When I visit my home town area in Ohio, one of the first stops is to Giacomo's for lunch. I love their grilled cheese sandwiches and their cookies. The cafe is popular for lunch, and you do have to wait awhile; I've noticed that it's gotten more popular since my last visit. I ordered my favourite snickerdoodle cookies and sugar cookies, which were an autumn theme (pumpkins) despite being the end of August.
Giacomo's also make their own bread in an oven that came from Italy, which is the home country of the founders (or their ancestors). The restaurant and next door's Adornetto's (a pizza restaurant) are a long-time Zanesville, Ohio institution. A lot of people love Adornetto's pizza; while it is okay, it's not my favourite pizza.
I always order the grilled cheese with onion sandwich. This comes with a small bag of potato chips ('crisps' to those in England). This time, I received the wavy chips. The potato chip company is another Zanesville, Ohio institution - Conn's.
The cookies are displayed underneath the counter, and they have every flavour: filled raisin, M&M, chocolate chip, peanut butter, thumbprint, carrot cake cookie, chocolate, sugar cookie, snickerdoodle, etc. They also sell buns, bread, cupcakes, and muffins and additional items depending on the season.
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