Every so often I get a little extra excited about a new restaurant or market, for one reason or another. Like in this case, when I imagine I am jumping up and down, clapping my hands like a little girl and totally embarrassing myself.

That’s because soon I may be driving by Monte’s Fine Foods every day, a project that longtime Portland chef Steve Quattrucci and his business partner, Neil Rouda, hope to open in February at the corner of Washington and Ocean avenues, on the border of the East Deering and North Deering neighborhoods. Monte’s Fine Foods, a hybrid restaurant-bakery-specialty market, will be located in the old gas station that previously housed Pizza by Angelone at 788 Washington Ave.