Whole Foods at 3425 N. College Avenue in Fayetteville.
The Whole Foods Market set to open in Fayetteville on March 2 will include a beer and wine bar and a 1,500-SF, 16-tap taproom offering local brews from Core Brewing, based in Springdale, and Fossil Cove Brewing, based in Fayetteville.
Not every Whole Foods store includes a taproom. The one in Fayetteville “is a specialty feature that we took into consideration for the community,” said Whole Foods spokesman Allison Chilcote.
The Fayetteville Whole Foods taproom also will sell growlers of beer and fulfill keg special orders.
And the taproom will offer a “bar menu,” Chilcote said, featuring snacks, cheeses and in-house brick-oven pizza and barbecue prepared in the store’s own smokehouse.
Customers can also drink and eat on the store’s covered patio.
Whole Foods will open March 2 with a “bread-breaking ceremony” at 7:30 a.m. and will open for shopping at 8 a.m. The taproom will be open 8 a.m. to close the opening week only; afterward, its hours are 3-10 p.m. Monday-Saturday and noon-10 p.m. Sunday.
The 29,323-SF store, at 3425 N. College Ave., will employ about 100 workers under the supervision of store manager Stuart Lane.
Whole Foods in Fayetteville says it’s offering more than 150 local products from businesses like Onyx Coffee (coffee, natch), Crystal Lake Farms (free-range chicken), Oh Baby (organic baby food), Ozark Natural Breads, Sweden Creek Farm (mushrooms) and Fayettechill (apparel).
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