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Blueberry Pancake Eating Contest at Fairway Upper West Side

Blueberry pancake contest and recipe.

New Upper East Side Fairway Opens July 20; Boasts Speedy Elevators, Wider Aisles

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Fairway Rolls Out Cinnamon Buns Minus the Goo

Fairway sent over some cinnamon buns for me to try. Fairway touts these buns as “shamelessly unsophisticated rounds of breakfast messiness.”
Let me say up front: cinnamon buns should be oozing with globs of gooey sugar and cinnamon. The Fairway buns do not. They are a stripped-down facsimiles of the real thing. Delicate like tea [...]

Fairway to Open Up on the Upper East Side

Upper East Siders may finally be able to shed their grocery store inferiority complexes now that Fairway is scouting a new store location at 240 E. 86th St., between Second and Third avenues.
According to Crain’s New York Business, the Upper West Side specialty grocer has its eye on the 60,000 square feet of space that [...]

Upper West Side: Fairway’s Steve Jenkins Takes on Trader Joe’s Threat

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 [...]