Big Apple Meat Market

This place is pretty good if you are not a stuck up snob. It has most of what you need at pretty decent prices. Yes the place might be a little small and the isles tight, but that is not too much of a problem unless you have a cart. The staff are nice and they always try to improve the place, butcher shop downstairs if you want some special cuts. Overall its a great place, check it out! Enjoy.

The grocery store situation in Hells Kitchen is fraeking DIRE.
Big Apple Meat Market is a welcome find and I think especially good for well priced meats.
When I went it was pretty crowded which is a great sign for any market. High turnover of food is KEY!
The farmers market nearby is probably a better bet for veg.
The only complaint I have is that I had to remind the cashier of any marked down products they were selling.
I’ll be coming back real real soon.

If you want meat and are in Hell’s Kitchen, you could do worse. I needed chicken livers on the night before Thanksgiving and Big Apple Meat Market came through for me while Whole Foods did not. The old location was between 42^nd & 41^st St and this new location is on 9^th avenue between 40^th & 39^th St.

Love this place, been here few times for meat and veg. Great quality and relatively low price especially in this city.

Absolutely love, love, love this place! After shopping at Food Emporium for a year, I felt like kicking myself once I saw the prices here. Finally, there’s a grocery store in Hell’s Kitchen with a great selection and an even better value. Needless to say, I won’t be setting foot in Food Emporium for quite a while.

Don’t let the cheap prices fool you… this is a John Catsimatidis owned establishment left over from a different decade (Big Apple used to be a grocery chain in the city). It is a Gristedes without the décor, but the same rude service, near expired food that fell off of the back of a truck and meat that you wouldn’t feed a prisoner. It’s terrible.

Love this place. It’s so close to home and so very convenient! It is extremely small and gets very crowded so that’s the only reason I didn’t give them five full stars. But they have great weekly sales and tons of products.

I live in Hells Kitchen. I perform on broadway. I know how to cook, & bake, AND I LOVE THIS PLACE! The owner is fantastic, Al, always a help, Edward a gem. I asked for TONGUE, calves tongue, & they got it for me. They butcher downstairs. SOO SOO great. They have EVERYTHING, & every week different sales. When I leave this place, people think I own a Restaurant. Vegetables & fruit as well. GO. GO. GO. Great hours as well. From Natasha Veruschka.

I really liked this little store. The produce is crazy cheap. I found cherries and bananas for $ 1.68 and $ 0.49. So I actually go to this store to buy produce. They have a really good selection of produce like lettuce, tomatoes, fruits and more. The meat is ok. Cheap but you get what you pay. I don’t really like to buy cheap meat but the produce is very good.

Their deli section makes a huge, and I mean HUGE, sandwich.
Hero, Kaiser Roll. Rye, whatever.
They pile the meat on HIGH.
And the price is extremely fair for the girth of your sandwich.
Highly recommend if you are in the area.

They’ve moved two blocks south into a space seemingly half the size but still a great store. Don’t be deceived by the front. It looks like an unassuming deli but inside you’ll find a full service grocery store with everything. Biggest draw is inexpensive meat and produce and moderately priced groceries. Don’t forget to go downstairs where the second half of the store is.

Lets not kid ourselves… I hate my crosstown daily commute.
At first my commute seemed daunting and tedious… that was until I found the Big Apple Meat Market around the corner from my office. A wonderland of meat at reasonable prices in Manhattan?! A dream come true. You can usually find me around lunch time perusing the meat case just seeing how those filets look. oh, and rump roast is only 4.99 a pound? Well, hello dinner.
Even when it’s packed the checkout ladies keep that line moving. If you’re wondering where the pantry goods/​milk products are hidden — they’re in the basement!

This market is the last bastion of low prices in the entire city of New York. Unfortunately, they had to relocate to this much smaller location, after the typically greedy NYC land developers sold out to equally greedy builders. Michael Bloomberg, our corrupt, multi-​billionaire ex-​mayor, wants every, single fair-​priced establishment out of NYC, yet this one market still survives. While they don’t have the sheer variety of goods due to their limited space, their prices simply cannot be beat anywhere.
I go there primarily for their fresh meat, however, where you can still get fantastically low prices for the quality than anyone else, and well worth the trip for this reason alone. I often call ahead to have their staff of butchers custom trim specific cuts of meat for me before I come in, and who does that nowadays?
If you still believe in the necessity of affordable prices in NYC, please support this dying breed of Mom & Pop operation, the last vestige of freedom and fairness left in this insanely overpriced city.

