A lot of people have asked me where to get some of the spices and ingredients in my recipes so this entry is a list of Indian stores that I know of. You can also order ingredients online for those of you that don’t have a store nearby. This online store carries SWAD and MTR products which I like the best.
If you know of any other Indian stores, please write them in the comments and I will add to my list for everyone to see as my knowledge is limited to the places where I have lived: NJ, NY, Berkeley, San Francisco and Los Angeles.
So now there are no excuses – you have to try my recipes! haha
California
Los Angeles
India Sweets and Spices
9409 Venice Blvd
Culver City, CA 90232
310.837.5286
(really good prepared food here too)
India Sweets and Spices (and here)
3126 Los Feliz Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90039
323.345.0360
San Francisco
New India Bazzar Indian Grocery Store
1107 Polk St
San Francisco, CA 94109
415.928.4553
Jai Ho Indian Grocery
1462 Fillmore Street
San Francisco, CA 94115
415.567.1070
Berkeley
Bombay Spice House
1036 University Ave
Berkeley, CA 94710
510.854.5200
Vik’s Distributors
726 Allston Way
Berkeley, CA 94710
510.644.4412
(serves amazing snacks next door – get chole bhatura!)
Illinois
Chicago
Fresh Farms International Market
2626 West Devon Ave.
Chicago, IL 60659
773-764-3557
(great one stop shop for Indian produce and spices; it also has a sugarcane juice stand in the front)
Patel Brothers Cash & Carry
2610 West Devon Ave.
Chicago, IL 60659
773-764-1857
(this is newly remodeled supermarket style Patel Brothers)
Kamdar Plaza
2646 West Devon Ave
Chicago, IL 60688
773.338.8100
(snack bar in the back has great pani puri)
Massachusetts
Spiceland
120 Cambridge Street
Burlington, MA 01803
Michigan
Detroit
Eastern Market
2934 Russell Street
Detroit, MI 48207
313.833.9300
(year-round farmers market with a spice store. The spices are a bit expensive but you can find everything there. The vegetables are always fresh and reasonably priced. Here is the website.)
New Jersey
Patel Brothers Cash & Carry
1357 Oak Tree Road
Iselin NJ 08830
732.283.7283
Subzi Mandi
1518 Oak Tree Rd # B
Iselin, NJ 08830
732.603.0588
Sabzi Mandi
832 Newark Ave
Jersey City, NJ 07306
201.656.5677
India Market
395 Springfield Ave
Berkeley Heights, NJ 07922
908.508.9450
New York
Brooklyn (Sunset Park)
Patel Brothers
5303 4th Ave (between 53rd and 54th St.)
718.748.6369
Manhattan – Midtown (Curry Hill)
Little India Store
128 East 28th Street
212.683.1691
Kalustyan’s
123 Lexington Avenue
New York, NY 10016
212.685-3451
(if you have not gone, you must go – incredible variety of items)
Spice Corner
135 Lexington Avenue
New York, NY 10016
212.689.5182
Manhattan – East Village
India Bazaar
69 1st Avenue New York, NY 10003
212.420.5906
Janata Spice Store
85 1st Avenue
New York, NY
10003-2937
800.754.1815
Queens
Patel Brothers
42-92 Main Street
Flushing NY 11355
718.661.1112
Patel Brothers
3727 74th St
Jackson Heights, NY 11372
718.898.3445
Subzi Mandi
72-30 37th Avenue,
Jackson Heights, NY 11372
718.457.1848
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Hi Chit,
Here are some of my favorites:
Chicago
Fresh Farms International Market
2626 West Devon Ave.
Chicago, IL 60659
773-764-3557
(great one stop shop for Indian produce and spices; it also has a sugarcane juice stand in the front)
Patel Brothers Cash & Carry
2610 West Devon Ave.
Chicago, IL 60659
773-764-1857
(this is newly remodeled supermarket style Patel Brothers)
Kamdar Plaza
2646 West Devon Ave
Chicago, IL 60688
773-338-8100
(I go to this place mainly for the snack bar in the back, which has great pani puri)
Boston
I had trouble finding shops in Boston. The only one I went to was this one in Burlington.
Spiceland
120 Cambridge Street
Burlington, MA 01803
Detroit
For great spices and vegetables around Detroit, go to Eastern Market, which is a huge, year-round farmers market with a spice store. The spices are a bit expensive but you can find everything there. The vegetables are always fresh and reasonably priced. Here is the website.
http://www.detroiteasternmarket.com/
In New York you list only one of the branches of Patel Bros. There are at least two others I know of. I shop regularly at the Jackson Heights branch, 37-27 74th Street, Queens, NY (near several subway lines). There is a Subzi Mandi shop around the corner, as well as dozens of other Indian shops.
Thanks! I’ll add Patel Brothers & Subzi Mandi, but if you recommend any others please send. This is by no means an exhaustive list – just the shops I’ve been to and ones that others recommend:)
A wonderful list of resources for me to check out! GREG
lol, I guess I have no excuses then…I live in LA! But I don’t have a car! T__T
What a comprehensive and well thought out list, thank you!! Thankfully in SoCal we have access to a lot of unique ingredients…and you gotta love the web.
Hi,
What a stunning display of a masala box which we take for granted in an Indian kitchen.
Here are a few Indian grocery stores in the Atlanta area:
Patel Brothers
1711 Church St.
Decatur, GA 30033
Phone: (404) 296-2696
Patel Brothers (this may have moved to the address given above. Please check.)
Dekalb Industrial Way
Decatur, GA 30033
Phone: (404) 292-8235
Cherians International Groceries
751 Dekalb Industrial Way
Decatur, GA 30033
Phone: (404) 299-0842
Fax: (404) 299-8789
There is another subzi mandi on 116-19 101st Ave in Richmond Hill.
There is also Apna Bazaar on 113-18 Liberty Avenue, Richmond Hill.
And another Apna Bazaar on 72-20 37th Ave, in Jackson Hights.
They all have yummy stuff…and spices!!!!
Here are Atlanta, GA, stores:
Cherians International Groceries
751 Dekalb Industrial Way, Decatur, GA 30033
Tel: 404-299-0842
Fax: 404-299-8789
http://www.cherians.com/
Patel Brothers
1711 Church St, Decatur, GA 30033
Tel: 404-296-2696
you can get spices in brooklyn too, not just manhattan and queens. the bangladeshi stores off the F train at church ave have all the basics as do the pakistani places on coney island avenue — both in midwood/ditmas park and down by brighton beach.
Hi Folks,
We run a family owed grocery store in Queen which sells all Indian, Guyanese and trinidadian spices. We also sell freash water coconuts, sugar juice cane, flowers, literally fresh fruit & veg.
Come and visit for an exotic experience! We are currently located on 124-01 Liberty Ave, Richmond Hill, Queens, NY, 11491.
We are also opening a new store on 117-05 101 Ave, Richmond Hill, Queens, NY, 11491. You have a chance to win tickets to Guyana, India and Trnidad on the dayt of the opening! So come along and visit us! That’s Singh farm for all your spices and exotic goods.
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I am very happy to read your articles it’s very useful for me,
and I am completely satisfied with your website.
All comments and articles are very useful and very good.
Your blog is very attention-grabbing. I am loving all of the in
turn you are sharing with each one!…
Indian Spices