Urban Rustic

My horoscope was certainly off-base this weekend:

Be picky. Spread before you is a magnificent buffet. However, if you try to take a little bit of everything, you’ll be stuffed before you’ve sampled half of it. You need to recognize the limitations you’re stuck with and pick and choose which things you’ll pick up to taste, and which you’ll have to regretfully pass by. Sure, you might accidentally miss out on something that looks horrible but tastes great, but that’s always a risk. Being choosy now will make you more likely to discover the flavors your soul is craving than being gluttonous ever could.

How can one be picky, and not gluttonous, when visiting Urban Rustic, Williamsburg's "farm-to-market" cafe and grocery? Caeriel, the writer of the above horoscope, couldn't have been aware of the freezer full of Adirondack premium ice cream or the produce section overflowing with beautiful berries and apples from Red Jacket Orchards, sugarplums, heirloom tomatoes (both miniature and regular-sized), Satur Farms arugula, and zucchini and summer squash from Bruno Farms. And she couldn't have known about the wealth of maple products like Toad Hill maple syrup and double maple yogurt from Evans Farmhouse Creamery; and the natural-casing chicken-apple sausage from Aidells, organic skirt steak, Hardwick grass-fed beef patties, and center-cut smoked salmon.

Urban Rustic also features a small cafe, where you can tear into a Mission fig-arugula-goat cheese sandwich and accompany it with a bag of North Fork potato chips. Or maybe you feel like ham and Swiss, and you'll finish your meal with a bittersweet chocolate brownie or a Mast Brothers chocolate bar (locally produced from bean to bar) or even a chilled coconut ("We drill, you drink!"). Then again, you might be intrigued by the "Santanoni," an egg/tempeh bacon/pico de gallo wrap, which you'll consume with a bag of Urban Rustic's own banana chips, or pineapple rings, or milk-chocolate raisins...

I'm no astrologer, but I think that a trip to Urban Rustic might be part of your destiny.

Urban Rustic: 236 North 12th St., Brooklyn, (718) 388-9444.