Ever since the Glover Park Whole Foods opened, it seems to have taken away a lot of the celebrity luster that the Social Safeway in Georgetown used to have a monopoly on. This DCist has seen a number of famous-for-D.C. types in the aisles of the Glover Park Whole Foods, including Joe Lockhart (when his Glover Park Group was actually in Glover Park.) Now we hear that last Sunday, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, with federal protection milling about, was in the store buying carrots, pushing around a cart (“the sporty kind with the two perched baskets rather than the regular style”).
Says our source:
He appeared to have little familiarity with the store, and was darting back and forth around the aisles, not seeming to gather what he needed with a great deal of efficiency. There was some buzz in the store for a few minutes and then it died down. He had carrots in his baskets, but I couldn’t tell what else.
No word on whether the Defense secretary snagged any cheese samples. But that may be for the best as the Glover Park location seems to skimp out on its cheese sample selection, relying on the ever-present parrano as its mainstay. Which Whole Foods do you think has the best cheese samples?
(But we have to say that New Mexico Avenue Balducci’s, f.k.a. Sutton Place Gourmet, in Wesley Heights generally has much better samples.)
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