New Foodtown Hours

joyr

Attention, shoppers! A sign in Foodtown's window shows its new hours:

Monday-Saturday, 7 am to 10 pm (changed from 7 am to 9 pm)
Sunday, 7 am to 9 pm (changed from 8 am to 9 pm)

bullyboy

Where's Foodtown?

joyr

In Kensington on the corner of McDonald and Albemarle.

retag

That's what happens when you combine the neighborhood forums.

wtgirl

The new Foodtown is fantastic for both WT and Kensington. It is MUCh better then that crap KeyFood overpriced dump on Prospect and 11th?

There is a parking lot so you can park and they get daily bread from Zabars and they have a big organic section and the prices are comparable to Fairway on the few items I checked. NOT a big beer selection but overall, clean, reasonable, good selection. WOW. I NEVER would have believed it. the last time I went in there was 3 years ago and everything looked old, moldy, expired and the floor was even filthy. I left disgusted.

I went yesterday and decided to save gas, I would start going there and only go to Fairway every other week or every third week.

yankeefan

I went to food town today for the first time and I couldn't believe how much it changed from the super market that use to be in this location. It was cleaner and updated in a good way.

yankeefan

WTGirl wrote: , I would start going there and only go to Fairway every other week or every third week.

Is Fairway that stupid place in Red Hook that's designed like a maze and all the yuppies always go to? I went there once and hated it.

possibly_maybe

YankeeFan wrote: [quote=WTGirl], I would start going there and only go to Fairway every other week or every third week.

Is Fairway that stupid place in Red Hook that's designed like a maze and all the yuppies always go to? I went there once and hated it.

It's TOTALLY a maze.

Went there this past friday to find the really good veggie burgers my gf likes (Gardenburgers; no other stores in the area seem to have em anymore, including Fairway), and the place drove me NUTS. I literally felt like a damn powerless mouse as I'd turn a corner just to see a dead end at least 3 times. It never seemed to end, and the whole experience just felt SO linear (except for the dead ends and other crazy detours).

The only good thing about the layout is that the mostly-linear path leads to the cash registers eventually, which lead you right out.

Otherwise, I'd recommend to all to avoid that place. It's also ridiculously crowded, too, which makes getting through their one-aisle maze a real pain.

brooklynjack

YankeeFan wrote:
Is Fairway that stupid place in Red Hook that's designed like a maze and all the yuppies always go to? I went there once and hated it.

Navigating Fairway Red Hook is truely a PITA but IMHO once you get used to the layout it isn't too bad and worth the trip. Keep in mind that it is really 3 buildings that are only joined together at the rear

Produce is outside the front entrance door and the first thing you come to on entry. Organic produce is against the wall to your left on entering the store.

Next is prepared foods and cheese followed by meat/fish/poultry counter and packaged bulk foods to the side.

after passing the meat/fish counter packaged organics is in the room to you left pacaged meat/poltry is streight ahead

If you go right here you'll enter another building. On your left are specialty items: sodas, spices, chocolates and beers followed by coffee and tea. To your right is what comes closest to a regular supermarket

It helps to know that things are often the 2 or 3 places. Spices are in the baking section, the specialty foods section and the organics section. Salsa is with the "spanish" food section but also by the chips and some in the organic food

yankeefan

I think I'll stick with Key Food & the new Food Town before I start making trips to the Maze in Red Hook.

orion123

I do what someone else suggested: Fairway once every couple weeks, Foodtown more often for simple things.

Fairway is amazing. Sure it's a maze but you "get it" after going a couple times. You also begin to understand to take it easy in the first half full of organic/prepared/gourmet/overpriced stuff and save shopping cart space for the second half, which is a regular supermarket with regular things, at regular prices (often at better prices than Foodtown)

Also, if you're going, just dont go on a Saturday or Sunday afternoon when all hell is breaking loose and all of Brooklyn is there to buy their macrobiotics and designer plums.

yankeefan

orion123 wrote: Fairway is amazing. Sure it's a maze but you "get it" after going a couple times.

Fairway is awkward to get to in the first place, while Key Food and Foodtown are both convenient……. I am not interested in making more awkward trips to get to a place with a maze design that takes multiple trips of adjusting to “get it.”

h0h0h0

So what makes Key Foods overpriced? I'd be willing to take a trip to food town but we're over on 10th with no car.