Amaanaat Supermarket
Halal supermarket on North Broad with fresh produce, fish, and halal meat and poultry — the meat counter picked up HFSAA certification in 2023. Groceries and household staples fill out the rest of the aisles.
Grocery in the burbs
Every grocery spot we vouch for, across every town we cover. Cross a town line for the good ones. That's the whole point.
The picks
- Amaanaat Supermarket
- Ardmore Farmers Market
- Artisan Exchange
- Barnard's Orchard
- Captain Bob's Seafood
- Carlino's Market
- Carlino's Market
- Carniceria Camargo
- The Cheese Company
- Cielito Lindo Mexican Grocery & Resturant
- Collegeville Italian Bakery Pizzeria Napoletana
- Corner Masala
- Country Butcher
- Crop's Fresh Marketplace
- Deshi Village Restaurant, Grocery & Halal Meat
- Downingtown Farmers Market
- Frederick's Downtown Market
- The Grand Fromage
- Grapevine
- Jenkintown Farmers Market
- Kimberton Whole Foods - Collegeville
- Kimberton Whole Foods - Downingtown
- Kimberton Whole Foods (Malvern)
- La Hasa Quickmart
- La Stalla Italian Market
- Landis Supermarket
- Lansdale Farmers' Market
- Maido! A Marketplace of Japan
- Malvern Farmers Market
- Mercatino Italiano
- Moyer Specialty Foods
- Munchies deli market
- Newtown Farmers Market
- O'Neill's Food Market
- Olive Lucy
- Olive-N-Grape
- Philly Lobster Gourmet Foods
- Pinwheel Provisions- Local Market & Table
- Primos mini market Carnicerías
- The Produce Place
- Rani's Indian Deli
- San Antonio Mexican Deli & Grocery
- Sister's Mini Market
- Skippack Village Italian Market
- Spring Creek Farm
- Stoltzfus Family Foods
- Tabouli Cuisines
- Taste of Puebla
- Tasty Zaytoon Lebanese Restaurant and Market
- Tienda Alquisiras Mexican Store Inc
- Triple Fresh Market
- The Tubby Olive
- Tulu Mediterranean Market
- Weavers Way Co-op
- Werner's German Markt
- West Chester Growers Market
- The Woodlands at Phillips
- Yardley Farmers Market
- Yardley Farmers Market - Summer Market
- Yardley Refillery
- Yiasou Greek Market and Cafe
Ardmore Farmers Market
The indoor market hall inside Suburban Square: produce stands, a butcher, a fish counter and lunch spots under one roof, no tents or parking lot required.
Artisan Exchange
A 27,000-square-foot warehouse of small food makers on Carter Drive that opens to the public every Saturday for a year-round indoor market. The member recipes run from Ghana to Ukraine, and over 75 percent of the businesses are women-owned.
Barnard's Orchard
The Barnards have farmed off Route 842 for three centuries, and the farm store runs on that momentum: their own produce in season, plus local eggs, cheese curds, and jam. Greenhouses too, if you came for the plants.
Captain Bob's Seafood
Half restaurant, half fish store on the West End strip — dine in on a platter or buy shrimp, scallops, and lobster tails by the piece or the pound to cook at home. Special orders, they'll tell you, are never a problem.
Carlino's Market
Italian specialty market the Carlino family has run since 1983, with a second store in West Chester. Prepared dinners, custom cakes, deli sandwiches and pizza, and their own jarred sauces and dried pasta on the shelves.
Carlino's Market
An Italian specialty market on West Market Street stacked with house pastas, imported cheese, and a full deli counter. Come for one thing and walk out with dinner handled.
Carniceria Camargo
Pedro Camargo is a third-generation butcher from Moroleón, Guanajuato, and his Magnolia Street market runs on the family recipes he brought north: marinated meats, fresh produce, and traditional Mexican dishes. The kitchen side turns out alambre, huaraches, and carne asada to take home.
