This is a mom-and-son store, just opened in June. But it's a far from run-of-the-mill market. Mom is Alison Cavallaro, a baker, and son is Andre Cavallaro who was a chef at Addie's on the Rockville Pike, that little cottage opposite White Flint Mall and one of the Blacks' stable of restaurants. So expect plenty of freshly cooked food and originality behind a rather unbeguiling glass window frontage. Shame it couldn't look like the rustic Addie's cabin...

Among the good stuff, look for heirloom vegetables and a thoughtful selection of meat, along with - naturally - some great baked goods. Finding real milk in DC is difficult. Or was. This small market sells milk (and ice cream) from the happy cows at Trickling Springs Creamery in Pennsylvania.

While mom bakes cookies and cakes, Andre's role is to produce foods to take away and pretend you've made yourself. For a dinner you could pick an excellent stew and for lunch one of his puff-pastry flatbreads or turnovers stuffed with something unusual and interesting.

sub* urban trading co., 10301 Kensington Pkwy, Kensington, MD, 301 962 4046.