by Whitney Filloon

Italian mega-market Eataly opened its second New York City location this week, bestowing 41,000 square feet of everything Italian and edible on Manhattan's Financial District. For the uninitiated, Eataly is a totally bananas marketplace that features everything you'd find at a fancy grocery store — cheese, meat, and seafood purveyors, an on-site bakery, a vast wine selection, an espresso bar, etc. — plus other things you might not, such as a fresh pasta counter, a microbrewery, several restaurants, a Nutella bar, and a cooking school headed up by Italian cooking queen Lidia Bastianich.

The newest Eataly outpost, located on the third floor of the 4 World Trade Center tower within the sprawling WTC complex, marks Eataly's 30th location — not too shabby for a company that's less than a decade old — and with hundreds of employees needed to keep each location's many departments running, every store opening is a massive undertaking.

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