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| - So I fully admit that I'm a food geek, but you could seriously drop me off for an afternoon here and I would have a ball. The produce outshines all other grocery stores locally by a mile in quality/price and you can get cool stuff that you can't usually find at the farmers market or grocery stores. Like Bee said, awesome prices on usually expensive stuff like limes, avocados and plantains. They also have tons of different kinds of fresh tortillas (and you don't have to buy a stack of 100 stale ones!!), masa and different cuts of meat.
I went in search of amarillo paste (yellow chile paste from Peru) and I had a hard time finding it because I didn't realize there wasn't just one aisle of hispanic spices/food products but two, so it was divided between Mexican and South American! Now I know, and Jackpot!! If anyone wants to kill me, Compare Foods has Cilantro bouillon cubes, something I had never seen before.
They had an amazing selection of Goya products- more than you ever knew existed and I've been in a lot of supermercados and bodegas. They even have 4 different kinds/sizes of frozen empanada shells! I could go on forever - all different kinds of awesome foods you rarely see. They even had yuppie stuff like almond milk, so I bought my whole grocery list there.
I was the only white gringa there, and that didn't bother me one bit. They speak english if you need them to. I can't wait to go back, and apparently I will try the flan!
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