Fairway Market

This is my favorite market in all of NYC. There is always a good variety on food items you won’t find in other stores. The prices are expensive but I guess you get what you pay for. The reason for the four stars is because of their customer service. It could definitely use a little improvement!

Let’s just say the floors were flooded as on June 5, 2016, the day I was there, the skies of NYC opened up and poured buckets!
The staff was frantically cleaning what seemed like an ocean in the store.
But I was able to get in and out with what I needed, despite a store that seems a bit MazE-​LiKe.
Choices in product are massive and I loved the vegan premade dinners I was able to walk away with. Massive selection of yogurts in the… er… freezer room.
Despite being a bit of a walk from anywhere near civilization, I give this Market good reviews for having so much product in an area so unsuspecting.
Much better than WF in the UWS.

The best deli in Manhattan with «real» — not processed — Fairway turkey and Fairway rare roast beef. Also great selection of Boar’s Head cheeses. Lucia’s Potato Salad, cole slaw and macaroni salad are musts.
The COLD room — think of it as walking into a gigantic refrigerator — is where you will find seafood (esp great crab cakes) and the butcher. Also dairy, all cold beverages (juices, iced tea and coffee, etc), homemade soups, packaged meats (hot dogs, ground chuck, chicken etc).
Bakery has delicious fruit tarts. You can also buy freshly baked breads like pumpernickel raisin and bagels. Nearby is a huge selection of almost every olive imaginable.
Always on sale: One case of Poland Water is around $ 4.65 plus bottle deposit.
Pick up a flyer of the weekly specials when you enter store to alert you to best savings.
TIP: Allow Fairway to text message you for additional savings such as $ 10 off $ 75 or more of groceries.
Free, big parking lot across the street from store.

Online shopping service is the worst. Horrible customer care with no regard for their customers. They give you a phone number that goes right to voicemail. They ask you to select a window of 2 hours for delivery, and come up to 3 hours late. They do not call or answer the phone. They showed up after 10:00 pm with melted ice cream and rotten bananas. The delivery person was unapologetic and offered no explanation. They have yet to contact us. Fresh Direct is getting us back, no wonder Fairway is closing stores and declaring bankruptcy. The lost their care of making customers happy and have no scruples.

Fresh salad and sandwiches available to be made and good selection of hot foods during lunch.

Great options with excellent prices, clean and well lit. The service isn’t what it was before they went public. I still shop here for my veggies and meat, but I remember them being quicker and friendlier a few years ago.

I love this store. Fresh meats, bread, food, bakery and vegetables. What else could I want from a grocery store so close to me. This place is amazing considering how expensive and crappy other stores are around.

Decided that I was going to start cooking more this year (we’ll see how long that last). This location is great, has free parking and they carry a ton of specialty items.
I’m not sure if prices here are better than Trader Joes, I have to compare, but the free parking alone makes it a great option for me.
The workers are friendly and they speak my language (spanish that is). You can pick from all the organic/​specialty selections in the front, but they also have the generic/​processed stuff in the back, the choice is yours. Is it expensive? depends on what you decide to get here, if you go all organic, you will pay for it.
Overall, it’s a convenient location to drive to and lots of selections. If you don’t have a car, this might not be ideal for you because the nearest train is on Broadway and there is a bit of construction in the area right now.

Leaving Astoria and not having euro market around is really hard, the hieghts has shit for stores that have anything of quality or stuff that I like, after going to Dinosaur… next review I came here and forgot how much specialty stuff they have for really good prices. Tons of Olives good coffee and everyting else you could ever want.

Fairway Market isn’t as good as it used to be since it was purchased by a big corporation. You can still get many speciality products, but the prepared foods are more expensive than before and the selection isn’t nearly as food. Still they have a great selection of fresh produce as well as all kinds of nuts, seeds and dried fruit. They also have a great deli and cheese dept. We e go there maybe once of twice a month.

