Entries from Buffalo Chow tagged with 'Markets'

Japan's Awesome Snack Foods: A Little Ahead Of Our Time

As we write these words, we're in your future: Japan is 14 hours ahead on the clock, such that its today is your tomorrow, so when we leave here, we will actually arrive back home two hours before we departed...

Posted on November 25, 2009

Fresh Beer, Fruit + Donuts: The Many Charms of Becker Farms

Rarely do we visit a place so surprisingly interesting and worthwhile that we can't imagine how we missed it in the past, but Becker Farms is one of those places. Loyal Buffalo Chow readers may recall that we weren't enthusiastic...

Posted on October 22, 2009

O.C. Chow: Trader Joe's Is Coming + A Look At Whole Foods

When people from outside of Western New York visit Buffalo, they're almost always blown away by Wegmans, yet surprised that such a food-obsessed area doesn't have a Trader Joe's or Whole Foods Market - two of the country's other supermarket...

Posted on September 23, 2009

Markets: Clinton Bailey, Bidwell Parkway & Williamsville

For decades, Western New Yorkers have debated the correct balance between supporting local businesses and patronizing national ones. Some people - many, actually - err on the side of buying as much as possible from smaller neighborhood and village shops,...

Posted on August 22, 2009

Wegmans, Part III: Pittsford's Super Wegmans of the Future

Free facials. A Godiva chocolate shop. Gourmet food offerings in a standalone restaurant... at a supermarket? This week, in an effort to understand what Clarence might gain from a proposed new 140,000-square foot Wegmans - the #1 national supermarket chain...

Posted on July 25, 2009

Walmart Tests a New, Bigger Supermarket in Niagara Falls

In the past, the words "Wegmans competitor" have brought to mind certain obvious names: Tops, Dash's Market, and Aldi's locally, Trader Joe's and Whole Foods outside, and any number of smaller, mom and pop alternatives (see: Guercio's, Ni Hoowa) in...

Posted on July 19, 2009

Chicago Chow: Trader Joe's, Or, Wegmans' #1 Competitor

Ninety-nine-cent packages of Tom Yum Cashews. Legitimately good wines - ones people swear by - for $2 to $3. Amazing sweets. And fresh, high-quality produce at amazingly low prices. If you're wondering what it would take to beat the mighty,...

Posted on June 29, 2009

D.C. Chow: Blue/bucks & Other Washington Food Delights

By any standard, this past weekend was wonderful - an opportunity to visit family and friends in Washington, D.C., relying both on their expertise and our own past experiences to sample some of the best foods and drinks in the...

Posted on June 8, 2009

WNY Italian, Built At Guercio's, Or Cooked At Santasiero's

Look. It's right there, in the first picture. Can you guess what it is? Hint: Santasiero's has sold this item in Buffalo for decades, and we know people who actually trekked in from the suburbs to bring it home to...

Posted on May 10, 2009

Blood, Bugs, and Good Cannoli at Famed Broadway Market

The Broadway Market ain't what it used to be. After 120 years of occupying the same city block on Broadway in Buffalo - a parcel which has seen both major demographic and surrounding infrastructure changes since then - this 90,000-square...

Posted on December 28, 2008

A Tale of Two Wegmans, Part I: The World-Beating Market

If you're from Buffalo, you know it; if not, believe it: there's probably no objectively better American supermarket than Wegmans, a Rochester-based chain with 10 stores in Western New York. Put aside its current #3 ranking in Fortune's "100 Best...

Posted on December 25, 2008

Southeast Asia, Boxed, in Amherst: Ni Hoowa Supermarket

Once the site of a seriously authentic Chinese restaurant - quite possibly the only one in Amherst to offer "frog's legs with foo chow sauce," "assorted sausage bladder skin," "sweet and sour boneless duck hand," and similarly exotic items -...

Posted on July 5, 2008

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