10508 106 Avenue NW · Edmonton
One room.
Every aisle
you grew up with.
Groceries from four continents, a halal butcher, a stone oven and a café — under one roof, and in one basket.
Walk the shop
Groceries from four continents, a halal butcher, a stone oven and a café — under one roof, and in one basket.
Produce is worked by hand before the doors open — turned, pulled, re-stacked. What is on the front of the case came in this week, not what is left of last week.
There is a person behind the counter and a knife in their hand. Ask for it thinner, ask for it ground twice, ask what is good today — that is what a counter is for.
Lebanese pita pies and thin-crust pizza out of the same oven, all day. You can stand at the counter and watch the dough get pressed — most people do.
Espresso, matcha, milkshakes, a gelato cabinet and a case of cakes — with tables by the window and free parking front and back. The only grocery in the neighbourhood you can spend an hour in.
Say who you are feeding and what kind of night it is. We work out the quantities, price it on the shop's own till, and you strike out anything already in your cupboard.
A shop this size cannot be a menu. One search runs across the kitchen and the aisles at once, because that is how a person actually thinks about dinner.
Cook it and we price only the gap, let the kitchen do it, or a bit of both.
You see one basket and one checkout. Behind the counter it splits: one ticket to the oven, timed in minutes, and one to a picker who might find a shelf empty and needs to know what you would like done about it. Most platforms make a shop choose one business or the other. This runs both lines off the same order.
You choose the substitution rule once, at checkout — ask me first, closest match, or never replace. It is stored on the order, not guessed at seven in the evening by whoever is on shift.
Levantine, Ukrainian, South Asian and African, next to each other rather than in a corner marked international. It is the most interesting thing about this shop and the current website has never mentioned it once.
The search, the basket, the two tickets, the substitution rule, the recipe arithmetic and the assistant all read the same catalogue. So does the shop's own screen: what sold, what is short, what is about to turn, what to reorder, and what it cost to sell.