Bollings adding full deli to market

Bolling’s Meat Market is expanding again, which has always been “part of the plan,” owner and operator Cara Bolling said.
On the east side of the store, facing Madison Avenue, will be a new full-service delicatessen opening in May.
“Even when we had our first interview with the Register when we first opened this was always part of the plan,” Bolling said.
Construction began in mid-February, but Bolling said she feels as if there has been a carpenter in-house for the past two years.
When they first opened, Bolling’s was a small store that garnered a busy clientele. The store later expanded and some remodeling was done. Bolling now thinks it’s time to finish everything up with the deli.
“This will be the last addition,” Bolling said. “We are running out of parking, we are running out of space and I am running out of patience.”
The deli was supposed to open in April but had to be pushed back to May because of the winter storm that came through.
The deli will open in stages. Cheese slices and vegetables will be cut fresh in the mornings. Meat will be sliced to order and customers will be able to create their own sandwiches. There will be chips, a soda fountain, sides and later homemade desserts, soups and hot meals will also be added.
Bolling said the menu is still up in the air and will keep changing even after the deli opens.
There will be a vendor providing meats when the deli first opens, but Bolling said she has been working on making her own deli meat, such as pastrami, and thinks later down the road she might be adding homemade deli meats to the menu.
On the weekends smoked meats will be sold, which will be smoked in-house.
Bolling said that the hours of operation is still up in the air, but they will be open seven days a week, as is the meat market.
The store, which has been open for two and a half years now, is a fourth-generation meat market. Bolling’s parents own and operate the Moran Meat Locker and her grandparents still own and operate a meat market in Bronson.