Fairway Market

This is a great destination marketplace for Brooklynites. You can spend the day in Rod Hook enjoying the great outdoor spaces and up-​and-​coming restaurant scene and grocery shop before heading home. Of course you’ll need a vehicle of sorts, as the nearest subway is quite a trek. The parking lot can get a bit crowded so carpool when possible. The selection of groceries and fresh produce is incredible. Prices are on the high side but bargains can be found. Think of this place as a slightly less expensive Whole Foods with a bit warmer and more charming personality and local feel. (Fairway is actually a chain.) Besides the produce, I enjoy the pickle and cheese selection, fresh fill-​it-​yourself bags of granola and the olive oil and vinegar room (tasting bread provided, though not frequently replenished). It can be a little confusing to navigate and crowded at times but it’s still one of my favorite supermarkets.

My favorite Fairway store, right by the water. It has a lot of varieties of goods. It can get crowded on weekends.

Great grocery store. They have great bagels and coffee and other exclusive items you can only get at fairway. The prices are mostly reasonable. The red hook location has an excellent café where you can get lobster rolls for $ 9.99.

So I love fairway I work down the street and eat lunch here almost daily. Fairway has actually tainted me from other markets bc everything is so fresh and clean. Other markets smell to me now. All my food shopping comes from here as well. The staff for the most part is always so nice and welcoming. Possibly bc i am literally here everyday more than once a day so we have gotten to know each other. But times it does become daunting when staff is just standing around chatting when the place is packed. The salad bar is amazing, disappointing though that they now weight salads after the dressing they used to weigh it then add dressing. But that’s not so horrible, what is annoying is they run out of stuff… ohh your out of avocados hmmm wonder where u can get more i mean it is a supermarket go to produce and re stock. Angie and Jose make the best salads. Jose also makes a mean pizza… YUM. Shondell is my favorite Cashier she has the best smile. Some of the managers in the cashier dept are extremely rude to co workers and spend lots of time chatting as possessed to helping if a cashier needs an overrode or manager assistance. Everything in the café section is delicious, seriously the sushi is on point they are correct in their fresh and tasty claim. Never really go to the hot bar, though i check everyday if something is worth it. Usually the spinach dumpling things are. Insider tip, if you are eating on premise do not use a lid and save yourself .30 cents lol. They have great fresh produce and meat, beautiful flower selection. My only reason for not 5 stars is the deli section. IDK if that’s where they send all the grumpy people but if you want long lines and major attitude go there. otherwise skip if unless you have the patience. I have a 1 hour break and I cant spend 20min of it on the deli line to get myself some lunch meat to make a sandwich. Which if you need be frugal works out ¼ of meat and ¹⁄₈ lb of cheese and a roll from the loose breads and you are good. But my last two experiences have been less than savory. I asked for 1/​8lb of DILL HAVARTI cheese, after I finally got the girls attention as she chatted to the other girl who was helping a customer (cutting the meat) she took my order. As i got it and turned to walk away I noticed it didn’t have the green flecks and said just Havarti cheese, So i went back and said i am sorry i asked for DILL Havarti, she snatched it back then got the correct cheese as i watched she sliced over ½ a lb and i said excuse me i only asked for ¹⁄₈ of a lb not over a ½ lb she with attitude said well how much does ¹⁄₈ lb weight idk what that is…(seriously girl seriously this is ur job u should know PLUS u have a scale) I said well is less than ¼ lb, as she took cheese off it got to ¼lb and i said whatever I’ll just take that please. (Bc if i waited longer i would of wasted me whole lunch and not been able to eat) and she basically threw the bag at me, Later the day I saw Louis who is usually in the café section behind the counter and I asked who that was and he said ohhh shes new and yeah shes salty im sorry. Also I avoid the prepared salads which is a shame bc i loved the dill egg salad and the chicken salad but on two occasions it has made me sick as well as another co worker so i tend to avoid that now. Overall I love the store and the products they have so I will continue to come back.

We love this store! Helpful customer service over the phone. Every Sunday is Fairway Market day~

Favorite fairway yet. Very inexpensive.
It’s amazing how you can shop, eat & it’s also feet away from ikea where you can take a boat ride back to the city.

