The visit starts with donuts, which is a perfectly reasonable way to begin a grocery run. Beiler's Bakery sits at the entrance, sending shoppers toward breads, pies, cakes, cookies, pastries, tea biscuits and whoopie pies before they have made it anywhere near the meat counter.
This is an indoor market built for a longer wander rather than a quick dash for milk and eggs. Hot foods, cold foods, sliced deli products, produce, meats, seafood, sweets and take-home specialties create a route with plenty of pleasant detours.
You can arrive intending to pick up dinner ingredients and wind up having breakfast, choosing a few prepared sides for later, and leaving with a bag of bakery treats. The broad selection makes it easy to split the visit between eating now and stocking the refrigerator.
A bakery with plenty of temptation
The bakery offers the comforting standards in abundance: fresh breads for the table, pies for dessert, cakes for a gathering and cookies for the ride home. But it is the donut case that tends to slow people down. Maple bacon is among the varieties that have drawn attention, and a half-dozen can seem like a sensible compromise when choosing only one gets difficult.
Coconut cake and tea biscuits have their own following, while the crumb cake comes with a notably generous layer of cinnamon crumb. It is not a skimpy dusting; this is the sort of topping that gives each square a little extra weight and crunch.
Whoopie pies and confectioneries bring an old-fashioned sweets-shop note to the bakery area. Nearby, a candy selection includes nostalgic favorites that can prompt a little more browsing than planned.
Watch the dough take shape
Selected bakery work happens in view of shoppers, including fresh donuts and pretzels. It gives the entrance area some welcome motion: dough being shaped, trays moving along and people pausing to see what is coming out next.
For families, this can be an especially handy stop because there is something to watch as well as something to eat. For everybody else, watching pretzels and donuts being made is a reliable way to make an already difficult bakery decision even harder.
From steaks to smoky kielbasa
Past the sweets, the market shifts into more substantial shopping. The meat and deli areas include steaks, chicken, beef ribs, deli meats, fresh-cut cold cuts, cheeses and smoked products, giving home cooks plenty of possibilities beyond the usual packaged grocery selection.
Kielbasa is one item worth noticing. It has been praised for a pronounced snap and smoky flavor, a detail that matters when the sausage is going to be the centerpiece of a simple supper rather than just an ingredient tucked into a larger dish.
The market also fits the holiday-shopping rhythm, when turkeys and hams become part of the cart. For a longer drive home with steaks, meat or other chilled purchases, a cooler can be a useful piece of equipment to have along.
Hot food for now and later
The prepared-food counters make it possible to turn a market browse into lunch without interrupting the shopping. Hot meals, sides and take-away dishes are available alongside the ingredients for cooking at home, so a visitor can build a plate and still leave with provisions.
A beef-rib dinner has included potato wedges and lima beans with pieces of pork, the kind of hearty, no-fuss combination that works well after a morning of browsing. Availability of individual dishes can change, but the larger idea remains: this is a place with enough ready-to-eat food to take the pressure off dinner planning.
One of the more unusual offerings is a Reuben-style sandwich wrapped in pretzel dough, combining corned beef and sauerkraut-style fillings with the salty chew of a pretzel. It is a good example of how the market moves beyond plain sandwiches and standard deli fare.
Breakfast and lunch in the middle of the shop
A dine-in breakfast and lunch area gives the visit another rhythm. Breakfast includes a buffet with a rotating-feeling range of homestyle food, while the lunch setting and hot-food counters offer a reason to sit down before returning to the aisles.
For mixed groups, that arrangement is useful. One person can be interested in a hot breakfast or lunch while another is more focused on bakery boxes, sliced deli meat or produce for the week.
It also changes the pace of the outing. Instead of treating the market as one long shopping list, you can eat first, browse afterward, then circle back for the things that looked good on the first pass.
Produce, juice and a bottle for dinner
The produce area adds fruits and vegetables to the market's increasingly complete food picture. Fresh-squeezed orange juice and apple cider have also appeared among the offerings, giving shoppers an easy drink option to pair with a bakery purchase or take home for breakfast.
A wine area carries red and white wines, another small convenience when dinner shopping takes shape at the market. Pick up a smoked meat, some cheese, a few vegetables and a bottle, and the evening meal begins to assemble itself.
A few practical notes before you go
This is often a busy place, particularly on weekends and Saturdays, when lines and a slower multi-stop shopping rhythm are more likely. A weekday morning has been a quieter window, though the pace can vary.
Parking can be harder to sort out during busy periods, so arrival and departure may take a little extra time. Once inside, there is enough to browse that the market rewards a visit without a tight schedule.
Credit cards are accepted, though individual stalls may handle purchases separately. It is worth being ready for more than one checkout, especially if your basket includes a mix of bakery goods, meats and prepared foods.