Fairway Market
New York, NY 10023
Phone: (212) 595-1888
- Cross Street:
- Between 74th Street and 75th Street
- Directions:
- 1, 2, 3 at 72nd St
- Hours:
- Daily 6am-1am
Editorial Review for Fairway Market – by Ian Zaretsky
The Scene
Even before opening its Harlem megastore, Fairway had long been at or near the top of the produce heap, with consistently high quality, reasonable prices and a selection that includes everything from Asian pears to Belgian endive. It's more than just produce, of course, with typical supermarket staples and just about everything else you'd expect from a gourmet market in Manhattan.
The Goods
The prices at the newer store are about as low as you could hope to find for the kind of quality Fairway offers. If you have wheels and a few bucks to spend, you'd be crazy not to be a regular at the Harlem branch--there's even free parking. As for the original Fairway, there's now a fresh fish counter, as the store has expanded by 4,000 square feet, all the way to the corner of 74th Street.
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Insider Tips
When to GoTuesday-Sunday, 6pm-9:30pm, it's BYOB at the cafe within the market. Grab a bottle of cabernet and for $35, you can get salad, several sides and choice of steak.
DeliveryDelivery is available from 9am to 9pm and costs varies by distance from the store.
The ExtrasBrooklyn shoppers can stock up at the Fairway in Red Hook.
User Reviews for Fairway Market
09/03/2008 Posted by NYC123321
Totally will have to second people's descriptions of store management. I don't think they could get any ruder. Last time I was there, the store manager was so disrespectful and insulting he actually made me cry! Would never, ever shop in this disasterous hell-hole again. Fairway totally gives new meaning to customer "service."
Cons: Worst customer service ever. Terrible shopping experience.
05/07/2008 Posted by stack30
The end of this story is that my friend -- who's EIGHT MONTHS PREGNANT and was visiting NYC -- and I were told to stand up from our table and leave the cafe by the rudest, most obnoxious man whom I've ever encountered at a New York City restaurant. It was so shocking and upsetting. We were seated by a waitor at a large table, as we were waiting for a few other friends to make their way to the cafe from other parts of the store. Then the manager came over demanding to know why we were seated without our whole party. We told him that our friends were minutes away. He got in a fight with the waitor who'd seated us, yelling at him over our table in the middle of the restaurant. Then he told us that we had to get up. Motioning at my friend's pregnant belly, I said that if we had to get up we were just going to leave. He said, "You should do that." He stood back glaring at us until we stood up and walked out of the cafe. The manager of the cafe on Saturday afternoons is the type of guy who hurts New York's reputation. As a lifelong New Yorker, I would hope that Fairway doesn't support his kind of hateful rudeness... Apparently they not only support it but reward it by putting him in a management position. I can't review the cafe's food, but I can tell you that I for one will never be eating it.
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