welcome to Mi Pueblo Food Center
And I am sure glad that we did!
This place is enormous. It really is a “food center” and not just a store. Aside from the aisles and aisles of groceries, they’ve a huge working kitchen which serves a thriving open restaurant; a bakery that makes a wide range of cakes, cookies, tropical fruit-filled confections as well as tortillas that you can sample warm from the grill. I’ve seen staff behind small portable counters shucking oysters and trimming thorns off nopales (edible cactus). Once we went and they had tequila vendors hawking their wares.
bustling Mi Pueblo restaurant
rows and rows of Mi Pueblo dry goods
Mi Pueblo seafood section
I really like the bright colors and the cheery mood I always feel while perusing the produce and guava-filled sweets. Most times I’ll get some pastry or other to munch on between samples while I fill my shopping cart. On our last visit, part of the parking lot had been blocked off for a children’s birthday party. Inside festive brassy Mexican music filled the air with its happy sound.
beautiful serrano chiles
brown sugar cones
mountains of red cactus fruit are not something that I see everywhere
white and yellow onions
papaya
Many of the items for sale, as you might expect, focus on Mexican and Central American cuisine, which I adore. Mi Pueblo has an especially exciting selection of mild white cheeses, which taste great with jam on crusty bread at breakfast. I’m partial to the Los Altos Queso Fresco. You can easily get all the staples here: rice, beans, various fresh and dried chiles, tomatillos, tomatoes, tortillas and crispy corn chips, homemade salsas, cheeses, you name it.
child's party in front of Mi Pueblo
fresh garbanzo beans
Mi Pueblo roma tomatoes
pineapple
chilled yogurt drinks
poblanos and avocados at Mi Pueblo
Turns out that this is just one of 19 stores in the Bay Area. Their newest just opened in Newark, CA and they’re developing one now in Gilroy. So if you haven’t seen Mi Pueblo already, you will, somewhere soon. When you do, go there, and go often.
some Mi Pueblo house-made baked goods
tostadas
candles
varous cheeses: see the Los Altos Queso Fresco in the middle?
various beans
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What an awesome place to do some food shopping, everything looks so fun and bright!
Great pictures daaaaahling!
*kisses* HH
What a great place this is! The bakery, the fresh produce, the cheeses…it all looks amazing! I think I could set up camp in live in there, lol!
This store reminds me of a couple stores in the Dallas area (Fiesta etc) I have often gone in and found things that interest me, like verdolaga (purslane) or crunchy cookies (polvarones) or whatever; there is also a juice isle with fresh juices. Much cheaper than smoothies!
I’ve never heard of Mi Peublo before, but WOW! This place looks amazing. Those mountains of fresh fruit would be enough for me to visit. I couldn’t help but notice (like you said) how colorful this place was. I’m not the least bit surprised that there’s a children’s party going on outside of it – too cute! Mi Peublo, I’ll have to remember this one.
Heg, esse mercado é a versão amplificada e mais sofisticada do de Woodland! adorei! e um dia vou querer ir lá. 🙂