This business opened up about 2 months ago - it is a very small specialty grocery store that offers mostly shelf stable snacks and imported foods from France/Europe, at a discount.
If you are familiar with the french Top Discount chain, then this store will offer similar items but at a cheaper prices. The appeal of Simply Gourmet is that they sell many items at a rebate since the food is approaching, or has surpassed the "best before" consumption date. Now most of these items are chips, cookies or dry snacks for example - which are perfectly good and safe to eat several weeks/months past the best before date. This prevents waste and ends up being an incredible steal for consumers.
There were many imported snacks priced at under a dollar, some as low as 30 cents, which is unheard of in this economy nowadays.
I left with multiple bottles of bbq and dipping sauces which were made in Belgium - delicious and awesome value as they were under a dollar each.
The store also has a small refrigerated bevarage section so you can get speciality Fanta for example from France or Asia - these are all drinks that are not normally sold at your typical gorcery store.
The back of the store had a small section of imported body care, like body washes and soaps that are made in France.
I would recommend checking out "Simply Gourmet" on Facebook as their page posts photos of new arrivals and specials.
I'm taking away a star for how small the shop is, seems like within 5 mins you have seen everything, so unless you are in the area it might not be worth a drive to come from so far as the selection is pretty limited. Also, the store shares a wall with a neighboring barbershop and for some reason that business blasts very loud hip-hop/rap music which can be heard from inside this store. The sound was aggresive and very loud, to the point of feeling the vibrations everywhere so this made for a not so fun experience... unfortunately not Simply Gourmet's fault but eventually I think the owners of each business in this strip mall should step up and ask the barbershop to tone down their music as it affects everyone there. read more