Armitage Produce

This store doesn’t have parsley THAT I COULD FIND. Apparently I’m blind.
I assumed that a store with the word «produce» in the title would definitely have a good selection of herbs. I am just horrible for finding fresh dill, parsley, mint, and basil without paying $$$ for them.
If you are one of those people who loves cilantro, then they got you covered!
Thanksgiving week, they were packed and the parking lot was a madhouse to maneuver around. Overall, it’s kind of nice that parking is available, though not necessary.

Apparently ‘Armitage produce’ is another phrase for ‘fruit fly infestation’. Spend just a few moments to actually look at the produce… Oh, and take a look at what is next to what you are buying.
The people giving this place good reviews need better glasses, or standards. This place is terrible.

I love this place! First impression when you walk in, it seems super small. It’s not your typical grocery store. But when it comes to produce, they have it all. And cheap too! You can often find stuff marked off, such as strawberries for 99 cents and spinach bags for $ 2! Love it. I like their meat selection, straight forward. My wife and I make pozole every once in a while and we get meat here; keep the bone and and ask them to chop it up for you! While there are only a couple of registers, even when it is busy they move quick! Good alcohol selection, along with fresh bread. Oh yeah, I love the dancing Mexican music! This is my go to grocery store along with Tony’s; I live smack dab in the middle of both. Armitage might not have your big brand staples, but maybe that is a good thing???

Love everything about this place. Frankly makes my day!!! Miguel and his butchers are always on point with fresh cuts of meat. Pocho and his guys alway make sure produce is fresh. Naty is the head cashier, her crew is always pleasant and fast

It’s a very solid, small-​scaled neighborhood grocery store, located on the northeast corner of Kimball and Armitage.
This store specializes Puerto Rican essentials. Do you like coffee? Are you crazy about coffee? Come and worship a wall full of Puerto Rican coffee brands. Well, put God first… I didn’t actually encourage you all to convert to a different religion.
Hubby and I came over while waiting for our stuffed pizza to be cooked at the Art of Pizza in a nearby neighborhood. It was our first time here. We were pleasantly surprised by the quality of produce. They were fresh, well-​stocked, yet the prices were just fair in comparison to other local ethnic grocery stores.
Their agricultural varieties weren’t as eclectic as Cermak Produce, HarvesTime on Lawrence, and Caputo’s on Harlem due to their much smaller real estate, but it certainly served the purpose in the Logan Square neighborhood.
We purchased five (5) delicious apples, one (1) honeydew melon, two (2) giant pieces of grapefruit (not a bad price for $ 0.69/lb.), one (1) whole roll of red cabbage, two (2) grande-​size avocados ($ 0.99 each… a seasonable price), and one (1) large bag of spinach. Everything came to $ 11 and some change.
The monitor at each register is large. You can see your purchase itemized, with a matching price listed for each item on the right. I thought it was a nice touch.
Sometimes I pass by a random Jewel-​Osco and watch an average American family load their van with lots of soda, chips, and boxed/​processed food. They cost more and create unnecessary burdens on your health. After all, you are what you eat! I’m preaching to the choir and asking you to switch your diet by switching to a different store to shop! Embrace your local grocery stores, check out their produce sections, and be happy with the change you can make on your body.

Right down the street from me! Huge perk. Great produce selection accompanied by fair prices.
Quick check-​out despite always being pretty busy.
All the employees are nice and helpful.
You can bring your own bags.

Just wanted to take a moment and say what a great little grocery this is. The produce is incredibly cheap and the employees are always so nice! Love having them down the street!

Good place to go for last minute pick ups. Reason being I can never find an ad to see the sales. So, business for me here is if I really need to get something I forgot else where! Sorry but the cart guy is awesome a lil wierd but awesome.

Local grocery has a great selection of produce, not organic but fresh and beautiful. All the necessities, friendly helpful staff, and fresh hot tortillas 4 packs of 12 for a buck. Amazing!

Fresh produce including some exotic stuff. Excellent latin sweets and pre-​made desserts. Booze. It’s all there and reasonably priced! If only they had a hot bar…

Excellent. The fruit is RIPE and ready to eat! I love the music. Staff is friendly and people seem to be in a good mood. I’d go here just to hang out and munch on guava pastries, it’s so much fun. Filled my cart with fruits and goodies and spent less than $ 80. You can’t fill up a basket with anything at Whole Foods and spend less than $ 100. The bananas here are RIPE. The mangos are sweet and ripe. They have quenepas. Hello! AWESOME, LOVE LOVE LOVE.

