Fairway Market

I love fairway. Yes the prices are a little high but you get what you pay for. The staff is friendly the store is clean and an amazing selection of hard to get items. The liquor store next door is amazing. I love the staff and they are very knowledgable.

As soon as I walked in I was greeted with such a yummy fresh smell. They have a Huge selection of fresh produce! I thought it was just a fruit and vegetable store when I walked in, but was delighted to find that there was so much more as I walked towards the back. I was amazed to find they had every fruit and vegetable I could think of (with the exception of watercress). They have foods like guacamole, salsa, and roasted peppers that they make themselves. They had a nice bakery section which smelled amazing. I got the single serve chiabatta bread and it was delicious. I cannot rave about this store enough. They even had Tate’s cookies (you will understand my excitement of you know about Tate’s cookies)! This is my permanent grocery store from now on. I’m in love.

My favorite super market. The staff is great. I go there many times every week.

I love this place and have been here several times! I’ll definitely drive out of my way to come here. It’s clean. They have a variety of options — they have lots of fresh produce and the staff is super helpful too.
I’ll be back again soon!

Moved away and the one thing I miss is my Fairway market… olive oil and vinegar stand the best! And the scent of roasted coffee can’t be beat.

Here at least every other week. Friendly knowledgeable staff, especially Joe in the vitamin section. A bit pricey but it’s next door, can’t beat the convenience, freshness, and options.

Huge store but small freezer aisle and the same if not higher prices than WFM. At least at WFM, the experience is enjoyable and the registers are usually well staffed. Whenever I visit Fairway, there is always just one register open. The only reason I go to Fairway is for the occasional bagel and grass-​fed beef. The prices on grass-​fed beef are almost suspiciously low. The packaging never says where the meat is from but I haven’t bothered to question. I get the feeling none of the employees would have a clue what I’m asking.

I haven’t Unilocaled in a while but feel the need to comment on a particular recurrent issue I have at Fairway. They consistently scan «on sale» items at full price. And when I say consistent, I mean that on 70−80% of my visits I have to deal with an incorrect scan. I’ve spoken to their customer service and/​or managers several times and it still continues! Either this store is simply run very poorly or they are actively trying to scam people. Not good, and not worth going there — even if their baguettes are out of this world.

This grocery store is super convenient if you live in Harbor Point. The selection of products is amazing. Need some cold cuts, fresh fruit, bacon, lobster or caviar? They’ve got you covered. There’s typically ample staff and great service. The one downfall that I find are the prices. Some items seem reasonable and others are completely out of whack. I’m sure that you can argue that a slight premium should be expected for the quality, but that choice should be driven by your budget. Parking is ample, which is nice and the wine/​liquor store is definitely worth a visit!

One word, bad experience with the Trainer chaser. Slow with attitude. Avoid at all cost. Not worth your time and frustration

Not bad, but can be much better. They have everything to make great market, big parking lot, space so you can walk without bump into other people, and even their ready food is not bad. But it is the little things that makes the difference between a place where you finished shopping and had a great experience, and place that you can’t get home.
I read that people find them way overpriced. I disagree, they may be little pricy in some, and lower than other locations in NY for others.

I finally went cold turkey with Fairway after being fed up with them for months regarding their awful produce and not so «fresh» bakery bread, which we found were always spoiled or moldy within days of purchase.
I also once opened a sealed package of ribs that I had literally just purchased that day and was overwhelmed by how foul the smell was. And they had a purchase by date of another week! How did the chop crew fail to notice and report this?!
Finally, staff here is just straight rude. If I’m going to overpay for below avg quality food the last thing I need is tude from deli/​fish/​meat/​bakery sections.
Do yourself a favor and go to Whole Foods!

Fairway catered our thanksgiving with both kosher and non kosher food. The ordering and pick up processes were efficient and friendly, even as I changed my order a few times. And the food was really good. Green beans crispy. Mushroom stuffing flavorful and moist. Preprepped turkey was brined and stuffed with herbs and garlic. Highly recommended.

