General store

Eastside Road, May 22, 2012—

WE TAKE TOO MUCH for granted. That there are still joints like this, for example: a country bar, like the ones my dad used to spend too much time in on his way home from work, sixty years ago…

For us today, though, it was also a general store, more accurately a deli-sandwich joint, a place for Lindsey and three of her four sisters to grab a sandwich and a drink and sit with the dog under the roof in the shade on a hot windy day and contemplate the beauties of Dry Creek Valley. Truly we live in a marvelous corner.

Lindsey and I chose the Tuna Tapenade sandwich, on focaccia, a sandwich also involving a healthy amount of arugula. Afterward, a cookie and a coffee — Flying Goat; not bad.

Sauvignon blanc: Dry Creek Vineyards, nv

• Dry Creek General Store, 3495 Cry Creek Road, Healdsburg; 707.433.4171