Grocery Shopping - Specialty Shops

So let's say you'd like to eat something other than chicken-fried steak.

Indian food, for example.

Your best bet is to visit Sagar, off Man O'War on the east side of town. This little shop sits next to the best Indian buffet in Lexington, and it couldn't be friendlier. Inside, you'll find ingredients ranging from fresh veggies to huge bags of rice. Best of all, there are pre-mixed spice packets to which you need only add meat or veggies, water or coconut milk, and sometimes a little fat (butter or oil for sauteeing, usually). The spices are entirely vegetarian, too, so if you prefer to make cauliflower tikka masala, you absolutely can.

Questions? No problem. The owners and staff jump right in to help if you wonder what to do or what to buy. And prices are low, low, low.

Hours are slightly limited, but the store is family-operated so that's to be expected. If you time your visit right, you can enjoy the buffet next door (Monday through Friday from 11am, Saturday and Sunday from noon), and then waddle over to Sagar and take home some delicious vittles for the coming week.

If you're feeling extra-nutty, you can take in a movie across the street at the discount movie house, or head down Man O'War. In about 3 minutes, you'll be at Hamburg shopping center, and you can fulfill all your most ardent consumerist desires. Well, not all of them. But some.

To get there from town, head east on Richmond Road (aka Main St.), turn left onto Man O'War, then right onto Mapleleaf Drive. Sagar and its companion restaurant (Tandoor) are on the right-hand side of the strip-mall on the right.