Food Bazaar Supermarket
This part, on the left side of the store, must have a second floor, but it's kind of an odd feature that Western Beef built when they expanded the store about a decade ago. Inside, the Western Beef looked a lot like Food Bazaar does today...
...though, as I've said before, I think Food Bazaar streamlined some of these stores a bit with less clutter. They also removed the awnings over the deli and bakery departments.
Here's how Western Beef approached the decor question here, with smaller signs hanging and mounted in certain places.
You can see the 1906 Butcher Shop branding here, which Food Bazaar removed all of.
The seafood department wasn't yet open for the day when I took these pictures at around 9 am.
Frozen foods and the front-end...
Opened: October 26, 2026
Welcome to the Bronx! We're back to see the remaining four stores here that Food Bazaar took over from Western Beef after checking out Prospect Avenue and Southern Boulevard a couple weeks ago.
This one is in Mott Haven in the South Bronx, and in fact it's Mott Haven's largest supermarket at just under 40,000 square feet. It was previously much smaller, but underwent a major renovation around 2012-2013 that expanded it into the footprint of several neighboring buildings. It's oriented with its front-end facing the street and the parking lot on the right side, where produce is. Bakery and deli are in the back-right corner, with dairy lining the back wall and the walk-in meat cooler on the left side of the store. There's a service seafood counter and the frozen foods department in the front-left corner of the store.
Western Beef didn't really have much decor here, as we'll see in the pictures of that store at the end of this post. Food Bazaar appears to have painted the walls and hung some of their own signage. I'm really intrigued to see how much work is going to go into a store like this, which isn't exactly a fixer-upper but could use some minor updates.
The bakery is kind of tucked away in the back-right corner of the store next to the deli. I don't recognize these bakery bread signs, and they weren't here in the Western Beef days, so I wonder if in fact they were underneath some other signage Western Beef had, then exposed when those signs were removed.
The ceiling here is on the lower side, which makes wall decor and signage a little tricky, as you can see here.
Food Bazaar is also working on building a new ground-up store over at 350 Grand Concourse, about four blocks west. It looks like that store will be about 10,000 square feet larger than this one.
New aisle markers are in, but as you can see, there's likely not a whole lot still to be done in the grocery aisles. This store, which I went to many times actually during Western Beef's time here, strikes me as being in really good shape. It also strikes me as one of the busier Western Beef stores. I wonder about sales volume at some of the Long Island stores, for instance.
Dairy on the back wall, with Farm Fresh-brand promotional signage on the top of the refrigerator case now covered with wooden trim. 12 grocery aisles (not including produce and the meat department)...
...and the meat department is to the left of the 12th aisle.
There's a service seafood counter up at the front of the store, just outside of the meat room. I imagine that Food Bazaar will likely expand the seafood departments at these stores, as these seafood departments are smaller than Food Bazaar's typical ones.
Frozen foods are up in the front-left corner next to seafood, and a look across the front-end...
Owner: Spencer An
Previous Tenants: Western Beef (1993-2026)
Cooperative: none
Location: 301 Morris Ave, Bronx, NY
Photographed: October 30, 2026
Now that we've seen Food Bazaar, let's check out what Western Beef was like when it was here!
That's all for this store, and we'll see what renovations happen as Food Bazaar continues the conversion process. This weekend, we finish coverage of the stores Food Bazaar bought from Western Beef, plus Allegiance opens high-profile stores on Staten Island and in Central Jersey (tomorrow). Come back to check it out!
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