Mi Tio, a small grocery store across from the bus terminal, but heading toward the Amazones Market. We’ve been coming here for a while, buying our Snow Mints or Chao mints, as well as our almonds by the pound (which we now get from a spice shop). But then we started noticing how many tienda owners come here to stock… Read More
Category Archives: Grocery
Casa del Aji, Ibarra
Av. Sánchez y cifuentes 6-25 y grijalba….casa del ají….half block passing la merced church…open at 5pm or give us a call..0998572711
Gourmet Spezia – Ecuadorian Salt Company
They sell in Super Maxi, Mega Maxi, Coral They are working on getting the organic and kosher certificate for next year. Meanwhile they invite you to try their sea salt which is pure and delicious. All of their salt is 100% Natural, without any added anticaking agent or iodine. I have been on a quest for Kosher Salt for 4… Read More
Mercado Iñaquito/Carolina – Quito
Juan Jose Villalengua y Jorge Drom, between Amazonas and Diez de Agosto Extremely wide selection of fresh produce (all the fruits and vegetables you can dream of), plus stations for fresh meat, poultry, fish (Pescaderia Resbalón is great, the leftmost of the fish shops). Fresh herbs and raw honey are also available (there are a couple small stands between the… Read More
New Asian Store – Quito
Asian store – Sriracha Sauce (near Luxemburgo N3-140) No signage. Just some Chinese lettering and paper lanter outside. Immediately caught my attention. Not hard to miss. It’s street level. Only store on the block. I am headed back, will post exact address and see if they have a #. Owner spoke English well. Prefers it over Spanish. Decent selection of… Read More
Canning Jars – Ibarra
many thanks to Jill Benn for this info The two streets the shop is on the corner of are Bartolome Garcia 3-19 y Luis Toromoreno. Hope that helps she had a wide range of sizes in glass jars
Tao Tao Asian Market – Ibarra
thanks to David Sasaki for finding the new location for us OK, I found the place where the Asian food store is being relocated in Ibarra. Look for a restaurant called Tao-Tao. It’s across from Parque de la Familia on Av. Rafael Sánchez. The restaurant isn’t even open yet. Tomorrow will be the first day. It’s a pretty decent size… Read More
Cheese glorious cheese
next time you are in Quito check it out La Casa del Queso
Grocery shopping in Ecuador: What’s it like?
Laura Lee Jones is a single mom living in Loja and a wonderful friend. She wrote this fabulous article on shopping here and with her permission, I am sharing it. When sitting at home in the US researching living in Ecuador, I saw lots of pictures of the colorful displays of fruit sold in the open markets. I knew that… Read More
An A-Z Guide to Ecuador’s Most Common Produce
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