Not much is ever truly new in Rhinebeck. “The businesses there have been around for a long time—it seems like forever,” Hudson Valley resident and Inness hotelier Taavo Somer says of the historic town. Which is why when a store in a restored 18th-century townhouse finally did become available on Main Street, it wasn’t even a question that he’d sign a lease. The only question was whether someone else would beat him to it.

Somer prevailed. On May 28, he and longtime collaborator Erin Winters open Little Goat: a bakery, pantry, and all-day café that epitomizes that low-key countryside chic that the Hudson Valley is known for. “We're calling it a cafe, a bakery, and a pantry because we want to hit all these different aspects of what we think the town needs,” Somer says.

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