This place is great! Low prices and almost everything you need in a one stop shop (combined with the veggie market two doors down). Beats any other market on price and everything is quite fresh. I’d disagree with one of the other reviewers and say the inside of the store is quite clean and well organized. They accept credit cards with no minimum too!

This place is a f***** disgrace.
The Store:
*If you want to see the blood spilling out of a whole cow or hog carcass, please head downstairs to the «dairy section.» Witness the smell of death, flowing blood and more.
*Just try and shop while people are attempting to check out. You won’t be able to because this store has forced their produce into a space 20x smaller than their last place. This basically means there are two tiny aisles and some space downstairs.
*Fine the prices are perhaps .50 cents cheaper than other places. It’s not worth it…
*Disgusting treatment of meat and vegetables. I see them handling meat in not very hygienic ways. Their «fresh market» vegetables fall onto the dirty NYC sidewalks, they put them back and laugh. Saw it today. Remember dogs urinate there.
The General:
Yeah, when it was on 9^th between 41^st and 42^nd a NON RESIDENTIAL street, they had great prices and good options.
Since then its been bought out and moved down the street to 9^th btwn 39^th and 40^th.
Every…freaking…day…they get deliveries nonstop. They block and obstruct the pedestrian sidewalk for hours on end each day. There is never space to walk, often forcing people off the curb INTO traffic.
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Conclusion:
1. If you want fresh things go to the other veggie market on the block, that respects the residents of the area and has better options.
2. Go to the new Brooklyn Fare on 38^th. It’s nice there.
3. Avoid.

Pretty unassuming place, decent selection of meat and waaaaaaay cheaper than anything at the markets in the Hell’s Kitchen area. I heard it gets packed here so choose carefully when you head down there.

I started coming here because it is right near where I live. I’ve been to the old location (near 42^nd) and the new one (39^th).
You will definitely find bigger and fancier places with a wider selection of goods, but the friendly people working here, the cheap prices and the focus on tropical produce outweigh the negatives and make it a great place to pick up some groceries.
Four stars because in addition to all the positives it is the only place I’ve found to have good guayabas off-​season.

I went to BAMM on the recommendation of my fellow Unilocalers. I guess I was expecting something different, but I wasn’t very impressed. There was only one side of one aisle with meat, so there wasn’t a huge selection. Prices were decent, but not cheap enough to warrant going out of my way to come here. I was disappointed with how quickly the meat went bad in my fridge. I had to throw away two of the four packages I bought because they went bad within two days. This was three days before the «sell by» date on the package. So if you’re going to shop here, be very careful about buying meat anywhere close to the «sell by» date.

I just came back from the BAMM and noticed a sign by the front asking folks to sign a petition. It’s not very noticable, but it pretty much wants us to get the PABT to grant them a lease in the old Project Find space a couple doors down:
Let’s get the word out, because I refuse to shop at Whole paycheck or food emporium, and many of us po folks and people with more common sense than dollars wouldn’t either.

QUICKTIP: get excited! remodeled store opens up this Tuesday. new Loc: 529 9^th Ave.
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Hmm… 4.5 stars, but bumped up to 5 because Unilocal doesn’t allow that.
That is because it is not the same as it was before. Understandably, this was not their fault because they were basically ousted from their historical location in favor of new condo developers. The new spot is cramped, narrow and lacks the rustic feel of walking down the aisles of history.
Nevertheless, this is the Big Apple Meat Market, restored to the best of its ability in a new location and it deserves recognition. This market is for regulars in-​the-​know for meats and groceries that are not as fresh as Whole Foods, but are excellent for the price. If you can get over the fact that you’re not getting wagyu steak, a nice ambiguous yet affordable shell steak should suffice for a decent everyday dinner.
Note that the cramped does not mean they skimp on the selection. The selection is all there, just as before. It just means that certain products are out of reach on high shelves. It means that the stairs that lead downstairs are almost invisible to the undiscerning eye. It means that products are so close to each other that a brother who doesn’t know how to grocery shop will feel completely helpless and lost like a newborn babe in Grand Central.
However, this is still my market and I love it. It might have had a makeover, but the heart is still there.