Friday, October 11, 2024

At the reopening of the Sakanaya at Wegmans

Photos and reporting by Stacie Joy 

After three months of expanding the seafood department, the Wegmans outpost on Astor Place recently hosted its first tuna cutting in the new Sakanaya. 

The store, the first in Manhattan, opened last October. 

"As we continue to focus on best serving our customers in Manhattan, the decision was made to reconfigure the space to provide a more interactive experience for customers," a store rep told us via email. 

Here's a look at the Sept. 22 event ...
Chairman Danny Wegman, a third-generation family member who joined the business in 1964, was present with his wife Paula Kerr-Jarrett and Yuko Kishida, the spouse of the now-former Prime Minister of Japan, Fumio Kishida.
The live tuna cutting demonstrations happen at this Wegmans on Saturdays and Sundays at 1 p.m. ...
Read more about the fish market here. 
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9 comments:

  1. AnonymousOctober 11, 2024 at 1:50 PM

    I've only browsed. But I have to admit that fish market is off the chart.

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  2. AnonymousOctober 11, 2024 at 3:31 PM

    Food is no longer a life sustainer but a "Fetish"

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    1. AnonymousOctober 12, 2024 at 9:35 AM

      And this is a new development? Pretty sure practices such as these have been occurring for centuries in Japan.

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    2. AnonymousOctober 12, 2024 at 6:56 PM

      Catering to my fetishes might be the only way to convince to shop at a chain grocery store in the middle of New York City

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  3. Dan perinoOctober 11, 2024 at 4:40 PM

    I love this .

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  4. AnonymousOctober 12, 2024 at 9:00 AM

    Food as "Fetish" is really the wrong interpretation. Entertainment, spectacle, or as an event are much more appropriate descriptions. One only has to go back through the past 300 years and read the French gourmands to see how much food was entertainment as well as sustenance.
    Or go to Roman times and read Apicius. Also, the English courts of Henry Vlll. Don't forget any high end restaurant that does tableside cooking [On a more mass scale, remember Benihana?]. Hell, even YouTube, TikTok and Instagram fall into that category.
    As I said, it's nothing new. Same thing, just suited for different times.

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  5. XTCOctober 12, 2024 at 12:22 PM

    Some people in the US are so dumbed down they think a cheeseburger is "haute cuisine."

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  6. AnonymousOctober 16, 2024 at 5:21 PM

    Best sushi fish is two blocks away at small neighborhood business, Osakana, St Marks between 1st and 2nd Avenue

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