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| - I was scared to come into this Giant Eagle since the parking lot looked like a madhouse, but then I found an easy place to park in the garage, hopped in the giant elevator, and walked out the door and into a land of awesomeness.
My foodie boyfriend and I run into a problem all the time - we use both specialty ingredients like unique meats, cheeses, and produce, Asian ingredients, things like that...and we also want Tide, Bounty paper towels, Cheerios, cheap Barilla pasta, that kind of thing. And up until now, I hadn't found a place where you could get both.
In that sense, this Giant Eagle Market district is the bomb. The bomb!!! They had a huge bakery section, a surprisingly unique produce section (Thai chiles! Kohlrabi! Purple cauliflower! Taro! Jicama!), a fun gourmet cheese area that carried some very hard to find things (ricotta salata cheese in particular, I remember), a cured meats area where I FINALLY found Spanish chorizo after months of hunting, a little olive oil station where you can some pretty decent olive oil in a Giant Eagle jar for $5.99 and you can taste them first with bread and cheese, a huge Italian section, a decent Mexican and Asian selection, a butcher with some good cuts of meat (who chopped up some lamb shoulder into stew meat for us), a fish market area, some bulk spices at a good price, and lots of other fun delights.
AND they have all the normal, national brands. How cool is that?
The normal stuff is as expensive as it is at regular Giant Eagles, and the fancy stuff is more reminiscent of Whole Foods prices. Still, there are some good deals. We still try to do as much of our shopping as possible at Trader Joe's, but if there's any special thing I need after a TJ's run, I might check this place out!
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