Foodie's Urban Market - Boston, MA (South Boston)

Foodie's Urban Market

Opened: 2013

Owner: Vic Leon

Previous Tenants: non-grocery tenants

Cooperative: none

Location: 230 W Broadway, Boston, MA

Photographed: June 29, 2019

Welcome to Foodie's Urban Market! Foodie's is a two-store gourmet market chain with one location here in South Boston and the other one -- the original location -- in the South End, about a mile west. This small-format location is around 8000 square feet, and is one of two full supermarkets in Southie. The other is a larger, but still very small, Stop & Shop.

You enter the store to the produce department in the front-left corner, with meat and seafood in the rest of the first aisle. Deli and bakery are in the back-left corner, with dairy on the rest of the back wall and continuing down the last aisle with frozen.

It's a high-end shopping experience with a decidedly upscale product offering. The store is small but complete, and I don't recall seeing a store brand here for groceries (they did have Simply Done, from Topco, in nonfoods).

There's only five aisles, if you count this first aisle with meat/seafood and prepared foods/deli as the first aisle.

I don't believe this store was a grocer before Foodie's, which opened in 2013. Foodie's also previously had a location in Duxbury, a Boston suburb, which closed in 2018 to be replaced by Roche Brothers' Brothers Marketplace chain. A store opened in Belmont, a northwestern suburb, in 2017 but then closed the following year.

Deli and prepared foods in the back-left corner.

Prepared foods seem to be a focus for the store, especially given how large this department is compared to the overall size of the store.

Looking across the back wall of the store. These appear to be older cases with newer doors added to them.

Here you can see a few Topco products on the shelves, including the Simply Done on the right.

Frozen foods and the rest of dairy line the right side wall of the store, in the last aisle.

Here's a look across the front-end towards customer service in the front right corner. And that's all for this store! Our next stop is a relatively new supermarket at Boston Harbor in the Seaport District to the north about a mile. Come back to check it out!