Golden Market — Local services in Glendale

Golden Market is a little gem! For the small size of the market, they provide an impressive selection of staples and specialty foods.

At the meat counter, I saw chicken legs and wings by the pound, marinated chicken wings (4.99/lb), beef Lula by the pound, kebab, beef ribs, ground beef (5.99/lb), and many other cuts and selections. Cheese, sausage, and other cold cuts also looked great.

For produce, I saw leeks, rutabaga, radish, celery, button mushrooms, nice fresh dill, mint and parsley; ginger, persian cucumbers, green onions, white and red onions, shallots, and different kinds of potatoes. (There are definitely more vegetables, but this is what I noticed right away!)

In the bakery area, they had a great variety of fresh bread and pastries, including lavash, whole wheat and sourdough, rye, pita/flatbread, and many small pastries and cookies.

In the dry goods section, I found bulk quantities of lentils, beans, chickpeas, rice, and grains like bulghur, spelt, teff, and semolina. I noticed chickpea and rice flour too. They have a wide selection of bagged spices, plenty of canned staples like tomatoes, beans, and chickpeas, and a wall of cooking oils from avocado to grapeseed.

They have a good amount of dried fruits and nuts in their own packaging, at reasonable prices. I saw jujubes, golden berries, prunes, apples, mulberries, citrus, dates, seasoned almonds and cashews, candied ginger, apricot kernels, walnuts, and many more that I didn't have time to look at.

The frozen and fridge sections were packed with regular goods (milk, butter, yogurt, eggs) as well as less common things like kefir, labneh, specialty butter, frozen okra, frozen puff pastry, and pints of mashti malone's ice cream.

I couldn't resist the sweets section, which was chock full of baklava, little cookies, chocolates, and plenty of Armenian treats.

Overall, this is really a special market, and I can tell it's beloved by many. If I lived closer, I'd be coming to Golden Market weekly! Skip...

The owner or management should teach their cashiers to say "thank you" to their customer after they are done and about to leave the counter, I just shopped there and this one cashier named inga scanned my items put it in a bag and never said a single word no even "hello" when I got to the front after waiting for few min in the line,!! (I owned several businesses before and not even one single time our customers left our store without hearing the word thank you)!! she just was like a robot, even robots are programed to say hello and thank you to the customers!, I really don't need to shop here we have lots of choices in the area cuz the stuff I need they have it too! its just not pleasant to shop somewhere where you spend you money to keep their business alive, and they dont appreciate it! obviously she is new in America and where she come from dont say "thank you" to their customers!! and they dont even show appreciation to customers for giving them their business! I wouldn't...

A strange place. An employee keeps coughing while stocking shelves with bananas, greeted by a customer, a friend maybe, who’s coughing even louder. Both are males in their 60’s. They keep talking and coughing louder. You can’t leave or go to the register without touching sleeves with these two men occupying the central aisle of this small store.

Not sure which language they spoke, but I was trying to get veggies from a nearby shelf and had to retreat behind a pastries aisle I wasn’t interested in. I got a box of tea instead and waited for them to leave. I rushed to pay and was ordered by the female clerk to be Next!!! when I was the only one in line. Not sure she knew how to say Hi, Bye or Thanks in English but she knew to count small change quickly so I could get out fast to...