Raw food in mid-town NYC

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Permalink Reply by CanarsieBK on June 18, 2009 at 2:13pm

Westerley's Natural Market is right there on 8th bet like 53-55. They have premade stuffs for you to pikc up.

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Permalink Reply by Bart M on June 18, 2009 at 2:38pm

I believe that the whole foods right there in the CC mall has a small selection of raw snacks. Or you could just pick up some yummy organic produce from them.

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Permalink Reply by Rawzilla on June 22, 2009 at 12:09pm

Yes, there is a Whole Foods on the bottom level of the CC mall, and they have salad bars and a seating area too. I used to go there a lot.

Candle Cafe is truly one of the best raw restaurants.

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Permalink Reply by ben "the beekeeper" stiller on June 18, 2009 at 2:53pm

Candle Cafe on the east side

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Permalink Reply by Bart M on June 18, 2009 at 3:26pm

Ooh, I just checked their site and menu. Looks nice! Thanks!

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Permalink Reply by Eric S on June 18, 2009 at 2:54pm

Westerley's sounds good.

I have some problems with Whole Foods, namely their ridiculous markups and their questionable marketing and business practices. Fortunately I belong to a coop so I can get organic, local produce at reasonable prices and I don't have to deal with Whole Foods.

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Permalink Reply by Bart M on June 18, 2009 at 3:23pm

What are some of their questionable marketing and business practices?

What do you mean by markups? Last time I was at Westerley's, they were even more expensive.

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Permalink Reply by Eric S on June 18, 2009 at 3:30pm

I'm not familiar with Westerley's prices, but Whole Foods will often mark produce up to 50% over suggested retail price. At my coop we mark everything up to 30% over wholesale, which is less than suggested retail. If something costs $1 wholesale at the coop we would charge $1.30 for it, Whole Foods might well charge $2.00 or more.

The problem I have with their marketing is that they basically sell stuff by appealing to people's ethics. You go to Whole Foods and you see the sign about "Tom the Apple Farmer" down the road right next to apples that were actually shipped from Costa Rica.

It boils down to the fact that Whole Foods is basically a corporation and their goal is to make a profit. A quick Google yields the following:

http://tinyurl.com/kurh75
http://www.slate.com/id/2138176/
http://dirtpie.blogspot.com/2007/09/whole-foods-markup.html

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Permalink Reply by Bart M on June 18, 2009 at 3:40pm

Thank you for explaining this in your words as it applies to this conversation.

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Permalink Reply by Eric S on June 24, 2009 at 6:55pm

Two articles presenting two sides of the Whole Foods issue:

http://bit.ly/DExeH
http://bit.ly/16lEBI

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Permalink Reply by CanarsieBK on June 20, 2009 at 2:51pm

you wind up goin to westerley's?

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Permalink Reply by Eric S on June 22, 2009 at 10:32am

No, my meeting got pushed to Tuesday. Which is now tomorrow. Someone suggested a place called "Free Foods" that I think I might try.

http://www.freefoods45thst.com/

I volunteered at a festival this weekend and despite the weather had a great time, however there was little to no raw food available for the volunteers and barely any vegan food so I seriously need to cleanse if I want to recover.

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