The Upper West Side’s supermarket wars are heating up. With Trader Joe’s scheduled to move next year into a location at Broadway and 72nd Street, you would expect Fairway, the neighborhood’s iconic specialty grocer perched two blocks north at 74th Street, to be feeling the heat.
But Fairway’s longtime cheesemonger, Steve Jenkins, says he isn’t losing [...]
Trader Joe’s says it will open a store at Broadway and 72nd Street sometime in 2010, according to a story reported in the Westside Independent. Previously, a store official had told Food and Things that a TJ’s would not open on the Upper West Side, but Alison Mochizuki, a Trader Joe’s spokesperson, now says the [...]
Are you a hacker or a slicer when it comes to carving up your Thanksgiving turkey? In my house, hackers oversee the dismantling of our Thanksgiving bird. The turkey meat comes off the carcas in chunks that resemble blocks of moldering wood chips. So the other night, we strolled over to the Broadway and 74th [...]
At Fairway, they take their prosciutto seriously. So seriously, in fact, that if you dare to ask them to trim the fat–horrors!!–from this Italian delicacy, they’ll refuse to sell it to you. Read more in this Westside Independent story. And take their poll to see how you stack up against your fellow Upper West Siders [...]
The Upper West Side supermarket wars have a new entrant—Broadway Farm, the venerable market that’s been selling fruits, vegetables and other goods to the neighborhood for years.
Now the market, located just south of 86th Street, is expanding. By the end of September, the store hopes to have ready a new fresh fish counter and a [...]
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