After Fair Warning, Fairway Opens in The Hook
After months (make that years) of anticipation, the Red Hook Fairway opens today. The 52,000-square-foot store is the biggest in the four-location empire. We’d love to receive reports (and photos) from any eager beavers who make it there today. Lots of photos by Callalillie here! Fairway Comes to Red Hook [Gothamist] Fairway Opens in Red…
After months (make that years) of anticipation, the Red Hook Fairway opens today. The 52,000-square-foot store is the biggest in the four-location empire. We’d love to receive reports (and photos) from any eager beavers who make it there today.
Lots of photos by Callalillie here!
Fairway Comes to Red Hook [Gothamist]
Fairway Opens in Red Hook [NY Sun]
I went around 5pm last night. amazing. Alot of the staff seemed tired, not from lack of training but because it was opening day and they where all running around restocking shelves, cleaning. There was hardly a line, although there seems to be a cart traffic jam at the cheese counter, probably all the park slopers getting the free cheese sample. Besides the park slope mom with a stroller a cart and two semi grown kids bogging down aisles, great experience. Living just off Van Brunt, this is so badly needed, and was nice to see mixed into the crowd locals. Best line of the day was a woman complaining that the catfish was more expensive then that found at pathmark. You get what ya pay for love. Where else in the New York City can you buy a entire filet for 20 bucks? not two cuts of filet mignon, but the entire filet. The dollar baguette is amazing… and they carry Marmite. Marmite brie and baguette. best combo in the world.
rachel must start macing people when they cant tell her the difference between beluga and ossetra.
waiting a whole 5 minutes for an answer??
the queen of england would have his entire family executed.
lighten up people
why all the negative comments??
it sounds like one guy that “answers” himself all day.
fairways was nice, just like the one in upper manhattan. a huge warehouse and lots of good produce at nice prices.
im glad it finally opened.
the Boar’s head hot dog was excessively salty.
you should have a look on the weekend
Brownstoner! Welcome!
No, 8:37- it’s not because of pressure to hire locally. It’s because of not giving staff enough training, it’s the first day, they aren’t getting paid enough and now they are already worrying about how long they’ll have jobs if Fairway doesn’t do well.
On the other hand, the much maligned Applebees in Crown Heights hired locally, gave their staff good training and I don’t know what else. But the wait staff is lovely, even the regional manager comes to check- So don’t blame the people who are hired. Blame the management which doesn’t bother to train them properly or treat them well.
But then we know what you were really saying anyway.
wow, you guys are prissy.
It’s day number one, idiots, of course it’s not perfect.
but do me a favor–go to Whole Foods and stay out of my neighborhood.
really, stay away. Red Hook is obviously too rough for your delicate sensibilities.
I think you’re right, 8:37. I will give them another try when things settle down. Hopefully they will pull it together in the mean time.
I wonder if that’s a by-product of being pressured to hire locally… sounds like they got some kinks to work out.
I had to hunt to find things, too. Very awkward layout that doesn’t flow well. The staff are pretty rough around the edges. I heard several swears coming from staff members talking among themselves as I navigated the store. I didn’t appreciate that, with a child and all.
You would be pretty foolish to park your aerospace-grade Cannondale unattended anywhere in Brooklyn.