You have entered one of the world's greatest
indoor food marketplaces. Chelsea Market is a collection of restaurants
and a shopping mall, occupying an entire block in Chelsea, New York City, offering dozens
of great places to eat and many exciting retail outlets. For example, at Los Tacos No. 1 they have
an authentic taste that comes from family recipes, and from fresh, simple and tasteful
ingredients. They say in every taco there is a bit of true
Mexican culture and flavor. It's part of this amazing international kaleidoscope
of foods from all over the world. Very Fresh Noodles is another popular spot
– high-quality hand pulled and hand pressed Chinese noodle shop, and we will come back
here and a little while and see more of it. You can eat standing up, New York style fast
food, but notice there are no McDonald's, Burger King, KFC, no typical fast food joints
in here. And you can also find some places to sit down,
maybe with your family and friends, relax and have a meal. The market occupies the street level and basement
of a large brick building. It had been the headquarters of the Nabisco
National Biscuit Company back in the early 20th century. It's located right next to the High Line,
that elevated park which actually passes right through the building's 10th Ave. side. This allowed freight trains on these formerly
elevated tracks to enter directly within the building itself. In the early 20th century, trains of the High
Line had served the wholesale butchers who lined the streets beneath the tracks. This abandoned elevated railroad track has
been converted to an urban oasis, forming a continuous route all the way up to Hudson
Yards. Curiously, although the Highline goes right
through the building, there is no direct connection to get in to the Chelsea Market down below. It's a little tricky, but there is a staircase
– there's no sign marking that that'll lead you to the Chelsea Market – but you'll see
it. And you walk down the steps and across the
street, take a look up at the heavy metal construction of the underside of the Highline,
then walk around the corner, and there you'll find the entrance to the marketplace. The market is located in the lower west side
of Manhattan between 15th St. and 16th St., and between 9th and 10th Avenues in what's
called the meatpacking district next to Chelsea. We've just walked in the 10th Ave. doorway
and earlier you saw the façade over on the 9th Avenue side. It goes through the entire city block. Chelsea Market opened in 1997, but retained
the stripped-down brick architecture of the original building, showcasing the industrial
design and character, easy to navigate because there is one long interior arcade with shops
and restaurants along both sides of it. The market has an excellent website that lists
all of the stores, restaurants and vendors that are located here, providing brief descriptions
and links to the websites of each one of these merchants, many of whom sell their merchandise
over the Internet. During the video I'll be sharing with you
some of those descriptions. There are vegetable markets, cheese markets,
wine markets and clothing stores, and bookstores, part of the market's collection of distinctive
and diverse merchants. It's not just an average food all, but rather
a lively marketplace and we will be describing a lot of the shops as we walk through it. Friedman's Lunch is the ideal spot for homemade
comfort food with affordable prices. Then there's Suzette Crêperie with sweet
and savory crêpes made fresh to order or French macron, hot chocolates, beer and wine. Takumi Taco offers Japanese-inspired Mexican
food. Lobster Place has been here from the beginning
as a one-of-a-kind seafood hall where you can explore all that the ocean has to offer. Crack into a fresh steamed lobster with a
cold beer in your hand. The market is on seven days a week with most
restaurants open till nine during the weekend, 10 o'clock on the weekends. Creamlime is a fast, casual restaurant that
serves farm-sourced American classics including burgers, shakes, fries and ice cream, straightforward
authentic food using the best ingredients. Mayhem beer and sandwiches is a New York City-based
artisan sandwich shop focusing on pairing local and hard-to-find craft beer with unique
spins on classic sandwiches, also with a branch at Park Avenue and 45th St.. Some dining seats offer a ringside view of
the passing parade of people. Lilac is Manhattan's oldest chocolate house,
opened in 1923. They claim to have the largest selection of
fresh gourmet chocolate in America. And there's Berlin Currywurst, a treasured
German street food with varieties of pork, beef, chicken, and tofu. The dining arrangement, whether you're standing
or sitting, is really ideal here for socializing and making some new friends. You'll be sitting next to somebody and maybe
ask, how's the food, and get into an interesting conversation here. In 2018 Google's parent company Alphabet purchased
