(photo by wm. christman)

Bay Area French food fans should rejoice. We've got our warehouse back!

The Village Imports warehouse in Brisbane, CA. suddenly stopped having their once-a-month warehouse sales several months ago. They held the warehouse sales for well over two years. All kinds of French cheeses, butter, yogurts, meats and patés were plentiful and the prices reasonable. There was also dry goods of all sorts. And for the chef, plenty of kitchen staples in large quantities.

This week we received an email announcing the opening of The Gourmet Corner store in San Mateo. It looked suspiciously like a old Village Imports email. Sure enough, the folks who used to run Village Imports (and sold it earlier this year), have resurfaced. Their store is just on the edge of being stocked completely but nearly all of the refrigerated items (the cheese, the patés and the yogurt(!) ) are stocked and ready to go.

In a few weeks, ...but the devil... will have a more complete run-down of what The Gourmet Corner offers but for now French food lovers in the Bay Area can get their fix once again. Me? I'm just happy to have a few cartons of Mamie Nova yogurt back in my refrigerator.

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The Gourmet Corner is at 873 North San Mateo Drive in San Mateo, CA. and is open 7 days a week from 9 am to 7 pm. Ph: 650.340.6370