LaRosa's Marketplace Inc.

THE FOOD: You can eat in or buy takeout, and many customers do both. As its chatty website points out, the business got started in the 1930s, when the current owner's grandfather made sausages using a cast-iron bathtub and converted his garage to a store that sold sausages, olive oil, pasta and grapes. LaRosa's still stocks the basics for a good Italian meal, along with a deli case full of prepared foods and a catering service.