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TOUR: Citarella Gourmet Market - Greenwich, CT

Citarella Gourmet Market Owner:  Joe Gurrera Opened:  2015 Cooperative:  none Location:  600 W Putnam Ave, Greenwich, CT Photographed:  May 2019 Our final Connecticut store is this 22,000 square foot gourmet market near the New York border. We've previously seen a Citarella , although that was a much smaller store on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. This former office building (with attached parking garage) has become Citarella on the upper level, which is grade-level for Putnam Avenue; the lower level, which is grade-level in the back, is multiple smaller businesses . It's an impressive gourmet grocery store with attached liquor store, and I think I visited at an off-peak time because it was empty. There are kind of two "aisles" here, with the second extending farther back than the first as a dead-end -- think the letter h. Produce and deli are in the front half of the first and meat/seafood in the back part; the second aisle has bakery ...