We arrived without incident and strolled into the spacious building. We entered the market and Debra kept commenting this looked different and a bit "re-arranged". We finally realized after she finally made contact with Rachel, her daughter who once lived in Atlanta, this was the wrong Harry's they would frequent. The more familiar one and the market that Alton Brown, from the "Good Eats" show on the Food Network, does his shopping is actually located in Alpharetta. Despite the confusion of stores, I enjoyed my trip there.
Harry's has been bought out by Whole Foods, so the look and feel of Harry's has lost it's down home unique charm, as I've been told. The store appears to be a "Super Whole Foods". It's massive and every department is enormous and includes single aisles dedicated to ethnic foods, which was interesting. I found canned goods imported from the UK which are specifically produced and packaged for the tastes of people in that region of the world. I found some orange gummy candies imported from Asia and tossed that into my basket for a treat later.
The seafood and meat departments were abundant as well. I picked up some black forest bacon at the butcher counter to fry up for breakfast Sunday morning.....with eggs fried in the bacon drippings, of course. In the produce section I found some baby napa cabbages that looked extremely inviting for my next dinner salad.
The next trip will be to the Alpharetta store with a hope of running into Alton Brown in the produce section while he's on his next shopping venture to film another episode of his show.
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