Great fish and seafood selection. Reasonable prices. Very clean store. Helpful staff.read more

I don't like fish but when I walk in here all I smell is the ocean. The fish is fresh and it all…read morelooks beautiful! Very helpful worker, I always have questions about fish especially which ones don't taste like fish. She was so helpful I bought a piece of orange roughy plus the shrimp. Fresh fish, you can get you purchase cleaned for .50 cents, they have everything from shellfish to whole fish, octopus and more.

I recently learned of this store from the owner of a new Turkish restaurant that opened in my…read moreneighborhood (read my review of Effes, should you like) because I noticed that he had an giant bottle of cured sumac. I asked where he got it because I've been looking for some (and by some I mean a lot) and am totally unwilling to spend $12.00 dollars for a little bougie glass bottle. He told me about Vintage Specialty Foods! Listen: once you've used cured sumac you can't go back to powdered sumac. Q: Wait. What?? What is sumac anyway? A: Sumac, from the Arab word summaq, meaning dark red, is a spice made of the dried berries of the rhus coriaria shrub. It grows wild and happy in arid rocky environments; think Sicily and parts of the Middle East like Iran, but also in North America. Sumac berries are ground into powder or chopped and preserved with salt (this is cured sumac) and used to flavor or finish beans, vegetables, meats, poultry and fish. I've even had shortbread flavored with sumac and it was O_o. Sumac has been prized by First Nations ancestors for its medicinal values since wayback days but its tart, floral and fruity taste--kinda like if sour cherries and sunlight plus a garden could be distilled into a moment--is a flavor that we highly prize in our current small plates-make it snacky-but-not-just-tapas zeitgeist. I learned that Vintage Specialty Foods has a small, yet solid Turkish spices section--both bottled and bulk. I grabbed at least half a pound of cured sumac :D I also got some isot or urfa biber https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urfa_biber and nigella seeds (known popularly as black seed or black cumin). Vintage is a lovely, well lit, jewel like specialty grocery, known for its bulk bins of dried fruits & nuts and enormous selection of candies (some which are sugar-free) as well as its teas, coffees and biscuits. (I got some gorgeous dried fruit tisanes and a giant bag of melissa, too!) In the back of the store you'll find a wide selection of olives, Turkish and neighboring nations' cheeses, yogurt and fermented milk products, as well as a small butchery. In the front of the store you'll find sweet buns, Turkish pastries, rusks, breads, and a coffee and tea station. The staff are calm and professional, if not super cuddly. Perhaps this is cultural? No matter, you're here for the goods not necessarily affection! I will say Vintage shoppers are a dedicated, focused bunch so if you're more in the mood to browse and contemplate purchases, you might feel a bit at odds at first, but soon enough you'll get into the opportunity to elevate your kitchen vibe and find yourself the very happy consumer of a number of tasty treats. Covid protocols: Everyone was masked up. It's up to you to be on top of your own six-feet apart measure--which is hard in a small shop--but can be done.

Beware, It's a Scam !!! The Staff is absolutely nasty…read more.Today they charge my EBT card two times for the same transaction. I show my online transaction to the Staff they just laugh on me . I already report fraud to USDA Office (202) 869-9984...Most of the customers are older peoples....Who knows what they doing to them ???

I was just going for a walk in the neighborhood since it was a sunny day when I came across this…read morestore. I was captivated by the art on the storefront and I was also thirsty but didn't want anything heavy. I walked in and was immediately greeted by the owner who seemed to be running it by herself or at least was working alone that morning. I immediately noticed that the menu was full of nutritional drinks and I went with the Hibiscus Pineapple cold tea. It was so hydrating and delicious. While I was drinking my tea, I got to know the owner, who is Ecuadorian like me and hosts a running group on weekends which is family friendly. Her mission is to help other live a healthy, active life. I left there feeling motivated and with good vibes.

There was only 1 employee when I came. She was very helpful with recommendations…read more The food/drinks are alright.

