I needed boba straws in a pinch and even though I live in Lancaster I drove over to Phil mart to…read moregrab some. Luckily they had some in stock. I didn't have much time to shop for anything else but I will be back, the produce looks great

Great Philippino food and great service for an ok price I would recommend them,just make sure u get…read morethere if u can at noon because that's when they pretty much have all the lunch items ready. They have a slew of items, the service is great and you can shop for some extra items as well. Go try and make up your own mind.

Very good selection, much improvement from previous owner! Very knowledgeable about their productsread more

From the owner: Welcome to Saffron Sweets and Grocery, a treasure trove of…read moreIndian culinary delights and diverse grocery offerings. Located in Lancaster, California, we not only provide an extensive range of Indian products but also a culinary journey through the flavors of Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and the United Kingdom. Our charming store also houses a small restaurant that specializes in traditional homemade vegetarian dishes and classic Indian sweets, all made with the utmost care to authentically celebrate our cultural heritage. Additionally, our skilled threading salon offers exceptional beauty services, including ear piercing. At Saffron Sweets and Grocery's discover a one-stop shopping experience that caters to all your cravings and desires.

I like this store, the guy help me find everything that I need and he is very helpful and polite…read more He has a very good customer service. I recommend this store to all my friends and family.

I LOVE this place. Amazing owner, super kind. Incredible…read moremix of English chocolate and other UK snacks, great prices so a must visit if you need some home comfort.

This review is written in gratitude to Ponia Market, African food, life's poetic events which come…read moretogether here. I hope everyone feels as welcomed by this review to check out this market as I was by the family who owns and runs it. Ponia African Market Butik is an incredible family-owned grocery store with beautiful artisan crafts, clothing and imported goods. If you are looking to stock your sos pantry (preppers delight!) with the most useful and nutritious items, you are in ouck If you need ingredients for traditional Central American, South American or Southeast Asian recipes, this is for you. If you're seeking African imports and traditional African goods, find treasure here. Wherever you're from, whatever you're looking for, you'll be given a warm welcome, plenty of useful advice and you'll end up with something great in your basket. This uncrowded market is an excellent pandemic choice for those avoiding crowded markets nearby. Enter the market and turn right for beautiful embroidered dresses, stunning African textiles and elegant special occasion clothing for men and women. Racks of well-made sportswear, premium cotton t-shirts and African-themed memorabilia. As a big Bob Marley fan, I love this section! Pass the clothing to find hair products, African soap, jewelry, toiletries and useful household items. I was delightfully overwhelmed by isles filled with beautiful exotic imported food such as dry goods, seasonings, nutritious oils, beans, greans, fermented drinks, and imports from Ghana, Nigeria, Jamaica, and Camaroon. African food is tasty, healthy and colorful. I passed shelves filled with red palm oil, Yellow African curry, bright green banana leaves, orange citrus jerk seasoning and amber peppers. (What a wonderful world) The southwest part of the market is the refrigerated section filled with frozen and fresh hand cut meats, and smoked, dried and cured fish. Here, I asked for help from one of the wonderful family members who work at the market and ended up with ingredients for curry goat stew, African greens and more. She told me about Africa's version of tamales, also called corn koki, which is available in family-sized portions in the refrigerator. I told her about humitas which are very similar. Steamed corn cakes are popular around the world. Like many dishes and things that connect us from far away places, this market is a gold mine for my mortar and pestle friends around the world. After getting a generous lesson about African food, I learned the owner of this market also owns an African restaurant in the area. It sounds great and I can't wait to try it! I headed home with my treasure and turned to the ultimate source for African cooking advice: YouTube. Rolls up sleeves. After watching market trips in Ghana, coastal cooking in Jamaica, fu-fu recipes made the hard way (pounding plantains and starch with a stick for hours) and a goat recipe which required a village to prepare, I'm ready to try cooking my first African meal. I have a long way to go before I know what I'm doing but so far, learning is part of the fun. After enjoying the meals I prepared with my market treasure, I noticed an overall improvement in my health. Miracles happen in mysterious ways indeed! African curry powder was always my favorite. Can it cure cancer?! Ingredients list before: tumeric, coriander, cumin, allspice, black pepper, garlic, fenugreek, cloves, ground red hot pepper. African curry powder is the most nutritious seasoning I've ever seen! Many of my purchases had unexpectedly good health benefits and high nutritional value. Don't you love it when you heal an ailment, learn a lesson get a great bargain and find a new favorite? Me too! I found this market after making a U-turn to avoid an unhealthy "donut". (You know the guy) If you see an abusive ex, a bad scene, an unhealthy decision, make a U-turn! End up here where you'll be happier, healthier and hopefully inspired by African food forever. Many thanks to this market for the food, advice, help I appreciate the opportunity to review this market and I look forward to reading future five star reviews from fellow yelpers! Five stars for these guys and the poetry inspired here.:)

If you don't have money to waste, don't go to this market. We were looking for a local caribbean…read moremarket and came across this store on Oct 18th. We bought bammy, patty, callaloo, and supligen. As of yesterday, we realized everything we purchased was spoiled! We had no idea...We warmed the patty and the patty jus a stretch so.... The supligen spoil from september 19th... Bammy spoil from JANUARY !!! The only thing safe was the callaloo... These people selling rotten food! Buyers beware!!!!

