Finding a decent print shop to do small potatoes orders like mine is never easy.  More often than not, they fail to meet the agreed deadline, the prints are not clear and crisp, or they want an arm and a leg for the work.  And in days past, many had their own personal wars with their whiffs of the ink. 

Seemed to make them a bit irrational from time to time.

By a hit, miss and by-golly method, I found Minuteman Press on Sherry Lane just off of Northwest Highway between Preston Road and Douglas Avenue.  It's owned by graduate engineer Eric Pirpich who bought it for a career change when he decided he's had enough of engineering.

We discovered in our first meeting that through some odd and round-about genealogy, he and I are probably kin -- kin on the Cherry-side.

Well Cousin Eric prints my monthly newsletters, mail-outs and on and on, and he's The Man in Dallas printing as far as I'm concerned.  What a find!

Now precisely next door to Cousin Eric's at 6063 Sherry Lane is Jeff and Sophie Rotundo's Panini Bakery.  Wow!  This most certainly is the place for elaborate pastries, cakes and a quick lunch of soup and sandwich. 

Last week Patty and I stopped by for éclairs.  While she was also looking for a desert for our dinner party, I talked Sophie into letting me see the kitchen.  You want clean and neat without white flour all over everywhere?  This is it.  Floor to ceiling stainless steel, all polished better than that in our home  kitchen. 

And on the table was the biggest pot of custard I've ever seen.  Temptation came over me in a zephyr.  I resisted.

So there you have two good reasons to venture over to Sherry Lane.  Eric Pirpich's Minuteman Press and Jeff and Sophie Rotundo's Panini Bakery. Tell 'em Groucho sent you! 

BILL CHERRY, REALTORS

DALLAS, TEXAS

Celebrating our 43rd Year Selling Texas

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