The name "Golden Key" comes from an old Russian fairy tale. I've long forgotten what the fairy tale…read morewas about, but the name has always made me think of candy. There was a famous Golden Key candy store in Odessa. Little Odessa has one too. Russian candy is the best in the world - and this from a person who'll take sushi, dim sum or biriyani over a borsch any day. I didn't even know the travesty called milk chocolate existed until I moved to the States. Here, you will find some milk chocolate, more as a consession to Americans and Americanized Russian kids shopping here - but the majority of candy sold in the store is honest-to-goodness, real Russian chocolate. It sells other stuff - sausage, cheese, whatever... but really, who can bother with those things with all that CANDY! It lines the walls, it sits in bins, it's piled everywhere. Forget Willy Wonka, he didn't know what he was doing. If you want to know what real candy is supposed to taste like, this is the place for you!

Frozen Russian Ravioli + dumplings. Cheap fruits and veggies. Pickled fish. Fun individually…read morewrapped Ukrainian candies and chocolates. These are groceries you should stop by here for, on your way back to Manhattan from Brighton Beach.

This place sold me frozen spoiled black caviar. The pixie cut older woman at the deli counter…read moreassured me that "all caviar is extremely fresh". When I got back to my mom's home and unpacked everything, the metal can had to thaw first, then I opened it, it smelled like dead fish and had white film on top of it. I needed the caviar for my mom, since her hemoglobin was extremely low. So, I brought the can back to the store assuming that they made an innocent mistake and would acknowledge it and give me fresh caviar. Instead, the woman at the deli counter at first said that "she has no idea about why this caviar is spoiled, since the management is the one in charge of ordering"When the manager came, the deli counter woman became aggressive and started accusing me of swapping the "the can she sold me just 4 hours ago with the spoiled can i brought back". She basically called me a thief. I was horrified by such behavior. This was the first and the last time I shop at this store. The manager refunded me for this purchase, but no apologies follow. I am deeply upset by this incident.

This was the best delicious food you could buy at that area. The best cooks were working there…read more Unfortunately it was closed since November 2020... I miss this place very much. None can compare with this place even close...

Hot food selection was great and yummy. The rice, manti, $2 loaf of sweet bread, napoleon cake, and…read moremeat in cabbage were so good. The syrniki were okay--I feel like they would've been better warm? It's right by the Q stop, so super fun to get off, grab some food, and take it to the beach a couple blocks away. The bag cost $1 but felt well made and sturdy.

So in all transparency, I'm rating this as a supermarket with food options, rather than just for…read morethe hot bar itself (even though that's all I sampled), which would be a 4.5. As other reviews can attest, this supermarket has all of your favorite Soviet-style products. As I was about to travel home, I did not have, for instance, any of the many variety of herrings. Instead, I went to the famous hot bar to get some snacks for my flight--kebabs or plov wouldn't travel well, so I basically used it as a bakery. The pumpkin samsa was excellent. It was a bit worse for wear as the outside was no longer crispy, but the flakiness shows how good it must have been. The pumpkin filling was perfectly cooked and very flavorful. The next day, I had a spinach qutab, which I reheated on a cast-iron. It wasn't quite as good as made-fresh, but you could tell how good the crust would have been, and how fresh the spinach still was. Given that trays of food kept coming out as I was browsing, I think this is as good as a buffet gets--it's limited only by the fact that it's a grocery store buffet/hot bar.

Old world Italian salumeria.. delicious fresh homemade Italian specialty's.. the BEST prosciutto…read morebread ever!! A must to try!!! Catering at its best!!!

This is a great Italian deli with delicious premade dishes. They are expensive but quality. But the…read moredeli meats and sub sandwiches aren't as good as other local Italian delis like Italian Riviera in Waldwick.

Ravioli's are great! The only thing I don't like is the owners attitude! He's very rude and not…read morefriendly at all! But the employees are very nice

Can't believe a box of 36 cheese ravioli is only $8.99! Incredibly affordable and feeds the whole…read morefamily. Their famous ravioli are packed in boxes and refrigerated. They actually have multiple options like eggplant ravioli, broccoli rabe and a few more. They sell many Italian staples like cheese, sauces (vodka and tomato) and dried pasta. Also stock pantry items imported from Italy.