Lacey Marquesen and her bedmate Nick, who purchased Grizzly Grocery on Hill Street in the University adjacency on June 1, accept been active remodeling, cleaning, stocking and purchasing new locally produced aliment articles in apprehension of the grocery abundance and deli's 50th ceremony advancing up on Oct. 18-19.
You can now acquisition western Montana-made articles like Lifeline Farms milk, Le Petit bread, Wustner Bros. honey, Mannix beef and eggs from Evaro on the shelves.
"We've aloof absolutely added the artefact abject that they had afore and absorption on the gluten-free and amoebic products," Marquesen said. "It's so air-conditioned that we accept a bounded amoebic dairy like Lifeline. We've added a lot of the mainstay staples that they've never had actuality before."
Marquesen is a third-generation grocer and she grew up in the business in Helena. She and her bedmate absitively to buy the abundance because they accept a 2-year-old and she capital to appearance out the biking that was appropriate for her job as a wine sales representative.
Now, she's bringing that acquaintance to the wine alternative at Griz "Groc," as the academy kids alarm it, as well.
"My better affair is to get the accurate University adjacency back," she said. "I've absolutely been absorption on accepting added of a wine selection. Before, you couldn't get a canteen over $20 and I awash a $50 canteen of Champagne yesterday. That's my background, is wine. So it's fun to hand-select and accompany in altered stuff. We accept over 200 now."
The brace has been active painting and reorganizing everything, and they will anon be replacing the beam and the attic and installing energy-efficient LED lighting.
The deli, which Marquesen said abounding bodies don't alike apprehend is there, and the aftermath area are additionally accepting an overhaul.
"We aloof started accomplishing breakfast burritos and all of our sandwiches are accessible gluten-free," Marquesen explained. "This is a assignment in advance and we're activity to alpha accomplishing bootleg soups back Mother Nature absolutely decides it's fall."
They additionally advertise a abounding acclaim of drinks fabricated from beans broiled by Black Coffee Roasters of Missoula.
"It sells itself," she said of the coffee. "They accomplish amazing coffee. It's amazing how aloof authoritative that change has added the bottom cartage here."
Marquesen knows that afterwards 50 years, bodies ability anticipate annihilation would anytime change with Grizzly Grocery. But she is alive to accompany the abundance added into alignment with the avant-garde tastes of Missoula.
"I anticipate maybe the abundance absent a ample applicant abject by not alteration with the town," she explained. "It's the second-oldest ancestors endemic grocery that's continuously backward in business actuality in town. We are charwoman things up to standards and we've animated it a bit."
For the 50th anniversary, the brace affairs in-store giveaways and a celebration. For added advice appointment grizzlygrocery.com.
