Dean & Deluca

Specialties

At Dean & Deluca we want to share with you our passion for food of

incomparable quality and taste.

For more than 35 years it has been our mission to find and provide to you the world’s best epicurean treats for cooking, eating and entertaining. Our team of International food experts are committed to a quest for excellence. We work persistently to curate a food-​forward assortment of the best and newest food products from around the globe.

The Dean & Deluca goal is, and has been since the beginning, to discover, introduce and support products that meet our — and your — uncompromising standards.

We hope that you enjoy and are inspired by the finds within the pages of our website, and within our walls when visiting one of our retail locations.

History

Established in 1977.

HISTORY

Giorgio DeLuca, a school teacher turned cheese merchant, and Joel Dean, a business manager at a publisher, dreamed of creating a place that would offer customers a sumptuous celebration of food and a venue to experience all of the pleasures that cooking and eating can bring.

The original DEAN & DELUCA opened for business in September 1977 in SoHo, then an edgy artist and warehouse district in lower Manhattan, at the corner of Prince and Greene streets. The original store was designed to evoke a turn of the century food department, replete with ceiling fans spinning over a vast array of products that lined the soaring white walls of this enchanted emporium. It was an instant success; quickly overflowing with food, housewares and customers. On display was a staggering variety of produce and foodstuffs, including many never previously sold in the United States.

«We were the first to bring in radicchio,» recalls Giorgio DeLuca, «the first to sell balsamic vinegar, su