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Iranian/Persian in ownership, Akhavan carries speacilties from throughout the Middle East, Near east and Levant.
While you will find Persian specialties like bags of deep fried onions, the thickest, freshest cow milk yogurt on earth, marinated meats which are begging for the BBQ grill, extremely fresh meats, steaks and kebabs, you will also find Turkish lavas bread, Indian teas, and quite easily the best party foods and snacks in Montreal.
Forget Fontaine Sante hummus or baba ghannouj, come here and get the real thing and trust me you WILL taste the difference in quality here. Another amazing dip here is the roasted red pepper spead with walnuts and pomegranate syrup.
Aisles of pickled goods, bags of spices, saffron, and the most amazing nut and dried fruit counter I've seen outside of the Middle East itself. Not only will you find the usual peanuts, cashews, almonds, raisins, but you will also find dried mulberries, green raisins, golden raisins, filberts, Brazil nuts, fresh almonds, barberries and other varieties which I don't even know the name of. All of it priced very reasonably.
Another plus.
They have a mini-restaurant now in the store, where they will make you your kebab to order, where you can sit down, try the saffron rice, samosas, and Iranian, Greek, Turkish and Arabic sweets all on display.
What I also appreciate about this place, is this is probably the most cleanest and well-kept supermarket in town also. I wish Akhavan would set up shop closer to Verdun, because no joke, I'd do all my grocery shopping there if I could.
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