Vulca, the Smug Etruscan, LLC

Vulca, the Smug Etruscan, LLC Vulca's offers fine foods & beverages from around the Mediterranean, with locally made artisan foods. you may be wondering...

WHY ETRUSCAN?
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The Etruscans, of what is now Tuscany in western Italy, were a mysterious & fascinating people. Their artwork was superbly naturalistic, because they loved life. They also loved food, & wine, so much that they buried their dead in tomb chambers painted with scenes of banquets, dancers & musicians, birds & beasts & olive trees. Unlike most peoples of that era, the Etruscans held women in high estee

m; Etruscan women were often wealthy business owners in their own right. A few years ago Alison had her DNA analyzed & discovered that she's almost 10% Etruscan [aka Toscano Italian]

WHY SMUG? Etruscan ships plied the Mediterranean buying & selling & trading, in direct competition with the Greeks, whose empire was in decline. The Etruscans, like the Greeks, were clever traders... maybe a little more clever sometimes than the Greeks, who called them "smug & oily." Okay, we love our extra virgin olive oil, the cloudier & greener the better. The Greeks also disliked the powerful status of Etruscan women.

Hello, neighbors. It's a bright Sunday afternoon,  & we are open. Closed tomorrow & Tuesday. Vulca's Mediterranean Marke...
06/14/2026

Hello, neighbors. It's a bright Sunday afternoon, & we are open. Closed tomorrow & Tuesday.

Vulca's Mediterranean Market, 328 Pacific Avenue on Quincy Square in Downtown Bremerton, open till 6pm.

Neighbors, we're open till 8pm with all your Mediterranean grocery needs - except fresh produce, & that you can get from...
06/13/2026

Neighbors, we're open till 8pm with all your Mediterranean grocery needs - except fresh produce, & that you can get from the Kitsap Community Food Co-op

Vulca's Mediterranean Market, 328 Pacific Avenue on Quincy Square in Downtown Bremerton

Dress for it
06/13/2026

Dress for it

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Happy Friday, neighbors, and welcome to Vulca's!Vulca's Mediterranean Market,  328 Pacific Avenue on Quincy Square in Do...
06/12/2026

Happy Friday, neighbors, and welcome to Vulca's!

Vulca's Mediterranean Market, 328 Pacific Avenue on Quincy Square in Downtown Bremerton, open till 8pm.

06/11/2026

We've loved their shakshuka for years. Now we love their smoky harissa too.

CAPUTO FIOREGLUT This is the Italian gluten-free pizza flour we can get. It comes in 5 kilo sacks, which we will offer t...
06/10/2026

CAPUTO FIOREGLUT
This is the Italian gluten-free pizza flour we can get. It comes in 5 kilo sacks, which we will offer to you at substantially less than normal grocery markup.* We will also package some in 1.5lb units (in a 1 quart plastic container).

Here's where the sticker shock comes in. The 1 kilo bags we had last month came to us at an extreme discount, which we passed on to you. The current COST per kilo to us, before markup, is rather more than we were charging RETAIL for those. Eventually we hope the price may go down some - if tariffs are removed, if fuel prices drop. But for now:

We will charge $110 for the 5 kilo sack. (If we marked it up at standard grocery rate, the price would be $133.85.) We are ordering some for next week. You can take your chances, or if you want to be sure of getting one, let us know by Friday noon.

We will also package some in 1.5 pound (not kilo) container, price $16.50. That's a higher price by weight than the sacks, to allow for our labor & materials, but still less than standard markup.

While this product is 100% gluten-free, It does contain wheat starch. So it is not suitable for people who are allergic to wheat itself, as opposed to being gluten-intolerant. However, there is no evidence that gluten-free wheat starch is harmful to people with celiac disease, since it is gluten - any gluten, not wheat specifically - that causes problems.

The exact ingredients are:
Gluten-free wheat starch (meets FDA requirements for gluten-free foods), Dextrose (sugar), Maize starch (cornstarch), Buckwheat flour, Rice starch, Psyllium seed fiber (or vegetable fibres), Guar gum (thickener)

06/10/2026

So many kinds of cheese - including plant-based

UPDATE:Prepare for severe sticker shock. We got our batch of 1K bags several months ago, before fuel costs soared, and a...
06/08/2026

UPDATE:
Prepare for severe sticker shock. We got our batch of 1K bags several months ago, before fuel costs soared, and at a substantial discount, which we passed on to you. The current cost to us is substantially more than the former retail price. Then we do have to mark it up to pay our bills, because that's how retail works.

We will probably do rather less than standard markup on this, at least for now, to cushion the shock a little. Details later today on prices for 5K bag, & 1.5 lb. containersx.
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So, we had this Italian gluten-free flour in 1 kilo bags, & y'all bought them, all of them. We tried to get more....

We found some that would ship direct from Italy. With the shipping & the import duties, the cost would triple. So, no. But luckily we have a local source for 5 kilo bags. Next week (not this week, sorry), we will have both packaged flour in 1.5 pound plastic containers, & 5 kilo bags, at a 10% discount, because we don't have to package them - essentially a case price.

By the way, a 10% discount always applies to the purchase of a whole case of anything we sell. Tinned seafood, for example, is usually a case of 8, with a shelf life of 3+ years. Worth considering in these troubled times.

Good afternoon, neighbors. It's a surprisingly nice day! Why not get some of Yola's hummus or baba ghanouj,  & a package...
06/07/2026

Good afternoon, neighbors. It's a surprisingly nice day! Why not get some of Yola's hummus or baba ghanouj, & a package of pita, & eat them at one of those picnic tables in Quincy Square ! We have a couple sandwiches & Mediterranean platters left, too.

Alison's "finite resource" t-shirts are here, $22 each. Only 8 of them, in sizes from small to 3X.

Vulca's Mediterranean Market, 328 Pacific Avenue on Quincy Square in Downtown Bremerton, open till 6pm. Closed Monday & Tuesday.

Alison has just realized that she desperately needs a break, so: she's headed to the coast, leaving Saturday June 27 and...
06/07/2026

Alison has just realized that she desperately needs a break, so: she's headed to the coast, leaving Saturday June 27 and returning on the Tuesday. Sadly, it is not possible for Ian to go with her, so he will be alone here at Vulca's for the Saturday evening & all of Sunday the 28th. Please be nice to him!

Address

328 Pacific Avenue
Bremerton, WA
98337

Opening Hours

Wednesday 12pm - 8pm
Thursday 12pm - 8pm
Friday 12pm - 8pm
Saturday 10am - 8pm
Sunday 12pm - 6pm

Telephone

+13605170771

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