I went to Blue Fig farms because the internet thought they might have British food. I guessed that…read moreingredients for Indian cookery is what they specialize in so there could be cross overs. I keep reading about how brown sauce is a staple on every table in the UK. HP Sauce is the main brand. I stopped in on afternoon Saturday the 7th. First impression was similar to the Asia market on White Lane, maybe less cluttered, more like a small supermarket. Walking the isles I didn't see it. To make sure I asked a stock clerk. He was friendly, hadn't heard of HP Sauce but walked me to where it might be. No luck. I didn't want to leave empty handed so brought an apple soda in a clear plastic can shaped like an aluminum can up to the register. I guess they took those earlier negative reviews to heart. The cashier, a man in his 40s or 50s, was so friendly. Joking with me in a dad joke way then gifting me a little morsel on my way out. I'm sure no one else gets treats, I was wearing my cervical collar, pretty sad looking. They have a lot of different foods there. Great produce. Just don't count on finding much British food.

This is a lovely Ethnic market. They have a small but Beautiful produce section that carries many…read moreof the ordinary items but they have some lovely unique vegetables you won't find anywhere else in Bakersfield. You can get a quick meal to go, which I haven't done yet but am looking forward to. The aromas are Devine. The staff has always been friendly and helpful to me. They have a small but excellent meat department. I noticed that they have very reasonable prices and the lamb is especially affordable compared to other markets. They have a vast array of what are exotic groceries compared to other markets. I love to just peruse the isles when I'm there. I wish they had cooking classes. It would be interesting to learn how to use ingredients I'm not familiar with. I highly suggest a visit. You won't be disappointed.

Amazing experience at the Mediterranean Market at Grove's Farmers Market today. I knew they were…read moreknown for their dubai chocolate, baklava and other treats, but I just had to try it in person. A nice young lady working there recommended to me to try their traditional baklava as well as the chocolate one. Both were very top tier, but the chocolate baklava really spoke to me. The textures of a bit crispy on outside with very soft, almost juicy filling of nuts, chocolate and their yummy syrup on the inside, made this chocolate baklava simply heavenly. After the first bite, my taste buds and my whole mouth just said Wooow! The baklava, especially the chocolate one, is absolutely positively a must try when you visit this Mediterranean spot. Good vibes here too, as there are a lot of tourists here and it's a cool people-watching opportunity and the tables to sit down and eat are just everywhere. Grove's Farmers Market is a historical, special place to visit and within the confines of this special place, is this magical baklava shop that's just a must. Will definitely be back again for more!

I have stopped by this market a few times. The baklava is delicious, and the people working behind…read morethe counter have always been very nice. That said, I find the selection quite limited. I am not sure I would really call it a market; it feels more like a small stall. I also think the prices are fairly high for what they offer.

I've come here in the past to purchase grocery items. I love that they have a lot of African and…read moreCaribbean spices. I've always heard that they had delicious seafood. I'm a pescatarian so let's go. In the back the have plenty of seafood, and delicious fish on ice. I placed an order for fried shrimp. It took around 15 minutes for them to cook it. From the get go it smelled divine. Baaaaabbby, I could hardly wait to get home to try them. They were outstanding, and the shrimps were huge a maybe more like a prawn. It was absolutely a 10 out of 10. My son does not eat fried shrimp, and he devoured them. I'll definitely be back in the near future, and can't wait to try their fish with the head.

Chowmaharlika Review…read more I was really excited to try the restaurant side of Chowmaharlika since the market portion has been remodeled and looks absolutely beautiful! The market is clean, upgraded, and has so many great things to shop for. Unfortunately, the restaurant experience didn't quite meet my expectations. The biggest issue was the price point. It's a buffet-style setup where you choose your entrées from the hot bar, and they package everything in styrofoam containers. For the amount charged, I expected a lot more. I ordered the chicken adobo, and for the price I received only 3 pieces of chicken and 2 scoops of rice. Unfortunately, the food itself wasn't impressive enough to justify the cost. The chicken adobo had more broken bones than actual meat, and I also wondered how long the food had been sitting in the hot bar. The halo-halo was different--I'll say that--but I've definitely had better. The restaurant side is still very new, so hopefully they take customer feedback and continue improving. The market is beautiful, but as far as the food experience goes, I personally wouldn't return unless there are some upgrades made. Hopefully with time, the restaurant can match the quality and atmosphere of the newly remodeled market.

My favorite store for desserts! And sushi, and random asian snacks. Wish it was 24/7…read more Approved by @bigbeanbites

I was in the area and needed a quick lunch and a bathroom break, and I remembered that there was a…read morerelatively new Mitsuwa in Northridge! This is one of the few Mitsuwa that doesn't have a food court (San Gabriel is another one without). The premade food section was surprisingly pretty good, better options than the Torrance or Santa Monica locations, imo. They do carry the same poke bowl that is also sold at Torrance. The store closes at 9:00pm, so the premade food section is pretty much cleared out and the self checkout is closed by around 8:00pm. The late hours actually got the busiest because only one staffed cash register was open and customers had to get in line instead of the self checkout. The store is clean and spacious, lots of self checkouts that are open during the day, and the bathrooms were clean (just need to get the code from a staff member!). I came three times on a weekday, once a little after lunch and another right around 5:30 and then around 8:00. Parking was a breeze every time. They have plenty of parking adjacent to the store. The other side of the shopping center gets a little busy, but Mitsuwa is at the comfortable corner closest to the train tracks. Getting out of the parking lot can be challenging because Tampa is a busy street and some people try to make a left turn out (I have my opinions about that lol). If heading out towards CSUN, the shopping center also has two exits out to Nordhoff so that worked well for me. I was in the area for a few job interviews... If I am hired nearby I'm definitely coming to this Mitsuwa a lot :)