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L'avis 4 étoiles de Seth This is a really cool store. Yes, they carry a fair amount of stuff that is so expensive it will make your eyes pop out of your head, but they also carry a lot of tasty-looking items that I'm looking forward to working my way through - goat's milk yogurt, Lifeway kefirs that are in manageably -sized little bottles (and Lifeway lassis too!), some kind of orange-and-olive-oil flavored snack bread from Sevilla, blueberry soda (pretty good)... The Indian family that runs the place also makes reaally tasty health smoothies. I'm looking forward to exploring their endless rooms on multiple future visits. -
L'avis 5 étoiles de Seth Everybody has done a lovely job of singing this place's praises in broad strokes (I love egregiously mixing metaphors), so I'll just give a few examples of their varied offerings: You can choose between bags of beautiful, colorful dried corn kernels (yellow or deep red). They have a canned Irish moss/peanut drink in case you want to consume your daily requirement of saturated fat at one sitting. (It's probably GOOD but I'm too old for that kind of stuff!) I came home with a herring-mackerel-Scotch-bonnet pepper spread that I cannot wait to try. -
L'avis 5 étoiles de Seth This is a really nice store. They have a real variety of Italian cooking products, different types of olive oil, etc. in case you want to get real specific with your cooking... i.e. I bought four cans of "Cuoco Seasoning for Macaroni with Sardines". The employees are really nice, helpful and patient -- for example, when I was spacing out and ranting about something to my mom, the young lady stepped out from behind the counter and brought me the sandwich I'd ordered, but forgot to pick up. The deli has an expansive array of meats, home-cooked peppers, etc. They make nice sandwiches (my mom got the tuna salad special, which was big, for $2.99). However, the sandwiches are not as good as you'll get at Fiore's or Bari's... they carry D'Amato's bread, but for some reason don't use it to make their subs, and they don't have a good sense of proportion. A good sub is all about proportion. -
L'avis 4 étoiles de Seth GF says: For the type and quality of food we bought, 2/3 the price of Jewel or Dominick's, YET much wider selection and higher quality. Why a star off? Some of the stuff in the packaged meat section was green. Fortunately that's not what we were buying; we bought a whole lot of great stuff. OK, it doesn't have the variety or quality of Whole Check, I mean Whole Foods, but it's cheaper. And frankly, you don't have to deal with the Whole Foods shoppers here. My family told me to stop using the "d-word", so I'll just say that you can find a cosmopolitan mix of ingredients here without having to be surrounded by entitled, self satisfied people. P.S. The CEO of whole foods is a wacked-out libertarian who doesn't believe in global warming. Nyah! -
L'avis 5 étoiles de Seth Tropical fruit so tasty you wonder why people eat candy. The passion fruit is only for those who are ready for some serious sour tang! And the fresh guayabas - like eating cheesecake! (Literally - but wait 'til they're soft, fool!) -
L'avis 5 étoiles de Seth When you're ordering your juices, be careful... the guy behind the counter is a superior juice maker, but he gets confused between cantaloupe and honeydew... he's done it to me three times. Normally I don't mind cuz they're both delicious, but today I really wanted honeydew so I had to remind him that it's the GREEN melon. -
L'avis 4 étoiles de Seth This place, which is an EXPERIENCE, is located on the block between the Lighthouse Place outlet stores and the historic part of Michigan City (where there's a lovely farmer's market on Saturdays). When you come in to this old-time butcher shop and smokehouse, you find the inside is filled with election paraphernalia ranging the spectrum of American politics. You'll then be bombarded with conversation and scrumptious free samples -- but they will make their money back on those samples! Make sure to interrupt all the joviality to ask how much everything is before you buy anything -- I won't tell you how much I paid for two slabs of ribs -- but the smoked pork chops I bought were reasonably priced and delicious! -
L'avis 5 étoiles de Seth Who says the service is rude? Everybody was really nice to us, including a grandmother/customer. Everybody took their time and smiled as they explained the differences between meats, etc. The meat is great. The tastiest tongue I've had. What's nice is that, unlike sit-down delis, they don't make monster sandwiches that you can't finish eating and you can't afford. The sandwiches are just the right size. Yiddishkheit still lives here. -
L'avis 5 étoiles de Seth My sweetie sez: Best selection of teas. Run by really nice, helpful people who only hire really nice, helpful people. The employees seem to be knowledgeable because they actually use the products. Juice bar is great, wide range of fruits, one complaint - juice bar closes at 4. -
L'avis 4 étoiles de Seth An Amish organic food business in Gary... makes complete sense, right? They do most of their business through home delivery around NWI and Chicago, and to the 61st street farmer's market, but we like to shop for our health food products there... various flavors of green tea pop (it's good!), concentrated cherry juice, etc. (219) 881-0212 shop@brunosorganics.com -
L'avis 4 étoiles de Seth Listen, Yelpers! Y'all know you be gettin' heartburn from all that food you eat -- and Patel Brothers has the cure! When you enter the store, go to the far right (east) wall. Around the middle, toward the back, there is a product called Eno Fruit Salt. Eno has done for me what Tums and Zantac could not - not only eliminated the symptoms of my chronic acid reflux condition, but reduced the frequency of its attacks by about 95%! How does it work? I don't know -- it's ayurvedic! -
L'avis 5 étoiles de Seth Good fruit - but IMHO the best tacos in the city (torta y taqueria in the back). If there are tacos in Chicago that approach the quality you'll find in San Francisco's Mission District, Guanajuato makes 'em. -
L'avis 5 étoiles de Seth One of the last places that actually makes a real bagel. Soft on the inside, chewy enough on the outside that you have to work at it. Heaven. -
L'avis 5 étoiles de Seth This place is just so damn good. The genius of a real Italian sub is the quality of the ingredients and the proportions, and the staff at Fiore's select and measure with the proper feeling, cuz they got that true Barese touch. And it's freaking cheap. You will not believe how much (exquisite) sandwich you get for the money. Things like fruit and gum are also cheap here. What's also nice here is that, in an increasingly homogenized Chicago, this place (which I've been coming to for years) is still just the old-school neighborhood market, where there's little kids running in and out and every once in a while you catch some conversation in Italian.
