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Chelsea Market: Great Food Shopping
Come with us on a journey through Chelsea Market, located on Ninth Avenue and greatly spanning between 15th and 16th streets in New York City. Visitors will discover a vast space of culinary wonders.
The first big store you see on your right is Chelsea Wine Vault, whose name implies that the store has the largest wine selection west of Sixth Avenue and south of Herald Square. On many evenings there is a wine tasting, where you have the opportunity to sample not one, but seven different wines. If you need assistance choosing a bottle, the staff is more than happy to answer your questions and make recommendations. After making your selection, you have the choice to bring your wine home, or, drink it right in the market! Lucky for you, Chelsea Wine Vault is happy to open your bottle of wine for you, and even chill any white wines, and give you glasses so that you can enjoy a refreshing glass of Chardonnay by the Chelsea Market waterfall.
Across from Chelsea Wine Vault and extending further into the market are two very popular bakeries, Fat Witch Bakery and Eleni’s Bakery. Fat Witch often has free samples and does an early-bird special by reducing the prices of their delicious brownies. But if cupcakes and festive cookies are what you are looking for, go to Eleni’s, where the cupcakes are plump and the cookies match the popular holiday of the month.
As you pass the bakeries, things get meatier and heartier. One such meatier place is Dickson’s Farmstand Meats. Dickson’s is a clean and serious butcher shop with quality meats at the right price. You can stay for lunch, or you can buy meat by the half-pound or pound. Find a good hamburger recipe, go to Dickson’s for your meat and you are guaranteed to convince yourself that you cooked a top chef’s quality burger.
Further down the market walk is the fresh caught fish at The Lobster Place: Seafood Market. The options are vast, and the location is certainly better than a trip to the docks.
If you want food on demand, you can dine at Chelsea Thai, which serves unique and flavorful Asian food while still being able to see the hustle and bustle of the market. Or you can try Friedman’s Lunch, which serves more than lunch, for cheap!
For something slightly more upscale, The Green Table restaurant is an intimate dining room that looks like the set of a Broadway show, with familiar indoor windows, dining room tables and seats for 22 guests. The Green Table serves your dinner favorites, like shrimp and sausage gumbo, grilled cheese, and pot pie. All the food is organic, with reasonable portions to help you feel full and healthy. The brunch at The Green Table is a great way to start your morning, with baked eggs, large salads, warm soups and impeccable service.
Several places offer free samples, so walk around and enjoy what is handed to you. Amy’s Bread is a great stop for a free sample or a little snack. The rolls range from onion to brioche to pretzel! You can go next door to Lucy Whey’s Artisanal Cheese and grab your favorite cheese, whether it be brie, goat, cheddar or an adventurous sounding cheese that you do not usually see at your regular grocery store, and enjoy the cheese with your Amy’s Bread right in the center of the market.
To add some fruit to the mix, like ripe avocadoes or red delicious apples, duck into the Manhattan Fruit Exchange, a cash-only produce store which will keep you coming back on a weekly basis.
Other Chelsea Market Favorites include the scrumptiously large chocolate chip cookie at Jacques Torres, the variety of salt shakers and cutting boards for the home cook or the chef at Bowery Kitchen Supply, the pancetta and sausages at Buon Italia, the sweet cream at L’Arte Gelato and the large loaves of sourdough bread at Sarabeth’s Kitchen.
Chelsea Market is always a few hours of great fun, whether it be strolling past the waterfall, enjoying the impromptu band, eating a free, homemade potato chip, or picking up several treats to turn your at-home dinner into a smorgasbord of culinary delights.
Chelsea Market is window-shopping for food, and window-shopping is always in season in New York.
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