The Market Report

Widdis Food Market Opened:  summer 2026 Owner: Shady Widdi Previous Tenants: Mignosi's Supermarket (1990s-2022) > Ideal Fresh Market (2022-2026) Cooperative: Allegiance Retail Services Location: 1006 Rossville Ave, Staten Island, NY Photographed: September 4, 2026 We find ourselves back in Rossville, out on Staten Island, to check in on an independent supermarket that's had quite a bit happen in the last few years. This was a Mignosi's Supermarket -- part of a local Staten Island chain -- back in the 1990s through 2022 (though the Mignosis sold it to new owners in the mid-00s). In 2022, new owners took over and swapped the Mignosi's name for Ideal Fresh Market, and I wrote extensively about that transition here . Now, it's been sold again, and despite having just had its official grand opening as Ideal in the summer of 2025, extensive renovations are again underway. They're already done (or close to it) on the outside, with a new facade and new logo up. ...

Ideal Fresh of Rossville Opened:  Summer 2022 Owner:  Mike Virga Previous Tenants:  Mignosi's Supermarket Cooperative:  America's Food Basket Location:  1006 Rossville Ave, Staten Island, NY Photographed:  August 1, 2022; November 7, 2024; and April 14, 2025 In Rosebank, the Top Tomato supermarket was acquired by new owners and rebranded with a big renovation. Here in Rossville -- across the island, nine miles southwest -- the same deal has happened with an old-school Mignosi's Supermarket. (And hey, the Foodtown we're also seeing today was previously a Mignosi's!) I don't know when Mignosi's originally opened the roughly 7000 square foot supermarket, but it was sold in 2006 but remained Mignosi's -- or Miggy's, as it was affectionately called. It was the last Mignosi's to stay in business on Staten Island, and the chain previously also had locations in Sunnyside (now the Foodtown), Westerleigh (now Beyar's), and Bulls Head (now Lander Mar...