Ah, mid-September in Potsdam, NY and I was back at college.
I am transported back to my college days in my mind as I experience my favorite
season of autumn in my favorite place to experience it. But this day I was
literally back at college. No, I wasn’t going back to school for a class. I was
participating as an aged sorority alumna in the SUNY Potsdam Greek Summit.
It was lunch break for the summit, so my friend (and
contemporaneous sorority sister) Charlotte and I went home and got Julie
(future sorority wannabe) and headed to downtown. We would usually go to The Bagelry, but we knew it would be packed, so we went to a place I hadn’t been
before, though Julie of The Project had. Coffee bar by day, wine bar by night,
bistro whenever, First Crush is love at first sight.
At 32 Market Street, this cute business front is at the
intersection with Elm Street. As we settled into the last empty table,
Charlotte wondered what the location of this narrow space was at the time of
our college tenure. I reminded her that it was quite literally a corner store
where one could purchase, magazines, newspapers, cigarettes, sodas and beer, at
greatly inflated prices than if you walked your butt further away from
downtown. In the wintertime, which can be bitterly cold here in the greater St
Lawrence River valley, the distance saved was well worth the higher prices.
They have morning, afternoon and evening menu options.
Bagels, panini toast, oatmeal, rolls and quiche of special varieties are listed
for breakfast. The take-out menu I have from our visit doesn’t include dinner,
but I have seen the dinner options on the website. Because I am lazy and
writing this four months after the fact, perhaps it’s a recent addition. Or
maybe since delivery is only available for lunch hours, they don’t include the
dinner on the paper, take home menu.
Gourmet salads, wraps, and panini sandwiches are the lunch
options. The dessert list, Starbuck’s coffee drinks, and seasonal cold drinks
are listed for any time of day. Julie ignored the children’s menu of simple
traditional fare and went straight to the sweets! Apparently some of the
morning menu is available afternoon because that is where her fruit and yogurt
parfait with raspberry and blueberry is offered. She also had the Cookies ‘n
Cream from the frozen, non-coffee drinks.
I got the Rubini, a reuben sandwich on rye panini bread and
Charlotte got the Calabria sandwich of roasted chicken, mozzarella cheese,
roasted red peppers, and pesto mayonnaise on rosemary focaccia. Those come with
potato chips. Charlotte had water with lemon. A pint of Harpoon India Pale Ale
washed down my Rubini most excellently.
