Newfoundland Grocery Store

I love that I have somewhere near by to get a few of my favourite things. This store is in the most random spot though.

Pineapple Crush. 2 words. 1 delicious beverage.
If you venture in for one reason, make it happen on a sunny day when you’re feeling parched. Grab a cold Pineapple soda and experience what you’ve been missing from the Crush family of soft drinks.
This island store offers a variety of unique delicacies sure to excite any experimental foody. I have to say, the shop’s aroma isn’t one that I find all too pleasing. Perhaps it’s a mixture of my aversion to fish and the often funky smell of pickled products, but I fund the odour to be a little off putting.
Nonetheless, this shop does have a certain charm and small town feel to it, making it fun to peruse. I haven’t made any purchases from this shop, save for the regular soda splurge, but do like being able to read the handmade window parchments advising me on what’s in store. I can stand outside and read the posters to find out just about everything that’s on offer — an effective, albeit slightly overwhelming marketing approach.
The Newfoundland Grocery: Pineapple Crush and so much more. Head on in to find out what you’ve been missing when it comes to the world of noshing.

I have to give The Newfoundland Grocery Store a five. How can you not, this is the one and only true Newfoundland Store in Hfx.
This store is a real experience, I have no idea what half of the things are on the shelves because I am not a Newfoundlander, but it is fun finding out. I have to say, I know a lot of Newfoundlander’s and they have a great sense of humour. This store has some pretty strange items.
I think it is time I take one of my friends with me to give me the expertise I need to shop here. The staff are great here though.

I feel like The Newfoundland Grocery Store has been around forever. I can remember walking down Willow Street in middle school on my way to Robie to get my braces changed and I would stop (on this mainly residential street) and stare at all the signs advertising strange sounding food items.
It took me a few years to actually enter the store and see for myself their peddled wares. I was surprised to find that amidst the assorted breeds of salted fish and other pre-​packaged Newfoundland delicacies there were some rather appetizing looking food as well. I expected the interior of the store to resemble a alchemy shop (selling items like pickled frogs tongue and herring roe) but it surprised me, and was actually quite nice to browse around.
If you are a Newfoundland native and are missing your home grown treats, look no further than this store which seems to carry everything.
Hot Hint: Browse at your own risk, because of the cost of shipping these items they can be a little pricey, but to be honest I’m not really sure what cod cheeks go for on the wholesale market anyway.

This is such a bizarre little spot. Smack in the middle of a residential zone lies the Newfoundland Grocery Store, home of some the most disgustingly named meat in the Maritimes. My personal favorite? The Salt Beef Navel! It’s not nearly as ridiculous as the name makes it out to be (it is essentially just corned beef) and unfortunately, the Newfoundland Store does not offer Figgy Duff to go with the The Salt Beef Navel!
Everybody knows it’s just not beef navel without a little figgy duff!
Oh Newfoundland, you are ridiculous and I love you.
This store is just as unique as the province from which it lifted it’s name. Filled with unique tinned, corned and salted foods from the Rock, I can only imagine that grandparents who come to visit their grandchildren on the main land are essentially kids in a candy store when they walk through the door.
This place is not for everyone, probably not even for most, but it is definitely worth checking out for its slightly bizarre qualities!
…and of course, if you’re looking to have a rabbit for dinner there’s simply no where else you would ever need to go!

Stepping into ‘The Newfoundland Grocery Store’ is a quick reminder of the old CBC ‘Hockey Night in Canada’ introduction: «Good evening hockey fans from Canada, the United States, and Newfoundland…» Walking into this grocery store is almost the equivalent of heading into a Thai teashop or Asian grocer. ‘Wow, look at all these neat items that are completely foreign to me!’ Am I even in Canada right now? And more pertinently: Is Newfoundland?
Upon entering this little shop you quickly identify that they mean business with the no frills, white washed walls and generally scrubbed down interior. The wares are what you’re really here for anyway, right? This grocer specializes in carrying a wealth of Newfoundland packaged/​tinned/​pickled products that you can’t purchase on the mainland. The staff were all very friendly and accommodating although seemed a tad disappointed that I wasn’t looking for anything in particular. I gather they get a lot of specialty requests! Some of these products resembled rations more than they did food you would deliberately want to eat. Eg: Madeleine corn on the cob, drained, vacuum packed and sealed in a tin can. The advertisement on the side did guarantee you 4 whole cobs though! A few of the other bizarre items were as follows: Maple Leaf potted meat, sweet mustard pickles and pickled beets (tinned), and salt fish (canned). Some of the really delicious options appeared to be: the bake apple tea (which I’ll definitely be back for), lingonberry syrup, saltwater taffy, and of course: Jam Jams!
I ended up leaving with a small sampling of rum flavored coffee that was pretty sweet but tasty nonetheless!
I highly recommend checking out the Newfoundland Grocery Store! The adds on the outside of the shop really ought to be enough to get you in: Wild rabbits (cleaned), salt beef navels (cow belly button?), salt pork hocks, fusels thick cream, and of course Nfld ginger cookies!