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Riverside Grocery
Categories: Food Specialty Food Health Food Store Food Grocery Health Food Store, Grocery [Edit]
201 Lowe StWhitehorse, YT Y1A 1W5
(867) 667-7712
- Price Range:
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$$$
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
3 reviews for Riverside Grocery
3 reviews in English
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Review from Crystal H.
Vancouver, BC
11/19/2009
Look up, look way up, that there are snowflakes falling from the sky. The kind where you can actually see each individual particle of ice intersecting and crossing with each other to create a unique star like shape. One of the tiniest wonders in one of the most awe-inspiring regions that I've set foot on.
What does this have to do with Riverside Grocery? This is where I saw my first "real" snowflake ever. (Sure, in Vancouver we have snow, but it's wet and pounds down heavy to the ground where it begins to melt into a raindrop puddle, Meaning, there's never been a chance to have a real snowflake dance in front of you and land, long enough to take a picture of it and everything!)
Riverside Grocery is one of those mysterious little shops, full of nooks, crannies, and much like the random pattern of a snowflakes, it's seemingly random organization is surprisingly easy to navigate. It's a place where no two things are similar: You need some beef jerky? An organic matcha chocolate bar? How about a fishing license? Coconuts? Maybe a can of coconut milk? 5 cent candies? I swear, they have enough random stuff to satisfy any kind of craving!
And the perfect pit stop to and from any Yukon adventure!Listed in: When I'm Out of Town
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Review from Mark R.
Whitehorse, YT
6/9/2011
I lived adjacent to Riverside for 3 years. I used it as a pantry and recall occasions where I visited it 3 times in the course of cooking dinner. The place is awesome - they have everything. Unfortunately, I moved and with the passing years forgot all this. Recently, I wanted to make coque au vin and went looking for pearl onions. Super Store, Extra Foods - none to be found. I recovered my senses and went to Riverside. They had 3 kinds.
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Review from Christopher C.
Whitehorse, YT
5/10/2010
Riverside Grocery inspires a sort of awe the first time you enter--the selection of products here is absolutely enormous, and in such a small space. You find as many different varieties on two metres of shelving here as you'd find on a whole aisle of Extra foods. I cannot imagine how many thousands of products they fit into a space smaller than most 7-Elevens I've been in.
That's Riverside's biggest draw--they offer quite a few products you simply cannot find anywhere else in town. Do you want organic soy sauce? Mighty Leaf tea? Maple Hill Farms organic eggs? Saugeen Country non-homogenized yogurt? Eco-Max lavender air odour neutralizer? How about black bean chili paste? Then you need to go to Riverside. According to their website, they have 20,000 different items, and I believe it.
However, having such a ridiculously huge selection in a market as small as Whitehorse is an expensive proposition, and their prices reflect this. I'd guess most products are 20-40% more expensive than you'd pay in other stores in town, so don't buy anything here you can find elsewhere. But that $8 jar of chili paste is cheaper than a plane ticket to Vancouver, so the prices, while somewhat daunting, are forgivable.
What is less forgivable is the absolutely dismal produce. They have a decently broad selection of both organic and conventional rotten produce. I honestly don't understand why they bother.
