Yummy Market

While in Toronto I was excited to visit Yummy Market after a friend recommended it. I was told this place had an enormous selection of all the good old stuff. Upon arriving at their site I gazed across the parking lot at it and was stunned to see it was like a giant Loblaws or Sobeys, except full of better stuff! I went inside and right away felt like I had saved myself a $ 2K airfare to the old country because being there felt like the real deal. There was a great bakery section, lots of pre-​made authentic stuff, pickles, sauerkraut, and tons of European products. I went to the pre-​made section (salads and stuff) but was dismayed to see the soviet style service model was being used (apathetic service) and with a clientele that was as pushy as you’d expect in Russia. The place was very busy but it does have an impressive inventory. All in all I’d have to rate this place as a «meh» as there is a much better and smaller place within a few kilometers of there.

A must visit for most people. One of the best fresh counter services in the area. Cheeses, deli, prepared, section in the area. I love coming here for the European products.
Great place to experience.

Best fine delicatessen European food in Toronto, at the great price!!! Great choice of cold cuts and over 300 cheeses. Fresh bread is baked in the house, cakes look yummy, and huge selection of chocolate, if you cannot find it here you will not find it in any other stores in the city.

I’m disappointed in not having gone here sooner.
Ater so many people recommended it, i never took it seriously with a name like «yummy market».
I’ve found my new supermarket. Here’s a few personal reasons why:
1) The cheese counter — the only other places that can compare is wholefoods and natures emporium
2) The hot/​cold table — so many options, it’s unbelievable. Tack on to that, it’s the cheapest i’ve ever seen. Finish it off with really delicious. Well worth it.
3) I love pickles. They have aisles of pickled everything.
4) I love quality honey. They have half an aisle of honey, all high quality and good prices.
5) I love chocolate. They have a giant selection of imported chocolate, mainly from europe, but also from around the world. Best part beyond depth of product selection — prices. priced perfectly.
6) Produce: The organic selection is respectable and they have green tags that mark anything that is organic. Saves a lot of time and helps picking out products that much better.
So my overall views of the store: I love it because i’m used to getting a bit ripped off for quality produce — at Yummy, everything premium is priced just right. Don’t come here to buy simple things like cucumbers and tomatoes, but come here to buy better things.

Yummy Market is essentially a fusion of a grocery store and a Russian Deli. As such, there is a good selection of delicatessen (the desserts aren’t great, though), and cultural specialities (i.e. teas, foods that are a part of the Russian culture). I also happen to like that this grocery store carries organic milk (although it’s overpriced), which the Metro that Yummy Market replaced did not (also typical of other grocery stores like the No Frills near by). They recently added a café inside the store.
However, there are some aspects of the grocery store that I do not like. Many food items are substantially overpriced. Yes, they have their own baker for the bread, and cook, however, I don’t think this is justification enough, i.e. I purchased almond butter a while back for about $ 8 — 10 more than the price at Sobeys (which isn’t even a cheap grocery store), and their organic milk is more expensive than at health stores. You have to know grocery store prices and compare, otherwise you will be paying a lot more. I don’t like the fact that day old bread is priced the same as same day bread (I have had them run out of fresh bread on me and had to purchase the day old bread). I also don’t like the customer service here. Once I had to purchase mint, and they had a small selection, all of which wasn’t very fresh. I would have to throw out at least a quarter of the herb, so I asked for a discount, and they made a huge deal out of it and gave me .50 off (not even half of the price). Being Ukrainian myself (fluent in Russian), I am ashamed of their obnoxious and pretentious attitude sometimes (depends on who you deal with, this generally excludes cashiers, who are mostly young and friendly youngsters and I’ve found to be nicer and more upbeat than any other grocery I have been to).
I was there a few days ago waiting for my number to be called at the deli counter, when one of the workers behind the counter sneezed twice into her gloves, and then came up to help a lady beside me. It was evident that she had no intention to change her gloves, so I told her that she needs to change her gloves. She made a confused face, appearing not to understand English, so I repeated myself. She held up a finger like «hold on a second,» and proceeded to sneeze once more into her gloves. Then she said to the lady beside me in Russian «I don’t understand what she’s talking about.» I then repeated what I said in Russian, and she changed her gloves, without an apology, and without saying a word to me. I really have no words… this is so unacceptable and a public health hazard. I told the deli manager on duty what happened, and she was like «ok.» She didn’t really seem to care.
Also, the name sucks. I mean Yummy Market, come on. It sounds like it was produced by Russians on a time crunch with a very limited English vocabulary.
That is all.

I wish there was an option for no star. Their pastry and food selection is awful not because of the variety but freshness. You pay a lot of money to buy crap. When you ask the associate they will tell you everything is fresh but I am pretty sure their sweets are more than 1 week old. Every time I bought any sweets from them, I through it out after a bite. I’m not gonna waste any more money in this store anymore. What a ripoff !!

Not to be racist but 90% of the people there are ukarinan or Russian and are rude as ass and what kind of store has a security guard in it?! Yah like not even where I like to shop fortinos and longos are more friendly.

So glad I found this European market! I stopped by at this grocery store to check it out and it was definitely amazing! They had a great deli, cheese, meat, and pastries section. The pastry section definitely caught my eye. The different colors of baked goods looked delicious by sight.
One complain that I have is the yummy café attendant. She didn’t really know much about the pastries she was selling.