For all you Connecticuters out there… if Whole Foods, Stew Leonard’s, Fresh Market, and Trader Joe’s had baby, you’d get Fairway Market.
This is a gourmet food lover’s dream. The market is huge! Just bask in its food glory for an hour to two and you’ll soon understand why this market is not like any market out there.
Staff are VERY knowledgable and are willing to bend over backwards to assure your experience is the best. Amazing cheese counter… if you really wanted to, you can stand there all day trying different cheeses. Our family favorite? Their Moliterno Gigante Black-​Studded Truffle Cheese. I love their selection of prosciutto, I recently tried their duck prosciutto and it was surprisingly tasty. Gamey, but still mild in flavor.
In the back, you can actually see the process in their dry aged beef as hangs in a temperature-​controlled glass container.
Extensive olive oil and balsamic vinegar selection… Tastings are readily available, all you need to do is grab a piece of bread.

I went to buy as I usually do and I went to get some“fresh” ham I ask for half pound and the guy «Carlos» gave me one pound then I told him that I only needed half pound and he started to argue with me saying that I asked for one pound. He gave me the half pound but he put the regular price $ 9.44 on the bag. I didn’t noticed until I got home and I saw the price on the bag with only half pound but with the price of one pound. Really. This guy needs to know how to work and how to give a nice customer service. Never again.

Perfectly satisfactory suburban-​style supermarket in a recently trendy area of Stamford on the other side of the tracks. Like other Fairway locations we’ve visited you enter to large selection of produce, and like any other fruit and vegetable market one does well to look carefully for quality and price (today’s oh so discounted green beans looked oh so sad on close inspection). We found a good selection of cheese and good values on sale meat and poultry, but their bakery selection is always underwhelming, and at this location a bit out of the way as well. Staff was helpful with a miss priced sale item and although we found parking in the lot they share with surrounding merchants, on a busier day it may be more difficult.

Fairway Stamford is a prime example of a great NYC idea that works primarily b/​c the original stores are all located in the Center of the Universe, making it both easy and inexpensive for them to source things fresh and unique. Take the idea but without the sourcing and what you get is another overpriced, lower quality suburban food store that is not much different than Stop and Shop, and far inferior to Whole Foods. Example: The fish, which on Broadway practically has it’s gills still moving, in Stamford has been out of the water longer than I have. Ditto the meats. Sure, there are still 250 varieties of olive oil, but how often do you buy that?
Go for entertainment, go for the oddball thing you might need, go b/​c you like to spend extra, but for the basics either go into NYC or go elsewhere.

Wow, Fairway is really unique. You will never leave the store without a great deal and the selection is incredible, for all tastes. They also have quite a few high quality products, that even Whole does not carry very competitively priced.
And the location is great, with Le Pain Quotidien the plaza and of course huge Design Within Reach outlet! Fairway Wine and Spirits and just outstanding on it’s own.

At this store, you can look forward to seeing the most bitter, passive-​aggressive old person at the entrance to push store flyers on you. Why is the first point of customer contact someone lacking at least moderate social skills? Because that’s what their extensive and exhaustive market research has shown would inspire people to keep coming back to pay an additional 25−50% markup over the store 5 minutes up the road.
Of course I don’t want your flyer, you bitter old crone. Now hurry home before your handler comes looking for you.

Huge Fairway. Truly «like no other» which happens to be their motto.
This is a newer store in Stamford. Enormous. They just make them better every time. This one has a huge fruit and vege section. If it exists, they have it here. Then you pass onto the meat and cheese section. The meat options are similar to the other Fairways I think, but I dont spend much time in the meat section. Cheeses are terrific though. Thay have some choices from around the world.
The coffee section is like the other stores. Lots of choices at reasonable procies. Can’t beat the coffee here.
They have the usual oil and vinegar section, which is always a fun place to stop and have a bite.
While the layout is different at each Fairway I have been to, so sometimes you need to search a little for your favorite items, they are pleasant and open stores so the different layouts are not irritating, but rather offer you a chance to find some new things to try.
I would shop here in a heartbeat if I lived nearby. For the things I know I like anyway. I’m not sure everything is more cost effective here, but I know coffee is, they have Brooklyn Bangers sausage, and a Fairway brand chocolate that is much loved in my house.
Pretty good parking, but its always challenging to park at Fairway, its a busy place.