Acquistapace’s

I only shop here for wine and cheese and their selection is incredible. It definitely has the feel of the small town grocery stores of the past, since it is. In my experience, the staff was very knowledgable about the cheeses and was very friendly. It’s truly unique in this day and age with so many chain grocery stores that are great for some items, but pale in comparison to Acquistapace’s selection of high qualify cheeses, available samples, and knowledgeable staff about the cheeses.
I hear the meat dept and deli are great too, so I need to check them out, but so far I have only experienced the cheese and wine and my experience was absolutely excellent.

This place just keeps getting better and better over the years. Best selections on beer and wine, meat department is great, and deli is outstanding. I especially like that they cater to the local businesses and you can find all local products in their isles. I don’t live in Covington anymore but drive the extra fifteen minutes to shop there.

Huge selection of beers. Had everything we needed and looked like they were adding on more. Could’ve had a growler section maybe but I did not see one. Great prices and selection would recommend if you are w/​in an hour drive.

What they lack in ambiance, they make up for in selection. They have a full grocery, meat, produce, deli, and beer/​wine/​spirits etc. Some things are higher priced than other places by they had a lot of good sales too. They have very good po-​boys, largest selection of alcohol in the state, and lots of local items. I don’t live in the area but I will go out of my way to visit in the future when I’m in town. I loved the selection and the food. And as a manager at Whole Foods I think that says a lot ;)

Probably the best grocery store in Covington. Fair prices, friendly service and locally owned.
They have a fantastic selection of gourmet cheese and an extensive liquor section. The deli has tempting aromas of baking bread to go with all of that delicious cheese. I also noticed lots of locally grown produce which I love supporting. There are many local brands, but lots of local brands that you’d expect from a chain store (if that’s your preference).
But did I mention the selection of cheese? (I may or may not have left with several blocks of dill havarti… my weakness).
If you’re in the area be sure to check out this local gem!

If you’re hungry and lactose intolerant you may want to avoid grocery shopping at acquistapace’s — but honestly, who cares, the dozen or so cheeses you can sample on the fly will end up in your mouth anyway. And since they’re stinky and imported and delicious, they’ll actually go easy on your stomach. And then you’ll dump about three pounds of various cheeses in your basket. Want smaller portions? Check out their ‘nubs’ and ‘stubs’ section where you can get two-​finger sized slices of random assortments for $ 1-​$ 3.
Giant wine selection, too, though I didn’t peruse. Decent produce with fresh colors and smells. They make their own sausages which were also fairly good. Not a ton of natural/​organic foods offered but what there is is good.
Fellow shoppers range from the hoity-​toity to the super kind and down to earth (one man actually stopped to talk to us in front of the sausages and told us how he prepared them [with apple juice]).
My lips are still pleasantly smacking from the Vincent ‘gouda meets parm’ hybrid we got. Lactose intolerance be damned!

The owner is an ass

What a great local supermarket. Great booze selection and I bought the best wedding cookies I’ve ever eaten there. Nice deli, olive bar and even carry Califia Farms almond milk. And all the staff was super friendly and helpful. This would be my go-​to supermarket, if I lived in the area.

I actually make a point to come here when I’m on the Northshore. My husband and I always do an alcohol/​wine run here. The prices are the best anywhere and their selection of wines/​beers/​liquor is great. The grocery part of the store reminds me of a country store, but still good nonetheless. Parking is always easy too, and I’ve never had more than one person ahead of me in line to check out.

Favorite grocery store on the Northshore!

Mr. B and I are running into this fantastic local grocery store all the time, and no matter what time of day, it always seems to be busy. Great place to get inexpensive but quality meat (but not seafood). Really, it’s the fantastic cheese selection, stocked olive bar, and expansive wine selection that keeps us coming back again and again. Everyone who works here is friendly and helpful, which makes shopping here all the more pleasant.

How can you go wrong with a grocery where about ¹⁄₅^th of the floor space is dedicated to alcohol? Also, they have a very good selection of cheeses.

Great little LOCAL supermarket! Great selection of wine and Cheese — friendly staff and they generally have things that are hard to find or will order them for you if they don’t have it.

