Take the gang for apple dumplings (and hard-to-find books) in Mount Vernon
If You Go
Downtown Mount Vernon
WhereFrom Interstate 5, take Exit 226 and turn west onto Kincaid Street. In two blocks, turn right onto South Third Street. After going under a bridge, bear right on Freeway Drive. On your left will be a redbrick building; the bakery is on the back side, so turn left immediately after the curve. To reach the bookstore, turn right out of the parking lot, cross through the intersection to First Street; the bookstore is straight ahead in five blocks.
The bakery
Calico Cupboard, 121B Freeway Drive, 360-336-3107 or www.calicocupboardcafe.com If you're a typical human being, you like bakeries. If you're a typical Puget Sounder, you like bookstores. This is the third installment in a series taking readers on day trips to Western Washington towns where a bakery and a bookstore can be found within a short walk. This visit: Mount Vernon. The neighborhood Outside of Tulip Festival weekends each April, Mount Vernon is a sleepy agricultural center on the Skagit River just off Interstate 5, on the way to many summer destinations. Its old downtown has several nice gift and antique stores, a large and rather fancy food co-op, and the historic Lincoln Theater. A riverfront farmers market runs on Saturdays from late May to mid-October from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. The bakery Calico Cupboard The goodies: This well-loved local bakery/cafe is popular for breakfast and lunch. As a variation on "everything is good," several locals told me solemnly that "there isn't anything that isn't good." The place is famous for its cinnamon rolls, but there was also high praise for the lemon sour-cream pie and Key lime pie. Items rare on menus these days also got raves — such as apple dumplings and bread pudding. The ambience: The cafe is in a former feed store, complete with wooden floors, high ceilings and massive ceiling beams. It has a homey Grandma's kitchen-meets-fern bar ambience; the cavernous downstairs enjoys a happy din of conversation, while the upstairs balcony that overlooks the first floor is a quieter scene. What makes it special: Linda Freed opened the original cafe in La Conner 30 years ago, followed by branches in Anacortes and then here (most of the baked goods are made in the Anacortes kitchen and delivered every morning). The food is made from scratch with fresh-milled, organically grown whole-grain and unbleached flours. They also offer some gluten-free items, such as bread, muffins, and cookies, about which they've gotten "tons and tons of positive feedback," according to manager Norvel Rogers.
Mount Vernon Bakery - News
Visit a bakery and a bookstore in downtown Mount Vernon. Cathy McDonald visits the Calico Cupboard bakery and Easton's Books. By Cathy McDonald The balcony level of the bakery/cafe offers a view onto the bustle of the first floor.
Email the author | 9:00am The Mount Vernon Farmers Market is open from 8am – 12pm today in the parking lot of the Sherwood Regional Library. If you missed the article on one of the market's vendors, check out Valentine's Country Meats and Bakery.
Miller owns and operates Valentine's Country Meats and Bakery in Orange, VA, and sells his products at the Mount Vernon Farmer's Market. Born and raised on the farm, Miller has taken over the family farm to butcher “all-natural" meats.
In particular, officials expect a nightmare—again, our words, not theirs—on Broadway from the Powderhouse rotary to Mount Vernon Street. (Powderhouse generates its own gridlock without help from major highway construction, thank you very much).
Classic baguette from Lyon Bakery. Available at markets such as Arrowine (4508 Lee Hwy., Arlington, 703-525-0990) and Cheesetique (2411 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria, 703-706-5300). Visit lyonbakery.com for the full list.
Best bets: June 2 to 9 | HooplaNow
Saturday, June 4
Pavlov’s dog would do anything for a carrot. Most of us would do the same for chocolate. Luckily, all you have to do Saturday is walk for your chocolate fix. Mount Vernon turns into a chocolate lover’s paradise along the town’s historic Main Street for the annual Chocolate Stroll. Begin your confectionary constitutional at either the First Street Community Center (221 First St. East), or at Memorial Park (311 First St. West), where both musicians and chocolate vendors will be located, and stroll down the street in either direction, sampling chocolates at businesses and storefronts along the way. More than 20 local and regional chocolate vendors include The Bakery, Barb’s Garden and Pantry, Chef Jenn’s Kitchen, Corridor Cake Bites, Divine Decadents, Kalona Chocolates, May’s 3rd Street Bakery, Mount Vernon Confections, Polar Blair’s Den, Sweet Lauretta’s Fine English Toffee, Sweetopia and The Wright Touch Bake Shoppe. Musicians scheduled to perform include The Eddie Piccard Jazz Quartet, the Eastern Iowa Brass Band, Heart Consort Music, Heartstrings, the Iowa Goatsinger and Lincoln Highway.
Chocolate Stroll Wednesday, June 8 to Aug. 7
Steve Shanley is the new leader of the band, so we’re expecting even bigger and better sounds as the Cedar Rapids Municipal Band launches into its 60th year of music by twilight, and sometimes broad daylight. This professional organization features many familiar faces from Orchestra Iowa rosters, as well as others selected to perform a vast array of repertoire, from marches and Broadway favorites to light classical fare. So grab a blanket, lawn chairs and a picnic and head to the great outdoors for some great old-fashioned fun.
Cedar Rapids Municipal Band Today through Sunday, June 2 to 5
The ever suave John O’Hurley, versatile star of stage, television, films and the first “Dancing with the Stars” champion, is on the road as Billy Flynn in “Chicago.” The jazzy Broadway musical about murder, mayhem, fame and fortune plays tonight through Sunday at the Civic Center of Greater Des Moines. O’Hurley will turn on the charm for some stylish “Razzle Dazzle” in Prohibition-era Chicago, where a bevy of lovely femme fatales perform a seductive “Cell Block Tango” as they spin their stories. It’s sexy, smooth and oh, so much fun. Plus, they had it coming.
Take the gang for apple dumplings (and hard-to-find books) in Mount Vernon: The balcony level of the bakery/cafe... 
Take the gang for apple dumplings (and hard-to-find books) in Mount Vernon: The balcony level of the bakery/cafe... 
Take the gang for apple dumplings (and hard-to-find books) in Mount Vernon: The balcony level of the bakery/cafe... 
Take the gang for apple dumplings (and hard-to-find books) in Mount Vernon: The balcony level of the bakery/cafe...
Take the gang for apple dumplings (and hard-to-find books) in Mount Vernon: The balcony level of the bakery/cafe... Mount Vernon Bakery - Bookshelf
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