Balducci’s Gourmet Market

We are on the hunt for Italian Pizzelle cookies/wafers. They taste a bit like sugar cones, but are very thin. We looked up where they might be located and Target was listed as an option. So we drove over to Reston last Sunday for the ride but also for the mission. Of course, they didn’t have any. So we then figured an Italian market should have them and drove over to the Balducci’s in our neighborhood. We spent a lot of time searching around the store. The cherries and fresh fruit all looked quite nice, and the overall feel of it reminded us of Sendik’s in Milwaukee. But the prices were out of this world compared to Harris Teeter, Giant or Safeway - even Whole Foods. We have come to the conclusion that each place has one thing we like better than the others, which means there is always something we are missing wherever we end up. I would classify Balducci’s as a specialty market for a very specific purpose or occasion and clientele. In the end, they didn’t have Pizzelle cookies either, but we ended up getting some cheese and olives. If I had ordered the cookies on Amazon they would have been here yesterday. That’s the sad thing, or good thing, about it - depending on your point of view.