how i feel, courtesy of Voodoo Donut.
I feel like I've been offered a jelly donut, only to find a puff of stale air in place of promised jelliness.
There in the pages of the glossy Lake Minnetonks Magazine, ran a snippet that proclaimed the existence of a new Good Day Cafe, right in Wayzata! As I was out and about this morning, I thought a right-nicely turned caramel roll would do the trick on an icky Monday. But no, there is no additional outpost and no plans for one either, it turned out to be a rumor printed as fact. Sad in the short-term, but glad in the long run, I think it would have been too early to expand as the original might have suffered.
And then it got worse ... Coastal Seafoods in Wayzata has closed their doors. I am more than bummed about it. A call into the other stores found them open, and the official word is that they could never do the amount of business that they thought they would in Wayzata. I could always count on them for great stuff like Monkfish and Opah which you can't always find in the Lund's/Byerly's bin. I was on the lookout for some Barramundi for a lift to my Monday but now I am lost.
Maybe I'll drown my sorrows in sushi.
I hope they are in decent financial shape at the other locations. I frequent the store on 24th and Hiawatha about twice a week. I get the freshest fish and seafood I could ever wish for at that location. I enjoy a medaly of halibet, sea bass and cod. Sometimes a shashemi quality tuna. Their arctic char is wonderful as are their salmon varieties. They carry two types of mussels and a wide variety of oysters which change daily. The store is intimate. If you are lucky, you might be there when there is this guy behind the counter who was on an Alaskan crabbing ship and a salmon fishing boat. It's facinating hearing his stories. I also buy my smoked paprika there, Kobi beef, fingerling potatoes and French Bread baguettes from Rustica Bakery. Can you tell, I love that place?