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Fine Fare Supermarkets - Manhattan, NY (Inwood/Broadway & Sherman)

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By Zachary
Fine Fare Supermarkets
Opened: August 13, 2025
Owner: unknown
Previous Tenants: non-grocery tenants
Cooperative: Retail Grocers Group
Location: 4650 Broadway, Inwood, Manhattan, NY
Photographed: September 12, 2025
We're back in the Big Apple for today's posts! The Market Report's first stop is way up in Inwood, the farthest-north neighborhood in Manhattan, to check out a brand-new Fine Fare Supermarket. Like the one at Broadway and 178th, about 20 blocks south, this one is branded Fine Fare Gold. It's in the ground floor of a new development in a historic building. The Packard Building is all but unrecognizable today, with a residential tower extending many floors above it and an approximately 16,000 square foot Fine Fare at the base. (Note that that's an extremely rough estimate, and I don't actually know just how large this store is.)
Similar to the Fordham Heights Fine Fare, this one is modern, spacious, and almost suburban-feeling while being in an interesting and historical building. Unlike the Fordham Heights one, though, there's no element of the building's history preserved in the new supermarket except for a historical picture of the building in the cafe. And like the 178th and Broadway Fine Fare Gold, there doesn't seem to be much separating this store from a normal Fine Fare. Speaking of, there's a normal Fine Fare that's apparently under different ownership just a couple blocks away on Broadway. Both that store and this one are open 24/7.
The grand aisle is what we enter to first, with produce on the right side and deli on the left. The food court is in the front-left corner, with a seating area around the left side facing Broadway. Bakery is on the back wall along with meat and seafood counters, and dairy and frozen are on the right side with beer in the front-right corner.
This store opened in mid-August, and about a month into its operation was still in the process of getting its operation up and running. The food court seems to eventually be planning to have hot food, sushi, pizza, and a juice bar currently only has sushi, with coming soon signage over the other counters.
These large windows in the seating area face out to Broadway.
The deli counter, which is fully stocked and ready to go, looks great, as does the produce department. The very similar shelving and display in this location compared to Fordham Heights makes me think they might be under the same ownership, but I don't know that for sure.
Cheese and greens are behind the deli counter.
And I think this decor is absolutely spectacular. I love the big, bright colors, the lighting, and the multi-layered signage.
But there seems to be a disconnect between the intentions here and the execution. Maybe they were still in the process of scaling up the new store, but there were some noticeable things like this "organic" sign, under which there is no organic produce -- and the only organic items I spotted in the produce department were some loose greens and some packaged salad mixes, neither of which is near the organic sign.
The bakery seems to have already been downsized, too. I don't know if there was originally an in-store bakery, but by the time I visited, the service bakery case was filled with packaged commercial baked goods. An earlier photo posted to Google shows those packaged baked goods in this refrigerator to the left of the counter, which is now full of beverages.
The grocery aisles are well-appointed, with a lot of selection in the space that overall isn't that large. But again, the selection felt very mainstream and not that different from the non-Gold Fine Fare three blocks north.
That said, this store really is beautiful and thoughtfully set up. The large seafood and meat counters are in the back-right corner of the store. Even the smaller Fine Fare nearby, though, has a service seafood department.
Packaged meats are actually in a grocery aisle, not a setup we see a whole lot.
And dairy is in the second-to-last aisle, with frozen foods on both sides of the last aisle. The store was absolutely spotless at the time of my visit, as you can see, even though it was about a month into being open. It still felt like opening day in a lot of ways.
A nice touch in the beer department is this bilingual signage, as Inwood has a large Spanish-speaking population.
And in a rather unusual setup -- but similar to the Washington Heights Fine Fare -- the registers are in a single line, lined up along the front wall rather than in the more traditional setup. I don't know why that decision was made here, since there's enough space for the regular register setup.
This is a beautiful, really spectacularly designed new store. But I don't understand the Gold branding, beyond a sign on the front, and it feels like they're not quite accomplishing everything they set out to do here. Still, it's nice to see a brand-new independent supermarket and this is certainly the most beautiful supermarket in Inwood. Don't miss this weekend's other posts!

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