Erewhon Market

Erewhon Market is an American upscale supermarket chain with ten locations, all in Los Angeles County, California, United States. The chain is noted for being a popular locale frequented by entertainment figures as reported in celebrity gossip and lifestyle publications.

History
Erewhon was founded in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1966 by Michio and Aveline Kushi. The name "Erewhon" is derived from the 1872 satirical novel Erewhon by Samuel Butler. In the novel, Erewhon, an anagram of "nowhere", is a utopia in which individuals are responsible for their own health and prosecuted for the crime of being ill. With ten locations in Los Angeles County, the brand has been compared to the early years of Whole Foods Market.

The Erewhon Organic brand was originally a health foods producer with a single store. In 1979, the brand was purchased from bankruptcy by employee Tom DeSilva. In 2011, Tony and Josephine Antoci purchased the last store on Beverly Boulevard that remained open from the widow of Tom DeSilva. Tom Antoci created and developed the brand into an upscale supermarket. Following several years of increasing financial performance, New York–based private equity firm Stripes Group purchased a substantial minority stake in Erewhon in 2019.

In August 2022, Erewhon opened their eighth location and first Beverly Hills location in the former Williams-Sonoma space. As of 2023, Erewhon ships nationwide to all 50 states, as well as Australia, Canada and the UK. In September 2023, Erewhon opened a location in Pasadena, the first east of Interstate 5.

In 2024, Erewhon filed an environmental lawsuit to block the construction of a mixed-use development which included 520 apartments (78 of which were subsidized affordable housing), groundfloor retail and restaurants on the lot of a vacant 190-room hotel in Los Angeles.

Locations

 * Calabasas
 * Fairfax District
 * Pacific Palisades
 * Santa Monica
 * Silver Lake
 * Venice
 * Studio City
 * Beverly Hills
 * Culver City
 * Pasadena

In popular culture
Erewhon is alluded to as "Anavrin" in the Netflix original series You. Protagonist Joe Goldberg works at the store.

Season 25 episode 4 of South Park references Erewhon as part of a running joke.

Erewhon is referenced in the Wallice song "Off the Rails."

Erewhon is referenced by guest star Corbin Bleu in the fourth episode of season three of High School Musical: The Musical: The Series.

Erewhon is the name of the secret prison in Face/Off.