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| - I hadn't been over to Marché Saint-Jacques for a while (been traveling, etc.), but needed to pick up some cheese from the Fromagerie Atwater branch there, so headed over earlier today. Outside the building, there was a small farmers market, with maybe five or ten booths, as well as a sign noting that it only happened on Fridays. So guess I chose the right day to go.
Anyway, I went into the building and was immediately astounded to discover that literally every shop except the Fromagerie Atwater had closed. It was a ghost building. If the cheese counter hadn't expanded into some of the adjacent space, it would been even worse. The cheese counter was great, as always--decent selection of Quebec and international cheeses, with very helpful staff--but it was so disappointing to find that the rest of the place had shut down. There used to be a bakery, a fresh pasta shop, a place that sold olives and olive oil, a branch of the La Mer fish shop, etc. Now I'm worried that Fromagerie Atwater's days in the location are also numbered, which would be a real loss, since there aren't any other good cheese shops nearby.
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