The Market Report

Central Meat Market Opened: 2001 Owner:  Tony Cabral Previous Tenants:  unknown Cooperative:  none Location:  113 Gano St, Fox Point, Providence, RI Photographed:  October 11, 2024 On the far eastern edge of the Fox Point neighborhood, where we are seeing Fox Point Grocers , is the Central Meat Market. It's a small, old-school butcher shop with a couple shelves of groceries. I don't know for sure, but it looks like parts of Fox Point are gentrifying or recently gentrified, so it seems like Fox Point Grocers is the "new" Fox Point while this store is the "old" Fox Point. You can see more pictures on their website . The outside was redone relatively recently, and the Fox Point mural on the side is also relatively new. If you go to the older street views on Google Maps , you can see what the exterior used to look like. Tomorrow's stores are about 20 miles south, near the Rhode Island coast!

Fox Point Grocers Opened: 2023 Owner:  unknown Previous Tenants:  Hawes Fine Foods Cooperative:  none Location:  107 Hope St, Fox Point, Providence, RI Photographed:  October 11, 2024 We're here on the east side of Providence for just two stores in the Fox Point neighborhood. This is a pleasant, upscale residential neighborhood just across the Providence River from downtown and a few blocks southeast of Brown University. Fox Point now has a Trader Joe's , but they also have this tiny specialty gourmet market called Fox Point Grocers (previously Hawes Fine Foods). Curation is the name of the game at Fox Point Grocers, as the 500-square-foot store doesn't have enough space for anything but a very carefully selected range of specialty products. The vast majority, of course, are gourmet and/or imported products you won't find at Trader Joe's or Shaw's. And let me put it this way: you're probably not coming to Fox Point Grocers with a budget. Obviously, though,...