Indian Spices & Groceries — Local services in San Francisco

This is an awesome addition to the South Asian community of San Francisco, and for anyone else who loves to cook or eat Indian food, is vegetarian, or just likes to grab an interesting snack, now and again.

The shop is physically small, but has a diverse stock of goods, representing many different regions of India. For example, I saw South Indian red rice for payasam and sambar powder; Nepalese staples and herbs and spices; as well as Golden Temple (among several brands) atta flour and Punjabi wadi. They also have fresh Indian veggies like karela melon and curry leaves. Plus the refrigerator has lots of different sweets, dosa and idli batter, rose drinks, kulfi, and so on. There's just about every spice or dal you could name.

The store proprietor is friendly and takes requests for items if you can't find them on their shelves (they're growing their stock). Prices are reasonable (competitive with South Bay, I'd say), despite the scarcity of Indian grocers in the city. Show these...

One of the very few Indian grocery stores in the city. They have just about everything you need for your daily Indian cooking needs.

I wish they could be slightly bigger, but they squeeze a lot into a small store.

Produce is very light, they stock a few things like potatoes, onions, eggplant, okra, tomatoes (for some reason they put their tomatoes in their fridge, when you shouldn't do that, Google it).

A good selection of premade meals in pouches and the freezer section can be...

I am from India from my parents by blood, but American born here, if you are interested in trying some easy to heat frozen zesty microwave dishes as say an American wanting to experience, the Indian frozen foods retain their natural quality unlike many other frozen foods, especially the ones made here in our USA. After heating, will taste almost as if freshly cooked by an experienced Indian. It's worth a try, but then you're off to the Indian Restaurants so...