Sunrise Mart
Japanese grocery store · Sunset Park ·
Japanese grocery with butcher, seafood, and food court
Japanese grocery with butcher, seafood, and food court
"The Soho location of New York's most extensive supermarket for Japanese groceries. As they import goods from Japan, Sunrise also procures top notch fresh produce. The connected restaurant upstairs serves unpretentious sushi, ramen and bento boxes that rivals fancier Japanese restaurants in the city." - Julia Guo
"Before H Mart came to the East Village, there was Sunrise Mart - a Japanese grocery store on Stuyvesant Street where you could get cookies from Hokkaido, uni, matcha powder, and superior Kit Kats. Now Sunrise Mart has locations all around NYC, including Soho, the East Village, Midtown, and (most recently) a big food hall set-up in Industry City. The Industry City location has its very own tofu counter, as well as a wagyu beef station and tons of fresh fish. Also, the Midtown Sunrise Mart sells a bunch of health and beauty products, which make for excellent gifts." - hannah albertine, nikko duren
"Before H Mart came to the East Village, there was Sunrise Mart - a Japanese grocery store on Stuyvesant Street where you can get cookies from Hokkaido, uni, matcha powder, and several different Kit Kats flavors. We love to walk here and pick up everything from wasabi sesame crackers to a couple of reheatable shumai. Plus, you have to take an elevator to get to the store, which is the closest thing you can get to riding a roller coaster while your Slack emoji is still green." - hannah albertine
"I love onigiri and I love Sunrise Mart, too. It's another great resource in this city. You can go there and get the makings for sushi and sashimi at home. But I'm surprised that onigiri haven't gotten bigger. It's one of my favorite snacks in the entire world. It was one of my favorite things to eat when I was an assistant in media, when I only had five minutes or pennies in my pocket. It's basically a healthy snack. Nothing in it is bad for you. The Japanese have invented these incredible ways of keeping the nori really crisp. There's a separation between the rice and the nori so that you're not getting anything soggy. You're getting this really crisp, wonderfully salty nori. You bite into that and you can hear it crackle. And then you hit the soft rice, and then you hit the filling. The fillings: I know people are making all kinds of crazy things, but I love umeboshi—salty and fruity—and mentaiko. I would have them in my pocket all day." - brennan carley
"I heard that Sunrise Mart, the next-door Japanese grocery, was reportedly facing the same massive rent hike as Angel’s Share and appeared likely to close, with no response from ownership to inquiries." - Erika Adams
