The Village at Mendota Heights just south of St. Paul off Dodd Road
I went to get my hair cut today to the little Village at Mendota Heights and had a few extra minutes to check out the other shops in this cute, new little shopping center surrounded by condo and apartment complexes. I found The Sage Market and Wine Bar, The Wine Market, and E's Cheese. I was delighted!
The Sage Market and Wine Bar are an adorable food market and deli with an attached "living room" space with a small bar that is open for the general public most days and available for private gatherings on Sundays and Mondays. They have meat and fish and many foods all ready to take home and have for supper after a long day's work. You can visit them online at www.thesagemarket.us and www.thewinemarket.us .
(BTW, the website is the funnest I have seen!) E's Cheese (so named because of the owner, Elizabeth, from Wisconsin-where else?) is a cheese and sundry market where today they had great panini sandwiches for $1 to celebrate their one year anniversary. (I had no idea they had been there that long!) The sandwich was terrific and these cheeses I tasted were great. Go see them online at www.escheese.com.
The rest of the little shopping center has a Caribou Coffee and other specialty shops around a little median park. It will be a great evening hangout this summer!
