Congratulations to Jennifer Zuk! She is the winner of a ‘Shop with a Chef’ day courtesy of Edible Vancouver.
Here are some of the highlights of the streets and places people mentioned as they wrote in:
Bosa’s on Victoria Drive for Italian foods
Gourmet Warehouse at Victoria and Pandora for dry goods, kitchen supplies and gourmet food items
Around the 2400 Block of East Hastings by Victoria:
Donald’s Market for produce
Rio Friendly Meats
El Pulgarcito for Mexican snacks and ingredients
The Wheelhouse for fresh fish
Scardillo’s Grocery – Italian
Pine House Bakery
Bianca Maria’s – Italian deli
On Broadway between Blenheim and MacDonald:
For Greek ingredients, The Parthenon and Minerva’s.
For produce, Young Brothers.
For decadent pastries, Notte’s Bon Ton
On Commercial Drive:
Continental Coffee
La Grotta Del Fromaggio – Italian deli
Cafe Calabria
Santa Barbara Market
J, N, & Z Deli where they smoke, roast, and prepare all sorts of sausages, pepperoni, ham hocks, bacon
Norman’s for fresh produce
Fratelli Bakery
Main Street from King Edward to 28th:
Windsor Meats – great butcher shop
Tonina’s, a great Italian deli
Jasmine Halal Meats and Deli – Mediterranean
Tasty Produce
Solly’s Bagels
Quejo’s South American, coffee, dessert shop
Main Street between 12th and 21st
Cobb’s bakery
One-O-One (or Yek-O-Yek) a deli and bulk food store run by a friendly family from Iran. Liberty Bakery at the corner of 21st and Main
Robson Street, the west end of it
Capers
Robson Street Market for meat and seafood
Chocolate Mousse, kitchen shop
Lonsdale Ave. in North Vancouver:
Lonsdale Quay, with a gem of a Thai store where you can stock up on lemongrass, kafir lime leaves, galangal and pretty much any other Thai ingredients you need. There is the Stock Pot for delicious stocks, delis and a butcher, a bakery and a fabulous fresh fish shop.
Artisan Organic Bakery on the 100 block.
Just east of Lonsdale on 3rd, there is Fiesta Filipino, where you can find a variety of ingredients from the Philipines.
1100 block- Mountain Top Wheat and Gluten-free bakery.
1300 Block The Meat Shop and Deli; Iranian foods
1500 block, Golestan Bakery.
19th, Pars is probably THE Iranian store on the North Shore.
Over the road is the Organic Coffee Shop where you can buy a variety of organic coffee beans. And on the next block is a New Apple Farm Market and a Seven Seas Fish Shop.
2200 block is the Queensdale Supermarket which sells fresh organic goods.
And don’t forget the Farmers Markets at Trout Lake, Nat Bailey Stadium, in the West End Granville Island and the UBC Farm.
Thanks to everyone who entered the contest and for your detailed and thoughtful comments.
You’ve forgotten Yoka’s coffee on West Broadway!!!!!
You know, this list would make a nice start to a little map-based site on Vancouver food shopping. Sort of like all those rate-the-places-in-your-neighborhood sites but with content.