No Dodgy Apples
2007-06-21 17:30:24
general
I just paid my first visit to the new Whole Foods "market" on High Street Kensington. I've been holding out for many months to see the new affair - hoping for somewhere to find some varied and interesting lunch food (ie. not from a chain) and pick up a treat for dinner every blue moon.
It is a literally an entire department store for shiny, beautiful food. I must have spent an hour walking through three aisle-long salad bars, a cheese "room", piles and piles of glistening fruit and vegies and herbs packed to the roof, 2483 different types of jams and god knows how many olive oils, soya chips and wheat-free gluten-free muffins, a meat section where an entire cabinet contained only sausages - singly laid out in rows of every conceivable (and inconceivable) flavour, the equivalent of a food court upstairs where you can chose between a smoothies, oysters, sushi or steak tartare, and a huge snake queue with hundreds of flashing tills on the way out.
The experience was so overwhelming that in the end (at 3pm) I ran away and bought a sandwich from M&S.
It is a literally an entire department store for shiny, beautiful food. I must have spent an hour walking through three aisle-long salad bars, a cheese "room", piles and piles of glistening fruit and vegies and herbs packed to the roof, 2483 different types of jams and god knows how many olive oils, soya chips and wheat-free gluten-free muffins, a meat section where an entire cabinet contained only sausages - singly laid out in rows of every conceivable (and inconceivable) flavour, the equivalent of a food court upstairs where you can chose between a smoothies, oysters, sushi or steak tartare, and a huge snake queue with hundreds of flashing tills on the way out.
The experience was so overwhelming that in the end (at 3pm) I ran away and bought a sandwich from M&S.