I saw a Fresh & Easy employee at the Manhattan Beach Whole Foods today. How did I know that he was from Fresh & Easy? He had a badge hanging from his belt. At first I thought he might be scoping out the competition, doing some of that industrial reconnaissance that we hear about. As [...]
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Whole Foods Is Hands Down the Best Generic Midtown Deli
In the far reaches of Midtown, there exists a magical place whose enormity, and depth of choice, is only eclipsed by its price. A wonderland of lunches, that makes Dishes or Variety Cafe look like a sandbox inside Disney World. Where prepared meals circle ethnic food stations, and pre-packaged sushi is turned out fresh by the minute. If only [...]
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Yesterday morning I went to Whole Foods. Not the one I frequent to in Columbus Circle, I’m talking about the one just opened yesterday on Bowery & Houston on the Lower East Side. Honestly, I think of it more like East of SoHo in my own geographic terms but it’s supposed to be labeled the [...]
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Another day, another new New York food experience. This time, it was a pre-movie bite at the Union Square Whole Foods salad bar type thing. If you haven’t seen it (and I’m led to believe that I was the last person on earth who hadn’t), it’s a rather massive operation including some basic salad bar ingredients, some pasta and meat salads, more tofu than you can shake a skewer at (“whoop de damn do,” I exclaim, channeling Derrick Coleman), and some rather dodgy-looking Indian food. Also available are sandwiches, focaccia laden like a pizza, various baked and fried chicken parts, and sushi.
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Whole Foods buffet, can you go wrong? Only if you put nothing in your box. I tend to overdue it on my mixtures. Here we have some vegatables...pretty standard, with sweet potato-apple-walnut salad. I liked everything but I totally need to get stuff without the dressings. It looks healthy...but deep down I know it's not.
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There are some nights, especially during the winter, when all you want is a big bowl of comforting pasta. I'm back in New York for a month, so I finally have a right to complain about the cold. The Boy is in the midst of his first set of law school exams, so the house has been very quiet, leaving him space to study and me to catch up on reading cookbooks and to do some research on Proust as well.
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There descriptions and more are what I wanted to scrawl onto the Whole Foods Turtle Parfait cup in permanent black marker, after which I would stab the cup in rage--with the copious number of free Whole Foods plastic cutlery--brought upon by the ingestion of pointless calories and continue putting the brutalized cup in its rightful place by stomping on it. A few times. With cleats.
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Today I went on a little fooding tour with my brother, Bert, and longtime friend from middle school, Jesse. They didn't care where we went just as long as we did something so I took them to Great NY Noodletown, a restaurant I've never been to but have heard of a lot.
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The people in the Village have been waiting for Whole Foods to open. I for one have been waiting for the doors to open...and today they have.
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I love Whole Foods. I shopped there the most in NJ because it was nicer than any other supermarket within the same distance. The Whole Foods at Union Square in Manhattan just opened and looking at Kill The Bird's photoessay I'm very, very, very glad I didn't go because I'd probably go crazy from sensory overload brought on by free samples or I'd die from eating the free samples...
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The AOL Time Warner building: Beautiful new twin towers on the Columbus Circle at the SW corner of Central Park. Between the towers is an arcade of shi-shi shops, and in the basement, a gigantic Whole Foods. Descend the escalators and you are fed into the produce and grocery section; complete your shopping, and you have to pass through "the gauntlet" on your way to the checkers (35 stations in all). The Gauntlet consists of counter after counter of prepared foods: indian, sushi, chinese, pizza, chocolate, desserts, salads, etc... Assuming you succumb, once you've purchased your food, there's a seating area with long bars, and a wall of glass that cycles through all the colors of the rainbow (it's very gradual - about 45 mins/cycle). Oh yeah, would you like a Jamba-juice with that?My one piece of sushi was excellently prepared. Thumbs up. (Sorry for the small sample size, I didn't have the appetite for a full meal.)
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