Met Fresh Supermarket
Opened: April 10, 2026
There are 18 Met Foods stores in and around New York City, and while the chain is much smaller than it once was with dozens of locations, it's started to grow again recently. That's thanks in large part to the Hamdan family's new stores, which are popping up around the city under the Met Fresh brand. (In fact, seven of the 18 Met stores are owned by the family.)
Most recently, Danny Hamdan opened a gorgeous Met Fresh in a former Rite Aid in lower Manhattan, but the stores are around Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens (plus one on the way in Philadelphia). One of them is even about two and a half miles east on Myrtle Avenue, the same street this is on.
Like the others, this isn't a particularly large supermarket, though at 11,000 square feet it's not tiny either. It's on the ground floor of a newly-built building. The produce department is in a dead-end in the front-right corner, with frozen and meat in the back-right corner off the first grocery aisle. The rest of meat and part of dairy are on the back wall, with the rest of dairy, baked goods, cheeses, and packaged deli items in the last aisle. A tiny deli is in the front-left corner.
You can see that the decor here is very similar to the Two Bridges location, which makes sense as they essentially opened weeks apart.
Here's a look at the main supermarket, with the grocery aisles in the middle and the deli and customer service in the front-left corner.
The space is beautiful, and very thoughtfully designed. The selection contains the basics and specialty items, and products under ASG's own Avenue A line.
The frozen foods are in an alcove at the back of the first aisle on the right side of the store.
This area also has a couple other short grocery aisles.
No space goes to waste here, and despite the generally low lighting and dark colors the store feels bright enough. The feeling is premium, not dingy.
That's carried over into the grocery aisles, where angled spotlights illuminate the groceries rather than the usual tube fluorescents. I didn't notice the same issues with dim spots the way I did at Two Bridges.
Dairy lines both sides of the last aisle, along with cheeses and packaged grab-and-go deli items.
Several of the Hamdans' Met Fresh stores don't have service delis at all, but this one does (albeit a very small one). Packaged baked goods are displayed in the counter, with other fresh baked goods on the endcaps facing.
I really love the design of these stores and it's good to see more of them opening!
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Owner: Danny Hamdan
Previous Tenants: none
Cooperative: Associated Supermarket Group
Location: 340 Myrtle Ave, Brooklyn, NY
Photographed: April 17, 2026
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