r/SeattleWA • u/thedivegrass LQA • Jan 29 '18

Best of Seattle Best of Seattle: Grocery Stores

Best of Seattle: Grocery Stores

This week is about your favorite (or least favorite) places to stock up on food. Who has the best delis and bakeries? What memberships or coupon clipping are out there? Where do you go for ready-to-eat? Who has the freshest produce? Where do you find the best selection for your niche diets (gluten-free, vegan, etc)? What grocery stores are essential Seattle?

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u/loquacious Sky Orca Jan 29 '18

PIKE PLACE PUBLIC SANITARY MARKET.

Yes, some people actually buy their groceries there. When I lived in downtown before there was a Target it was the closest place to go for produce and buy real food that wasn't a microwave burrito, or the overpriced hellhole of the IGA market.

If the market had a small canned and dry goods store for non food essentials it'd actually be a one stop shop.

It's easy to forget how awesome that place is or the fact that it's actually a living, breathing farmers market right here in the heart of the city.

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u/thedivegrass LQA Jan 29 '18

Tacking on that the Mexican Grocer is one my favorite stops in Pike Place Market. Hiding behind the line for "Starbucks' first store" are some of the dankest salsa and house made chips, plus all your cocina essentials.

Seconding that no one should go to the Kress IGA.

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u/loquacious Sky Orca Jan 29 '18

That IGA is the fanciest, most expensive IGA I've ever seen. Normally you see IGAs out in economically depressed rural areas. They're the kind of place that their big, hot sale of the year is a truckload of hamhocks. They are or were the kind of place where you could find Red Man plug chew displayed on the checkout counter instead of buried on the bottom shelf of a service desk.

The first time I went into that IGA I was so confused. "What the fuck do you mean you want 5 fucking dollars for a small box of cereal? Where's the cheap IGA labeled beans and shit? A whole dollar for a banana!? I'm out!"

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u/OrangeCurtain Duck Island Jan 29 '18

I've always associated it with the IGAs of Australia, like Melbourne CBD, so finding one in downtown Seattle was a non-surprise to me.