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used to live in union square
and only went to sherman a few times - they were overpriced, food and coffee were mediocre, and the space sucked. I'm surprised they stayed in business as long as they did. I was excited when bloc 11 opened.
fyi - I was priced out of union and now live in rozzie - I know several other people who followed the same route... it's only a matter of time before someone opens an artisanal coffee/pickle place powered by bicycles around here.
I walked by it all the time
on my way to market basket. It looked like it belonged in Wellesley but took a wrong turn.
Union Square in general sort of jumped the gentrification gun with rent gouging undermining the little vanity shops geared to imaginary yuppies.
That seems to be the problem across the board with business speculators. They all imagine they will have a chic line of lavish yuppies flocking to their whatever and no other demographic will do.
Wellesley? I don't think so
Amherst, maybe. Northampton. Brattleboro. But certainly not Swellesley.
No honest..
I pass through there frequently using the Metrowest bus system.
Aside from the fact that I basically like its open space amenities like the Charles River Link Trail, I can assure you that little shop would fit right in in either Wellesley Hills or the Center.
http://www.wellesleyma.gov/Pages/WellesleyMA_Trails/trailmap.pdf
In 5 years of walking past it, I hardly ever recall seeing a customer in it. There may have been one or two, I just don't remember. I go to the Brazilian grocer for their killer Yerba Mate and and checked the Korean Market but found it wanting. The Indian grocer is cool too.
I'm lucky, I guess, in that I'm really trying to see the ancient face of the landforms and their pre Euromutt past so the jurisdiction abstractions like the difference between the abstraction that calls itself Wellesley and the one that calls itself Somerville are less significant to me.
if the food/coffee were
if the food/coffee were better I would have been a regular - that or they had a decent space to do work. the other place that baffles me as to how they stay in business is mariposa in central - it takes them an hour to make a sandwich.
my second comment is those of us who made union (and davis) hip have moved on to rozzie. except we're older now and have kids and stuff...
These things can sometimes be
..vanity businesses. A wealthy spouse, parent or trust fund floats it so the proprietor has something to do. I know of several.
Ugh, Mariposa!
You hit the nail on the head. God I swear they're all high as a kite there. It takes forever to even get something simple like an iced coffee. Great space though.
Sherman's restaurant:
I remember that place. It was overpriced, and the food wasn't that great, anyhow.