Cepeda Grocery

Greatest Bodega in Brooklyn, authentic NY, nice Beer Selection, and great for all things Bodega related. The Cepeda’s are the nicest people you can come across in NY and few business in the area operate with the level of humility they do.

Hey, Cepeda, you see them around, you wonder what they are, it’s the normal hole in the wall bodega that we have come to love here in NYC. Nothing is fresh, expect for the attitude, seriously, since when did Coca Cola expire?! Why do we keep coming back to these places? Cepeda is part of any neighborhood that you can find it in. The people who run them know what’s going on in the neighborhood, know the old timers, always have a game on a tv somewhere, and reek of NY (cat litter and rats). I wouldn’t ever recommend actually consuming anything bought at these places, but I highly recommend supporting your local Cepeda Grocery in order to keep things real.

Cepeda has nearly everything you would and might NOT want at 2AM in the morning. Vicks inhaler and a box of tissues after a long night of insufflating cocaine and over the counter opiates? Cepeda. Jealous of your displaced Nebraskan roommate bragging about how he used to get high off of cough medicine behind the barn, and you need Robitussin NOW to find out whether or not he’s full of shit? Cepeda. Searching for that a box of milkbones that expired back in 1996? uhhhhh… unfortunately, Cepeda :(
The people are so friendly at Cepeda, it allows me to overlook the glaring health code violations. They also have a fine assortment of 50 cent sodas, the kind that garnered a poor rep during the early 90’s when urban legend makers spun a yarn about their spermicidal properties. This has since been discounted, and you can read about it here
Also, bodegas are an endangered species here in the rapidly gentrifying borough of Kings. Sadly, Cepeda will not outlast the Alpo on their shelves, so check them out and support them while you still can.

Perfect little corner bodega. Great if you need milk or toilet paper, or a couple small grocery items without making a huge shopping trip.
Has an ATM that dispenses $ 10 bills which is excellent.
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4 stars to 1 star! I have given this place way too many chances and it has disappointed me time and time again in the most disgusting ways.
1) Ryan had a LIVE larva wiggling on the cap of his clamato juice. I know what you’re thinking, ‘Clamato? Isn’t that Clam and tomato? Who DRINKS that??’ Well, that’s besides the point. Larva. On the outside of where the bottle was sealed… Cepeda is disgusting.
2) On Ryan’s birthday I decided to bake him a cake. I didn’t have time to walk all the way to the 24 hour Key Food on Flatbush, so I ran across the street to Cepeda to pick up cake mix and icing (I can’t afford the million ingredients that goes into scratch). Unfortunately (or fortunately) the light in my kitchen has burned out, so I didn’t see the bugs on the outside of the plastic (inside the box) before I dumped the cake mix (and some of the bugs) into the bowl. When I noticed, I threw it out. Strike 2!
Okay, I’m pretty sure strike 3 was a mistake. I love Cepeda… just don’t buy grocery items, there’s a C-​Town next door. I don’t know why they have been closing so early, but I wouldn’t want to be in a place where people know I have money that late, either. The people who work there are so sweet that it’s a pleasure giving them my money. I dropped a gatorade that burst open the other day and they refusedto let me pay for it. Cepeda is my ice cream addiction enabler and if I had a drinking problem, that’s where I would be buying my beer every night.