 2 belts would be reversed to return empties. After the store closed, the conveyors were removed and the old parcel pickup drive-thru doors are all that remains of the car order operation. Today the store is Food Basics store #870.
Real Foods, long a fixture in Edinburgh, a specialist place for vegetarian and vegan food, wholefood, organic produce and the like, I've been in and out of it for all the years I've lived in Edinburgh
Apte Foodstore
(03) 9482 2991
538 Heidelberg Rd
Alphington VIC 3078
Last year, delicious. magazine asked you where the best cafes in the country are and the response was overwhelming! Thousands of votes poured in for the second annual delicious Cafe Awards and the winners are... Overall favourite cafeSarah's delicious banana bread
APTE: 538 Heidelberg Rd, Alphington, Victoria
telephone: (03) 9482 2991
Reviews:
- Apte, Alphington - The Breakfast Blog - Saturday, December 15, 2007
truly delicious corn, pea and feta fritter, drizzled with dill-infused sour cream and topped with a mountain of Tasmania's finest smoked salmon.
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Or go sweet with toasted, house made banana and coconut bread (with honey labna, pistachios and roasted seasonal fruit).
- Apte - Epicure, The Age by Dani Valent, Reviewer May 14, 2007
- APTE - Epicyre, The Age by Matt Preston, Reviewer July 25, 2006
APTE's crunchy-edged banana bread - when you eventually find it under a mound of stewed rhubarb and honeyed labna - is sweet, sticky and loaded with coconut, while the ricotta hotcakes are plump, light and golden and served with poached fruit and a ricotta flavoured with orange zest.
- Espresso March 3, 2009, Epicure, The Age by Larissa Dubecki March 3, 2009
Apt time to move on
IN OTHER cafe news, Alphington's APTE, recently named Delicious magazine's cafe of the year in a popular vote, has been sold. Nathan Toleman, who with his wife Sarah Foletta opened the former milkbar three years ago, said the couple would be handing over the reins at the end of the week to an unnamed buyer new to hospitality.
The pair has another project on the boil, a cafe that will be similar to APTE, this time on the Carlton/Brunswick border. They hope to open around July.
Julia was rather fascinated by the kitsch silver sugar bowl in the shape of a coal scuttle :)
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If you come to Kyneton, and all the big names are fully booked, with a bit of effort, you might be able to squeeze yourself into a quiet corner and partake in a rather decent light lunch.
Ladle Food Store
(03) 5422 2430
30 Piper St
Kyneton VIC 3444
Reviews:
- Kyneton calling, by Jane Willson, Epicure, The Age, October 20, 2009 NO. 30 LADLE FOODSTORE Christine McTaggart came to Kyneton via Sydney, Melbourne, Woodend and a career in marketing to open her cafe and deli a year ago. Ladle offers speciality cheeses, local smallgoods, a communal table and more intimate rooms. The plan - when the liquor licence materialises - is for live music at weekends with antipasto, cheese platters and a mix of local and Melbourne artists. Open seven days.