When Fairway opened this location years back it was a big deal; now, only a few years later, it shows its age and not only does Fairway have far larger suburban locations in Westchester and nearby Connecticut, but other grocers have moved into NYC with much bigger footprints. So this location offers a selection of dry goods, fresh produce, meat and fish and cheese and baked goods, but one does well to shop selectively, especially for sale items, and do bulk shopping elsewhere. That said, they do offer one thing found from very few merchants anywhere in Manhattan: free parking! Yes, not only are they literally right under the Westside Highway, and thus that easy to access via automobile, but adjacent to their store is a free lot.

While I don’t love the prices (shoot, me NYC grocery stores are crazy expensive) this place has got pretty much every other grocery store beat. The only way it would be better is if there was a hover board that picked me up at my door and delivered e back post shopping.
First of all the walk to the store is fantastic, walking through the park along the river to the store is really nice no matter what time of day. The lay out is great, and if you don’t have AC the cold room is like walking into a food filled heaven on earth.
The selection is really great, there are standard food items and an extensive organic section. the fish section is great too, lots of options at pretty decent prices. The only thing I don’t like is that the bread that they have is kind of limited (don’t love the sliced whole wheat bread). They also don’t have ben and jerry’s half baked which seems like small potatoes but is a big deal for me. Also, most of the produce is great, but the nectarines were pretty suspect when I got them and they weren’t very good.
Otherwise this place is amazing and I get a free workout in when I lug all my food up the stairs and the hill after shopping.

Living in Morningside Heights, the Fairway here and on 75^th can seem almost equidistant. Sure this one is geographically closer, but the Fairway on 75^th always seems more convenient. Why not just stop at 75^th on your way back from work on Friday evening? Why not just take the subway that drops you off only blocks away from there?
Space, selection, and superior wait times. Trust your fellow reviewers, coming here is like night and day compared to 75^th street.

I have a love-​hate relationship with Fairway Market. I’ll elaborate below:
LOVE:
+ Easy 5 minute walk from my house
+ Sits alongside beautiful West Harlem Piers Park where you can watch the sun set before shopping
+ HUGE store, I have literally gotten lost in here until I was able to claw my way through a ventilation shaft three weeks later *
+ Large organic selection
+ Locally sourced produce
+ Sales can make shopping here affordable if you stick to only sales items
+ Their fresh baked bread section has some pretty good San Francisco style sourdough (born and raised SF!)
HATE:
— Prices are ridiculous. I once paid 5.99 for *ONE* red bell pepper. Organic or not, fuhgettaboutit!
— Layout is mad confusing
Come here to grab those hard to find items (ie things you cant find at TJs or your local market), check out their sales items which are printed near entrance, but definitely get the easy to find commodities elsewhere and save yourself the dough, mmmmkay?
* Okay, maybe not LITERALLY… But you get my point.

This is my go to super market, but it isn’t great. Like all shopping in NYC you have to pick and choose what you are going to buy and where.
Associated is best for non-​perishable dry goods.
West Side Market is best for fruits and vegetable, gourmet stuff, cheese.
Citarella is best for gourmet meats and fish, cheeses.
Fairways meat and fish selection is excellent. Their dry goods is discombobulated and so too is the overall layout of the place. IT’s HUGE, and very poorly laid out.
Some painted arrows on the aisles would seriously help the traffic congestion of this logistical nightmare.
Cleaning/​pet supplies are over priced, their deli isn’t anything special and I often get potato salad that is past its prime.
Cold room is great. Fairway products are as good as brand name. Good frozen foods section.

I was definitely surprised that there’s a Fairway Market at this location. It’s not exactly brimming one stop grocery store, considering it’s located near the highway ramp, but it is. Nonetheless they carry specialty items you’ve come to expect, like bottled ginger root or some unheard of IPA, and vast selection of gourmet foods. I’m particularly impressed with the quality and available types of fruits and vegetables at this FM.
The workers here are quite friendly! I won’t dock a star for the inexperienced cashier, but it would just be our luck to get on the longest checkout line ever. The manager profusely apologized which made up for her inexperience.
TIP: Make sure you check your grocery list twice, because you might make your boyfriend pay $ 3.50 for a single organic red pepper when you really needed red pepper flakes for the dish!

