About time!! Lots of people was complain that their didn't want Sainsbury here. But it soooo!…read moreconvenient and to be honest it got better for deals.

This neighborhood M&S is found just off of Southgate High Street next to the leisure centre. It has…read morea small carpark, but usually hard to find a spot. Because it's a small M&S they carry the essentials but do not have a large selection of items. They do have a range of packaged meats and fish, fresh fruit and veg and a small bakery. Store is well staffed. Items are discounted towards the end of the day. Maintains the standards one would expect of an M&S. Probably the best food shop in Southgate.

This store is always nice and quiet in the evenings. There are plenty of customers, but just a slow…read morepace...it feels very local. At the entrance you're greated with the flower stand (the entrance is consumed by it) and it's very tempting. They have all the usual you'd expect in their food halls, just on a smaller scale. The car park has a pay-and-display system (once you've shopped you'll get moneyback). My only annoyance with M&S food halls generally speaking is that they charge for their carrier bags. I think there should be a spend limit on this as who carries about a handful of carrier bags as a just in case?!

My wonderful Tesco Express in Bounds Green. Where shall I…read morestart!? Small but nice with absolutely everything you need, from fresh bread to fruit & veg, frozen & cupboard foods, and a great selection of beers & wines. Always well stocked up, super fresh & great quality, and above all, a friendly atmosphere and wonderful, courteous customer service. A great new Manager & a fantastic Team of people super dedicated, competent, helpful, hard working and really really lovely. And lets not forget the DJ... the lovely background music is every time just the cherry on the cake!

My new local. Off-licences are nice but usually expensive. Bounds Green did not have a 'real'…read moresupermarket until this one opened in early October this year. Open every day until 11pm, it offers all one needs just a few minutes away from the Bounds Green tube station. It has dairy products, fresh vegetables, household items and much more. In total: all you need for your home if you just want a good dinner and clean house. It is also located directly on the 221 bus route, giving it easy access to both Bounds Green and Wood Green as well as the surrounding areas.

Hiding in the shadow of the Lyle & Tate factory in Silvertown is this massive Far East Asian…read moresupermarket selling almost everything you could possibly need. You've probably seen Loon Fung in Chinatown, right in the middle of Gerrard Street, the largest Chinese supermarket there, complete with butcher and funky smells. Well, this is their larger and better store, right next to City Airport. It's a bugger to get to. Even if you have a car, the Crossrail works happening in its immediate vicinity have rendered Sat Nav systems a little bit useless as Factory Road now appears to be one way only. But perseverance pays off because you will literally be able to load your car up with all the stuff you can't buy elsewhere and not need to make this trip for another 3 months. There's free parking on site. A huge fruit and vegetable section, massive frozen section, you can buy industrial boxes of laundry detergent here (cheaper than at a mainstream supermarket.) A fishmonger, butcher and every single brand of soy sauce under the Sun. It's also possible to buy hotpot stoves/pots as well as as bamboo steamers and other kitchen objects popular in Far Eastern cuisine. It used to be a cash and carry which meant you needed a membership card to shop here. I've recently been told that I can get points on the card. No idea if it's still a cash and carry but it's worth getting a card for the loyalty points if you plan on being a frequent shopper.

If you're looking for 'have a nice day' shiny happy staff dont shop here!!…read moreHowever if you like Chinese/Oriental food and if you like cooking this is the place for you! There's every type of Chinese ingredient you can think of and a few you cant..think instant shark fin soup and odd looking pickled ingredients from mushrooms to monkey heads!! once over the initial shock there is every type of soy sauce, noodles, tofu dim sum, stirfry paste and cooking utensil you can think of,worth it just to look at the packaging! have a browse you wont be dissappointed

A decent enough store located in Wood Green just across from the Tube station. It has just about…read moreeverything you might need from a grocery store - fresh fruits and veg, a bakery, fish counter, meat counter, and lots of other regular items. Prices are competitive and the store is clean even if it feels a bit more like a budget experience. Staff are friendly and lines at the check out move efficiently.

