Westside Market

Best prepared food section in the City. This place may be retail genius as I always spend way more than I mean and there are so many hidden treats all over the place. Love having Westside around the corner

They sell «Vermont cheddar,» aged three months. It’s orange, it’s rubbery, and it has absolutely no taste whatsoever. Zero. Go to Associated and get some CrackerBarrel. Cheaper and way way better.
Found a seriously bruised avocado, showed it to the manager. He put it back on the shelf and handed me another. This is the place you want to shop?

Apparently they give discounts to members of service (mos) but only if you are a police officer. If you re EMS or FD, you not mos enough, even though we all get dispatched through 911. Going to lose lots of customers. Oh well…

Being new to the area I needed a place close to home. Westside is a great place right around the corner to get my groceries! They have a great selection of fresh fruits and veggies as well as a great meat department and cheese department. I do my shopping here every week and will continue to go back!

I love this supermarket, I especially love the huge selection of prepared foods. Salads. So much to choose from. The mini tacos, tamales, bean salad, are my favorites. It’s pretty much a hidden secret/​gem in the area. Now Amazon prime is delivering from here, so great. Staff is friendly

So. Overpriced. Understandable to have deli and pre-​prepared food marked up; but really basic ingredients and grocery items? Why do they have to cost 50−200% more than usual? Also, a lot of the time there is no price sticker on the item or shelf.
Contrary to what others have said, I think the staff is always friendly or at least decent and that’s pretty awesome considering most of them are young, and the busy, crowded environment — not to mention the generally entitled demographic they must contend with at this location.

Deli counter is ridiculous. No matter what you order in what quantity, they will give you more than you asked for, and usually by a lot. If you say anything, they claim that they can’t always get it exact… yet they never ever come in under weight. Not to mention that the guys are using the same meat slicer all day every day, so you’d think they’d have the hang of it by now.

About time I review one of my usual markets. I’m just going to lay out my pros and cons (with elaboration, of course)
Pros:
–Good selection of just about anything you could need. Solid.
–Very impressive variety of prepared foods. You’ve got your prepared foods counter filled with anything from grilled salmon to turkey meatloaf to stuffed sea bass to sweet potato salad to… you get the point. Lots of interesting preparations. In addition to this counter, there’s an adjacent aisle with rows and rows of prepared veggies (sauteed/​grilled/​steamed/​anything you could possible want) as well as a number of seafood, poultry and meat options. These preparations are much simpler than what you’ll find behind the counter.
–Lines move fast considering the volume of people that come here at all hours of the day
–Open 24 hours. Any supermarket that can offer me any kind of drunk food at any time of night gets my praise
–Salad counter stocks a ton of ingredients, and unlike most salad counters, they calculate price based on weight as opposed to number of toppings. So you can ask for as much or as little of a topping as you want (I haven’t really pushed this though, so I’m not sure if there’s actually an upper limit) instead of a uniform amount of each topping — this is hard to find in the city
Cons:
–Fruit is sub-​par. All of it, really. Whether it goes bad quickly or the taste is just off, I’m almost never satisfied. Prepared melons are overripe far too much of the time, berries can be chewy (those two words should never appear together, without exception), apples are bruised/​taste abnormal, almost impossible to find a good avocado… the list is sadly endless. West Side is slightly better in the vegetable department, but I still go elsewhere for all produce.
–Pricey for the quality. And this place seems to be more about quantity than quality. So not only do you run the risk of leaving with a hefty bill, but those prepared foods that look so delightful behind glass aren’t actually very good. A grilled salmon fillet at Fairway is not only significantly cheaper than it is at West Side, it is far more satisfying to the taste buds.
–Staff. RUDE. Not always, but often. Most notably, the employees who actually have the easiest job in the whole damn store — the cashier marshals, as I like to call them. Please stop screaming «3 ON YOUR LEFT» in a tone that gets progressively more irritated as I pick out a few energy bars on my way to my destination. I’m sorry that I’m actually impulse-​buying the impulse-​buy items, but if I had opted to pick these items up at the beginning of my visit before proceeding to the rest of the store, you’d scream «EXIT ONLY!!!». Lose-​lose.

As a tourist, I hv never encountered such a colossal array of foodstuffs in any local grocery store. I was genuinely excited. Especially the hummus/​dips/​spreads aisle omg. Great selection of vegan options too.

