In business since 1948, Sahadi’s, the family-owned Middle Eastern food bazaar on Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn, is opening a second location on Thursday. It’s a spacious store and cafe in Industry City, Brooklyn, conveniently near its wholesale warehouse. In addition to a vast array of dried fruits, nuts roasted in-house and olives, the outpost offers a number of new features. “We’re doing lots of things there wasn’t room for in the original store,” said Christine Sahadi Whelan, an owner. Cheeses are cut to order, the olives are self-service and saj, a kind of flatbread, is being baked on a special domed griddle. Blue Marble is making ice creams for the store with flavors like orange-apricot, sahlab-mastic-pistachio and vanilla-tahini-date. And there is a bar and cafe serving mezze like falafel and grilled shrimp, with Lebanese and Moroccan wines and beer and a chef, Alexander Dinnerstein, in charge. New products from Lebanon, including syrups of mulberry and bitter orange, line the shelves.
Sahadi’s Industry City, 34 35th Street (Third Avenue), 718-788-7500, sahadis.com.
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