DAC Verduras y Frutas — Attraction in Playa del Carmen

Greatly variety of fresh fruits, vegetables, and other essentials. You can find basics like kale, lettuce, spinach, sprouts, cabbage, beets, sweet potatoes, as well as other goodies like guavas, mamey, black zapote, tuna fruit, nopal, even American imported oranges. They also have spices, whole artisan bread loaves or sliced bread, honey, and some condiments and other goodies like rice noodles, bean thread noodles, soy sauce or liquid aminos, and curry paste for more Asian themed cooking. They also have a bulk section where you can buy the amount you need of seeds and grains, or choose from prepackaged economy sizes of dried grains or beans. They also have cheese, meats, ice cream, meat alternatives in the freezer, wonton and dumpling wrappers and fillings, eggs, and alternatives to dairy milk. The staff can be helpful if you have a question, one even checked their inventory and brought me a bag of maracuya to choose from after I asked if they had any today. The baggers can be thoughtful and balance your bags for you so one is not too heavy when you’re walking. The chipotle hummus they usually have in the refrigerator is really good! Overall a good spot to find anything...

Being half Mexican by birth, I've visited a lot of Mexican markets on my travels to Mexico. I'm also 64 years old. I learned about this store from a Rick Bayless episode where he cooked a meal with Jacques Pepin in Playa. This market no longer looks as abundant/vibrant as it did in that episode. The prices are ridiculously high. The quality is poor. A lot of the fruit I saw was shriveled, clearly had not been bought due to pricing. It only took my daughter and me 3 mins. to walk through the store to determine the quality. If I had the time, I would have sought out a mercado to get better quality fruits. Though negative reviews aren't great for a business, they do inform the owners they need to change things up to continue to satisfy...

Conveniently located. Staff always seems mad. I always greet the staff at the register and they always ignore me. Always watching tv or speaking with each other and ignoring the customer. Trowing stuff as if they were so overwhelmed with having to be there. I always say thank you, not once but several times and they are just so rude no education. I know it can be stressful working as a cashier but you can not treat customers so poorly. I have done cashier work and only was serious with rude customers who treated me poorly. I only come here because of the location and because most of the time they have fresh vegetables and fruits. Due to the poor service I will definitely change to other options. ...