This grocery showed some real class! I went in near closing time to pick up some cravings for my pregnant wife. Stupidly, I had forgotten my wallet at home. With less than the bill in cash in my pocket, an employee paid with her own money to help out. We will be paying her back and then some. So thankful for young people like that in this world, and a very faithful customer from me.

This is the spot if you’re Puerto Rican and you need any of the food you grew up with. They have all the ingredients, which is great, but then they also have pre-​made things like sofrito (don’t tell my mother) and pasteles (don’t tell her either — she wanted to pack up hers and send them on dry ice from Florida).
I’ve been to Cermak produce, but they don’t have certain things. Here, I found it all: Discos para empanadas, jamon cocinado, giant pernils, fresh gandules. Todos. Get yourself over there next time you’re going to whip up something that would make abuelita proud.

Thanks to this place and some PR pals, I make amazing arroz con gandules, habichuelas largas, and pollo guisado. Love you, Armitage Produce!

Love this place. If you are from PR and miss the food this is where you want to get groceries. Compared to PR the prices are higher but since you’re not there any more I think you should just get over it. They have pan sobao and everything! The produce is really good as well.

Amazing prices, friendly staff that didn’t give my hipster ass dirty looks for shopping there, clean store, FRESH produce that didn’t have rot and gnats all over it, canned chocolate mole sauce, AND I bought an entire bag of groceries for only $ 25– including a dozen organic brown eggs. I may never go to Whole Foods again (unless it’s to buy fresh fish)…
The only negative was the mega narrow aisles but that’s nothing to dock stars over!

decent prices! you do have to sift through to make sure you’re getting something of quality, but other than that, i feel okay about the stuff i get here. it’s a little cramped but not bad. i guess i like them because i’ve been looking for tomatillos and they had them for a good price here. also they are just down the street.
i don’t think the people liked me very much because i wasn’t latino like everyone else shopping there. so they weren’t so friendly, but not exactly rude either.
anyway, the reason this place gets four star is because for the first time in my life, i found jarritos light — and in tamarind too! even though this will only fuel my soda addiction, i kind of still like that it’s an option.

My only complaint, the ONLY thing keeping this review from having 5 stars, is that this place closes so early.
This place is right next to my boyfriend’s place, so I come here a lot when he doesn’t have anything to eat (which is often).
There are sections of this place where I feel at home, catered to as a latina; and then there are parts where I am flabbergasted and keenly aware that I am no borincana. Particularly in the fish area. It is interesting and fun, however; and I feel very comfortable here overall.
Pretty much everything I need for regular comfort food — tacos, stews, burgers, meatloafs, drinking binges.
Highly recommended.

I came in here last night to pick up some basics that I either can’t get at the Co-op/Farmer’s Market, or are too expensive there (ground beef for burritos, cooking spray, etc). I ended up getting so much stuff that I could barely get it all home on my bike — fortunately the trip is only about 4 blocks.
Prices were spectacular, fruit clearly marked that it is from Mexico (for some reason I’d rather by Mexican fruit than American) and HUGE bags of beans/​rice.
The gentleman attending the carts even offered to help me figure out how to get it all on my bike — and offered me a milk crate! Great store, I’ll definitely be back. Though next time, I want to make a list of all the vegetables/​fruits I don’t recognize so I can look them up.
Oh! One more thing! They have frozen fruit pulp for smoothies! Yay!

I love this little local grocer. Honestly, I really do.
Every time I need something quick for a party, I just walk about 3 blocks to Armitage Produce. This store is smaller than your average grocer, however it is very affordable, clean & everyone that works there is really friendly. If when I have a puzzled face, I get approached by a stock boy…“You need to find something miss?” Oh yes! I do! Thank you!
The prices are great for the produce. Way more affordable than Stanley’s, plus the condition of the produce is much more fresh. I’ll take one of those, and one of those please!
Oh yes, they also sell alcohol. Which is perfect! Well, for me anyway!