• Grand Bazaar Preps For Opening


    by on Jan 22nd, 2010

    Grand Bazaar, a new gourmet supermarket opening at 2424 Coney Island Avenue (off of Avenue U), has construction nearly all wrapped up and hopes to be stocked and ready to go by late-February. Owner Adam Dasdemir said the market will be open 24 hours, and a grand opening is being planned shortly after next month’s “soft opening” to allow for employee training.

    Like other local gourmet markets, Grand Bazaar will offer a mixed selection of fruits, vegetables, packaged foods, prepared foods and baked goods. There will be a small seating area and parking for about 15 cars.

    Before working on Grand Bazaar, which replaces a local diner that bit the dust at least three years ago, Dasdemir ran an upscale Turkish restaurant and club in uptown Manhattan. He also owns Adam’s hair salon on Kings Highway for more than 20 years.

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    • PayPaul

      We need another yupscale supermarket to drive the rest of the low income residents away. Yeah! Let em go to New Jersey! It's going to be expensive but you knew that. Ha! Ha! Ha!

    • http://www.njluxurymotors.com Arthur Borko

      Oh C'mon man. The more options the better!

    • PayPaul

      Yeah right. There aren't enough “options” as it is for average working residents. There used to be about 6 supermarkets in this area. Now there are 2. It would have been better to see a Key Food, a Shop-Rite or a Pathmark. What's next? A Whole Foods where the CEO doesn't believe Americans should have decent affordable healthcare unless they can afford to pay through the nose for it? How about a Dean & Deluca while we're at it?
      After that a Gristedes(Greededes), a Food Emporium and a Trader Joes.

    • http://www.njluxurymotors.com Arthur Borko

      Paul, Sheepshead has quite a few supermarkets, you're just not looking for
      them.

      Pathmark – Nostrand and Ave Y
      NetCost – East 16th Street/Neck Road
      Waldbaums – Ocean Ave and Shore Parkway
      Key Food – Gerritsen Ave and Knapp Street

      There are countless smaller grocery stores and fruit shops. If you want to
      travel between 5 and 10 minutes outside of Sheepshead there is a Key Food on
      West 2 and Ave Z, a Shoprite on McDonald and Ave I. Kings Highway recently
      had 2 Supermarkets (in the same location, 2 diff owners) fail, while smaller
      stores thrive.

      The Grand Bazaar and Cherry Hill IMO are the types of places we need MORE of
      not less. Ignore the pomp and advertising, gourmet this or luxury that. It's
      a small buisness owned by someone local with ties to the community. Do you
      really want another corporate store to set up shop here? The kind of place
      that doesn't care about the people the community and do everything based on
      some profit formula?

    • Alex

      PayPaul,

      Time to sharpen that pitchfork and drive out the damn capitalist pigs out of Sheepshead Bay.

    • http://www.flickr.com/photos/lisanne001 Lisanne!

      It's a generational thing.

      You consider a supermarket on Avenue I and McDonald local. That would have not been a consideration at one time. Unfortunately, this is not within the memory of many people who live here now. There was a time where there were more supermarkets here than one could fathom. There were two A&Ps, one on Avenue U and East 13th Street, the other at East 17th and Jerome, where Chase is now. There was a Food Fair on Avenue U as well, I believe near East 9th Street Big Apple was near East 18th and U. Danza's was on Avenue X and Hubbard, Associated was at Coney Island Avenue and Avenue Z. Packers was where the 99¢ store on Coney and Z is now. Dan's on Sheepshead Bay where the CVS is now. Bohacks was on Jerome and Ocean, where the Rite Aid currently is. Waldbaums was at Avenue Y and Ocean, and Hills at Nostrand and Avenue Y. Lawsuits and poor expansion planning killed some of the chains, but they certainly didn't lack for customers. Then again, people spent their money differently back then.

    • brooklynq

      I agree that we could use more small locally owned businesses, but I hope this place is nothing like Cherry Hill. We don't need another market that focuses on the Eastern European food stuffs. This owner is Turkish, how about a place that focuses on middle eastern food products and spices?

      Let's get some diversity into the neighborhood.

