NW corner of 17th and Christian - Market? Restaurant?

**psuskifan** · 06-22-2012, 11:29 AM

Any idea whats going there? The windows are currently covered in paper. My neighbor saw a delivery from a truck labeled "supermarket equipment".

**BarryG** · 06-22-2012, 11:55 AM

Rumor a few months ago was a coffeeshop.

**dr_gingivitis** · 06-22-2012, 01:05 PM

I've heard corner grocery, maybe with deli, typical corner store. I've also heard it's opening in the next week or so. Fingers crossed it gets a nice fancy awning...

**Marquis** · 06-22-2012, 01:06 PM

I hope they have sadwiches.

**BrianL** · 06-22-2012, 01:16 PM

Got to love the neighborhood where you can get hardword floors on washington ave and a sadwich on carpenter!

**dr_gingivitis** · 06-22-2012, 01:33 PM

Does anyone recall when May's opened they had Smothies?

**londoner** · 06-23-2012, 10:39 AM

Originally Posted by dr_gingivitis

I've heard corner grocery, maybe with deli, typical corner store. I've also heard it's opening in the next week or so. Fingers crossed it gets a nice fancy awning...

What do you think? Bottle shop? Is that allowed across the street from a school?

**BarryG** · 06-23-2012, 10:46 AM

Originally Posted by londoner

What do you think? Bottle shop? Is that allowed across the street from a school?

If was going to sell alcohol thered be an orange liquor license permit in the window.

**Gladys** · 06-23-2012, 07:12 PM

Originally Posted by Marquis

I hope they have sadwiches.

Awe honey here, have some zoloftwhiches... i hear that's a competing trend.

**londoner** · 07-03-2012, 10:48 AM

So was this place open the last few days? Anyone go inside and see their offerings? From just walking past last night, it looks like it's another corner store for the locals...nothing but the finest soda pop and potato chips!

**torts** · 07-03-2012, 10:55 AM

yuck

**JRN** · 07-10-2012, 08:32 PM

I was riding by in a cab and noticed it said something like "Christian Cafe." I'll check it out soon enough, but is it really a cafe/deli or, as someone else mentioned, just a corner store with chips and soda?

**Reader** · 07-10-2012, 10:43 PM

I went in yesterday, which I think was the first day they were open. Most of the shelves were still empty, but the staff were very friendly. Mostly looks like groceries. They are serving paninis instead of hoagies, but otherwise looked the same as other corner stores. The panini selection seemed good, including a vegetarian option with tofu, but the menu didn't have prices and they didn't have a copy I could take, so not sure what the price point is. They were offering 50% off paninis yesterday and today.
It's quite a bit smaller than Kim Van or Mays, but again with so many empty shelves it is hard to say what they will stock. I saw a lot of candy bars, chips, Tide, dish washer detergent, sauerkraut, ice cream, individual serving sizes of organic milk, and a bunch of beverages.
I wasn't in need of lunch so I didn't buy anything, but would go back for a bottle of water or similar.

**torts** · 07-11-2012, 07:23 AM

Do they have cool ranch Doritos?

**flibble** · 07-11-2012, 09:43 AM

maybe someone can write them a letter intimdating them into selling a list of preferred items and suggestively instructing them on how to run their business

**londoner** · 07-11-2012, 11:54 AM

Originally Posted by flibble

maybe someone can write them a letter intimdating them into selling a list of preferred items and suggestively instructing them on how to run their business

come on, you can be wittier than that right?

Really the issue is the proximity to the elementary school. Putting cheap chips and soda immediately across the street from this school is kinda like having an open-air meth dealer directly across the street from a drug clinic. It's the yellow-brick road paved straight toward type-1 diabetes. It also leads to a ****-ton more litter--which is already an issue on this corridor due to the school, the Y, and MARC.

What's most annoying is that it seems that the shop owners are very well aware of this--and so instead of having a shop that has a broad appeal to the actual demographic of the neighborhood--they are focusing on the quick, cheap buck. It's just seems...a bit irresponsible.

**Lolly** · 07-11-2012, 12:14 PM

Maybe someone can sit idly behind his/her computer screen and complain or otherwise amuse him/herself by making no-so-funny "jokes" on here, while others do all the actual work it takes to make our neighborhood a better place.

Oh, wait...

**Lolly** · 07-14-2012, 11:44 PM

Drove by earlier tonight, saw the "Open" sign and was reminded... Has anyone else checked it out more yet? Shelves filling up??

**PBResident** · 07-15-2012, 02:09 PM

Lol

Originally Posted by flibble

maybe someone can write them a letter intimdating them into selling a list of preferred items and suggestively instructing them on how to run their business

**Lolly** · 07-15-2012, 06:57 PM

New Christian Street Corner Store Gets the Memo on Signage | NakedPhilly

Hoped to pick up some 1% milk there as we drove by again today, but the place was closed at 3pm. Ended up getting it at Kim Van. (Still waiting for Reyes to stock <2%.)