Walk the quarter mile of Jericho Turnpike between Trail View State Park and the Town of Oyster Bay Golf Course in Woodbury and you'll pass three storefronts that didn't exist eighteen months ago. Each one sells some combination of toast, juice, and granola. None of them sell a sandwich the way the businesses they replaced did.
That's not a coincidence of timing. It's a read on foot traffic, and it tells you something about how this particular stretch of Woodbury is being used that the "best restaurants in Woodbury" lists never mention: the corridor's newest tenants are betting on people who are already moving, not people looking for a place to sit down for an hour.
Three Storefronts, Eighteen Months, One Kind of Menu
Toastique opened first, on February 28, 2026, at 8027 Jericho Turnpike inside Woodbury Country Square. It's the gourmet toast and cold-pressed juice chain's first Long Island location, and it moved into a space that had been Dugan's Sandwich Shop for years before that. The franchise owners spent more than two years preparing for the opening, according to Hoodline's coverage of the debut, including training shifts at other Toastique locations before bringing the concept home.
The Granola Bar got there next, if you count from when it first opened in the fall of 2024 at 8285 Jericho Turnpike in the Woodbury Common Shopping Center. That was also a Long Island first for the brand, co-founded by Julie Mountain and Dana Noorily, and as of mid-2026 it's still running full breakfast, brunch, and lunch service with a full bar, according to its own location listing.
Joe & The Juice is the newest arrival, opening September 20, 2026, at 8025 Jericho Turnpike in Woodbury Town Plaza. That address had been Gabby's Bagels for years. It's not the chain's first Long Island store (that's in Manhasset, on Northern Boulevard) but it is its second, and the Long Island Times coverage of the opening confirms the direct swap: bagels out, juice and flatbreads in.
| Storefront | Address | Opened | Replaced |
|---|---|---|---|
| Toastique | 8027 Jericho Turnpike | Feb. 28, 2026 | Dugan's Sandwich Shop |
| The Granola Bar | 8285 Jericho Turnpike | Fall 2024 | — |
| Joe & The Juice | 8025 Jericho Turnpike | Sept. 20, 2026 | Gabby's Bagels |
The Golf Course and the Trail Explain the Choice
Toastique doesn't bury the logic behind its site selection. Its own Woodbury page describes the location as sitting "between Trail View State Park and the Town of Oyster Bay Golf Course" and invites customers to "stop by before or after the trails or golf." Trail View State Park covers 400 acres with 7.4 miles of trails for hiking and biking, and the Syosset-Woodbury Community Park sits close enough that Toastique names it too as part of the same daytime loop.
That's a different pitch than the one a sandwich shop or a bagel counter makes. Dugan's and Gabby's were built around a lunch crowd and a regular customer who wanted a seat and a made-to-order order. Toastique, The Granola Bar, and Joe & The Juice are built around someone already in motion, moving between a trail, a fairway, or a park loop and a car, who wants a smoothie bowl or a cold-pressed juice they can carry.
Joe & The Juice's own menu description leans the same direction. Its Iron Man juice (apple, strawberries, kiwi, olive oil, ice) and Pick Me Up (banana, apple, ice, strawberries, olive oil) are built for someone drinking on the move, not sitting down to a plate. The chain has grown past 500 stores globally and more than 70 in the U.S. by following that same grab-and-go logic into other suburban corridors, not just this one.
Two Doors Apart, Three Blocks Down
The clustering matters as much as the concept. Toastique at 8027 and Joe & The Juice at 8025 aren't just on the same road, they're essentially next-door neighbors, sitting in two adjoining retail centers, Woodbury Country Square and Woodbury Town Plaza, that share a parking apron along this section of the turnpike. The Granola Bar is further down at 8285, in the Woodbury Common Shopping Center, close enough to be part of the same corridor but far enough to not be competing for the exact same parking spot.
That geography means a resident heading out for a morning coffee has, within a few minutes' drive, three separate businesses offering some version of the same fresh, better-for-you, order-and-go format, each one a first or second Long Island location for its brand. National chains don't usually cluster like that by accident. When three separate companies each decide independently that this specific half mile is worth their first or second Long Island bet, that's a stronger signal about the corridor's daytime population than any one opening on its own would be.
What Used to Be Here
The turnover says something the additions alone don't. Gabby's Bagels and Dugan's Sandwich Shop were both the kind of long-running, single-location businesses that anchor a strip for a decade or more before anyone notices they're gone. Their replacements are regional and national franchise concepts with marketing departments, loyalty apps, and multi-state expansion plans. That's a shift in who owns the storefronts on this stretch of Jericho Turnpike, not just what's on the menu.
It's also a shift in hours and use. Gabby's and Dugan's ran on a traditional lunch counter schedule. Toastique runs 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily, and Joe & The Juice's model leans on the same early, all-day format across its other locations. The corridor's daytime rhythm is now built around the hours when someone would be finishing a trail walk or a round of golf, not just the hours when someone wants a sandwich at noon.
None of this shows up if you only look at one storefront at a time. Someone who noticed Toastique open in February and Joe & The Juice open in September, seven months apart, might read them as two unrelated food openings. Lined up against The Granola Bar's fall 2024 debut and read together, they're the same bet made three separate times: that the people moving along this particular stretch of Jericho Turnpike want something they can order in five minutes and take with them to the next thing on the route.
If you've watched a different corner of Woodbury change shape this year, or you're trying to figure out what a shift like this means for a specific block you're paying attention to, Deepak Hemrajani and the team at DH Real Estate spend a lot of time tracking exactly this kind of turnover on Long Island's main roads. Reach out if you want a second set of eyes on what's actually happening on your stretch of the map.