Chelsea Market and the entire building for more than $2.4 billion. It's been called one of the most expensive
real estate transactions for a single building in the history of New York. Google occupies some of the upper floors,
including YouTube on the fifth floor. Chelsea Wine Vault and Storage is dedicated
to selling only fine wines. Famous clothing store Anthropologie offers
a one-of-a-kind and compelling shopping experience for women who appreciate innovation artfulness
and good design. Miznan created a new kind of Mediterranean
street food with seasonally inspired ingred, ients offering a variety of pita sandwiches,
veggie sides and more. It's their interpretation of Israeli street
food in a fast, casual setting. With branches in Tel Aviv, Paris, Vienna and
Melbourne, they opened here and 2018. Another pleasure to enjoy here is that fine
sport of people-watching. With so many visitors streaming through from
all over the world, they put on quite a show. About midway through the market, you'll be
walking through this splendid curtain of white lights, hanging like drapery. It's a landmark that points to the lower level
of the marketplace, called Chelsea Local, with more shops down below and another big
concourse. You might get some free samples down here. Saxelby Cheesemongers work directly with over
50 small-scale local farms and producers to source the best cheeses and dairy products. They opened here in the market in 2017. Buon'Italia, a gourmet Italian grocery store,
has offered its customers an authentic taste of Italy for over 20 years. Recognized for its extensive range of high-quality
imported Italian food and other related products. One shop over, we're coming up now on Black
Seed Appetizing, known for their unique bagels that combine New York City baking techniques,
and that Montréal style. And here they go beyond bagels and sandwiches
to offer a classic Jewish appetizing foods. They've got premium smoked fish by the pound
and a lot more. The Manhattan fruit market illustrates how
this Chelsea Market is not just for tourists, but for locals who live in the area and want
to come in and get some excellent produce, and everything you would find in a full range
supermarket, from delicious seasonal apples to rare Dragon fruit and lychee. They've only got unblemished items all arranged
like works of art. This store has it all, variety of potatoes,
mushrooms, peppers, lettuces, herbs. The market also offers one-of-a-kind fruit
and vegetables not found in ordinary food stores, anything you would need to cook a
great meal. Dixons Farm Stand meats wlli offer a grilled
steak, hotdogs, sandwiches, chicken, and a variety of salads. There's even a little area for kids to sit
and play. So be sure to go downstairs and enjoy Chelsea
Central with all these other shops, then back up onto the main level, with a lot more to
see. That brings you to the middle of the marketplace,
with that curtain of white lights hanging, and there's a nice eating area there with
communal tables for the take-out foods. And just behind that you'll reach one of the
largest stores, the Pearl River Mart, featuring Asian inspired gifts, fashions and ceramics
from exciting Asian-American designers. Since then Pearl River has cultivated a reputation
for being the place where you can find just about anything, Buddhist statues, rice snacks,
chopsticks, along with countless things you can't even name. Many customers walk through the doors, not
knowing what they want, only to walk out later with exactly what they were looking for. It's amazing that these large retail spaces
and restaurants are occupying what had been an old Nabisco factory making cookies, including
the Oreo that they invented here. The building was constructed back in the 1890s
and Nabisco stayed here until 1958, and the building was somewhat abandoned, and then
renovated, taken over by a new owner, Irwin Cohen with Jeff Vanderburg and Vanderburg
Architects in the 1990s, converting it into this dazzling mall. Notice the time. It's 1:45. We're here on a weekday early in the month
of March, and it is still super busy. If you got here at noon, imagine the lunch
counters are going to have a line in front of every one of them. As mentioned at the beginning, we've come
back for a closer look at Very Fresh Noodles. You could take away to one of those communal
table areas or , if you can find a seat at their narrow counter, you can watch the show
as this fellow makes fresh noodles, swinging them and slamming them on the counter. The retail complex was created after a lot
of hard work that connected the original back lots of several individual buildings and broke
down some walls to create this central concourse with the shops extending out on both sides. When done, you can step out onto 9th Avenue
and take a walk in this fine urban neighborhood, that will bring you right into Chelsea. We have many more movies about New York, and
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