I'm new to this Market but as an aficionado of so many (which really just means I eat a lot of organic apples and kale) I feel like I have a proper basis for this review. The positives are that it has a lot of original items – like creative pastries and fabrics and such – that its competitors less than 1/2 a mile north and south of them don't have, so in that way its distinctive. So then you can figure out the negative, which is that it just doesn't have that many fruits and vegetables, not enough to make it a true 'farmers market' as opposed to a bazaar that sells fruit as well.
Either way, I do like it and will hopefully rate it higher upon my return, which tends to make a difference.
I'm obscenely excited about this new farmers market right around the corner. Perhaps too excited, you might be saying, but then again you should probably shut up.
Sure, it's only been open once so far, but if all the vendors stick with it it's going to be great all summer:
They've got fresh spinach, tomatoes, scallions, cilantro, basil, cheese (fresh and smoked mozzarella, among others), bread, cheesy bread, rutabaga, radishes (including an old man making incomprehensible radish jokes) and TWO different types of kohlrabi. What am I gonna do with kohlrabi? I dunno, but I'm pumped.
They've got apples, apple cider, apple cider doughnuts, apple sauce, asparagus, broccoli, pasta, crabcakes, crazy amounts of nuts from a couple places including The Original Delancey St. Peanut Company (not the new, knockoff Delancey St. Peanut Company). There's fresh tomato juice, bloody mary mix, cookies, pies and cakes.
What else? Yona's Delights is here with all kinds of ready-to eat baked goods including quiches, bourekas, hot dog pastry thingies. There's a lemonade stand infusing things with all types of fruit and herbs. And best of all, there's a very enthusiastic guy who will stuff as many pickles and/or olives as can possibly fit into a pint/quart container, as well as generously insist upon giving you multiple plastic bags despite the protestations of your environmentally-conscious girlfriend.
As far as I can tell, the only thing no one had was garlic, which was obviously the one thing I actually had on my shopping list (they promise to have it on Thursday). But I still walked away with a fridge's worth of fresh goods that, if it actually leads to me spending less money at restaurants this week, will keep me from going completely broke.
Even if I do go completely broke though, they also take food stamps.
I'm new to this Market but as an aficionado of so many (which really just means I eat a lot of organic apples and kale) I feel like I have a proper basis for this review. The positives are that it has a lot of original items – like creative pastries and fabrics and such – that its competitors less than 1/2 a mile north and south of them don't have, so in that way its distinctive. So then you can figure out the negative, which is that it just doesn't have that many fruits and vegetables, not enough to make it a true 'farmers market' as opposed to a bazaar that sells fruit as well.
Either way, I do like it and will hopefully rate it higher upon my return, which tends to make a difference.
I'm obscenely excited about this new farmers market right around the corner. Perhaps too excited, you might be saying, but then again you should probably shut up.
Sure, it's only been open once so far, but if all the vendors stick with it it's going to be great all summer:
They've got fresh spinach, tomatoes, scallions, cilantro, basil, cheese (fresh and smoked mozzarella, among others), bread, cheesy bread, rutabaga, radishes (including an old man making incomprehensible radish jokes) and TWO different types of kohlrabi. What am I gonna do with kohlrabi? I dunno, but I'm pumped.
They've got apples, apple cider, apple cider doughnuts, apple sauce, asparagus, broccoli, pasta, crabcakes, crazy amounts of nuts from a couple places including The Original Delancey St. Peanut Company (not the new, knockoff Delancey St. Peanut Company). There's fresh tomato juice, bloody mary mix, cookies, pies and cakes.
What else? Yona's Delights is here with all kinds of ready-to eat baked goods including quiches, bourekas, hot dog pastry thingies. There's a lemonade stand infusing things with all types of fruit and herbs. And best of all, there's a very enthusiastic guy who will stuff as many pickles and/or olives as can possibly fit into a pint/quart container, as well as generously insist upon giving you multiple plastic bags despite the protestations of your environmentally-conscious girlfriend.
As far as I can tell, the only thing no one had was garlic, which was obviously the one thing I actually had on my shopping list (they promise to have it on Thursday). But I still walked away with a fridge's worth of fresh goods that, if it actually leads to me spending less money at restaurants this week, will keep me from going completely broke.
Even if I do go completely broke though, they also take food stamps.