Brooklyn Grocery

Good Selection

1. Santo's Farm

Neighborhood: Brooklyn/Carroll Gardens

with their good selection of groceries and fresh & organic fruits & veggies.  Also reasonably priced fresh cut flowers.  Santo's offers pre-made foods and plenty of ingredients for tasty healthy meals...

2. Fairway & Wholesale

Neighborhood: Brooklyn/Red Hook

Good things: selection, cleanliness.  Bad things: Set up like a rat's maze, which can be really annoying during peak hours. Hard to get to.   But the biggest gripe: A wise man once told me...

3. 3 Guys From Brooklyn

Neighborhood: Brooklyn/Dyker Heights

This is by no means the produce emporium I was dreaming of.  The prices are good, but no better than fairway and there is far less selection.  Now, maybe it's not fair to compare any grocer...

4. Tops On The…

Neighborhood: Brooklyn/Williamsburg - North Side

in there). The selection of produce is quite good, as is the dairy section (a lot of cheeses, and I found butter from my hometown in France!). I also splurged on their olives. The prices are all pretty standard. I...

5. Kam Man Food…

Neighborhood: Manhattan/Civic Center

Fresh fruit and vegetables this is not - but you can get a great selection of canned and bottled goods.  Just be careful of the roasted meat to the side - I recommend warming it up again before you...

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Good Value

1. 3 Guys From Brooklyn

Neighborhood: Brooklyn/Dyker Heights

they have a nice little selection of cheeses, dried fruits/nuts, and breads.  This place is just pure value and there's even some good people watching to boot. Take the N to Ft. Hamilton and see...

2. Pumpkin's Organic…

Neighborhood: Brooklyn/Park Slope

to come to mind. I'm most definitely a fan of neighborhood groceries, but they need to offer the right balance of value/product/experience to impress me. Pumpkin's does.  It's easy to overlook...

3. Deluxe Food Market

Neighborhood: Manhattan/Little Italy

because Deluxe Food Market makes them SO good.   Thin-skinned, most important factor. But also the "shrimp" dumplings, while certainly heavy on the pork, really do have significant amounts of shrimp...

4. Garden of Eden

Neighborhood: Brooklyn/Brooklyn Heights

was really good too.  I was also a huge fan of the fishmonger when I used to go there.  More than once he gave me a free crab cake (I used to order two for lunch) with my order.  The guys who worked...

5. Whole Foods Market

sample a bunch o'anything...AND they actually have a full-on sushi bar.  Today I had their Indian food- their samosa was actually really good. I've never really had complaints about their prepared open...

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