Jessica T.
Yelp
It's close. Too close.
Especially when their bakery goods have crazy cavity causing names like vanilla brioche, chocolate caramel tart, and fluffy fresh baked flan (pour your own topping).I circled the dessert section three times, hoping they'd refill some of their empty baskets.
On the last circle, I discovered a see-through refrigerator with ready-to-make stuff. My cheek pressed up against the glass, I could mentally taste the neatly packaged cookie dough and chocolate fudge.
Since today's trip to Faletti's, my sweet tooth has been thanking me all day for the dessert porn.Yeeeeeeeees!!!!!!!!!! Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. And Pillsbury Dough boy and Nestle could have some new gooey competition for Jessica's "homemade" cookie title.
But the more sensible and sane portion of me does not share the same sentiments. With my 2007 resolution to live a "healthier lifestyle," my "healthy" voice is not impressed. Not one bit.
I was forced to deal with this much lounder and LAMER side of me throughout my trip today. My healthier ego threatened to walk out, during the second lap around the bakery. I eased it's arguments with promises of "I won't be long," and "I'm heading over to the fruit and vegetable section right now."
We compromised. I got to stay, if I agreed to avoid the sugary sections.Scrambling down the aisles to the steady impatient foot tapping of my 2007 healthier half; I was able to make some quick assessments about Fallettis.
1.) The butcher and fish section are both impressive and tempting. Dungeness crab. Fresh Salmon. Turkey cold-cuts. I will be back.
2.) The cheese section is pretty damn pretty. I've been trying to ease away from mozzarella and cheddar, but this place doesn't make it easy to cut back on cheese.
3.) The produce section is radiant. Fresh hues everywhere. It had me filling up bags that the check-out guy and I both knew I didn't have the muscles for. Even despite me sporting the whole "I work out, I really do, see I'm wearing work-out clothes" outfit, which I love to front on the weekend. Crisp juicy plum tomatoes, ripened, thin skinned green grapes, and just right bananas. Falletti's makes eating healthier a little easier....though also more expensive.
4.) Falletti's is not cheap.
One particular qualm with Falletti's was excitedly rushing to their tofu section, only to find my favorite vegetarian sausage roll NOWHERE. ??????? gasp ????????? What?That stuff is a staple for me, and can be a firm deal breaker when it comes to grocery stores. I can live off of th stuff; but the 'Seven days of sausage' was nowhere to be found.
I was also disappointed in their yogurt section. Nothing I would swoon over or drop my granola in. In fact due to Falletti's small size, there's probably a number of things you won't find here.
But being that this place is so close, paired with the lingering sweet aroma of that vanilla brioche (which I managed to convince my health nagging alter-ego to allow) I won't cry too hard over no sticky soy sausage and goat milk yogurt.
My bank account will.