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SCRAMBLING FOR SUPPER? D&H CAN BAIL YOU OUT By Susan N. Denaro, Esquire
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he Easy Button. It’s something all of us look for to get us out of a jam. I reach for it frequently, especially when the kid, who runs the equivalent of a half-marathon a day, is home from university and texting “what’s for dinner?” in the late afternoon while I’m still at the office and haven’t a clue what to tell him. Those late afternoon texts signal two things: 1. He’s surprisingly not made plans to go out with friends to dine, and 2. He’ll want to eat almost as soon as I get in the door. Luckily, Dundore and Heister (the “D&H”) is the Easy Button that never fails. For the uninitiated, it’s a true nose to tail, farm to table, butcher shop that is also a mini-market for high-end nibbles and treats. Located at 1331 Penn Avenue in Wyomissing, it picks up where the former Banco’s butcher store nearby on Evans Avenue left off.
A traditional English pork pie and Brussels sprouts will fill you up when you’re not quite sure “what’s for dinner.”
DUNDORE & HEISTER 1331 Penn Ave. Wyomissing PA 19610 610-374-6328 dundoreheister.com 32 | Berks Barrister
Prior to all the COVID craziness, I occasionally used D&H around the holidays to merely supplement what I bought at the Fairgrounds Farmers’ Market or Shillington Farmers’ Market. Typically, I would order a fresh turkey for Thanksgiving, or one of its fabulous hams for Easter. When I found shopping at the farmers’ markets uncomfortable during the pandemic, I started patronizing D&H more regularly to put a little variety on our table. We love their dry-aged beef. Before the need to social distance, if I wanted a $35 steak, I’d go to a white linen restaurant. But now, we find we prefer buying D&H’s high-end cuts of beef and making them at home where the drinks are shaken just how we like them and we don’t have to worry about the stranger with a cough at a nearby table. Some of our favorite things to buy at D&H are the traditional English sausage rolls and pork pies. These staples can be found in a case by the cash register every Thursday. The sausage rolls are the largest I’ve ever seen and boast a flaky buttery pastry. One with a dollop of HP Sauce and a side salad makes for a light supper dinner. The pork pies are decidedly heavier and just as tasty. The pie crust has never been soggy, even if we eat them a couple of days after purchase. Although my son can eat a pork pie and a sausage roll in one sitting and still be hungry enough to eat again before bed, we’ve been known to split a pie as they are very filling. The smallest of its pies are beef and lager, or mushroom and chicken, hand pies they call Crescent Pies which are served with a