I had thought that this was going to be another ubsurd expensive supermarket that continued the gentrification of Red Hook. I was only half correct.
Fairway does have a unusually large selection of organic quinoa gluten-​free blah blah blah for those who want that kind of stuff (if you can’t find your vegan butter at Fairway then it doesn’t exist). But they also have the regular poor folk stuff and cheap prices! They have drumsticks at .79ct a pound! I almost lost my damn mind when I saw their prices on meats. It’s actually worth doing some shopping here for any of my fellow broke constituents.
Bonus is the smells of Hometown BBQ across the street.

1 — Dirty floors, debri, and trash on the floor everywhere from sloppy customers that their maintenance personnel ignores.
2 — Some of the employees are rude, they stand around chatting too much with each other instead of working like they’re supposed to.
3 — The bulk organic area allows flying insects to get into the food, especially in the summer time. I even question the stale bulk coffee section.
4 — Parts of the store are too warm and I question the quality of all foods in those warm sections, especially where there’s dust on the shelves.
5 — There are almost always birds flying around in the store and those birds poop all over the place. Every food item on a top shelf is subject to those birds crapping on it.
6 — There are very few actual sales and even when something is on sale, they’re still expensive for a supermarket.

My cashier was belittled/​ignored/​insulted by a manager named Shaqueena (sp?).
The cashier needed an override and this manager took her time in coming over after the cashier called her six times without any acknowledgement.
So instead of coming over to help my cashier, she walks right by her to talk to another coworker.
When the manager finally came over, she snapped at the cashier and told her she heard her the first time. What a disgusting woman.
I felt so bad for the cashier and told her she did nothing wrong (which she didn’t).
The manager needs to be demoted or outright fired. Such a poor reflection on Fairway.

Spent hundreds of dollars in preparation for new years eve. At the register, the sales person asked if we had a coupon. We didn’t BUT I realized that if shes asking, there’s a deal going on, and didn’t want to miss out… so I asked to please share what the current promo was. She just called the manager over, and when he came, she said to me, ask him… so I repeated the question to him. He simply said that we can only sign up for «future» promos if we text a number. He did not share any current promos… not sure why I had to «repeat the question» then… I was pretty annoyed, and curious what this secret promo was that I couldnt get. So later that day, I googled for a promo, and there was actually a 10 percent off promo readily available! It was on Facebook. I’ve never had this happen in any other store, usually if there is a store card or some coupons, the cashier shares them with the customer upon request. I would hope that a store with the reputation such as fairways, the customer would be afforded every opportunity to take advantage of any promotions going on, especially since a simple search will yield the promotion. However, when you are at the register waiting to pay, and there is a line behind you, it would be quite rude just to tie up everybody’s time by searching for a coupon. Instead, the store should just provide an easy and efficient way to do this at the point of checkout, not just some suggestion by a manager on how to do this in the future, when the customer is already there. Makes the customer not really want to return, given they don’t seem to be the priority.

The setting is what sets this Fairway apart from all others. Grab a salad or sandwich from the «food court» and you can sit on the covered patio or outdoors and enjoy views of the Statue of Liberty and boats going by. Otherwise: it’s a Fairway. Same confusing layout with 3 aisles of each product (organic, store brand and then all others) but a great selection of fruits, veggies, fish and meats and fresh roasted coffee. Lines can get crazy but the staff is generally friendly and helpful. I do think that Fairways prices have been going up for the past few years so it’s not as much of a bargain as it used to be but it’s still better then holier-​then-​thou Whole Foods. Plus their store brands are great quality and usually pretty reasonable.

My favorite place for groceries! W try thing is always so fresh! The facility is extras my clean! They sample different foods and drinks. The staff is helpful and professional
The organic dark roast coffee fairway brand is the absolute best! I come from Staten Island to get it it

Great store but don’t get there when they open at seven. Half the staff is not there. I go every Sunday at 730 and have to wait for the «coffee guy, cheese guy or salmon slicer to show up»
I asked a employee twice last week for assistance getting coffee and no one showed up.
I tried to help myself but couldn’t figure out the pricing machine so I brought it up to check out without the price.
Service has definitely gone down since it opened.

