Rooted In real food. built for our community.
Tarrytown Local is a chef-led grocer, café, and bakery built on a simple belief: good food should be good for your body, your planet, and the place your community. No gimmicks. No greenwashing. Just real ingredients, real producers, and real cooking.
Why we exist
Food is powerful. It can nourish, connect, heal, entertain, and move you — or it can be an afterthought. Most grocery stores and cafés are built for convenience and margin, not health, flavor, and community well-being.
Tarrytown Local exists to flip that script, and be the blueprint of a local food instituion that works to make good, healthful food, accesible. We believe a strong local food system is incredibly imporant, and we aim to support our local producers by fostering a better market and help folks eat more of the delicious and deeply nutritious ingredients that are produced right here in the Hudson Valley.
What we do
We’re a small shop with a big mission: be the place where it’s easy and fun to eat in a way that supports personal, planetary, and community health.
How this works day-to-day
Our menu changes daily based on what our partner farms have.
We use the same ingredients in our kitchen and bakery that we sell on the shelves.
We’re 100% transparent about our sourcing. If you want to nerd out about wheat berries or beans, we’re here for it.
We’d rather sell you one really good vegetable or pantry staple than ten mediocre things that you’ll forget about.
Our sourcing standards
We’re picky, with purpose. Everything we bring into the shop, whether it be the kitchen, bakery, or grocer, has to earn its place.
Local First
Hudson Valley and regional producers almost exclusively. If it travels far, there must be a good reason for it.
Ethical Practices
Regenerative agriculture, soil health, humane animal husbandry, fair labor. We ask questions.
Transparency
Everything we use, from our salt, sugar, and oil, to our flour, spices, and eggs — you deserve to know every detail about what goes in your body.
Nutritional Integrity
Whole ingredients, no or minimal processing, focus on agriculture methods that focus on nutritional density.
Delicious, Always
If it doesnt taste seriously good, the values behind it don’t matter because no one will enjoy eating it.
Novel and Long-Term Relationships
We work to create better ways of interacting with our local producers, meeting farmers where they are and purchasing how they need us to purchase.
The Team
Tarrytown Local is run by humans who are (maybe) a little too obsessed with food systems, sourcing, and flavor. We’re not here to “disrupt” anything — we’re here to build something real and grounded, for all of us.
Fox Schanzer - Chef & Culinary Director
Chef Fox has spent over a decade cooking in farm-to-table restaraunts and fine dining kitches, then stepping back to build a career around better food systems. He’s the one writing the menus, obsessing over all of the ingredients, and making sure every dish tells a story about where it came from.
Translation: If you want to talk about soil, sourcing, or why the lentils taste different, he’s your guy.
Steve Wazny - Owner & Operator
With a background as a practicing lawyer and over-worked NYC line cook, Steve is uniquely equiped to make sure the lights stay on, the numbers make sense, and the doors actually open. He balances Fox’s crazy sourcing and menu ambitions with operational reality, without watering down the mission or the flavors.
Translation: He’s the one who keeps Fox from accidentally building a beautiful, bankrupt, Grateful Dead-themed hippie café.
Katrina Poulin - Head Baker
Katrina mills our locally-sourced grains fresh every morning, keeps the starter alive, and bakes the breads and pastries that give Tarrytown Local its heartbeat (and delicious aroma). Her baking is rooted in care, curiosity, and a love of a kind of food that is almost imposible to come by in a world run by giant food coorporations and shelf-stable flour.
Translation: If it’s coming out of the oven, she’s probably obsessed over it.