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| - This innocuous little building in St. James Town is home to quality fruits and vegetables and savings! This area of Toronto is a little bit of a food dessert with the disgustingly dirty Food Basics on one side and the beautiful, but quite pricey Loblaws on the other. Sunny Green Fruit and Vegetable is an oasis in between with quality fruits and vegetables and reasonable prices.
You'll find most of your standard fruits and veggies here, including a decent selection of organic products. Some of the products are more similar to a farmers market, like carrots with the green tops still attached (the way to buy them). They have a few Asian products as well, but it's not a substitute for a proper Asian market. What really stuns me though is the price: limes 6/$2.00 (2/$1.00 or more at Loblaws), lemons 3/$1.00 ($1.00 each at Loblaws), etc. I was shocked to walk out here for a recent shopping trip in which I got all the veggies for a soup (standard mirepoix base) as well as some treats like lemons, limes, and blueberries for about $6.
The products are generally pretty high quality, although like most smaller stores, it's up to you to do your best squeeze test and feel-up the fruit (that statement could be misinterpreted in the Village). Generous hours...almost 9 AM to 9 PM every day. With this recent find, I'll be shifting a lot of my shopping here.
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