Key Food Grocery

You might think your corner store is the best.
You’re wrong.
Key Food Grocery is the Best. Omar is the Best. Best tunes. Best It’s-It selection. Best late-​night neighborhood chats. Best place to get aluminum foil and a red bull while dressed head-​to-​toe as a gigantic jellyfish at 5:30pm on a Thursday.
BEST

Sold me some moldy hummus and wouldn’t give me my money back. Tried to trade it in for two kind bars and made me pay the 50¢ difference. The dudes there are normally pretty friendly and chill, but they nickled and dimed me about the mold. They have a decent beer selection and toilet paper if you wanna party but your ass is dirty. Just don’t by appetizers there.

Just stopped by here as I work in the area, and WOW. I must admit, this place could use some renovations, but in terms of convenience, variety, and price, this place is great! Not only was there a great number of choices in flavors for things ranging from drinks, to microwavable dinners, to– well, everything else, this place had tons of other miscellaneous items I probably wouldn’t even find in a 711. Great place, it’s quite convenient.

This positive review is about 8 years overdue! Key Foods, though it doesn’t look like much from the outside, is an oasis of icecream, Orangina and everything else you would need in a corner store. But it also has Omar, the best neighbor you could ask for! He is all knowing, always helpful, and happens to have excellent taste in music. Whether you need aluminum foil or just a friendly smile in the ‘hood, this is the place.

Omar is the best gentelman in the world and he gives the best service and the stire has always beer and wine :)

Are you kidding me?! Omar (and Key Foods) is above and away THE BEST. What a nice guy! He’s subtly building a great community.

Omar is the best «It’s It» dealer in The City, hands down. He always has the freezer stocked with all my favorite «It’s It» flavors. I love when I walk in that door for my daily «It’s It» and Omar is there to reinforce my good choice with his bright cheerful smile.

O-​MAR!!!
He is the man. I go in there just to say hi, he is always holding it down!

What a dump. What a lovely lovely dump.

The hazelnut coffee here is amazing. Key Food also has soy milk for the coffee bar — its in the fridge to your left. So thoughtful for a small corner store.

This is less a review of Key Market itself (although they deserve five stars for always being there with amazing service) and more for an amazing elixir they sell: ORANGINA.
I believe its provenance is French, and it’s sold in these cute round orangeshaped glass bottles that simply beg for an effete straw. And do follow the instructions on the bottle: give it a good shake to mix the all-​important pulp back into the soda. It feels somehow rebellious: shaking a soda bottle because they TELL you to, after years of fearing the usual explosion of fizzy foam. I’m not sure why, but Orangina does not explode and you really do need to mix up the settled pulp and particles from the REAL citrus juices they use in the soda.
Some may choose to adulterate their beverage with adult things like vodka: I’m a bit of a purist, though I have discovered, on one of our rare freakishly hot 90+ degree days, the refreshing joy of Orangina over shaved/​crushed ice for a slushy-​like experience. There is something a bit mysterious about the flavour of Orangina – I put it down to the tangerine pulp, along with the real orange juice and lemon juice, and the fact ythat unlike most American sodas, it’s NOT TOO SWEET! Whatever it is, it’s pure magic. So Omar and Jimmy, keep stocking my very favorite soda, and along with with your witty repartee, I’ll be a customer for life. XOXOXO

Key Market has Amy’s prepared foods. So cool. Organic and way more healthy than other brands i.e. pizza, dinners etc. Key’s a good place to stop on the way home. The people are friendly and helpful. Highly recommend this place. P. S. — You gotta check out the comments board. Some of the stuff people write cracks me up. I took a picture of one comment — see pictures.

Great little corner store. I’ve been going there for 5 years now. Good prices, awesome people, and relatively good selection… Hey it’s a corner store, not whole foods! I’d say it’s a perfect lil’ mom and pop neighborhood market. Worth the walk if you live somewhat near by.
And on that note, Omar makes my night every time I go in there! He’s a gem and gooda, gooda (as my friend Annie would say, aka good people). If you’re lucky, he might even share some music with you.

Omar is the best.
I love how friendly everyone is at this store. They have good prices, good attitudes, and it is a good location considering I live on the same block.
The only thing that I’ve ever needed that they didn’t have was a plunger, and that was a long stretch. Anything else you could possibly want is available.
Hooray!

My criteria for rating convenience stores is probably lame by most patrons standards; good beer selection and having some sort of snack food that doesn’t have 25 grams of saturated fat per serving.
So I’ve been in too altered a state to notice the second one but Key Food nails it on the beer. I don’t know if it’s dumb luck but I’m typically able to find a six-​pack I’m interested in drinking. If not, then this place seems well in-​tune with seasonal releases and has those available ASAP.
This place has been an excellent alternative for when I’m not feeling the trek to Bev Mo and looking for something good to drink.

I have several needs from my local convenience store, Key Food meets them all: wide beer, wine and liquor selection, open whenever I need something, always having that something that i need and friendly shopkeeps.
But that does not warrant a 5 star rating. Just about any convenience store worth its malt liquor has those things. Key Food is set apart by its willingness to accept my business at any of level mental faculty. A group of 6 can tromp through munchied-​out joking with eachother and yelling across the aisles while looking for an its-​its without concern. A pair of drunks can stumble in before closing time to pick up the last twelve pack for the evening.
…total discretion…
and you can’t find that just anywhere.
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Also, keeping your hard liquor in the freezer with the Ben & Jerry’s is pretty awesome.

omar you a$$. i like steve better.