I have been going to Fairway for years! In fact my first Fairway was the one in Harlem before I moved to Brooklyn. While I love the place I think that since Sandy hit somethings Have changed which were part of why I looked the place so much.
For instance their salmon burgers are now half the size yet still the same price. In addition the hot food buffet in general doesn’t look as good as it used to and the offerings have changed.
I am not sure what happened but I am finding myself drawn more and more to Wholefoods, come back Fairway!

fairway continues to impress. carrying all sorts of hard to find items like british goods, odd spices, fresh seafood, and other things like tea leaves of all types, coffee beans from the four corners of the world. prices are high but its to be expected for the selection you get. produce isn’t bad either but is on the pricy end of the spectrum. if you are around try the lobster roll in the food area towards the back of the store. pick a nice sunny day grab a lobster roll and a San Peligrino and head outside to their outdoor seating area by the NY Water Taxi. check out the water, see some sea gulls and enjoy life :)

This store is stupendous and has everything.
Except pleasant staffers at the checkout.

I have come to Fairway many times. Some of these everything looked super fresh, some others… not.
But the selection they have is huge and there are often excellent offers.
Limited organic options, of course comparing with WholeFoods which I have nextdoor. But plenty of almost everything else you need.
Check expiration dates, with all that stuff sometimes some products might be really close to exp. date…
Take advantage of their olive oils tasting area (even if sometimes it’s messy and bread is no more available).
And I love the coffee aroma that spreads in the whole coffee and baking area.
Big parking in front, which makes things easy.
If you are hungry, stop by at the seafood place in front of it for a snack or drink before shopping, or if you are very hungry go for the BBQ (hometown) also in front of it.
Two great dinner options, with easy parking!

Hands down the best supermarket in Brooklyn… Fairway is it !!! The BEST olive bar, the produce sections, the olive oil/​vinegar section, the cheese section, the bakery section, THE BUTCHER… need I say more.

I have shopped at this supermarket only a few times in the past because it’s not very close to my home. If you drive there is plenty of parking and if your commuting this location is definitely far from any public bus or train.
This market has a huge assortment of food options in each department but the prices are not the cheapest. Comparing their prices to other supermarkets you definitely don’t come to this supermarket if your main goal is to save money. However, this is the supermarket that you shop at for some of the freshest food. The produce, seafood and meat sections specifically in my opinion have a huge variety of options as well as some of the freshest food in the area. There are cheaper supermarkets available but you get what you pay for like with anything else.
When I stop at this market I stick to options that I wouldn’t be able to get in my regular supermarket. I avoid purchasing items like pasta and milk because these are common items that I can definitely get cheaper closer to home. I come here for the fresh fish and meat most of all.

Amazing supermarket!!! Everything was fresh and organic. The fruits and veggies were raw looking as they should when something is picked from the earth, not shined up and proper. Loved the organic feel of it all. They have a room specially for olive oil, a room for coffee and a huge selection of cheese. You can try lots of different things and the prices are not too terrible. My favorite market :)

The service is very lacking at this Fairway location. We stopped by yesterday for some grocery shopping. There was a huge sign outside advertising half gallon of cider for $ 2.49. We looked at the produce section where there was fresh juices, nope it wasn’t there. Asked an East Asian employee, he heard us, shrugged his shoulders and shook his head no. He didn’t even bother to stop to face us. He just continues walking past us. My boyfriend and I looked at each other and could not believe how the customer service is at Fairway. One other employee overheard the whole transaction came over to help us because she knew the way the the first employee treated us is not cool. She did the proper thing asked us which brand we were looking for, realized it was not in the produce juice aisle and directed us to the proper aisle. Yay. But when we got to said aisle, asked another employee because we could not find it, he didn’t even speak English. Oh boy. Fairway has to teach their employees customer service because I feel that is what differentiates one grocery store from another… especially if you are trying to be pricey!
Our register person wasn’t too helpful either. One of the prices were incorrect and she had no clue what to do. She said, I don’t know when I asked her, «.can’t someone check the price for the item?» Fairway is expensive and this is the type of workers they hire?!
Fairway can do better.