Gourmet & Pantry in New York
20 stores · curated ORBIS register
Alice's Tea Cup serves scones and tea sandwiches on West 73rd Street, with an Alice in Wonderland theme throughout its tea-room setting. Dickson's Farmstand Meats operates inside Chelsea Market, buying whole animals from small upstate farms for its butcher counter and charcuterie. Economy Candy has sold sweets on the Lower East Side since 1937, stocking vintage favourites alongside candy sold in bulk.
Sisters Haley and Lauren Fox opened Alice's Tea Cup on West 73rd Street in 2001, building an Alice in Wonderland-themed tea room around a menu of hundreds of tea varieties alongside scones and tea sandwiches.
Dickson's Farmstand Meats has operated a butcher counter inside Chelsea Market since Jake Dickson opened it in 2009, in the same shed as the High Line's tourist traffic but built on a much older discipline: nose-to-tail use of whole animals bought from small family farms in upstate New York.
A candy emporium since 1937 — floor-to-ceiling sweets, vintage favorites, and the largest selection of confections in New York City.
The original gourmet supermarket — olive oil tastings, cheese caves, and the Upper West Side institution that defined serious grocery shopping.
A Curry Hill landmark since 1944, Kalustyan's crams its Lexington Avenue shelves with spices, dried fruits, lentils, teas and hard-to-find ingredients from around the world. Chefs and home cooks shop in person or order the same rice, peppercorns and simmer sauces online.
Jennifer Appel and Allysa Torey opened Magnolia Bakery on Bleecker Street in the West Village in 1996, first baking cupcakes from leftover cake batter. A Sex and the City scene of Carrie and Miranda eating them nearby sparked the cupcake craze that made the shop famous.
Mr. and Mrs. Chan, immigrants from Taishan, opened Mei Li Wah on Mott Street in 1968 after Mr. Chan trained at Gum Moon bakery; a 2008 health-code closure was followed by reopening. Its char siu roast pork buns and pineapple bun — a sweet crumb topping, no real pineapple — have drawn Chinatown lines for decades.
A slice of Britain on Hudson Street, Myers of Keswick bakes third-generation pork pies, sausage rolls and Cornish pasties in the West Village. Its shelves and online store carry imported British teas, sweets, jams and household staples.
Putnam Market makes its prepared foods, baked goods and charcuterie from scratch at a downtown Saratoga Springs storefront, with a wine shop next door. The counters run to cheese, deli sandwiches and picnic provisions.
Rokhat Bakery opened in 1994, founded by brothers Roshiel and Rafael Samekhov after they emigrated from Uzbekistan to the United States in 1992, and it now anchors a stretch of Austin Street that sits on the Forest Hills/Rego Park line in Queens — different directories list it under each neighborhood, and both are correct for the same address.
Rosenberg's Bagels & Delicatessen focuses on Authentic New York-style bagels and deli in Five Points, using water engineered to match NYC's.
Four generations of one family slicing smoked salmon on Houston Street since 1914 — the appetizing store that defines the genre. Bagels, belly lox and babka; New York in a pink box.
Saratoga Olive Oil Co. pours dozens of ultra-premium extra-virgin olive oils and barrel-aged balsamic vinegars, sampled on tap before you buy. The family-owned tasting shop sits on downtown Broadway.
Opened in May 2015 by chef-owner Hayley Stevens at 348 Broadway, Saratoga Tea & Honey Co. runs a working tea bar alongside its shop, pouring loose-leaf teas and raw honey that Stevens sources and tastes herself.
Shunan Teng grew up in a family of tea drinkers in China, moved to the US at fifteen, and spent years in corporate finance in New York before a trip home convinced her that the city's tea renaissance had nowhere to land in Manhattan.
Marcy and her daughter Lily run this Main Street storefront around certified organic Adirondack maple syrup drawn from family sugarbushes that trace roughly 200 years of regional maple-making tradition. Beyond syrup, they stock maple cream, candy, cocktail mixers and gift boxes the two curate and pack themselves.
Titan Foods in Astoria, the Greek specialty grocer of New York - imported Greek foods, its own Titan Bakery counter with koulourakia and tsoureki, and a full grocery range. First-party door live (titanfoods.net -> titanfoods.com) with store phone and categories.
Toad Hill has boiled sap in a timber-frame sugarhouse on Charles Olds Road for more than three decades, turning it into graded syrup, maple candy, and maple-frosted nuts sold from the farm and shipped nationwide. The family operation, one of the larger maple producers in the southern Adirondacks, also runs seasonal farm tours and a Maple Club for repeat customers.
Yonah Schimmel has hand-rolled and baked knishes on Manhattan's Lower East Side since 1910, filling them fresh daily from the original vegan potato recipe to seasonal flavors. The kosher-certified bakery has been named Best Knish in NYC by both Yelp and TripAdvisor, with knishes shipped nationwide via Goldbelly.
A 22-foot appetizing counter in 1934 grew into an Upper West Side institution under Louis and Lillian Zabar. Ninety-plus years later, the family still runs the Broadway corner.