Westside Market
77 7th Ave, NYC 10011

Somebody smashed together the world's biggest deli with a grocery store, and it kinda works.

Today is rainy any yuck, so we decided to not go to the Union Square Greenmarket and Whole Foods to pick up veggies and stuff. On the way home from Tea & Sympathy, we saw this place from across the street, and thought we'd stop in. It's a maze of twisty passages, all different, except with food instead of green phosphors.

The have a *lot* of prepared food and a *lot* of packaged cheese. We didn't look too hard at this stuff, except to note that they have a lot of different kinds of parm (which is good). It's pretty firmly a yuppie grocery, they have organic stuff and the like, but not hippie food. They have expensive food, but not wierd gourmet stuff. That said, they had a lot of produce and it was mostly really nice. They had a lot of meat that looked great, and a lot of meat that looked like it had been out too long. We got a nice-looking flank steak for $5.99/lb. Gotta get that going sous-vide if we want it to not be yucky...

The prices for the stuff we bought was on par with Fresh Direct, which is pretty suprisingly good, given the upscale nature of the place.

We will probably return on days that we go to T&S.