Here's my personal directory of the best of the area's markets, bakeries, supermarkets, and other food sources, listed under type and nationality. For free. With no advertising.

It should make it easier for you to identify where to find your special cooking ingredients. Each is linked to a full article. Where there is no link, it means the store doesn't feature in its own article. But if you type its name into the Search box, you will probably find a brief mention of its activities and products in a general article. Or else, I'm in the process of reviewing it for its own feature.

There are many more markets and sources on the whole eatWashington web site than those in this list. They will have been grouped under subject, for example 'Ice Creams & Gelati', or under market groupings such as 'Greek & Middle East markets'. It's also worth checking out the Ingredients section for the source for a particular cooking ingredient. Type its name into the Search box to explore.

Of course, there are hundreds more markets around the capital. But these are the ones I believe worth a mention. If you have any favorites you'd like to see included or reviewed, email me.

MY OWN FAVORITES

A & H Gourmet & Seafood Market - excellent Spanish/Portuguese deli and fishmonger 
Amphora Bakery - a comfy place to eat a wide choice of European cakes and pastries
Artfully Chocolate/Kingsbury Confections - hand-made chocolates and classes
Artisan Confections - hand-made chocolates
Breads Unlimited - the area's best 6-grain and a wide selection of international loaves and pastries
Broad Branch Market - a great deli, butcher and ice cream parlour
Bubble Tea Cafe - a good bubble tea stop
The Butcher's Block - a good butcher and modest deli from chef Robert Weidmaier
Cornucopia - Italian deli/cafe with wide selection of fresh pastries
The Dairy Godmother - for the best frozen custard and other ice creams
Eden Center - a Vietnamese shopping center of cafes, restaurants, bakeries around a Vietnamese supermarket
European Delight - despite its name, a Russian deli and grocery
The Fishery - Korean fishmonger, expensive but very fresh fish
Fresh World - good Asian/Hispanic supermarket
Griffin Market - a good small Italian/French deli-grocery with wine and take-out chef-cooked food to order
H Mart - great Asian supermarket with fresh fish counter
H Mart, Wheaton branch - caters to the Hispanic neighborhood as well as the Asian one
The Italian Store - good deli as well as grocery
Jumbo Jumbo Bubble Express - not a market but a good bubble tea cafe with noodle and rice dishes
Let's Meat on the Avenue - a proper butcher
Le Market/El Mercado - good South East Asian/Hispanic supermarket
Maxim's Supermarket - Chinese supermarket with good take-out meals counter
The Mediterranean Bakery - despite the name, Middle Eastern baked goods and pies
Mom's Organic Market - tries to keep its organic prices down
Niralla Sweets - Indian Pakistani bakery
The Organic Butcher - meat and a bit more
Plaza Latina - good Hispanic butcher and market
Rodman's - small reasonably priced supermarket with wide selection of international goods, wines, beers
Saint Michel Bakery - great French bread and breakfast pastries
La Salvadonerita - a small Latino market
South Mountain Creamery - dairy and meat delivered to your door
Spice Lanka - general Sri Lankan grocery with small selection of cooked foods
Stella's Bakery - elegant European cakes and pastries
Super H - brilliant Asian supermarket
Thai Market - good source for dried goods and spices with a cafe attached
Wagshal's - possibly the area's best butcher
Wegman's - the best, most reasonably priced general supermarket around
Yasaman Persian Bakery - for its walnut macaroons
Yekta - A Persian market with wide selection of fresh Middle Eastern produce
York Tropical Ice Cream - weird and wonderful flavors like Guinness and Grape Nut


SUPERMARKETS

Bestway 
Foods of All Nations
Fresh World
Halalco
Healthway
H Mart (Merrifield)
H Mart (Wheaton)
Korean Korner
Le Market/El Mercado
Maxim's Supermarket
Mom's Organic Market
Rodman's
Roots
The 'Social' Safeway
Super H
Wegman's
World Market 

MARKET GROUPS

DC Central Wholesale & Retail Market
Farmers' markets
The Eden Center  

ORGANIC

Healthway
Mom's Organic Market
The Organic Butcher
Roots
Yes Gourmet    

BAKERIES

Amphora Bakery
Baked & Wired
Bayou Bakery
Bread Corner (Chinese)
Breads Unlimited
Cake Love
Filipino Home Baking Grocery
Georgetown Cupcakes
Kogibow
Korean bakeries (and markets)
Kosher bakeries (markets and restaurants)
Lola's Bakery & Cafe
Napolean Bakery
Nirella Sweets
Saint Michel Bakery
Something Sweet (cupcakes)
Stella's Bakery
Sticky Fingers
Vegan bakeries

BAKING SUPPLIES

Cakes Plus
Cakes 'n Things
Fran's Cake & Candy Supplies
La Cuisine, The Cook's Resource, 323 Cameron St, Alexandria, 703 836 4435
The Little Bitts Shop
Marlene's Cake, Candy & Party Supplies

BUBBLE TEA

Bubble Tea Cafe
Jumbo Jumble Bubble Tea Express
Kogibow

BUTCHERS

Broad Branch Market
The Butcher's Block
Halalco
Halal butchers
The Kielbasa Factory
Let's Meat on the Avenue
The Organic Butcher
South Mountain Creamery
Sub Urban Trading Co
Wagshal's
Wegman's

CATERING (Ready-made frozen or fresh dishes you could call your own)

Bethesda Women's Co-operative Market
Cornucopia
The Griffin Market
Vace
Wagshal's Delicatessen

CAKES TO ORDER

Bayou Bakery
Cakelove
Connie's Cake Creations
Kendall's Cakes
Lola's Bakery and Cafe (Argentinian)
Patty Cakes
PeterBakes.com
Sticky Fingers (vegan)