I recently purchased cheeses from this location.
Just check out the pictures I attached, it is pretty much self explanatory… just be careful because the expiration date would change and how do I know how many time the expiry date have been changed: S

The only Yummy Market location I had been to is the small one at Dufferin and Finch. It’s kind of hidden in the ghetto mall, but a staple in the community.
We were driving by in this area in the evening, and when we saw the large flashy lights of Yummy Market that is as big as any walmarts, we had to stop and take a look. Reminds of the time I first stepped into T&T — the world of local ethnic food shopping, but in a normal big box setting.
The best part was the fresh meat, fish, pickled goods, caviar, cheese — anything russian or eastern european you can imagine.
Aisles and Aisles of snacks and goodies, that wouldn’t look so appetizing in the other store.
Hope they open more of these.

If I could give this place no stars, I would. My mom goes here basically every single day because it’s convient for her and because we live so close. Every time my mom goes here we either buy a loaf of bread. Trying to get the workers attention was hard. People who came after us were helped before us. They ignore us EVERYTIME WE GO THERE. Whether it was for getting a loaf of bread or getting their cooked food. We are always ignored. They see us but never help us. IT IS SO FRUSTRATING. Oh and they always price the bread wrong and over charging us also on purpose. I forgot to mention that we are basically the only Asians usually there. It is clear that they are racist. Last time we went with our Italian friend and guess who they addressed first and who was ignored. They’re unprofessional and rude. Every time we try to speak to any of the workers that handle the food they have so much attitude. This is finally when we can get their attention after many attempts. They make us feel like they don’t want to help us. I actually was there today just earlier trying to buy some food and I was ignored again because people who randomly came were helped and I was left standing there feeling stupid. This time I just walked out because I shouldn’t always be trying to make numerous attempts to get their attention to help me. This is the last straw. I hope you get shut down for your nasty and poor customer service.

Larger and better than the Duffering location in most regards. Fish counter, butcher, and full produce department. Excellent bulk selection plus an expanded selection of Italian-​oriented products in addition to Russian ones.
My one complaint was that the produce department at 7 PM seemed picked over and disorganized and did the meat section. If the store is going to stay open till 10, they should do a better job of late afternoon restocking.

Passed by this new grocery and popped in to check out the place. Nice European grocery with huge variety of cheese and bread. Got a few cheese spread and a loaf of onion bread. Stopped by their café before headed back on road. Their espresso and macaroons are marvelous! The mini macaroon is only 99 cents each. Can’t find this good deal anywhere!

It looks like a cross between whole foods and yummy market. It’s clean, big, huge variety of European and non-​European foods. Overall a pleasant shopping experience. The staff is diverse and polite. Quite a contrast between the smaller store. Somehow I think I will still be shopping at the old store though. It has more character.

I love this place, it’s a European supermarket and you can get all your shopping done in one place. Their cheese selection is excellent (3 times more than at Longos) and the prices are quite good. One of these days I may even try pickled herring, all those Russians seem to like it a lot :-)
I am giving 4 stars because of their ready foods section, twice the stuff I bought there wasn’t fresh — the meat was dry and chewy. Other than that it would’ve been 5 stars.

Depends: not my cup of tea.
WAY TOO FOO FOO pour moi!

It is so much fun wandering around Yummy Market!
Love all these unique products they carries. I guess I know how it feels when people gets so excited shopping at T&T.
Everything here are all nicely arranged and organized. Great cheese, meat and produce department. Just love the Freshly baked bread and pastries!
I can spend hours and checking out all these imported products.
Plenty of parking even on a Sunday afternoon!
BTW, there is also a sit down area for Gelato and Coffee at the front entrance if you want to chill a little!
Yummy Market definitely delivers a Super Yummy experience!

I must say that I am very impressed with this store. There are truly an extraordinary number of stuff, almost to the point that they appear to outnumber the patrons. I also agree with another reviewer who said that the staff does not seem very knowledgeable but that may change over time. This minor complaint does not really detract from my experience at this store.
This store is one of the largest European markets I have ever been to (this location formerly housed a Metro supermarket). It offers a bakery with a large selection of cakes and pastries, fresh produce, freshly squeezed orange juice (with samples), fresh bread (more samples), a huge selection of prepared foods and smoked fish (even more samples are offered), a large selection of cold cuts and cheeses, fresh meat and fish and even some items sold in bulk.
This location also has a small but nice in-​store café serving pastries, coffee and gelato.

This place just opened and it’s pretty good. I’m happy that we have a European market so close to home! Read my Starsky review to understand how I feel about European markets. This is no Starsky though, sadly.
First my likes: They have cottage cheese other than Nordica, which is literally the only cottage cheese available in this country and it sucks! So, their cottage cheese ‘Tvorog’ (Russian?) is yuummm and my new favourite! My other likes include the bakery (awesome selection of breads), European style frozen soups, great ready made food section, wonderful selection of cheese and meat.
I’m not too thrilled with the staff, they really don’t know much about the food and even though there are many of them they lack a lot of knowledge. Perhaps it’s a learning curve so we’ll see how things go. Other than that I feel like I need to go to more than one store to fulfill my grocery list so I’ll be stuck going between walmart (also in the area) and this place for fresh food selections.

This place is new and the grand opening isn’t until March. It is up and running and operating at full steam. The staff is all friendly and helpful. What’s more is unlike most retailers nowadays where help is hard to find without issuing a SOS, help is everywhere here. It seemed like every checkout was open, so everything moved fast despite the full parking lot and store busy full of customers. I was amazed that they weren’t having more growing pains that are usually quite visible at a new store.
Someone told me that the deli and bakery here was awesome so I came to pickup some bread. Boy was I in for a treat. The bakery was fully stocked with all kinds of delicious sounding and looking artisan breads. All were available for sampling!!! Yum! Carbaholics beware. Danger here!
I love sour dough and miss proper sourness and their sourdough is awesome.
The deli is well stocked with meats and endless cheeses.
I will be back and will review more, meanwhile pass the butter while I enjoy this bread I bought.