Happy New Year from Team Merc!

LOOK OUT 2009! Here we Come!

As we prepare to say "So Long!" to 2008, our friends and guests come to mind right away. It has been only three months into this game of small business and already we have had so many adventures and made so many wonderful friends.

We've had the privelage to work with Mary Lin Elementary, Oakhurst Cooperative Pre-school, Clairemont Elementary, The First Existentialist Church, The Candler Park Fall Festival, The Sweetwater 420 Fest, Inman Park Preschool, The Candler Park Neighborhood Organization, the Atlanta Food Bank, Dogtoberfest, and many more community organizations.

Between our own four walls we've tasted olive oils, poured fine teas, pressed apple cider and helped the kids get messy with cookie decorating. There's no way we could even begin to count how many unsuspecting guests we've gotten addicted to Lusty Monk mustard or introduced to Bionade. And, of course, with Chef Samantha and her culinary team, I think it is safe to say that the Candler Park-Lake Claire-Inman Park corrider residents have an entirely new way of thinking about take out food!

All that in only three months! With twelve months in 2009, who knows where we could go! We anticipate 2009 to be even more amazing and we look forward to having you in the shop and sharing that year with you, our guest. We intend to revisit the notion of "local" and re-work our produce department. Tasting events will be a regular event at The Mercantile and the children of the community will always be at the top of our priority list. So, Look out '09! Here we come!

In the meantime, we wish to share some reflections from our first few months. Please check out this link to see photos from our apple cider party in October http://picasaweb.google.com/TheMercAtl/AppleCiderParty?feat=directlink

and our cookie decorating party this past December http://picasaweb.google.com/TheMercAtl/CookieDecoratingAtTheMercantile?feat=directlink