Hunts Point Market: a buyer's guide for NYC restaurants
Hunts Point in the Bronx is the engine room of how New York eats — the largest food distribution center of its kind in the world. Here's what it is, how it works, and how to get its prices without driving a van there at 3am.
What Hunts Point is
The Hunts Point Food Distribution Center spans the Produce Market, the Meat Market and the New Fulton Fish Market. A huge share of the region's wholesale produce, meat and seafood moves through it, supplying restaurants, bodegas and retailers across the metro.
USDA publishes a NY Terminal Market price report (NX_FV020) tied to this market — useful, but a dense daily PDF rather than something you can act on during prep.
How the market actually works
Traditional Hunts Point buying means going in person, very early, negotiating by the pallet, and hauling it yourself. It rewards volume and relationships and punishes the small independent who can't send someone at 3am or commit to case quantities.
That's the gap group buying closes: pooled demand gets Hunts Point–level pricing, and the product is delivered to you.
Getting Hunts Point prices without the trip
Foodomarket sources from suppliers in the Hunts Point ecosystem and shows the wholesale price up front. You see today's rate per pound and per case, order online, and get delivery across NYC — the market's pricing without the logistics.
Frequently asked questions
Can a small restaurant buy at Hunts Point?
Directly, it's hard — it rewards early hours and volume. Group buying gives small independents Hunts Point–level wholesale prices with delivery instead.
Where do Hunts Point wholesale prices come from?
Prices move daily with supply, season and weather. USDA's NY Terminal Market report tracks them; Foodomarket shows live supplier prices you can act on.