The Market Report

It's not too often that I do updates of Food Bazaars, since most of the ones I visit regularly are fairly new. But we have a couple of changes at Elizabeth and Red Hook that are worth checking out... Elizabeth The above picture of the Elizabeth Food Bazaar isn't a recent one (you can see the snow), but it's a very nice sunset shot and I think it's my only picture showing the whole store from across the street. The Elizabeth Food Bazaar opened in 2016 in a former Pathmark, which actually opened in 1967 as a ShopRite and was converted the following year. You can see my extensive past coverage here , here , and here . While the store was extensively remodeled before its reopening, most of the supermarket retained its Pathmark tile (just with the signature blue Path to Savings-era portions removed). Only the grand aisle was switched to polished concrete. This month, a lot of work has been going on at the store, including refinishing all of the flooring to polished concrete...

Food Bazaar Supermarket Owner: Spencer An Opened:  August 2020 Previous Tenants:  Fairway Market Cooperative:  none Location:  480 Van Brunt St, Red Hook, Brooklyn, NY Photographed:  December 2021 Buckle up, folks, this is gonna be a long one. It's time that we return to the Red Hook Food Bazaar, which we last saw way back in August 2020 with pictures I took on their first day of operation. The Food Bazaar team had just a few hours to turn the roughly 55,000 square foot store over from Fairway to Food Bazaar and like Douglaston , completed a renovation over the course of approximately the next year. As we tour this store, you'll see it looks a lot like a Food Bazaar and a lot less like a Fairway, although it maintains a distinct Fairway sensibility and quite a bit of signage and fixtures. But I'll say what I said in my first post here, I found myself wanting a lot less Fairway and a lot more Food Bazaar here. You'll see what I mean shortly. The layout has been...