A bookstore? Dedicated to food??

This weekend I ventured to a new (opened this year) bookstore in Noe Valley, San Francisco called Omnivore Books. It is a bookstore entirely and beautifully dedicated to all things culinary — from Julia Child cookbooks to contemporary reflections on permaculture to rare antique books on “domestic science”. Basically, it is my dream. I’m only sad someone else created it before me.

Possibly even better than the fact that this store exists, Omnivore is an old butcher shop. The owners left much of the shop’s character, including the freezer and enormous meat scales, intact, and I appreciated the architectural (and philosophical) detail.

In case you need to go visit immediately, here are the details:

Omnivore Books
3885a Cesar Chavez @ Church, San Francisco
M-Sat 11-6, Sun 12-5

Go. Read. Be happy.