[superlative] Market?

October 28, 2017 6:17 AM

I remember from around the year 1999-ish, Washington DC had a food shop that sold prepared foods and baked goods, including probably the best brownies in the world. The name was "______ Market" where "______" is something I can't remember but something along the lines of awesome, miraculous, etc. Someone please help scratch my (memory) itch.
posted by duoshao to Food & Drink (6 answers total)

Marvelous Market
posted by ArbitraryAndCapricious at 6:18 AM on October 28, 2017 [7 favorites]

Response by poster: P.S. I think it was located around Dupont Circle.
posted by duoshao at 6:19 AM on October 28, 2017

Response by poster: Thank you ArbitraryAndCapricious! That's it!

Now that I'm armed with the name, I'm sad that a search returned this.
posted by duoshao at 6:21 AM on October 28, 2017

The owner went on to found (and then sell) Breadline, and he's got a new thing called Bread Furst. I don't know if it's good.
posted by ArbitraryAndCapricious at 6:26 AM on October 28, 2017

Bread Furst is excellent. Try the canales. Baguettes are top notch as well.
posted by Bunny Boneyology at 7:09 AM on October 28, 2017 [4 favorites]

We used to call it "Marvelous Markup", but the tuna on olive bread sandwich was outstanding. Used to splurge on it for lunch at their short-lived Bethesda location c. 1996.

Breadline has declined markedly since Furst left - can confirm that Bread Furst, despite the stupid name, is good.
posted by ryanshepard at 2:30 PM on October 29, 2017