This is right by the tube station, which makes it very convienient, and although its not huge, it…read moredoes have all the basics. Is a good place to get all the bits you need, and is prety cheap (although ASDA is cheaper!) It is always very busy though, so be prepared to queue a lot

Me and the fella come here to do 'the BIG shop' (which we always have to psych ourselves up to…read morebother with). This is one of your run-of-the-mill large Sainsbury's fully equipped with electricals, homeware, books, DVDs and clothes as well as all the usual malarky, aka food, drink, toiletries, cleaning products... you know the drill. This particular store also has a little Starbucks which I've never needed but it's nice to have the option, right? Always well stocked and one VERY friendly guy on the till who has served us twice now and is hilarious - always brightens up our BIG shop!

AMAZING WONDERFUL store! What can Isay?The staff are friendly and helpful, the prices are good…read morevalue, and the store has weverything you need from clothing for men women and kids to DVDs and toys not to mention a wonderful selection of food and drink items. There is also a Pharmacy here. Parking is extensive and the supermarket is situated close to the other shopes nearby so you have the best of both worlds. In fact Southgate in general was a wonderful surprise-sercvice with a smile in every place I went.

As we only lived near a tesco express before and shopped mainly in M&S on the way home the…read morecheapness of Asda is almost overwhelming but I also feel that at these prices I must be exploiting someone, somewhere. For now I'm a fan but I reserve the right to change my mind!

Wow is it wrong to love a Tesco? It probably is, but I live in an area that has teeny tiny…read moresupermarkets and this place seems so large for a London store. I weirdly found this Tesco a really entertaining way to kill a 40 minutes when stuck in Seven Sisters one evening. What I found brillo: 1. They have a nice selection of home wear and electronics - woo hoo when did Kenwood food processors get so cheap? 2. They stock lots of ugly clothes from F&F and you can waste at least 10 minutes looking through the sale items and agonising whether to buy weird furry jumpers. 3. Best of all is the super dooper giant world food section. It's a cornucopia of global produce, flowing with exotic foods from around the world. Often food from this section are strangely cheaper than buying the comparable product from a different area in store. For example coconut milk is way cheaper here than a few aisles down. You can get your Caribbean, your Indian, your Turkish, your Kosher or Polish on to name just a few of the many cuisines that they stock. We very much enjoyed the Polish chocolate snack section. I can heartily recommend the Alibi bar - an awesome coconut, wafer and caramel chocolate medley. I can only presume it is named Alibi because it is so delicious you might not be able to resist stealing it. Therefore needing an alibi. But I did pay for it honest, for an import it wasn't even that much £. In true Tesco tradition, the place does seem a bit ugly and depressive, and the staff weren't very friendly. All the served checkouts were closed so they push you towards the evil self service checkouts of doom - but despite all that, the amazing stock makes up for it and I wouldn't mind if they had one of these in my area (well if it didn't kill all the personality out of my local area that is).

My go-to supermarket in the area. I like their world food section. You can find cheap stuff, but…read morealso a little bit of quality if you want.

My local market is small but plentiful with food stalls from all over the world…read more As well as street food, there are also flower stores, cheese stores, specialist artesian food stores, meat stores, a dog treat store, and even a hemp store! They only accept cash so bring plenty or face a ~£2 surcharge at the only near by cash machine in Londis. After eating be sure to wonder around the vast gardens of Alexandra palace and grab a cake at the garden centre nearby. This is my favourite nearby place to bring my dog for walks.

This is a lovely little farmer's market, and ridiculously convenient for me since I moved to the…read morearea. There's probably only about 15 stalls, but you could do a decent food shop here consisting of fruit & veg, milk, eggs, bread, fish, olives, every type of sausage you can imagine (I settled on pork leek and chilli), amazing cuts of pork and even pre-prepared goodies like pies, chutneys and cakes. And if you get hungry while browsing you can grab a little pie to eat there and then - I enjoyed my butternut squash & spinach, and my hubby devoured his chilli beef & cheddar before I could even snaffle some. If pie isn't your thing, there was also curries, toasted sarnies and all other sorts of goodies. There was also a stall selling hot drinks which even on this sunny Sunday had a sizeable queue. ...when can I go back?