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At Right:
CSG offers customers
a host of ready-made
meals, or high quality
ingredients for creating
your own culinary
magic; and fun swag for
wearing everyday.

Café hours:
Monday - Saturday 11 AM - 3 PM
Grocery hours:
Monday - Saturday 10 AM - 7 PM;
Sunday 10 AM - 3 PM
Location and Contact
2205 Crystal Spring Avenue SW
Roanoke, VA 24014
540-595-9113 | csgrocery.com

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From there, they curated a list of menu items
they knew folks would recognize and love,
with the hopes they might eventually venture
out to discover some new favorites as well.
Also important to Lintz is offering foods
customers won't likely duplicate on their own.
An excellent example of this is the
B.L.Squash sandwich, the first sandwich I
tried at Crystal Spring Grocery. It's their play
on the traditional B.L.T., except in place of
the tomato is a slab of butternut squash, a
perfect winter-time substitute. My experience
with butternut squash is limited, outside
of hearty soups. I was eager to discover a
new way of eating this healthy, but often
intimidating, vegetable.
Never could I have imagined butternut
squash tasting so good. The squash slice is
cut in a half-inch-thick round and cooked to
a perfectly firm tenderness. It's then layered

with Benton's bacon, lettuce, thin-sliced hardboiled egg, caramelized onion and aioli, and
served on grilled sourdough bread. Each bite
begs for slowing down and savoring.
I asked Tyree what magic they use to make
their squash taste as it does. He described
a complicated, multi-step process: vacuum
packing the rounds, cooking them in the
French sous vide style, dousing them in an ice
bath, then seasoning and searing each one to
order. (I can honestly say I'll never duplicate
the B.L.Squash at home.)
Along with my B.L.Squash, I ordered a half
salad of seasonal greens. The name hardly does
it justice. What I enjoyed was a salad medley
of flavors, textures and taste: shaved radish,
roasted golden beets, candied peanut, pickled
green tomato and blue cheese, drizzled with a
red wine vinaigrette. Here is another example
of culinary expertise brought to bear on the

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