Linden’s Superette

I never thought I’d love a convenience store because of the Lebanese dude. He’s one of the coolest and friendliest guys you want to do business with, although he looks like anything but that.
This store is stocked with college stuff: beer pong balls, cups, cards. In addition, he’s my go-​to hookah guy. From tobacco to parts, this is the place to go.

Very convenient convenient store!
Ali may not have ‘everything’, but definitely everything you might need in case it’s christmas eve and every grocery store is closed (yes, even Shaws Star Market closes sometimes).
Of course it’s more expensive than a grocery store, but that’s why it’s called convenient store and not grocery store…

A bodega in the classic style. Grouchy-​looking but actually very friendly proprietor. Orange cat wandering the store and eyeing intruders into his domain. Plenty of stuff obviously bought from star market down the street, unpackaged and sold separately at a huge markup. Even still I don’t care. It’s like a dive bar. It’s crappy and scummy but you’re fond of it anyway. I mean, just look at all these pictures of people posing with the guy! Where else in Boston can you get that?

best convenience store i’ve been to. the guys are very friendly and they have a adorable fat cat who is also very friendly. they have everything you need. from food to hooka supplies to a variety of sewing kits, they’ve always had what i needed. and yes, they sell porn, why is that a such big deal? they also sell hair straighteners and a giant selection of ice cream. it doesn’t make them creepy for selling porn. and just because the guys are friendly to women also doesn’t make them creepy. get over yourselves.
anyway, this place is awesome and i will miss it when i move away.

These guys are great. The selection is pretty straight forward… except for the beautiful hookahs (I don’t smoke, but all I know is they’re pretty).
I always get some of the guys raunchy, inappropriate humor, with a very colorful vocabulary. I love it.
It’s part of what makes where I live into my neighborhood.

Star market is down the street, store 24 is around the corner, and hess is across the street. They dont sell anything here (besides f-​ed up vhs tapes) that you cant get anyplace else. The only reason to come here is the staff and the cat, and its completely worth it. A few gems:
buying condoms: «don’t worry, instructions on the inside you’ll figure it out»
buying condoms a different time: «already used is half off you know»
every time you buy anything year round: «merry christmas»
asking wheres the cat today: «sold it to nice family that owns the Vietnamese restaurant down the street. so happy to have her!»
the list goes on. every time is an adventure, I’m not the type to get all wistful about small businesses or anything but if this place goes under I’m gonna get my Michael Moore on big time.

fuck yeah! t store is the best. ali is wicked funny and helpful, and Limus the cat is the main reason I come by twice a day.
Don’t steal from here or I’ll kick your ass.
Support Ali and his brother’s buisness, come the fuck down to Linden Superette. I buy all my ramen here, and cigarettes.

They sell hookah sets and the tobacco for it! Pretty awesome.
It’s more than a convenience store aside from it’s large selection of chips, sodas, ice creams, toiletries, etc…
It also has movies for you to rent/​buy!
And a pretty awesome cat that hangs around in there all day and an owner that brings character to the place!

My girl and I went in here the other day. The place is pretty dope. It’s tiny though but they got everything. Ali, who works the cash register, has a filthy sense of humor and he started talking trash to my girl and she was eating it up, she’s a stripper and loves dirty talk. I was looking around for some grape soda and some popcorn. After I found it I turned around and saw Ali making out with my girl! I bounced with the soda and popcorn and left Tina for Ali. That’s what I get for dating a stripper.

Place is great. They pack a whole lot of stuff into the little space. They almost always have whatever I’m looking for. The guy that works here funny and jokes with almost everyone that comes in. There’s usually a cat cruising around somewhere in the store. The only downside is sometimes when you go in there it smells a bit like fart near the cash register and the owner sits and rips butts at the register all day.

As far as neighborhood corner bodegas go, Linden Superette fulfills all my needs and has a lot of character. Ali is very friendly (he often calls me «Gorgeous») and the orange tabby cat that hangs out there is also awesome.
I often hit up the Superette when I’m too lazy to walk to the Star Market and while the prices are a little steeper (which is to be expected for a small store), they are open late and have basically everything I need at random hours — cat food, milk, ice cream sandwiches, Hot Pockets, cereal, Tylenol. They even sell stamps (at a slight mark-​up, 50 cents each) and individual AA batteries.