Definitely a jam packed go to for grocery shopping and prepared foods. Prices can be a bit high for the prepped foods, but they are usually high quality and oh-​so convenient. It can get a little crowded, but they do a great job moving the line and keeping the aisles stocked.

Always open, super clean and they have have a great produce selection. Prices are typical for Manhattan but you can also find a few deals. Deli selection (hot and cold) is HUGE.

Superbly laid out arrays of fruits and veggies, as well as the usual other suspects, in a large store with a single line that moves fairly fast, alla Trader Joe’s.
P. S.The $ 4 cut melon was overripe and had to be thrown out.

Good and solid grocery store. Chocolate chip cookies are awesome!

Pros:
— The location is amazing, right near the 96^th street subway. Before Westside opened options were limited (either trek to Whole Foods/​Trader Joe’s or settle for Gristedes)
— The produce is pretty fresh
— There is way more of a selection in prepared foods than at WF
Cons:
— I’ve been going here regularly since it opened and I still can’t find certain products. The layout doesn’t make the most sense and the aisles are pretty cramped
— As others have said, the staff/​service isn’t the best. It makes me wonder how the store treats their employees because they always look like they’d rather die than work another second there

Go to another WM location
In general, I love West Side Market. They really are great — selection, pricing and staff. But, this location has some issues. For a few months now, several different prepared foods I’ve picked up — from their awesome guac to bean salads — have spoiled on me quite quickly after I’ve gotten them home. Because it’s happened so many times now, to differnt food items, I am suspect that this location is pusshing off its «just about to go bad food» on its unsuspecting fan base. I never had this experience when I shopped at the one on 110^th.
Tonight was classic though — ordered 1 lb pasta salad at the deli counter section. While waiting in line to pay, I checked the label and saw that I was charged $ 8.99 a lb vs the $ 7.99 lb the sign said. I went back and pointed it out to another clerk, who, slapped a new label on it, with the right per lb price but at a higher weight! WTF? Guy did not eve apologize that the first mistake was made.

I adore this market for several reasons.
1. It’s open 24 hours and that includes the deli! Even in the UWS this is a rarity.
2. The dinner plates are reasonably priced for a good amount of food. The sandwiches are fresh and those working in these sections are quite helpful.
3. They’re reasonably priced in the produce department — while I find some things to be overpriced, the majority of their fruit and veggies (in my opinion) are fresh and well priced. Especially compared to whole foods.
4. it’s convenient and right next to my apartment.
Now why, if I adore this place, did I give it 3 stars? The layout and organization of items is too confusing. I looked for croutons for 20 minutes and crackers are in almost every aisle. But more importantly… the service here (in the check out area) is horrendous. Even by NY standards! It’s shocking how some of the managers still have jobs. Don’t get me wrong, there are a few cashiers who are kind and positive, but yesterday, I saw a manager tell one of them to shut up for trying to help me! Baffling.

I picked up a lot if good fresh produce. However the one ready made item — prawn dumplings even though the date in them was good –were definitely not fresh.

I love Westside Market! This is my favorite, most visited location whenever I happen to be in the area. They always have fresh vegetables, fruit, and anything else you can think of. Its definitely a health fanatic’s heaven!

I was visiting friends in the neighborhood and stopped in to pick up some produce. While some of the offerings looked okay a lot of the items i was looking for (tomatoes, spinach, berries etc) was not looking good. I ended up walking out and headed over to Whole Foods a few blocks away.

beautiful outdoor display of fresh produce
fresh quality meats
delicious pastries and cheese.
downfall: terrible staff attitude.
cashiers are the worst.

Die nummer 1 in sachen supermarkt in der upper west.
Weil: größte auswahl, alles frisch — besser geht es nicht.
Es gibt hier wirklich alles an speisen, was man sich nur wünschen kann in einer sehr reichhaltigen auswahl. Alles frisch und perfekt — wie machen die das nur.
:o)
Es gibt z.b. garnelen in einer sehr schmackhaften sauce zum mitnehmen (die auswahl an mitnahmespeisen ist riesig!), käsesorten, obst, joghurts, spezialitäten, nüsse — alles gesunde, was man so essen möchte.
Und nochmal: Auswahl ohne ende
Es gibt z.b. allein 10 verschiedene sorten milch!!! Fettgehalt, laktosefrei, undundund.
Rund um die uhr geöffnet.
Lieferservice kostenlos im 10 block-​radius bei 25 mindestkauf.
Hierher werden wir definitiv am häufigsten kommen.
Danke westsidemarket.
:o)