Food Bazaar Supermarket Opened: October 28, 2026 Owner: Spencer An Previous Tenants: Western Beef (ca. 2010-2026) Cooperative: none Location: 2050 Webster Ave, Bronx, NY Photographed: October 30, 2026 Time for another converted Western Beef/Food Bazaar location in the Bronx! This store is just shy of 40,000 square feet, and was the final location to be converted, on October 28. I did a pretty extensive post of this store right before the conversion (see here ), so I'm gonna keep this kind of quick. On the outside, Food Bazaar has painted the storefront beige and red, a much better match for their color scheme than the blue and orange that used to be here. Similarly, the inside has gotten a fresh coat of paint and some minor work. This store was built around 2012 replacing an older store a couple blocks over, so it's not all that old. A fresh coat of paint inside has made it look quite a bit fresher than it did previously. Produce is on the right side, with bakery in the b...
Food Bazaar Supermarket Opened: October 17, 2026 Owner: Spencer An Previous Tenants: Finast (closed 1980) > Top Tomato / Top Meat Warehouse (1980s) > Western Beef (early 1990s - 2026) Cooperative: none Location: 831 Rosedale Ave, Bronx, NY Photographed: October 30, 2026 Moving on to one of the two stores Food Bazaar bought from Western Beef in Soundview, in the southeastern Bronx (it joins another location that the chain already had there). This one is a bit of a quirky location. It's not on the main thoroughfares -- Bruckner Boulevard, Westchester Avenue, White Plains Road -- but instead just in from Bruckner on Rosedale Avenue, a cross street. It was originally a Finast, later becoming a Top Tomato (in the days when that chain actually still existed and had locations across the region) with a Top Meat Warehouse attached. Western Beef opened up here in the early 1990s. This store is around 30,000 square feet and doesn't seem to have been expanded since it opened, ...