Stew Leonards - Yonkers

We'll be the first to admit that driving 45 minutes to go grocery shopping in a City as dense as ours is flat out weird. But, Stew Leonards is not just a grocery store, it's a destination grocery store/petting zoo/nursery/Dariy Farm/BBQ/Home made Ice cream shop. We like to think that the fact that it has it's own exit to "Stew Leonards Drive" off of NYS Thruway says something about the place.

Stew Leonards started out as a Dairy. Now, according to their website, they are the world's largest dairy. They're also amazing grocery stores.

The store itself is not set up like your typical long aisle, deli department, kind of grocery store. It's set up more like maze, where products are placed in an order that is at times completely ideal (stuff that should go together like veggies, and dip) are placed together. Intersperced throught the store are anamatronic displays, like a singing chiquita bananna, and the poland spring water singing tree.

Outside, during the summer there's a petting zoo with goats, and the worlds sweetest cow, ducks, chickens, roosters, as well as a BBQ with a tasty looking lobster special, and Stews homeade soft serve ice cream (which is very tasty).

If you spend $100 at Stew's, you get a free ice cream or soda from the food stands ouside--woo hoo! free ice cream!

Getting There:
BQE --> Triboro
to 287 --> I 87
to Exit 6A (last exit before the tappan zee)