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Two new businesses are opening shop at the North Market while two others are going through some upgrades.
The Candy Shack has opened up next to The Fish Guys on the north end of the building, providing a selection of high quality bulk candies and a variety of nostalgic candies.
Holy Smoke BBQ has taken over the former Jose Madrid Salsa space and will provide a selection of barbecued items including brisket, pulled pork, chicken, and ribs as well as a variety of side dishes.
CaJohn’s CaBoom Chill Company is moving their prepared food items over to share space with Holy Smoke BBQ, and expanding their selection of sauces, spices and salsas in their current spot. They’ll also be expanding their menu to include new chilis, soups, enchiladas, chili dogs, and other daily specials.
Barry’s New York Deli has just wrapped up their renovations that include the building of a new kitchen area, new counters and fixtures, as well as a new “to go” case for customers to grab several prepared items more quickly.
I’m not saying take any places out.. I just don’t think we need any *more* prepared food places. Some of the prepared food places also have a good selection of groceries (e.g. Nida’s), so I think that it would be easy enough for a place to pull double duty.
Whatever happened to the bell tower they were building? Haven’t seen or heard anything about it in a long while.
I hope the bbq place is good.. I’d love to have some great bbq within walking distance. Could be a great place to get some food to eat in goodale park on the walk back home when the weather gets better.
I think it is still raising funds.
CU has a brick in that! :)
A half gallon of 1/2+1/2 is a lot of dairy product but man, is it good in espresso. As soon as I get home with Snowville I shake it real good (the carton, people!) and immediately transfer it into a couple quart size glass bottles from Hartzler’s Dairy. I cover the top of one with plastic wrap and push it to the back of the frig where it’s coldest and so far, it’s been just fine up to seven days beyond the use-by date.
+1 Wouldn’t a spice stall be AMAZING? I absolutely feel that it would be wonderful for the North Market to really step up the “market” end of business, instead of being a glorified food court and a place for specialty items…
I know that’s probably exaggerating… sorry.
+1 Wouldn’t a spice stall be AMAZING? I absolutely feel that it would be wonderful for the North Market to really step up the “market” end of business, instead of being a glorified food court and a place for specialty items…
I know that’s probably exaggerating… sorry.
Um, how did you both miss A Touch of Earth? Bulk spices are found in jars on shelving along the aisle on the west side of the Market.
+1 Wouldn’t a spice stall be AMAZING? I absolutely feel that it would be wonderful for the North Market to really step up the “market” end of business, instead of being a glorified food court and a place for specialty items…
I know that’s probably exaggerating… sorry.
Um, how did you both miss A Touch of Earth? Bulk spices are found in jars on shelving along the aisle on the west side of the Market.
Plus the Indian place sells spices.
Guess I’m not a very good capitalist.
Here’s a thought/observation.
I was just at the Clintonville Giant Eagle and it a point to look at the milk selection with this thread in mind. So I noticed that there is maybe 24-30 Snowville units on the shelves compared to their competitors like Horizon Organic, Silk Soy, and Giant Eagle Nature’s Basket Organic Brand which each have 100+ units on the selves each.
So Snowville might be showing up in a lot of locations, but actually volume is still very low.
I’ll make a chart illustrating my point with emoticons of Snowville and their market competitors.
:D = Snowville Brand
:o = Giant Eagle Organic
:P = Horizon Oragnic
Now imagine a shelf at Giant Eagle…
:D :D :D :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :P :P :P :P :P :P :P :P :P
:D :D :D :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :P :P :P :P :P :P :P :P :P
:D :D :D :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :P :P :P :P :P :P :P :P :P
Snowville is in the game, but still a minor player.
Even with the vendors mentioned, there is still not a decent spice selection in the Market. Touch of Earth has seriously edited theirs, Greener Grocer has little bits of this and that, the Indian place has only Indian spices, and the new BBQ space will, I’m assuming, be mostly BBQ-centric spices. This seems like a serious omission– if anything, it’d be nice to have AMAZING spices at the market. Specialty spices. It seems like it would be a cinch to carry bulk spices. Little envelopes upstairs, big bags downstairs in the basement/cages.
And I’d like more flours/baking supplies. Hmmmm…. maybe I’ll talk to Amy at Omega :)
Also: Giant Eagle in Victorian Village carries Snowville milk.
Right, run down there and get some nutmeg or cinnamon from them…
P.S. I’d like to be the go-to-gal for signage in the Market :wink:
Merchants at North Market are not charities, they are in business to make money. Wishing that some nameless food saint will open a spice stall is not the way a business plan is formulated.
I miss Touch of Earth’s peppercorns and paprika too, don’t get me wrong. If all the people whining about the lack of dried spices now had been buying them from Ann all along, she would likely still be stocking those items.
I know I’m defensive about NoMkt and that’s because it is a great–albeit it imperfect–institution. If I hear one more person call it a glorified food court I might explode. The Market has a carefully crafted balance of fresh groceries and ready-to-eat food. It supports all the basics: bread, cheese, fish, fruits/vegetables, meat, poultry, ice cream and chocolate.
I can’t imagine life in Columbus without the Market, it’s practically a daily stop for me. If it weren’t there I might quit eating altogether.
+1
Thank you.
Hee hee. I know. Just thought it was funny that spices in general were mentioned in the original post and people are complaining about spices in general.
Merry Christmas! :D
LOL CUTE!
I was in the N. Market the other day and saw the bulk candy store. I was reminded of those places that are located in malls.
I thought that they were going to try and focus more on ingredients rather than bringing in vendors to make the place look more like a miniture version of Tuttle Mall.
As the dispatch said last week :
shopping and restaurant bazaar
The NMDA and its staff are way out of touch with the older more grocery-oriented merchants.
Now there’s a Mr. Bulky to go with the Karamel Korn, Cinnabon, Sbarros, etc.
Some of us like limited prepared food and LOTS of ingredients. Now we go to Penzey’s and every grocery store to fill the North Market gaps… :cry: