A grocery store is like a carnival midway—it offers shelves and shelves of goodies guarded by employees who hope you don’t knock down any stacks of bottles. Step right up to this Groupon.

$15 for $30 Worth of Gourmet Groceries

The store’s stock includes Dom's famous steak tips ($9.99/lb.), honey-mustard turkey tips ($7.49/lb.), and gourmet cheeses such as Bellerive brie ($6.50/mini wheel) and Grafton Vermont aged cheddar ($6.99).

Eastside Wines and Market

Prohibition was over, and the Burns brothers were ready to capitalize. The store they opened in 1936, the Burns Brothers Liquor Shop, has since operated as a market, a butcher shop, and a liquor store, and today its current owner Steve Neidhardt maintains the focus on selling fine wines and gourmet meats and groceries. Steve stocks Eastside Wines and Market with more than 450 different bottles of wine from all over the world, priced modestly at $10–$20 per bottle. He also carries craft beers, liquors, and single-malt whiskeys, with a selection of seasonal beers that rotates like a ballerina strapped to a ferris wheel.

A longtime lover of vino, Steve studied at Boston University’s Elizabeth Bishop Wine Resource Center, earning a Wine Studies Level 3 certification. He shares his knowledge with the public during wine tastings and in private during tastings and catering for corporate events or special occasions. Eastside Wines and Market also delivers so that customers don’t have to leave to get snacks in the middle of a suspenseful weather forecast.