Stachowski Brand Sausages have come a long way from Restaurant Kolumbia, the mini meat market in the back of a truck, and local farmers’ markets to an upcoming Georgetown butcher shop.

During a recent trip to San Francisco, I was reminded of the disappointment that came with my first visit to Eastern Market. This disappointment was in part due to my previous visits to other great food markets: Pike’s Place in Seattle and Borough Market in London. Both markets have places where you can get an enormous variety of foods to eat on the spot, while choices at Eastern Market are fairly limited.