The Cheese Company
The cheese shop on Haverford Ave, with a counter of wedges, cured meats, and the makings of a good board. Where you stop on the way to someone's dinner party.
Cielito Lindo Mexican Grocery & Resturant
Part Mexican grocery, part kitchen, on the West End Boulevard strip. Pick up masa and dried chiles on one side, get tacos and tortas from the counter on the other.
Collegeville Italian Bakery Pizzeria Napoletana
Bakery, Neapolitan pizzeria, and Italian grocery under one roof, locally owned since 1994. The breads and rolls come from scratch on-site every morning, and the shelves carry imported meats, cheeses, and olives for the ride home.
Corner Masala
South Asian corner grocery on Fifth Street where the stock doesn't stop at food — Indian clothing and jewelry share the floor. A quick spice run has a way of becoming a browse.
Country Butcher
A butcher shop and market on S Walnut Street, with a case of cut-to-order meats and shelves of local provisions. There's a deli counter for sandwiches, too.
Crop's Fresh Marketplace
Family-run independent grocery on Horseshoe Pike with an IGA USA Retailer of the Year title to its name. The in-house hoagie shop turns out sandwiches, wraps, and party trays, and the bakery takes custom cake orders.
Deshi Village Restaurant, Grocery & Halal Meat
Bangladeshi-owned grocery, halal meat-and-fish market, and restaurant sharing one storefront on North Broad. Do the week's shopping, then let the kitchen counter handle dinner.
Downingtown Farmers Market
The town's farmers market on East Pennsylvania Ave, run by Growing Roots. Produce, bread, and prepared food from growers around Chester County.
Frederick's Downtown Market
Forty years of feeding Quakertown. The case on East Broad holds eleven varieties of homemade gluten-free sausage, house-smoked hams and bacon, six kinds of ring bologna, and Pennsylvania Dutch desserts.
The Grand Fromage
A cheese shop on Skippack Pike with a case deep enough to lose an hour in, plus charcuterie and the crackers to go with. The counter will keep handing you samples until you commit.
Grapevine
Half health-food store, half greenhouse: organic produce, local eggs, and nuts and seeds, plus plants running from organic herb starts to tropicals and citrus trees. The plants are what they're known for across Bucks County.
Jenkintown Farmers Market
A seasonal farmers market on Greenwood Ave with local growers and makers on market day. Show up early if you want the good tomatoes.
Kimberton Whole Foods - Collegeville
The Collegeville branch of Kimberton Whole Foods, the Pennsylvania natural grocer with a deep bulk aisle, local produce, and a prepared-foods case worth a lunch detour. Not the national chain with the almost-identical name.
Kimberton Whole Foods - Downingtown
The Downingtown store of the Chester County natural grocer that got its start over in Kimberton years back. Local produce, a bulk aisle, prepared foods, and a supplement wall, all homegrown rather than corporate.
Kimberton Whole Foods (Malvern)
The Malvern branch of the family-run natural grocer, on East King Road since 2014 with shelves stocked from more than 200 local producers. The grab-and-go case runs gluten-free to vegan, with drip coffee and hot soup for the road.
La Hasa Quickmart
A small grocery on South Easton Road, south of the main Glenside blocks. No website, so what is on the shelves is a walk-in question.
La Stalla Italian Market
The market side of La Stalla on North Sycamore: a deli counter with freshly sliced meats and cheeses, sandwiches and wraps, and made-to-order entrees ready to carry home. The signature Italian gift basket runs $60, in case you need to win over an in-law.
Landis Supermarket
Frank Landis started this grocery in Telford in 1938, and three generations later the same family still runs it; the Perkasie store opened in the Perkasie Square Shopping Center in 1994. Come for Mrs. Benner's scratch-made bakery and a butcher counter that still cuts to order.
