Lake Produce Center

A chef’s paradise. This place is great.
Impossible-​to-​find exotic produce, a stellar deli counter, freshly ground coffee, and modestly-​priced imported goods, make Lake produce a new staple for my grocery shopping needs. Yellow plums, donut peaches, cannonball-​sized pomegranates, green basil, bosc pears, and quite a few fruit varieties I’ve never seen before, were ripe, clean, and ready for my basket.
This is a small market. The limited space is used wisely. Enter, turn right and find a few aisles of imported pantry items. Wonderful preserves like rose, walnut and fig, loose-​leaf tea, pasta, exotic legumes, smoked fishes, pickled vegetables etc. Turn left, a few lanes of beautiful exotic produce. To the rear, refrigerated items and bakery items. Some still warm! Darn you lucky bread eaters! (I’m allergic) Far rear left, cold cuts, a butcher and coffee ground to order. Serious service! Especially from a market the size of my bedroom.
Negative reviews? They have listened to you guys? Made improvements? Easy to navigate, easy to park, and friendly service. I’m tempted to give this place 5 stars. 4.5 stars for now.
This is the perfect solution to those days when you only need a couple of things and want to avoid the crowds of a larger supermarket. I left with a few pounds of exotic summer fruit at about 79 cents a pound, fresh herbs, mixed greens and tea. $ 10. minimum to use a credit card. I doubt I’ll ever be able to leave this market without spending at least $ 10. Neither will you.:-)

The people working there are really nice! I got some preserved strawberries, peaches and little apples today. The stuff there is actually not that cheap though :/​I wanted to try the sour cherries there, but I didn’t want to waste money; if anyone’s tried the sour cherries (in jars) there, please tell me how it tastes!
Also, I think they make their own juice/​soda, which tastes amazing!

I like Lake Produce. Why? Great prices. Okay, not every single item is luscious and at its peak of freshness, but plenty of the fruits and veggies are. They also have cool exotic items you will not see anywhere else like honey from Germany and really good Omega 3 – 6 cooking oil from Italy. Their spice section is super impressive, but I have yet to buy any of them only bec I have no idea what to do with all those spices. I’m a boring salt and pepper girl – for now. Maybe some cool ppl with exotic experiences in cuisine will come help me. But as for now, I’m good with the fresh tomatoes, the quality imported goods, and the nice Russian owners who’ll gladly chat with you with their cool cool accents. :)

Wow. What happened to you Lake Produce?
For a store where its produce isles overflowed with luscious, fresh, beautiful looking produce the items now look sad, weathered and on the verge of rotting. Eggplants, squash, onions, cabbage, among other things, too soft for my use. Herbs wilted and bruised. A shame.
Even their once booming deli counter is empty of customers. Their meats look like they’ve been sitting out too long and on the fine line of extending their ‘use by’ date. However I will give one star for their spice counter. Lots of bulk spices for inexpensive prices.