CHARCUTERIE SOURCES

A & H Gourmet & Seafood Market
The Butcher's Block
Cork Market & Tasting Room
Cornucopia
European Delight
The German Gourmet
The Kielbasa Factory
Russian Gourmet
Vace


CHEESE AND DAIRY PRODUCTS

Arrowine
South Mountain Creamery
Cheesetique
Cowgirl Creamery
Wegman's

CHOCOLATE MAKERS

Artfully Chocolate
Artisan Confections


CHRISTMAS & NEW YEAR INTERNATIONAL SUPPLIES

International festivities supplies

COFFEE

Filter

Broad Branch Market
Cornucopia
The German Gourmet
The Griffin Market
The Italian Store
Sub Urban Trading Co
Wagshal's Delicatessen
Western Market

FISHMONGERS

A & H Gourmet & Seafood Market
The Fishery
Maine Avenue

HALAL BUTCHERS, SUPERMARKETS & MARKETS

Halal butchers
Halalco

ICE CREAM

The Dairy Godmother
Dolcezza
Larry's
Moorenko's Ice Cream Cafe
Thomas Sweet
York Castle Tropical Ice Cream
York Castle (Rockville)

KITCHEN SUPPLIES

Hill's Kitchen
La Cuisine, The Cook's Resource

KOSHER MARKETS, RESTAURANTS AND BAKERIES

Kosher markets, restaurants and bakeries

NEW YEAR & CHRISTMAS INTERNATIONAL SUPPLIES

International festivities supplies

SNACKS

Aji Ichiban
Danny's Tindahan

VEGAN

Sticky Fingers
Vegan bakeries

WINE & CHEESE

Ansonia Wines
Arrowine
Cleveland Park Liquors
Cork Market & Tasting Room
Grapeseed
The Griffin Market
Wegman's

MARKETS & SOURCES BY NATION

AFGHANI MARKETS

Afghan markets


ARGENTINIAN BAKERY

Lola's Bakery & Cafe


ASIAN & ORIENTAL MARKETS & SUPERMARKETS

Danny's Tindahan
Fresh World
G C Ng Supermarket
H Mart (Merrifield)
H Mart (Wheaton)
Huang Phat
Le Market/El Mercado
Maxim's Supermarket
Phuoc Loc Tho
Super H
Lotte (Chantilly)

BOSNIAN SPECIALTIES

Bosnian specialties

BRITISH SUPPLIES

British supplies

CARIBBEAN SUPPLIES

Caribbean markets

CHINESE MARKETS & BAKERIES

Bread Corner
Maxim's Supermarket

EAST EUROPEAN & SLAV MARKETS

Bosnian specialties
Russian markets

ETHIOPIAN MARKETS

Habesha Ethiopian Market
Ethiopian markets

FILIPINO MARKETS

Danny's Tindahan
Filipino Home Baking Grocery
Kubo
Manila Oriental
Salinas Oriental Store

FRENCH BAKER

Patisserie Poupon
Saint Michel Bakery

GERMAN MARKETS

The German Gourmet
Heidelberg Bakery


GREEK MARKETS

Greek and Middle East markets
Greek specialties

INDIAN, PAKISTANI, BANGLADESHI & SRI LANKAN MARKETS

Daily Spices
Delhi Bazaar
Indian and Sri Lankan markets
Nirella Sweets
Paak Bangla Bazaar
Pooja Spices
Shri Krishna Grocery
Spice Lanka


INDONESIAN MARKETS

Asian Imports

ITALIAN MARKETS

Cornucopia
The Griffin Market
Italian delicatessens
The Italian Store
Marchone
Vace


JAPANESE MARKETS

Hana

KOREAN MARKETS & BAKERIES

Korean Korner
Korean markets & bakeries
Napolean Bakery
Lotte (Chantilly)

LATINO MARKETS & SUPERMARKETS

Bestway
Latino markets
Le Market/El Mercado
Plaza Latina
Plaza Market
La Salvadorenita

LEBANESE MARKETS

Figs Fine Foods
Lebanese supplies
Shemali's

MALAYSIAN MARKETS

Asian Imports

MEXICAN MARKETS

Latino markets
The Sweet Corn Van

MIDDLE EAST MARKETS

Greek and Middle East markets
Figs Fine Foods
Lebanese supplies
Mediterranean Baker
Mount of Olives
Shemali's
Shiraz Grocery
Yasaman Persian Bakery

PERSIAN MARKETS

Persian markets
Yasaman Persian Bakery
Yas Cafe & Market
Yekta

POLISH MARKETS

The Kielbasa Factory
Polish delis in New Jersey

PORTUGUESE & SPANISH MARKETS

A & H Gourmet & Seafood Market
Portuguese delicatessens

RUSSIAN & EAST EUROPEAN MARKETS

European Delight
Russian Gourmet
Russian markets

THAI MARKETS

Apsara Gourmet Oriental Food Market
The Thai Market
Thai produce to order from Thailand

SOUTH AFRICAN SUPPLIES

South African groceries

SOUTH EAST ASIAN MARKETS

Apsara Gourmet Oriental Food Market
Asian Imports
Daily Spices
G C Ng Supermarket
Oriental and South East Asian markets

SPANISH & PORTUGUESE MARKETS

A & H Gourmet & Seafood Market
Portuguese delis

VIETNAMESE MARKETS

Eden Center
G C Ng
Phuoc Loc Tho

2 Comments

1. anon

   You should add the Lotte in Chantilly - it's enormous!

2. mary

   this is an incredible resource!