Bosa Foods is stocked with everything from sandwiches to cakes, cookies, muffins and meals to make festivities easier
Mia Stainsby
Sun
Ada Parrotta serves up a panini from a wide selection at Bosa Foods. Photograph by : Glenn Baglo, Vancouver Sun
December can be cruel, filling up your time with things that must get done and emptying out your wallet on gifts that must be bought and parties that must be thrown.
Here’s one way to cheat this whirling dervish of a month. Go to Bosa Foods, not the one at 562 Victoria Dr. which is still alive and well, but the brand spanking new building just west of Boundary Road.
It opened in October and is umpteen times bigger than the first. It’s great for Christmas shopping, as well as a lunch stop and, if you want, dinner to take home, from the prepared foods area. You’ll find basic panini for $3 and grilled panini for $5 to $6.
There are baked goods including cakes, cookies, muffins, and meals to go — pasta dishes, which run from $3 to $7. Entree dishes, combinations of pasta and meat, would be about $7. Family-sized take-aways are $23 and will feed eight to 10 people comfortably.
You can stock up on Christmassy panetonne and nougat, and this just in: amaretti soffici, or soft amaretti. Also new to their shelves is pandoro, an Italian Christmas cake with cream fillings like tira misu and chocolate.
A kitchen section holds dishes and cooking gear you can check out as gift ideas, including a panini grill and ravioli maker.
It’s definitely worth a trip. Bosa Foods is open Monday to Saturday from 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., and to 7:30 p.m. on Friday.
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BOSA FOODS
1465 Kootenay St., 604-253-5578.
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