It is good to have a game plan here (nothing onerous); think of it as engineering a particularly ambitious picnic or smartly making your way through a 20,000-square-foot buffet.

Image A selection of beers, clockwise from left: Imperial Biscotti Break, Smuttynose Bloom Belgian Pale Ale, Kelso Rhubarb Gose and Smuttynose Durty Brown I.P.A. Credit... Andrew Sullivan for The New York Times

Start with a beer — the Peekskill Eastern Standard I.P.A. is a nice choice — or maybe a glass of chardonnay from the Gotham Project and strategize on the food. The pizza is excellent; the store has a wood-burning oven and its own pizza chef (Salvatore DiSenso), and if you order a pie, it will be brought to you.

There is an appealing salad bar and the hot food section features tasty main dishes like baked chicken, veal with tomato-tinged rice and a peppy penne alla vodka. There’s sliced meat and cheese at the deli counter, as well as empanadas and crunchy and creamy carbonara-style rice cakes (smushed-down versions of rice balls) that the staff will happily heat up. If it is a snack kind of day, grab a box of crackers, some Cheddar spread made by the Adirondack Cheese Company in Clinton, N.Y., and head back up. (Food other than pizza has to be paid for at a register; cutlery, plates and napkins are provided.)

Then, with the help of a brochure prepared under the guidance of the personable bar manager, Brendon O’Brien, study the possibilities for a second round: a pilsner from Captain Lawrence in Elmsford, the Hop Drop Double I.P.A. from Newburgh Brewing Company, or a black I.P.A. from Other Half Brewing Company. There is a lot that is local, by design. “When we have 28 taps, a huge part of what we do is incorporate these local guys. We can get the freshest beer from them, we can get specialty offerings from them,” said Mr. O’Brien, who previously worked at Peekskill Brewery.

Paul Halayko, the president of Newburgh Brewing, said, “Craft beer is all about local and DeCicco’s does such an amazing job with that. When a place like that takes an interest in your beer, it’s very flattering.”

You can take that beer across the mezzanine to play a little bocce.

A bocce court? At a bar in a grocery store? Who came up with that?