War of the Gourmet Grocers

War of the Gourmet Grocers

Jeffrey Wright, as Jean-Michel Basquiat, and David Bowie, as Andy Warhol, in the 1996 movie Basquiat, filmed on the Dean & DeLuca stomping grounds of SoHo. Fighting over everything from chicken salad to trad-wife protein powder, a spate of Manhattan prepared-food stores are vying to take the place of the mother ship, Dean & DeLuca By Clara Molot “So sad!” The words, scrawled in pink lipstick above a taped letter on Dean & DeLuca’s front door in …