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B & T Food Centre
2 reviews for B & T Food Centre
2 reviews in English
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Review from Edwin A.
Oh my gosh I going to keel over, *cough* *cough* if you can get past the putrid odor, (I suggest breathing through your mouth) you'll find shelves and freezers full of cool and unique ethnic foods at B&T! It's a Vietnamese run grocery store located in a plaza just outside Vaughan Mills Shopping Mall. BT is in reference to Ben Thanh Market in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
B&T varies from the ever popular T&T line of grocery stores (of which I find carrys more Chinese and Taiwanese selections). This isn't independent shop though, it's part of a chain. B&T Ben Thanh has other locations in Hamilton and Kitchener.
There's some quirkiness to an smaller store operation like this. For example ; the weird signage abound, "slow door" sign by the sliding exit doors, there's a microwave by the baked good section with a sign on it "to all valued customers
microwave is for b&t personal and employees only. Sorry!
B&T management " ok funny sign but what the heck is a microwave doing there to begin with.. lol
As the previous reviewer mary l. mentioned, things like sour sop fruit are available here. Not found at T&T. I saw Kawartha Ice Cream -this stuff is sold commercially at Ice Cream stores and there's a pretty solid selection of Filipino foods here too. Appears they have a contract with FV foods because I saw a lot of their sweets baked goods here. On the shelves, I saw the individual jars of ingredients to make your favorite Vietnamese dessert drink or Filipino halo halo. Everything was reasonably priced too.
In the back there is a meat and seafood counter - which is the large contributor to the awful odor. There is no bakery. However they do bring small selection of baked goods from various local suppliers.
My checkout experience was painfully slow. I lined up behind a lady who was touting I thought at the time 1 grocery cart (oh goody! :) ), but it turned out to 2 grocery carts (burn on me). There were only 2 cashiers open. Be aware they charge a fee if debit transactions are less than $10.
I left the store with some pistachio cookies made from TWI a South Asian baker from Mississauga and 2L of Soy Good Chocolate Milk.
Bonus there's a Nguyen Huong in the store too to get your Viet sub fix on.
As you can tell, there's a lot more going on here. It's a treasure chest of unique goodness. :) -
Review from mary l.
6/9/2011
This is a small grocery mom and pop store that carries the best fruit from the tropics :) LOVEEEEE their selection of fruit.
I just bought some mangosteen, soursop, and lychee. The soursop is not as ripe as I like it but it is better than nothing.
The mangosteen is sweet but small and again, better than nothing. It is to die for. Yummy....
I am writing because I went to another Asian food market and that store does NOT carry these fruit types. They only carry lychee and mango.
Here the store carries mangosteen, lychee, soursop, and huge selection of tropical fruit that I do not know in English.
If you are craving for tropical fruit, go to this store. I love this place. This is the second visit that I have gone to this location when I am here for work. This store does not disappoint me.
BTW - carry your bank card or cash!!!!!!!!Listed in: Best Places in Toronto, ON