I checked fairway recently in this area. It is a huge grocery market where you can everything include fresh fish and fresh meat (cold room). There is organic and natural sections (vegetables, fruits and diary). I was curios and bought apples from natural and organic. They taste the same. Also, there is variety of greens that I like.
Roasted chicken is delicious too. The whole chicken cost $ 7.99 and salad from the bar cost $ 5.99. It is pricey for the salad or too cheap for the chicken?!
Variety of antipasta is yami :) cheese… I will die for it. Meat… oh my god and fresh sea food is perfect. Highly recommend.

When I had a car, I would drive to this Fairway Market from Queens at least once a month. I’m not the only one who would do that. Once I met a couple from New Jersey who visited this supermarket regularly. Yes, people have crossed rivers to shop here, and with good reason.
I’ve visited the other other Fairway Markets in Manhattan, and while I rate them highly, in my opinion this one is the best for a number of reasons:
One, and this is a rarity in Manhattan, it has a huge parking lot with FREE PARKING.
Two, the place is huge, with a wide variety of products to choose from.
Three, the produce here is wonderful. Great quality and choice.
Four, the cold room is fun. Have you ever heard someone say, «It’s like a meat locker»? Well, this is a meat locker!!! It has a great choice of meats, fish, dairy, eggs & beers.
Five, great, freshly made baked goods.
Six, outstanding olive bar.
And I can go on and on.
Now for some drawbacks:
One, of all the Fairway Markets in Manhattan, this is the most remote. It is located by the Hudson River. Driving there isn’t bad, but it is not convenient by public transportation. The subway and M60 bus are a good walk away.
Two, the place can be like a maze, and it is easy to get lost. Mind you, it’s a very nice place to get lost in.
Three, it can be very crowded on the weekends. However, I’ve driven there on weekday evenings (around 9 PM). At that time, the place has a much more mellow atmosphere and you don’t have to maneuver so much around other shoppers.
Four, it can get expensive. Eh, welcome to Manhattan.
All-​in-​all, I love this place, and when I get a car again, I definitely plan to start going here again.

This Fairway taught me «how its done» in a sense. They have all these baskets of fruits and vege as you enter. Fresh. Pretty looking. The whole vege selection here is large and well managed.
Then there is the walk in cooler for all your meats, cheeses and dairy. How cool is that?
They do the usual Fairway «try before you buy» oils and vinegars. Very nice.
They have a parking lot, which is great if you have a car. But you will always find cabs around here too.
When I found this Fairway I did not miss Wegmans as much. They are different types of Supermarkets, but they both do the job well.

Fairway is what you would get if Whole Foods and Trader Joe’s had a love child that was raised by Western Beef: A higher end specialty store, sporting a refrigerated wing, that doesn’t completely take up your whole pay check. In Morningside/​Harlem, Fairway is actually my favorite place to go for groceries. I actually go out of my way — sometimes on foot — to come here.
The staff at this FM is ALWAYS nice and helpful. The store is always stocked to the brim, the produce is always fresh, and no detail is left behind. (Seriously, I’ve seem them individually label every mini potato!) The FM branded goods are actually pretty good. My favorite time to go, of course, is during the weekends. There’s always something to sample (although I always gravitate to the olive oil and bread station).
One thing I had to learn about FM is that their product placement is quite strategic; An item like… quinoa lives in multiple places throughout the store. Items are mainly grouped by brand instead of by type. Keep that in mind when you’re scouting for that one item that you don’t want — and did not intend to substitute. Also, check for Google Offers. FM is notorious for «$ 5 off $ 30» offers that expire just as another is issued.
Happy shopping!

Ein sehr gut sortierter supermarkt, wo man auch batterien und ähnliches bekommt, ohne manhattenmäßig ausgeplündert zu werden.
Sehr gute auswahl, sehr preiswert und die lebensmittel sehen alle sehr gut aus. Spezialitäten und ausgefallenes findet man hier natürlich nicht (wer in harlem kauft das auch.?)
Aber alles, was man so täglich benötigt, gibt es hier.
In der umgebung gibt es ein unattraktives hafengelände, parkhäuser und gewerbe-​fabriken-​gebäude.
Also nichts sehenswertes.