Madina Market

The place is nice but the items and all of the meats are very expensive compare to other Afghan stores. I don’t like the old guy working at meat section. He is so rude. He only smiles and talks with people whom he knows. Every time I go there, he is in bad mood. My husband even noticed that. I hope he leaves and someone else comes over. Stuff are nice and friendly and the store has everything you need and now its even clean. Just change the meat man and lower your prices.

What ever they sell in the store is very unique, you get halal products here. The goat they sell here is super soft.

The place has just flat out gone down hill. Packaged food is stale and often 3 years past sale date. Their prices are outrageous. Go up the street to Fair Value and save money and get a quality product. Often times have no clue what they are selling. Was a loyal customer for a long time. Not any more. You could not pay me to set foot in the store again. Try Curry Leaf next door. Clean, updated inventory and a more pleasant environment.

My family came here for the first time yesterday. The location is very convenient and they have a huge selection of middle eastern and other ethnic foods, including Bangladeshi, Indian, and Ethiopian. We took my mother in law there to get some traditional turkish foods — yufka, peynir and Turkish cookies. We thought it was clean and relatively well organized. We will return several times a month for staples like cheese and olives for sure. So happy to find this place!

a lot of their products are expired and some like flour even have bugs in them. a few people have complained before to the ftc but they still sell expired products. also found out that they charge some percentage on their mark up prices to give donations to mosques. no wonder their prices are too high.

pricy store ! The worst customer service ever seen. they have most middle east grocery ! first time been there to eat something, and ordered GYRO as their advertised said its halal meat and delicious I decided to eat GYRO, so I ordered and got the sandwich and paid 9.99 $ which is high price for that food, but when I got home and tried to eat it, nothing was the same as picture, RAW meat (even not GYRO MEAT, something like kabob meat) with red at the middle and little bloody, smell awful no sauce just a little onion and lettuce and tomato! It ended up as trash! DON’T Buy FOOD over there its a junk and trash! So I wasted my money and called them and lady didn’t accept that is their fault and said no that is the way they make it and more excuse… but I had gyro in many places never been like this! I still have pic I will attach it to my review! The worst customer service ever seen. also there is no price for meat in butcher shop and always have to wait for long!

Nice place for grocery shopping! i work near it and went for some grocery shopping on my way back from work to home.
Nice collection of pakistani, indian, and middle eastern groceries.

They make the best nans (breads) in town!

Madina Market is a good place to get Middle Eastern spices, groceries, and Halal meats. But let’s keep it real, it has a long way before it becomes a Super Greenland Market (like that in Detroit). My sense is that they need more square footage and they definitely need to get newer supermarket appliances — you can tell they keep it cheap in buying older refrigeration equipment that hasn’t been used in over a decade. The place can be a mess and it can be rather dirty and smelly — not exactly what I like to be associating with food. However, I understand that these things take time.
The good news is that Madina Market is a thriving business and my expectation is that that sooner, rather than later, the owner will begin to consider obtaining larger real estate and operating a smoother and cleaner grocery store.

Honestly the best halal meat store in the area. Really great prices compared to all the super markets in the area. The keep the store surprisingly clean for a middle eastern grocery store, and have lots of variety. They expanded a few years ago so they’re the biggest in the area. My family and I have been shopping here for 15 years or so and we’ve never had any complaints, I don’t know what the others are talking about. The fresh bread is amazing, and usually the only bread on our table. A couple of times I’ve gone to other halal meat places in the area and the meat is terrible quality compared to Madina. Here it’s always fresh and always ends up tasty.
I also love the tea selection— I used to only get teas from tea stores like teavana but then my dad convinced me to try a few of his favorites from Madina and now I’m always browsing through their extensive variety and looking for a new favorite. Herbal teas, fruit teas, Turkish, organic, Chinese, afghan, you name it, they’ve probably got it.
Sometimes the lines are long but I’ve seen that they do try to open new registers and work fast, so I appreciate that. I guess it just shows how popular they are.

