The Market Report

I hope you've enjoyed the far northeastern neighborhoods of Boston over the last few days. If you like what you saw, great! We have plenty more coastal areas of New England still to visit north of Boston. But before we get there, we do have a bit more of Boston and its suburbs to see. If you want to browse the stores of Charlestown and East Boston, click on the points on the map below. Coming Up Next Back Bay and Longwood are our next stops, including the Kenmore Square area between those two neighborhoods. These are, like the nearby North and West Ends, historic and generally affluent areas, and there are several large institutions here. The main library, Prudential Center, and famed Newbury Street area are in Back Bay, while Longwood and the Kenmore Square area is home to Boston University, Northeastern University, the Museum of Fine Arts, the Boston Children's Hospital, the Brigham and Women's Hospital, and the Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital, and dare I forget Fenway P...

Whole Foods Market Opened: 2013 Owner:  Amazon Previous Tenants:  Johnnie's Foodmaster (opened ca. 1980, closed 2012) Cooperative:  none Location:  27 Austin St, Boston, MA Photographed:  July 22, 2019 One of the ways that Whole Foods got so many stores in the Boston area was through the acquisition of six stores from Johnnie's Foodmaster, a local chain of supermarkets that went out of business in 2012 . This one was opened as a new-build Johnnie's Foodmaster around 1980, closing in late 2012. After renovations, Whole Foods opened the following year . The 31,000 square foot store today is a very nice Whole Foods. I photographed it in 2019, but I returned very recently (last winter, I think?) and can confirm nothing has changed. You enter to the grand aisle on the right side with a juice bar, bakery, produce, and cheese on that side. Dairy lines the back wall with frozen in the second-to-last aisle, and on the left side of the store are the meat, seafood, and d...

There's nothing like some fantastic Italian imported cheeses or salami, and that's just what the Salumeria Italiana in Boston's North End has to offer (pictured above). But while we've been here in the West End and North End, we've seen a couple other stores, including some great historical ones and a brand-new Star Market . Check them all out in this map below. Note that there's one store in gray on the map, the DeLuca's Market on Charles Street , a small gourmet grocer that I haven't visited. There's another DeLuca's that we'll see shortly! Coming Up Next Because this is Boston, the North End is not actually the northernmost neighborhood of the city, in the same way that neither the South End nor South Boston are actually in the southern parts of the city. The northernmost neighborhood is *checks notes, sighs* East Boston, which I suppose is east of most of the city, so that gets a pass. Because of some annexations over time , these neig...