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Citarella! Really delicious prepared foods and a nice selection at the bakery.
dessert/pastries - Financier (FiDi)
Italian pastries - Ferrara's on Grand
cheese and bread - Zabar's or Barzini's (UWS)
meat - Citarella
produce - Fairway (obviously)
chocolate - Max Brenner
pasta - Bruno
Sahadi's in Brooklyn.
I love Murray's Cheese and the Calabria Pork Store (Arthur Ave).
I just came back from my annual holiday visit to Sweet Life, the adorable and well-stocked vintage candy store on Hester Street: www.sweetlifeny.com.
Favorites: Hopjes coffee candy from Holland, licorice caramels, hand-dipped chocolate pears and apricots, large swirly peppermint lollipops, rock candy, hot chocolate, silver-coated almonds -- they have everything new and old. Makes for sweet, beautiful stocking- stuffers and nostalgic little holiday gifts.
Also good: the bigger, messier Economy Candy up the block, featuring gobstoppers, charleston chews, huge pez dispensers, everything and anything from bulk to chocolates to movie candy.
bierkraft! 5th ave. park slope
Roti Roll, near the Columbia campus.
I don't know why I feel kind of ashamed of it, but I go to Citarella for fancy stuff that I would never buy if it weren't for people needing to be impressed by what I bring along to their dinners and parties I go to out of a sense of obligation. I guess it makes me feel like a sell-out. But it's got the goods.
On the other hand, when I'm hanging with my real friends, all I need is Fairway's, for nearly anything, from a can of duck confit to organic everything.
I've just discovered the Chelsea MArket. Best Produce I've ever seen at Manhattan Fruit Exchange, and the Italian specialty shop there (can't remember the name) is out of control amazing. Not sharing my secrets for other stuff, sorry.
Sahadi's for me too, please.
Thuper fun question:
Sahadi's in Brooklyn for specialty goods (homemade hummus, candies, nuts, dried fruits, breads, prepared foods).
Murray's Cheese in the West Vill for, um, cheese.
Momofuku Milk Bar for specialty bakery items to bring to holiday parties
Joyce Bakery in Brooklyn for French baked items (macarons, croissants, cakes, tarts, cookies)
The cheese biscuits at Amy's Bread.
The Ajvar (red pepper and eggplant spread) from the Lebanese grocery in Sunnyside.
Tamales from street vendors. Does that count as specialty food?
The Butcher's Block in Sunnyside for Irish and UK specialty foods, teas, confectioneries etc.
Dipalo's on Grand in Little Italy for Italian specialties - cheeses, meats & pasta and more!
Bangkok Center Grocery on Mosco Street. Best Thai store in all the land -- fresh kaffir lime and tons of other Southeast Asian delights.
Sahadi's!
Great places from Lower East to Upper West:
Doughnut Plant on Grand
North Dumpling on Essex
Saxelby Cheese in the Essex Market
Guss Pickles on Orchard (sorry Pickle Guys, I like Guss better)
Russ & Daughters on Houston (one of the best specialty food shops anywhere!)
Kalustyans on Lex
Absolute Bagels on Broadway
Bad places that should under no circumstances make the list:
Magnolia (there are at least a dozen better cupcake bakeries in the city)
Max Brenner (like the TGI Friday's of chocolatiers)
Meyer's of Keswick on Hudson Street in the West Village for all sorts of British groceries, pasties, pies, cheeses, and for those who eat meat - sausages. Plus they have all sorts of British candy and crisps for those who love junk food!
You can get a pastie heated up for you, grab a bag of crisps (which is English for potato chips) and a British beverage (non-alcoholic) and if it is a nice day, sit in Corporal John A. Seravalli Playground in the next block and have an only New York moment eating British food while looking at the Empire State Building.
Stinky on Smith for cheese in brooklyn, and then corresponding wine at Smith & Vine across the street.
Then, for decadent occasions, pie from Sweet Melissa on Court Street.
Jack's 99cents for all budget foodstuff.
bagel: david's bagels, 19th and 1st
cupcake: sugar sweet sunshine, rivington
sandwich: tiny's giant, rivington
pastrami: katz's, houston
dumpling: tasty dumpling, mulberry
soup dumpling: joe's shanghai, pell
yakitori: oh! taisho, st. marks
cheese: murray's, bleeker (more than 5 days), east village cheese shop, 10th and 3rd (less than 5 days)
challah: odessa, 8th and ave A
Candy: economy candy, rivington
Murrays, Gourmet Garage, and Petrossian
Garden of Eden .. there are a few located in the city .. and they carry MIRACLE FRUIT!
I also love Grandaisy Bakery--they have locations on Sullivan and on W 72nd--for their flat breads and hazelnut cake with chocolate ganache.