Some
months ago, while dining at the Foothills Milling Company in Maryville
Tennessee, our waitress told us that the owners of that fine dining restaurant
were planning to open a bakery. Well,
that promise has come to past and a couple of weeks ago, we decided to check it
out…
Unfortunately
for us, the new bakery is on the opposite side of Maryville. That is a good thing from a dietary point of view
as bread and baked goods are a shared weakness.
Our other two favorite bakeries are Fresh Market in Farragut and Tellico
Grains in Tellico Plains Tennessee. All
of these bakeries are at least 30 minutes from our home…
The
sign was a surprise as we didn’t expect this to be a sandwich shop/bakery
combined! The building doesn’t grab your
eye, but you should never judge a book…or a bakery…by its appearance.
The
inside of the Foothills Milling Co. Bakery/sandwich shop is pretty basic…it’s a
working bakery with supplies, ovens and a few tables for lunch time diners.
The
lunchtime sandwich menu is posted on a big blackboard and printed copies are
available on the counter. All 13 sandwiches
are served ‘hot’ and cost either $8.00 or $9.00 and chicken salad is available
in the cooler. Enlarge this photo to check out the menu!
Unfortunately,
we had just eaten a late breakfast so we weren’t hungry so our feedback on the
sandwiches will have to wait for another posting. We did note that these are not basic ham and
cheese, bologna and mayonnaise or turkey club sandwiches… For example, how
about ordering a Bologna and Truffle Cheese sandwich…or a Benton’s Bacon
Pimento Cheese sandwich? This is an ‘upscale’
sandwich menu at very reasonable prices.
Then
there are the bakery display cases…full of goodies calling out to the hungry
masses! Loaves of bread are displayed on
racks behind the bakery counters. We had
a hard time making a decision what to buy while at the same time limiting our
purchases so as to avoid too much of a good thing.
These
are the sweets that we purchased. There
are 2 Molasses Spice Cookies and 2 Oatmeal Raisin Cookies at 75 cents
each. The Butterscotch Blondies were
$3.00 each. The Raspberry Jamaretti
cookies were 50 cents each.
Laurie
liked the Spice and Oatmeal Raisin cookies but they were too sweet for me. We both really liked the Raspberry Jamaretti
cookies…basically a shortbread and raspberry jam combination of flavors. The Butterscotch Blondies were, what can I
say…only Excellent!!
We asked
what the most popular bread was and we were told that it was the Sweet
Sourdough bread. We bought a loaf
($6.00) and had it sliced for us. For us
this bread is just a little sweet and we couldn’t pick up on the sourdough
flavor. It does toast very nicely…
Several
other types of bread are available and the next time we visit this bakery, we’ll
go with our instincts for our bread choice.
Of course, we’ll also try out a couple of those very imaginative
sandwiches! We noted that lunchtime was
approaching while we were making our purchases and the parking lot was getting
busy fast…Foothills Bakery had only been open for about a month when we stopped
by.
More on
this bakery, both about its sandwiches and its baked goods will follow our next
visit. Should you want to give it a try
in the meantime, Foothills Bakery is located at 1420 East Broadway Avenue in
Maryville Tennessee. Phone:
865-724-2073. I could not locate a
website for the Bakery…
Just
click on any of the photos to enlarge them…
Thanks
for stopping by for a visit!
Take
Care, Big Daddy Dave
Bologna and truffle cheese don't seem to go together for me, but Benton's bacon and pimento cheese is right down my alley.
ReplyDeleteSam
Dear Dave, It is nice to have a good bakery nearby however; I don't have a close bakery either. I find bakery's these days are a bit on the expensive side anyway. 6 dollars a loaf is a bit steep for me; though if you enjoy it, it is worth every penny. Blessings, Catherine
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