This is not your usual clean and organized American Grocery Store! Be aware. But if you want to find some bargains and do not mind a little messy this is the place to go for spices, rice, tahini sauce or anything Asian, Eastern. I have got tahini sauce for a third of the price of the regular grocery store. They also have fresh baked Pita bread and canned hummus for $ 1.20.
When you walk in sales person does not ask you if they can help, you need to hunt them down, but once you do they are helpful.

MAGGOTS!!! I went in to buy some labneh and picked up an unlabeled bag of munnaka (raisins) and it had maggots in it… I was sooooo disgusted I can’t possibly go back.

Terrible! The 3 of us were standing in front of the butcher counter, the second to be served when the African butcher started speaking in his dialect to the woman behind us, and served her NEXT. She even had the audacity to move ahead of us. We were waiting ten minutes. My baby was getting fussy and she could see that and didn’t give a flying foot. So we left. We were only there to pick up one item and never come here unless we’re clearly desperate for halal meat and don’t want to drive out to the better stores like Halalco. I was so upset at the way a couple and a baby could be ignored when we were standing in line, next to be served. Tribal pride. He served his own kind and ignored ethics. The place was dead. Stupid racist foreign butcher!

This place is awesome. My husband and I discovered it totally accidentally, and were thrilled that we had. He is Indian, and I am part-​Bulgarian and part-​Arab, so we had a lot of fun finding foods from each of our cultures here.
Check out the melt-​in-​your mouth dates and bulgarian feta in the counter up front. And while we found the butcher in the back to utilize slightly unclean practices (throwing different types of meat on top of the scale without any paper or plastic barrier), once we cooked the mutton we obtained, we found it to be totally worth it.

Frequent at Madina Market (one of the two halal meat store in Herndon area). Usually for packaged refrigerated food. Prices could be better but they keep me fed. Although I do wish they had better frozen meal section in comparison to Fair Price or Grand Mart. Do check out their freshly baked breads, they are cheaper than giant’s and tastes awesome. Overall excellent customer service. The store closes at 9 PM.

its very convenient, they have huge selection of international food. especially sub continents, also a halal butcher shop in the back with quality meat.

i have been in madina market its a very convienient store they have everything i need and its very clean

Located in Herndon’s K-​Mart Shopping Center, whose shops collectively represent more nationalities than the United Nations.
Lots of dry goods here. Artwork, hookahs, books. But this place primarily stocks food. Mostly packaged, but it looks like there is a halal butcher in the back and there are plenty of dairy products in the refrigerators. Nice tea selection, takes up an entire aisle. Not only Arab brands but also English brands that sell different blends in the U.S. like Twinings and Tetley. I found a box of Alwazah black tea that I have been searching for after an Egyptian co-​worker recommended it. I was also able to find a bottle of Pakola, which is hard to come by in these parts.
All-​in-​all, this seems to be a proper Arab market. Definitely worth a look.

Madina is a local Afghan-​owned market that I frequent for two specific purposes: weakening my lungs and deafening my ears.
For those reasons and those reasons only, this market is perfect.
It carries probably twenty different flavors of hookah tobacco ranging from your generic Al-​Nakhla to the much more high-​end and smooth tasting Al-​Fakhr. It’s a bit on the pricey side, but if you really want to enjoy your hookah smoking experience, I recommend mixing white grape and apple Al-​Fakhr inside of a real apple. It’s such a sweet treat that if prepared correctly will send you into a fruity nirvana. In fact, it’s so good that it’ll make you forget all about the screaming voices on the other end of the international phone call many of us must make every now and then to check in with family in the motherland…
You know those calls, where one is left sceaming «ALO! ALOOOOO?!» at 2 AM in an attempt to verify communication with the person on the other end, even though there is no need to scream anymore because telephone technology has greatly improved since the 90s… yeah, but the screaming still never ends.