I lived over here for a few months after Katrina and wanted to check this place out because I had heard so many good things about it. Unfortunately I never had a chance. Also unfortunately I’m back on the Northshore for a few months. This time I made a couple of runs to this place and am glad that I did. The grocery part of the store is small but very well organized with good produce, meat, drygoods, and baked goods all at a good price. You can usually tell a good store from the quality of its produce and Acquistapaces has above-​average produce. The meat department is also well above-​average with more than the national prepackaged stuff available. In other words, they actually seem to have a butcher on premises. Finally, they have an incredibly large selection, given the size of the store, of high-​end cheeses. Really good stuff.
But I really came here to check out the wine section. I heard what a great selection this place has, and I was not led astray. On the radio commercials, Adam Acquistapace says that it’s the largest wine selection in the State. I cannot vouch for that, but I would not be surprised. It is organized a little bit differently than most wine sections or wine shops. For foreign producers, it is organized by country then by red or white than by region. This is fairly standard except that most places the reds and whites are together. So if you’re looking at Bordeauxs, you need to look in 2 places the white Bordeaux section and the red Bordeaux section. Domestic wines are organized a little differently… in a way. They are organized by grape. So all of the pinot noir is in one section, then the merlot, etc. Not a bad way to do it unless you were looking for a particular producer which will appear in several places within the domestic section. And it’s actually consistent with the foreign section since most regions within a country focus on a singe grape. So really the store is basically organized by grape.
I’m no expert at wine, but the selections looked really interesting and were extremely well priced. I randomly picked up a Spanish tempranillo and a Sonoma red table wine just to judge the quality of the low priced selections. Both were $ 7.99 and both excellent. I will definitely go back.

Acquistapace is beer lover heaven. HEAVEN. I don’t have any problem making the treck from Uptown NO to Covington when I want to stock up on a variety of singles. They have everything I could possibly want and I always find a ton of new stuff that I didn’t even know existed. They also have an enormous amount of wines and liquors. Dorignac’s selection looks miniscule in comparison. (And I love Dorignac’s.) The beer/​wine/​liquor portion of the store is by far the shining star of Aquistapace, the rest of the store is a pretty standard small grocery store. They do stock a lot of local items, but that’s not particularly uncommon. I wouldn’t make a special trip just to make groceries. Who needs groceries anyway when you have a mix of Hefeweizen’s from around the world to fill your belly? The service is also outstanding. They are well-​staffed and eager to help with whatever you need. I’ve never had to wait in line– the one time I got in line behind one other person, they opened a new register to check me out. That’s what I’m talking about.

This place is amazing. The wine/​beer/​liquor selection may be the best on the Northshore. It seems as if they have more selection than even Martin Wine Cellar.
The rear of the booze area has a wall of refrigerated coolers. In these coolers are beers you can purchase by the six pack, case or individually. They have nearly every beer I have ever tried or wanted to try. Even with all this selection, I stayed local and got a six pack of Mardi Gras Bock by Abita.
The liquor selection was equally amazing. There must have been 30 or more high end single malt scotch brands. In a locked case there was even a $ 1500 bottle of Cognac.
There were several hundred, if not over 1000 different brands of wine.
If you need some adult beverages, come here. You will not be disappointed.
The grocery store part is smaller than the bigger chains, but it was well stocked with specialty items. The meat area had homemade sausage, whole filets and ribeyes as well as all regular meat items.
We also tried their cookies and a king cake. Both were excellent. It looks like the deli makes Po-​Boys, but I haven’t tried them yet.
I highly recommend Acquistapace.

Wine department — 5 stars! Excellent selection and prices! Higher end wines are as much as $ 10 a bottle cheaper here than in similarly stocked wine departments. Oh, also it probably has the best overall selection on the north shore! Truly a wineaux’s paradise.
As far the rest of the store, well, it doesn’t match up to the wine section. There are some nice cuts of good quality meat available but there is no butcher counter. The produce department is a bit small. But service in general is excellent.
So go for the wine but be good customer and pick up a few groceries while you are there!
(BTW, the deli sandwiches are really good as well!)

Love it. Local family business. Absolutely has the best beer and wine selection on the Northshore (and possibly in the Greater New Orleans area. The largest selection too. I stop here just about every day. I usually buy just enough groceries to make it through the day. Kinda European, I know. But that’s the way I like it.
If you are in Covington, and you want to find some good imported or micro-​brewed beers, or a fantastic bottle of wine, Acquistapace’s is the place to go.
Cheers!

This is a cool store and I love the rennovations! The wine prices and selection can’t be beat. Also, I love that they have the Nur’s Kitchen hummus and domales by their deli section. This is also a great grocery store to get those special Louisiana items.
The produce section quality and prices have really improved and now surpass other grocery stores in the area! Also, the selection of both staple (ex. evaporated milk) and different (smoked oysters) canned goods is quite good.
Oh, I should say the staff are friendly and helpful and the registers are usually adequately staffed. This store is well worth patronizing.

So far as I can tell, this place has the best beer selection in the area. Crazy selection of singles, including a lot of Belgian ales. I’m not as good at judging wine selection, but there’s definitely a large variety to choose from.
As for the grocery availability, it’s pretty well stocked. They have a bigger selection of unprocessed meat than I would expect, and also a reasonable array of locally-​produced meats and produce. I found local sausage without corn syrup in it here, which is for some reason harder to do than you’d think.
I don’t remember the price comparison for groceries, since there are other grocery stores closer to my house than this one. But I can definitely say it’s worth the trip if you’re into variety in your beer.