A new Met Fresh Supermarket is opening in a few weeks on the Lower East Side/Chinatown. The 9,500 square foot grocery is coming to 7 Madison St., in a commercial space owned by the Chatham Green Cooperative.
The owner of the supermarket, Danny Hamdan, has existing stores in Ridgewood, Whitestone, Bushwick and Bedford Stuyvesant (his extended family operates other NYC-area Met Fresh markets). Hamdan told us he chose the location for his first Manhattan grocery because this particular area of the Lower East Side is under-served by full-scale supermarkets. There’s a SuperFresh grocery up the block on St. James Place, but mostly smaller scale food shops in the vicinity.
Met Fresh is known for its fresh produce, organic items, hot bar serving breakfast-lunch-dinner and carving stations (featuring in-house prepared brisket, pastrami and turkey). The new store will have a meat department, seafood and a bakery. Online and phone orders will be available.
The single-story building was formerly home to a Rite Aid. The lease was signed about a year ago. Most of the interior work is finished. The awning above the front entrance and signage are going up now.
Hamdan says he’s targeting a February 20th opening.
