The latest, Jeffrey's Grocery, opened by Gabriel Stulman and his partners, is serious and well stocked, with a little restaurant attached.
In the Lower Manhattan neighborhood more notable for stock markets than food markets, a 12,000-square-foot grocery opened in May with foods and products to please the ever-expanding residential population.
Then, a dorky guy carrying a bag of groceries opens the door of his apartment and is stunned at the sight before him: a group of seven bikini-clad female models forming the shape of a couch.
"I can see in one or two months going back, living in the house, as long as some groceries open up.
So add the humble dial tone to the list of endangered sounds: the click of a token falling into a turnstile, the tiny thunderclap when a grocery clerk opens a brown paper bag.
Several H.E.B. grocery stores opened on generator power the day after the storm passed.
Last month, Ralphs grocery store opened a branch at Ninth and Flower, the first new full-service supermarket in the area in more than fifty years.
The Garden of Eden, a high-end grocery store, opened two and a half years ago to acclaim from both groups.
A bank and grocery store opened in consecutive weeks in late January and early February, and a health maintenance organization has just signed up to move in.
At the Grocery, which opened in a former furniture factory on Cannon Street two years ago, you can see all the requisite Southern revival staples: jars of homemade pickles, fried oysters with deviled-egg dressing, a meaty charred broccoli with pimento cheese sauce.
