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A sweet lifesaver for many New Yorkers, selling "gentle treats for delicate tummies:" gluten-free, allegen-free, kosher, vegan and delicious.
An Upper West Side wine shop that uses clever marketing and store displays to make it easy to buy wine. Don't hold this against them, especially if you're shopping on the basis of price.
A natural foods and organic supermarket in Park Slope.
A bakery famed for classic American desserts. Located in Red Hook but their splendid goods, especially their cupcakes, are sold at fine food stores, especially ones in Brooklyn.
A family-run bakery selling their artisanal breads and sweets at several New York City Greenmarkets.
A bakery adjacent to the delicious and rightfully popular Balthazar restaurant sells the breads served in the bistro as well as sold to better markets across the city.
Pan-Asian grocery in Chinatown.
Specialists in Italian sausage.
Wholesale prices on big and small restaurant supplies.
A New York institution famed for its smoked fish.
A full-service market with both organic and conventional produce, on Manhattan's Upper West Side.
A Greek bakery in Bay Ridge that offers an international selection of traditional pastries and bread.
Every part of the animal at excellent prices.
A speciality market known for its nuts and dried fruit but it also has a full-service market with meat, fish, cheese, produce and grocery items.
Upper West Side wine and spirits store with an extensive selection at all prices. Located directly across the street from Fairway, this shop is popular with both neighborhood residents and others who journey here for its values and inventory.
One of New York's best cheese shops and charcuterie, located in Williamsburg.
A midtown wine and spirits store with a solid selection, helpful staff and convenient location.
Also known as Empire Purveyors, this market has been a Sutton Place institution for more than 30 years.
Staten Island butcher and specialty food store.
A large TriBeCa natural foods market that sells organic meats, produce and grocery items plus natural household and personal products.
A loved two-store bagel merchant in Brooklyn. They also sell deli sandwiches, but the crowds mostly come for the freshly baked bagels.
Two wine stores, one on the Upper East side and the other on Broadway across from Zabar's, that are parts of an 8-store chain and on-line merchant. Their approach to selling wine is based on a set of principles about demystifying wine buying using a concept called "great wines for every day." You can buy from them at their Manhattan stores, on their web site, or through Fresh Direct.
Full-service and busy fish monger in Astoria.
Boerum Hill bakery that specializes in cakes and cupcakes.
An Arthur Avenue Italian butcher shop with top quality meats, sausages and game.
A wonderful specialty market in Park Slope known for both their beer as well as top quality charcuterie, chocolates, cheese, and other foods (to eat with or without beer).
Everything sold here is big. And cheap. Located in Manhattan's Ninth Avenue food neighborhood.
A cheese monger on Manhattan's Upper East Side with a wide selection of domestic and imported cheeses.
A friendly Park Slope wine shop with a well-edited selection of international labels at all prices.
An old fashioned bakery in the heart of Chelsea. Red velvet cake, cupcakes, cookies, birthday cakes, pies. All like mother never made but you wish she did.
A two-outpost eco-conscious bakery opened by the team at The City Bakery.
A bakery that makes pastries that are as beautiful to see as they are delicious to eat.
A small wine shop in Dumbo with a carefully chosen selection of not-only-French wines and an even larger international inventory on its web site.
A Park Slope treasure. Superb charcuterie, cheese, bread and grocery items.
Fish mongers who bring acutely fresh and season-perfect fish and shellfish to New York's Greenmarkets.
A bookstore that specializes in out-of-print and antiquarian cookbooks.
One of the treasures of the Arthur Avenue neighborhood of Italian food shops. The small shop is all about fresh pasta.
A small Williamsburg wine and spirits shop.
A wine store in the Flatiron neighborhood with a carefully edited selection of 365 wines. They take a thematic approach and have concluded that most of their customers eat take-out food. Don't hold this against them.
A small bakery/take-out counter on the third floor of the Time-Warner Center that is operated by Thomas Keller's casual cafe of the same name.
Lower East Side shop selling cookware, knives and kitchen tools.
Cookware and kitchen supply store located in the Chelsea Market.
No-frills kitchen supply store. Great prices on pots, pans and kitchen tools perfect for a home cook, despite the store's restaurant name.
After having a Manhattan store for 62 years, Bridge Kitchenware has left NYC but still operates an excellent online cookware retail store.
An artisanal grocer in Park Slope.
Large neighborhood market that serves Manhattan's West 80's. Notable for its excellent fish department run by Bobby Santangelo.
One of New York's best sources for all kinds of cookware and kitchen tools. Very competitive prices and a deep selection on the big stuff, like pots and pans, and the small things like vegetable peelers and thermometers. They carry most of the top brands and are experts in knives.
Full-service market in Brooklyn Heights.
The best ice cream in all 5 boroughs.
A kitchenware store serving Brooklyn's Greenpoint and Williamsburg neighborhoods plus home cooks in Queens and beyond.
A family store selling fresh pasta and a small selection of Italian grocery items.
An Italian market in the Chelsea Market complex that sells cheese, charcuterie, a huge selection of dried pastas, and other grocery items. This is the place to find unusual items that can be essential for an authentic Italian dish such as bottarga. Prices are very fair.
Specialty wine store with expertise and deep selections in wines from Burgundy.
A bake shop that sells old fashioned and homemade-style layer cakes, cupcakes, birthday cakes, cheesecakes, pies, and other winning sweets.
Full-service neighborhood grocer with that also sells prepared foods.