If you aren’t familiar with Meadow Lane, you might at least be familiar with its founder—username Brokeback Contessa—who spent the 16 months leading up to the opening of Meadow Lane taste-testing his prepared food products on TikTok. Like nearby Happier Grocery or Tribeca neighbor Rigor Hill, the gourmet grocery store is more of a scene than a grocery store ever needed to be, with a constant stream of people filming their shopping experience, and a few toddlers teething on gluten-free chicken nuggets while their mothers shop for green juices and turkey chili. Those chicken nuggets are actually pretty good—like a designer McNugget—and for those who have recently developed a disdain for seed oils, they won’t just be pretty good, they’ll be great. But there also might be a line outside for them. And if that sounds annoying to you, we promise it absolutely will be.
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