Lansdale Farmers' Market
Saturday-morning market that takes over the Penn Street lot from May into December, volunteer-built and grower-focused since its first season in 2009. Doors are 9 to 12:30, and the produce tables thin out fast, so early birds win.
Maido! A Marketplace of Japan
A Japanese market on East Lancaster Avenue in Ardmore, stocked with groceries, snacks and pantry staples. It has gathered 1,056 Google reviews at 4.7.
Malvern Farmers Market
The Malvern Farmers Market gathers local growers and makers near Burke Park through the warm months, with produce, bread, and things to eat on the spot. It's run by Growing Roots Partners.
Mercatino Italiano
An Italian market in Trainer's Corner that started from a small kitchen in 2020 — imported goods, a case of meats and cheeses, paninis, pastries, and ready-to-eat meals. Go for the panino, leave with a basket of groceries you didn't plan on.
Moyer Specialty Foods
Bulk nuts, trail mixes, dried fruit, and candy sold the wholesale way — everything comes in two- or five-pound bags, and they've been at it since 1980. The Second Street storefront keeps weekday hours with free order pickup, so plan the snack run accordingly.
Munchies deli market
Deli and grocery market on Lincoln Highway, built more for the quick run than the weekly haul. A counter that runs on its regulars.
Newtown Farmers Market
An Amish market that's grown into what they'll tell you is one of the top in the state — 15 vendors under one roof. The last Saturday of the month, April through October, is pig roast day.
O'Neill's Food Market
An independent food market on North Easton Road, in a stretch where most towns have only a chain supermarket left. A 4.8 across 350-odd reviews is not a number grocery stores usually get.
Olive Lucy
A gourmet grocery on Leedom Street for the specialty pantry stuff the Acme doesn't carry. Handy when a recipe calls for something exact and you'd rather not drive into the city.
Olive-N-Grape
Tasting stations line the shop so you sample the unfiltered olive oils and aged flavored balsamics before a bottle comes home. Bring a recipe and the staff will steer you to the right salt, spice, or vinegar for it.
Philly Lobster Gourmet Foods
A seafood counter on East Lancaster Avenue in Wynnewood that brings inventory in fresh daily, with produce alongside it, prepared entrees to finish at home, and rolls their sushi chef makes on site.
Pinwheel Provisions- Local Market & Table
A market and cafe on the Bryn Mawr Film Institute property, with a bulk pantry section, house-made pastries and alcohol-free cocktails. Your coffee and snacks are allowed to come with you into the film.
Primos mini market Carnicerías
A neighborhood mini market and carnicería on Strode Avenue, with a butcher counter and the pantry staples the big stores skip. Come for the meat, leave with dinner mostly sorted.
The Produce Place
A family-run produce market on East Cypress where the corn comes off their own farm. Inside it's store-made hummus, salsa, wraps, and smoothies, with local yogurt, kombucha, and honey holding down the shelves.
Rani's Indian Deli
Thirty-six years of Indian, Pakistani, and Sri Lankan groceries on South Broad — every flour, lentil, and bean you'd need, several brands of frozen breads, and a produce case better than it has any right to be. Rani works the register and knows the regulars by name.
San Antonio Mexican Deli & Grocery
One storefront doing double duty on West Broad: a Mexican deli-grocery stocked for Quakertown's Spanish-speaking community on one side, a kitchen doing dine-in and takeout on the other. Open until 9 most nights, Wednesdays off.
Sister's Mini Market
Neighborhood mini market on Lincoln Highway, stocked deeper than the size suggests. Grocery-run staples without the big-box trip.
Skippack Village Italian Market
Italian market and sandwich counter on Skippack Pike, stocked with hoagies, imports, and prepared trays. Grab a roast pork to eat in the car or a tray to feed the whole street.
Spring Creek Farm
A 165-acre certified-organic farm with a store open Tuesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays: organic produce and eggs, 100 percent grass-fed beef, all from the property. CSA members get 15 percent off farm produce and meat year-round.