    • http://www.flickr.com/photos/lisanne001 Lisanne!

      I wouldn't suggest “focus” but rather making such food products available. The market for such items may not yet exist to the extent that it could support a supermarket. But later expansion in that direction might be undertaken if it succeeds in selling large enough quantities of such products.

    • http://www.njluxurymotors.com Arthur Borko

      Oh man lets hope so! I can't wait to get my grubby hands on some marinated lamb and hummus!

    • PayPaul

      Not all of us have or can afford cars. 5 to 10 minutes to Keyfood does not apply to walking distance.
      I do like NetCost for some of the interesting Russian food (provided that I know what it is) but it's not a general supermarket and the prices are not the best for items that you would possibly find in any supermarket. I go there for the Kvas, the pastries and I'll admit one of those Russian stores saved me one time when all the major supermarkets within walking distance didn't have the rotisserie chicken I needed. Perhaps I should borrow one of Ray Johnsons Shopping carts and ask it to drive me over to Pathmark. Maybe you might want to set up a car pool for supermarket shoppers in the Bay so they can exercise the other “options” you've mentioned.

    • http://www.njluxurymotors.com Arthur Borko

      If you can't afford a car perhaps you can scrape together the money for car
      service! If not you have other options. Fresh Direct and Produce Direct!

      In any case lets be realistic, a big Waldbaums or Key Food wouldn't fit well
      in that location. It's too small. The current owner at least kept the
      original building so it's not towering over everything else, and he has
      parking too. I'm just saying, in this particular case no reason to bring the
      dogs eh? Lets see what its like when it opens.

    • http://www.nedberke.com Ned Berke

      So… does anyone remember the name of the diner or when exactly it closed?

    • http://www.flickr.com/photos/lisanne001 Lisanne!

      The last operator seemed to be a bar/club of some sort called the Adams Lounge. It closed last summer, or at least that seemed to be the case. I think it lasted about 4 years. Before that it was the Seaport Diner, and its earlier incarnation was Bernie's which lasted into the late 80s. I think it had been Bernie's since the 60s.

    • http://www.nedberke.com Ned Berke

      Ah, I wish I knew about the nightclub. I dont think I ever registered it in my head. It's likely the same guy.

    • Ray Johnson

      On October 24, 2008, we ran a story about the illegal postering happening all over Sheepshead Bay (a problem still plaguing us), and one of the posters featured in my picture collage belonged to Adam's Lounge. We didn't list the location of the lounge, so that might be why it was hard to put two and two together.

      Not sure about the diner, but for some time before the lounge, it was Veranda Turkish Cuisine. I have a vague recollection of eating there, once. The chicken was tasty, but can't remember much else.

    • http://www.flickr.com/photos/lisanne001 Lisanne!

      I forgot about the Veranda. I believe that opened in the late 90s, but originally as a more generic diner.

      Here's a picture that shows the sign for the Adam's Lounge, as well as the McDonald's on the corner.

      http://www.flickr.com/photos/lisanne001/1789260…

    • Theresa Scavo

      Ned,
      When the diner closed it was called “Seaport Diner”. It closed in 2002. Prior to Seaport it was called Bernie's Diner. It was the first 24 hour diner in the area.

    • DONNA22

      WHEN IS GRAND BAZAAR SUPERMARKET GOING TO OPEN ARE THEY LOOKING FOR WORKERS CASHIERS

    • DONNA22

      WHEN IS GRAND BAZAAR SUPERMARKET GOING TO OPEN ARE THEY LOOKING FOR WORKERS CASHIERS

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    • Miramis04

      Aware! I had such a bad experience there! I got the apples ones, they taste like they have lots of chemicals inside, outside you may see the white layer looks like paint!!!! Bought bread, old and with the taste of mold!!!!! same thing with nuts in the honey! has absolute taste of old nuts!!!! here more> they got gallon of olive oil , with sign like pure olive oil , guess what??? Yellow color sunflower taste!!!! ooops Sunflower oil! how could the do sch a thing! cashier, takes FOREVER to check out!!!! Forever!!!!! aware of buying any stuff there! after few very unpleasant visits NO MORE. First time I see such a thing in my life!!

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