Bazaar On Beacon Street — Local services in Brookline

This Bazaar location at 1432 Beacon St sells expired products and products with a fake manufactured date. A month ago I had a food poisoning from deli meat I bought here- was sliced and packed at the store, I was not able to check the expiration date- in 3 hours from consuming it I had a massive food poisoning and I hadn’t eaten anything but that. Previously, I had to return items such as caviar, herbal tea (with snails), herring, etc. Another day I stopped by and noticed sweet cheese bars on the shelf- all of them were a month passed the maximum allowed storage period. I have passed this information to the store manager and she stated it would be taken care of. In 2 days I came back to that store again and most of those bars were sold, leaving just a few on the shelf. Today I went there on purpose to check if all of there products were passed the expiration date- and yes, there were a lot...and in addition to that I managed to by an ice-cream made on February 26th 2020...its May 17th of 2019 today. Very concerning. Previously I have seen them storing ice-cream for more than 2 years from the "made on" date- with the maximum storage period of 12 months. Selling expired goods is illegal and can have many bad outcomes to public health. I will not return to this store again and would advise same...

This is a little Russian grocery store. It has a very wide selection of items that is very impressive given the size of the store. There is wine and liquor, cheeses, pickles, a deli, prepared foods, desserts, baked goods including bread and pastries, preserved fish, caviar, fresh produce, a nice dairy section, tea, Russian snacks, cards, newspapers and magazines, candies, spices, etc. It's a good place to get uncommon grains (buckwheat and whole oats), and to try new desserts (Russian honey cake, yum!) that you order by weight and snacks (I love the Russian marshmallows called zephyr). I can get some nice seasonal fruits and they always have good cabbage. I am impressed by the dairy selection - lots of options for kefir, sour cream, butter, and all the eastern European cheeses you would want. They even have Russian ice cream. My husband likes the tea and jam selection. If you are ok with surprises then you can get by here without speaking Russian. There are a lot of packaged foods that don't really have english on them (just the ingredients are in english). It's a pretty crowded store. They do 15% off on the 15th...

Excellent prepared foods. Always fresh, delicious, and a wide range of variety. And the pastry/cakes section is absolutely the best - an enormous variety of fresh, delicious cakes, best I’ve ever encountered.

In addition to general groceries, which, for a specialty store, this shop is quite good for, it’s a fantastic place to get a delicious, healthy, hot to-go lunch. They even have a lunch pricing special for a combination of foods from their prepared section.

I frequently go here during the workweek to get something to eat back at the office break room. They have enough of variety on a day to day basis for it not to get boring, and as a bonus I can pick up grocery items that I need for home, or prepared diner and breakfast (they have very good crepes - which I like with sweetened condensed milk or berries for breakfast, but which can be filled with anything).

To me it seems that they have more variety in the prepared foods and pastry section than a lot of similar stores.

And the staff is always helpful...