![]() ![]() Suggest a story: VoyageLA is built on recommendations from the community it’s how we uncover hidden gems, so if you or someone you know deserves recognition please let us know here. Address: 1228 N State St, Bellingham WA 98225.I wanted to be an interior designer and architect when I was a kid. I’ve always been interested in arts, travel, food, and wine as I became older. Our focus is specialty, uniquely artisan, quality products. We make our own roast beef, corned beef, pastrami, bacon, sausage, pate, rillettes, duck confit & smoked duck breast. We’re open evenings Thursday through Saturday with happy hour and evening specials, live music on Saturday nights. But we are a lunch place known for our amazing sandwiches, soup made from scratch, salads and meat & cheese plates. We are a true deli in the sense we sell meat & cheese by the pound, we have an extensive wine section that focuses on quality wines & a market section with groceries and cocktail fixings. We’d love to hear more about your business. We’re working really hard on that this year. We kept growing and not really addressing how to put systems in place. While you’re in the trenches, it’s hard to lay down the systems. It’s really hard to find good people and keep them. No one cares about your business like you do. It’s expensive, things are always breaking, prices fluctuate and the minimum wage keeps rising dramatically. Banks don’t want to loan to a restaurant. Overall, would you say things have been easy for you? ![]() We’re always bombarded by how great it is to pursue your passion, etc – but we’ve spoken with enough people to know that it’s not always easy. The focus this year has been trying to make things run better and more efficiently. It’s a lot of working parts and we’re not the best at managing all of it. We love our business because it is multi-faceted and we hate it for the same reason. At the time, we weren’t sure how to fill it and now we’re busting at the seams. We moved and expanded a block away around two and a half years in. We made a million mistakes and somehow survived the recession of ’08 and having a baby with a new business. We opened and closed the restaurant every day. It was just the two of us and a very part-time employee. Established in 2000, Old World Deli offers Music, French and Jazz at 1228 N State St Sehome - Bellingham, WA - Whatcom County and is a business listed in the categories Delicatessen Restaurants, Restaurant Delicatessens, Restaurants, Restaurant Sandwich Shops, Full-Service Restaurants and Sandwich Shop Restaurants and offers Dinner, Houses. Two weeks after we opened, our landlord sold the building. I was five months pregnant with our daughter. 360.738. We opened on a shoestring in June of ’07. Bellingham is a make your own way kinda town. I swore I’d never open a restaurant until we did. We were at a bit of a crossroads and had always fantasized about opening restaurants. I had graduated from Fairhaven College and was taking a break, working as a server in fine dining and volunteering in my field. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Old World Deli Bellingham Washington Small Kids T-Shirt Grey at the best online prices at. My husband and I both worked in restaurants our early adult lives, his family is Greek and owned restaurants in LA. So, let’s start at the beginning and we can move on from there. Thanks for sharing your story with us Anna Marie. Today we’d like to introduce you to Anna Marie Adams. ![]()
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