![]() No time to cook – try the Organic Salad Bar, Veggie Bar, Homestyle Bar, Asian Bar, and Pizza Shop featuring thin-crust pizza, calzones and chicken wings. Visit The Buzz Coffee Shop for specialty coffee, tea, and breakfast sandwiches. Meat, fresh-caught seafood, deli products and imported cheeses, international foods, plus all the grocery, dairy, frozen, and household items usually found in a supermarket.Įnjoy our restaurant-quality entrees, soups, appetizers, gourmet sandwiches, side dishes, and made-to-order sushi. Our old-fashioned Sub Shop offers hot and cold subs/wraps, party trays, and cookies. ![]() But as one staff member of the shop’s 450 employees pointed out to us: “It’s just Wegmans, there’s nothing else really like it.Welcome to Wegmans with dazzling displays of fresh produce, artisan breads, and other baked goods hot from the oven several times a day. To the uninitiated, Wegmans has the allure of a Costco when it comes to size and prices on bulk items Whole Foods for specialty ingredients and organic finds and Giant for approachability and convenience. A lush produce department mixes fresh fruits and vegetables from local farms as well as national producers and items from Wegmans Organic Farm & Orchard in Canandaigua, New York. The same is true for meatless options, such as ready-made veggie burger patties. Seafood and meat items come in various phases of preparation-raw, ready-to-cook trays of chicken marsala or shrimp scampi, ready-heat meals such as Peruvian-style chicken, and grab-and-go hot items. But there are also approachable family packs. Photograph courtesy of Wegmans.Īmbitious home cooks can snag live lobsters, whole racks of ribs, and delicacies like caviar or foie gras. The market offers indoor and outdoor seating for 160 with lots of in-store dining options: a family-friendly Burger Bar and Pizza Shop stations for customizable salads and sandwiches self-serve buffets with soups or Asian dishes a raw bar with poke bowls and sushi (including cooked and vegetarian options) a bakery loaded with homemade pastries and doughnuts and a Buzz coffee shop. Match the booze with abundant cheese and charcuterie sections, and the party is planned. A huge offering of wines ranges from budget bottles to a a $1,200 Chateau Lafite Rothschild in the temperature-controlled fancy wine cave. That’s on top of an equally lengthy selection of beers and ciders (including DIY six-packs). Unlike most other DC supermarkets, Wegmans sells 500 varieties of global spirits, vermouths, and sakes. Hours are also extensive-6 AM to midnight-and there’s parking for 750 below the market in addition to online shopping options, delivery, and curbside pickup.Ī selection of whiskeys at the DC Wegmans. The store boasts 70,000 grocery items, specialty departments for fresh-cut flowers and home entertaining, a pharmacy, and Burger Bar. Patrons can pick up liquor or wine, necessities like dog food and paper towels, non-necessities like fancy cheese or custom poke bowls, and seemingly everything in between. The DC Wegmans’ biggest draw is it’s a literal and rare one-stop-shop. The shelves of Wegmans DC weren’t yet fully stocked when we visited, but here’s what the grocery store typically looks like. ![]() How great can a 107-store chain possibly be? Turns out, pretty great. ![]() Wegmans novices like myself may be skeptical. Popville dubbed it an “84,000 square foot Shangri-La.” There’s even a Women of Wegmans fans club that will show up, dressed to the nines, for the 9 AM opening. Still, Wegmans massive market in Tenleytown’s City Ridge development is drawing tons of hype in advance of the grand opening on Wednesday, July 13. A supermarket opening doesn’t usually garner the breathless excitement of the District’s first (ever!) Wegmans-especially in grocery-heavy Upper Northwest, home to the Social Safeway and Just-Walk-Out Whole Foods, among many others.
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