Giant Eagle Market District

Candy Supermarket?
Well...it's the Midwest After All

A new week, a new Monday. OK, Tuesday, but I'm a day behind this week.

This week Alunchboxblog.com brings you some of the best of Columbus, Ohio, a rather unremarkable (on the surface of it) American city with a remarkable food culture. We’ll start where all the best food starts: at the market. There are two critical market stops in Columbus to make:

The first is Giant Eagle Market District in Upper Arlington. The other we'll get to tomorrow.

Giant Eagle Market District

3061 Kingsdale Center

Upper Arlington

Columbus, Ohio 43221

(614) 538-0762

Self-Serve Wine Pull Whites

Welcome to the Best Grocery Store in the World, located in lowly, little, low profile Columbus, Ohio. Of all places, Columbus!

OK, maybe the second best, since Houston has GRAND CENTRAL MARKET.

The fun part of this three-football-fields-sized superstore is that you can traverse its miles of floors with a glass of wine in your hand and not look like a lush.

Chefs Preparing Food to Go

There are plenty of folks doin’ it!

Giant Eagle puts 90 Point wines on tap, and you just serve yourself (for a fee, of course)! For $10, I tasted a whole bunch of high end wines and was finally able to settle on a terrific German Riesling that was stones and acidity and grace.

Giant Eagle Market District Exteriors

From there, I ventured into a world of food, prepared, and otherwise. I seem to be missing a ton of photos, unfortunately, but if I can get my hands back on them, I’ll post them too. I’m missing images of the Bologna section, which was a hoot! And entire refridgerator devoted to Bologna, the cold cut. Just the one.

Alright, It’s Not Whole Foods,
it's better!

I had great images of the python filet, the duck, the Cornish game hens, and alligator. I mean, the meats section carried just about every D’ARTAGNAN-packaged meat you can imagine. And from the looks of the place, it sells tons of food to tons of people.

Frankly, this place has so much food in it that I’m surprised the population of Columbus is big enough to keep it in business.

Up next! North Market, Short North, Columbus!

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