Garden of Eden Gourmet Markets

[markk]

Are any of you New Yorkers familiar with Garden of Eden Gourmet Markets?

There's one about to open in Hoboken NJ and I'm curious what people think about it.

(I didn't start this thread in NJ, because this will be their first NJ store, so I don't think anybody can be familiar with it.)

Are they any good?

[lia]

I shop at the one on 23rd St fairly often. They're on a par with Balducci's and Westside Market; same stuff, similar prices, nice people. I admit I don't go out of my way to shop there because I live sort of in the center of there and the other two stores I mentioned so it really depends on just where I happen to be.

One minus is that they don't carry Sullivan St. or Tom Cat bread, I can get much better ciabattas at the other two stores.

[Sethro]

They carry a good selection of exotic fruits that are hard to find elsewhere.

[Luckylies]

the yusually have a very good selection of mushrooms, but you must have a good eye as some are not always at the peak of freshness. Actually, this goes for all their produce. The also carry lots of mini things which are cute for entertaining (mini cor, mini aspagus etc) They always sseem to have that one thing I can't find anywhere else...

[Dryden]

Just wanted to second what others have said - they carry a much larger selection of everything than lots of other places, despite the small size of the stores (in NYC, anyway). The quality of the fruit is also usually very, very good compared to most places. The cheese counter is also pretty good (it's no Murray's, obviously) but we've always found the meat/fish to be a little lacking.

[raji]

I think the single best thing to get there is their deli sandwiches, they are huge, and the array of ingredients at their disposal is insane. So be happy