Oh, Ali. If you get offended by Ali then you’re taking things way too seriously. He’s an awesome guy who will say ridiculous things, sure, but will also have a 20 minute conversation with you about hookah and life back home.
Anyway, Linden’s is the place for shisha, coals, and whatever else you need when it’s 2 am and you just want to smoke some hookah.

I lived right next door to this place for four years. In that time I knew Ali (the one you guys call creepy) on a first name basis. The Superette rocks! It is a one of kind place that you will never find anywhere else.
As far as selection goes, it has, all the small stuff like ping pong balls, and cards, as well as an awesome Ben & Jerry’s selection. The cat they have there is pretty awesome, and the fact they smoke inside sthe store without any care to smoke free store policies is pretty awesome as well.
My only lament is that they did not sell tator tots. why???
If porn in a corner store bothers you, then you need to
A. move to a suburb
or
B. go to a store 24 or 7 – 11
Or at the very least, avoid this place.
But the best part about that place was Ali. My roomates and I had tons of stories of what he said to us on our way back from the bars or any other time in there. You never knew what you’d see when you walked in there late at night, usually a few people would be hanging out with him behind the counter.
The place typifies the Allston experience.

I go in if I’m there and need a candy bar or something, but I hate it. The counter guy is creepy. I don’t want to talk or be amused, I want you to take my money, give my change, and not say anything creepy in that time. Also, the porn is disturbing.

The guy who works there is really… something. My friend and I walked in and my friend said «pretend you’re my gf, it will be totally hilarious». (My friend is in there daily and the guy accuses him of being lame with no «getting any» stories to tell.) Basically the guy was like «oh she is? oh yeah? so how does she like it?» Keep in mind I am right there. Not entirely sure he was joking… his chivalry kicked in and he decided to allay my fears by assuring me that they would «talk about it later». Random.
Oh well.
They have tons of food items. Kraft Mac n Cheese at 2AM? Check. An ATM. Check. A great selection of porn? Check. Creepy but jovial dude behind the counter? Check.

First, I love how half the people who have reviewed this place have not even posted 10 reviews (myself included). It’s that kind of place you get home from and just ‘have‘ to review. It’s memorable, if not traumatic. Don’t buy the jello. Seriously, I know I mixed it with lots of alcohol, but I am sure it was the 25 year old gelatin that made me see care bears and 12-​winged vultures eating my friends and furniture. … well, I guess if that’s what you’re looking for…
I also experienced the guy not speaking english, though he greeted us in english and then later decided he didn’t speak a word. And we left awkwardly, but clutching our ping pong balls (behind the counter man, that shit’s gold around here) and Vitamin Water.

Totally scary and creepy, but basically the best sketchy convenience store you will ever stumble into at 2 AM looking to buy snack-​sized Snickers for 75 cents.
Possibly one time the guy who worked here convinced us he didn’t speak English, but I could be lying. Linds, can you confirm?
Also, there is a cat.

I find the crazy guy who is always behind the counter quite charming, actually. He loves chatting about his days smoking hookah as a 13 year old in wherever he is from.
This little superette saved me one day at 1:15 am by being open and having replacement hookah hoses. The shisha selection is solid and reasonably priced, and the guys were nice and told me not to park in the budget lot or I’d get towed immediately. Not sure if they sell porn.

The windows of my old apartment faced Linden Superette. Not the cheapest or cleanest place in the world to shop, but it provided me with what I needed… until I realized that Hess across the street was open all night.
The cat’s a sweetheart, and the guy that works there does his absolute best to make you smile (or hit on you if you happen to be female).

The linden superette has saved my ass countless times. No i would not buy certain things from this place, but its the only store that sells one of anything. You need one battery? One stamp? One smoke? I will miss this place when i move out of the Allston hell hole.