Stoltzfus Family Foods
A butcher on Coulter Avenue in Ardmore, working a proper meat and poultry counter rather than a shelf of shrink-wrapped trays.
Tabouli Cuisines
Chef Mona cooks the Levantine food she grew up with in the Golan Heights: hummus, muhammara, maqlubi and stuffed cabbage sold by weight from the case at the Ardmore Farmers Market, plus imported za'atar, sumac and raw tahini to take home.
Taste of Puebla
Mariana and Cristobal Castañeda spent 25 years in Kennett's mushroom industry before opening their Puebla food business in 2010, and the West Cypress storefront sells the results: house salsas, chile rellenos, guacamole and pico made fresh daily. They rebranded around catering and the salsa production line in 2016, and that's the main event now.
Tasty Zaytoon Lebanese Restaurant and Market
Traditional Lebanese home cooking on Marchwood Road, with their market next door so you can take home everything you liked off the menu. The house motto is 'Treat Yourself; Make it Yourself' — eat in, then shop your way out.
Tienda Alquisiras Mexican Store Inc
Mexican grocery on Lincoln Highway, stocked with the masa and dried chiles the chain stores skip. The pantry stop for the real thing.
Triple Fresh Market
The village store in Ercildoun has been trading since 1818 — its founder was a conductor on the Underground Railroad — and the Petro family has kept it going since 1987. These days that means chef-prepared take-home dinners, gourmet cheese, and the new Buck Run Cafe counter alongside the groceries.
The Tubby Olive
Fifteen infused olive oils and 26 balsamic vinegars on tap, poured from steel barrels so you can taste before committing to a bottle. The Tuscan Herb oil and an 18-year Modena balsamic have been the regulars' picks since 2010.
Tulu Mediterranean Market
Mediterranean grocery on West Lancaster Avenue, stocked for home cooking: olives, spices, cheeses and breads rather than a full supermarket run.
Weavers Way Co-op
A member-owned grocery packed with local producers, plus a café counter that quietly makes one of Ambler’s better quick cups. Shop the whole region’s makers in one stop.
Werner's German Markt
German grocery and gift shop inside Green Wolf's Village Barn, named for the owner's grandfather, who emigrated to America after the war. Imported snacks and drinks share shelf space with hand-crafted beer steins, ceramic smokers, and cuckoo clocks that actually chime.
West Chester Growers Market
Producer-only, so whoever's behind the table at Church and Chestnut actually grew what's on it — the market's own line is 'shake the hand that feeds you.' Saturdays 9 to 1, May through December, with a slimmed-down winter schedule on first, third, and fifth Saturdays.
The Woodlands at Phillips
The retail shop for Phillips Mushroom Farms, run from the family's 1828 farmhouse — a fourth-generation operation selling every variety it grows, fresh. There's a free self-guided mushroom museum, and when the traditional marinated mushrooms come back in stock, it rates a homepage banner.
Yardley Farmers Market
Producer-only, so everything on the tables was grown or made within 75 miles of here, no resellers trucking in supermarket crates. Buttonwood Park on Saturday mornings, the first Saturday in May through the one before Thanksgiving, 9 to noon.
Yardley Farmers Market - Summer Market
Producer-only, which means the person selling you the eggs is the one who raised the hens — no reseller stalls. Saturdays 9 to noon at Buttonwood Park from May through November, then it moves indoors to the LMT Community Center so the honey and kombucha don't disappear come January.
Yardley Refillery
Bucks County's first refillery, open on South Main since 2023: bring your own bottles and fill up on laundry detergent, dish soap, shampoo bars, even coffee and peanut butter, all priced by the ounce. They'll also sharpen your knives, cut a key, and patch a window screen while you're in.
Yiasou Greek Market and Cafe
Greek market and cafe on N Narberth Ave, stacked with imported pantry goods and a counter turning out gyros and spanakopita. Grab lunch or shop for the olive oil and feta you can't find at the Acme.
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