Brownsville has always been kind of lacking a specialty grocery store. Sure, there's the HEB Plus,…read morebut it's nice to find alternatives. This was an excellent find! It felt like a cross between a specialty grocery store, farmers market, and spirituality center. From loteria wallets and purses, to jack fruit, to purple carrots, manuka honey (for half the price of HEB!), and to bundles of sage and essential oils for your curanderismo practices, Valley Star Fruits & More is an eclectic, friendly place where you can find almost any special or quirky ingredient you might need. One thing I was excited to find that I still have not been able to locate in San Antonio is black salt. I was ecstatic to finally see it, though I skipped out on purchasing it this time around. Next visit, I might grab some, or have my mom send my sister back with some on her next trip down. Either way, they earned some new fans this weekend!

This is a small place on the side of the freeway and was not a fruit stand as I expected. When I…read morewalked in at seem to be a mish-mosh of a variety of different products. Kind of disappointed. I was looking for a farmers market kind of Fruit Stand and this was not it.

Super cool tiendita close to Alton Gloor area. So happy for the convenience of having this location…read moreon this side of town.

Four times we have purchased meat there that is rotten or smells like it's been treated with a…read morechemical to make the meat not smell rotten. If you buy there smell it first very sad that they would sell crap like that to their own raza.