General Store — Local services in Houston

This store has some very unique products that are hard to find in the area. I love their frozen food section. They have wonderful dumplings, and some amazing cakes. Many of these are made in New York, but if you recall their are a lot of Russians in the Brighton Beach area.

For me, the highlight of the area is the cold food case. They have great smoked fish, I loved their cold smoked mackerel. They also have salmon egg caviar. Get salamis can be found here as well. The produce section while sparse has great prices on mushrooms, herbs, and what not.

There are Russian trinkets to be had here.

This is a 'Russian' store. Do not expect people to smile at you, and coddle you. You aren't going to get in a conversation about the weather, your children, or anything else.

There are great prices on teas, candies, and they have good selection of dry groceries.

This isn't your conventional American style store. You can find many...

Stuff from lots of different countries, not just Russia; Georgia, the ‘Stans, and all the former Soviet countries. Highly recommended: Homemade pickles; their pickle culture tastes absolutely amazing Deli section, though it is a bit slow Ice Cream cups, or “stakanchiki”, all the flavors taste like real russian milk cream Frozen berries, especially the black currant, tiny strawberries, sea buckthorn chocolate in triangley shapes at the register is usually pretty decent

They also have a little book section and Russian medicine section, though it isn’t absolutely perfectly stocked they have medicines there you can’t find anywhere else.

They have some decent russian candies by bulk and as separate snacks as well that are worth trying too.

Produce seems to be second hand but is priced extremely well, you’ll find he cheapest produce for almost all of Houston here. They have dill and mint here as well which are russian...

For those that might find the size of Phoenicia overwhelming this Meyerland specialty grocery store caters to Houston's enclave of Eastern Europeans. On offer are European beers, breads, a deli (with veal loaf, fresh pastries, pickled salads, and specialty sausages), pierogis, gingerbread cookies, pickles, olives, fresh vegetables and a selection of layered cakes. Even fermented mare's milk (koumiss) and exotic berries can be found here. All of the food is arranged by country of origin so you can eat the food of a particular country if you choose. The non-food items include books in Russian, Putin t-shirts, Russian military hats, Russian dolls, babushkas, carved wooden santas, Baltic amber, and a whole section of herbal medicines. The deli manager with blonde hair and Asian features that helped me belies that mashup of Asian, European, and Middle East that compose the former...