Fresh Start Grocery & Deli

What fun it was to have lunch here. A group of 8 seniors on a day trip made this their food stop. While the cioppino was below par in my estimation, the group gave rave reviews to their own choices. I would stop again!!!

Weekend Artisan PIZZA. Outstanding. Bittersweet as I learned they are selling the business. Happy Trails Fresh Start!

Great, no wait, OUTSTANDING food. The scones, the strata were amazing. We will definitely be back. All food including Andouille sausage is house made. Fresh and delicious. We will try the pizza next. Yum!

The food here is so fresh and delicious! Even though I wasn’t too hungry, I ordered the brunch anyway because of the yummy selections! As the courses came, I devoured them all! The people here are so sweet and the customer service is great! What a little treasure it is!

This place has great service and great food! All homemade and delicious! Sunday brunches here are a must. Great deal on the brunch menu!

Very friendly and clean. Staff spoke English as a first language and where very smart.

The food and service were outstanding. Everything was made from scratch even the baked goods. The building is not impressive but the food is excellent. Well worth driving out of your way for. I have been there four times and every time was blown away by such good food at reasonable prices. Loved the pizza too.

This place was great! Little corner convenience store with a hidden café in the back. Great food at the café. Great selection in the store. I honestly love seeing little places like this. Locals making a go of it in a tiny storefront and providing something unique and unexpected.

We traveled 1.5 hours to meet friends and we chose this location for the ratings on another site claiming how healthy their selections were. I get the fact that the market sells local produce, organic foods and things made by local artisans.
The deli had very few things to choose from and being a vegetarian it was difficult. The wait staff clearly treated the locals differently than someone they didn’t recognize. The «house» salad was a pile of dandelion greens & two grape tomatoes. I didn’t mind the greens, but our friends don’t eat trendy salads. They could have done more to the salad by adding a couple slices of cucumber, some peppers or something else. When the waitress came to take away the salad plates, she stood tableside, plate near her face, examining how much of the salad was consumed by one of us at the table. She must have engaged in this behavior for a good 20 to 30 seconds. Then said she’d take the salads off the bill since they weren’t consumed. I ate mine, however. The salads were not removed from the bill.
I ordered a veggie pita sandwich as I am vegan. It was piled high with fresh vegetables which was nice, the hummus was a little tangy for my liking and there was a LOT of parsley on the sandwich, which did help in contradicting the many onions that were loaded on the flat, COLD, white pita that was cut in half to make the «bread.» Much more could have been done to this sandwich to make it a bit more appetizing. Say, try warming up the pita on the grill for a minute to soften it a bit. The bread was dry and hard to get down with the two inches of veggies that were contained within it (I’m not complaining about the amount of ingredients). Basically, the sandwich was one pita flat cut in half. Very small, but with the optionally purchased dandelion greens, I was satisfied.
Hubby and friends had pizza and it looked good. It is artisan-​style so the focus is on the bread, not the ingredients. Good thing too, because ingredients were lacking. It didn’t appear that you could «make your own» pizza. One vegetarian option in the pizza department, and one vegetarian option on the salad/​sandwich menu.
Wait staff was a bit rude and inattentive. Salads were not comp’d like they said they would be and since they never brought the bill to the table & we paid at the register, didn’t know that until after payment was made.
We bought dinner that night for our friends because we were actually a bit embarrassed by our selection. We won’t be returning.
Tables are close together and when it’s busy, it’s a tad loud to try to carry on a conversation with the folks just on the other side of our table.

Excellent Sunday brunch and great service.

We were looking for a place near Mason Lake/​Shelton that had some vegetarian options. This place was recommended by a local, so we called to get info about the brunch and decided it sounded good enough to give it a try. It’s a combination small market for groceries, beer and wines, along with a Deli serving sandwiches, house-​made fresh baked goods, pizza (Fri-​Sat nights) and brunch. The market sells good quality products, many of which are local. We went for the brunch under a recommendation, and we were definitely not disappointed. I had the baked spinach-​potato frittata, a bowl of fruit, romaine lettuce salad, house-​made english muffin, and coffee. My girlfriend also ordered the same except substituted the fruit with waffles (with their own apple butter). All of the food was very fresh, absolutely delicious and was served by one some the friendliest staff I’ve experienced in some time. A Near the end of our meal, they brought us some complimentary chocolate covered strawberries… yum! On top of the great food and service, the place is very clean and welcoming. We are often in the area for the weekend and there is no doubt we’ll be back, and will recommend it to others. Next we’ll try their hand-​made pizza. Oh, and did I mention they have some good craft beers on tap and for sale in the market?