Sophia’s Greek Pantry

Best Greek yogurt I’ve ever tasted.
Amazing selection of feta cheeses and imports from Greece.
YUM.

The selection here is amazing, and the cashier gave me a handful of melomacarona cookies on my way out. I will definitely be back.

Sophia’s food is fresh and tasty… the yogurt is especially delicious and don’t forget the frozen yogurt! Great selection of feta and olives, too.

Best yogurt I’ve ever had. I now travel there once a week. The low fat honey is my favorite.

The greek yogurt is incredible. It’s a bit on the tangier side, so stirring in some honey helps a great deal.

A friend brought me my first taste of Sophia’s yogurt, and I’ve been hooked ever since! Nothing else compares! I’ve tried them all… they are outstanding! I can also recommend the stuffed peppers. Obviously home made, and delicious.

Excellent yogur and pastries. They also have fresh bread daily and incredible herrings. It is worth the trouble of driving a few extra miles to Belmont for these high quality products and service. Oh, their granola is the best!

The Greek yogurt is still the best I’ve ever had, including Greece. Sophia adds sheep milk and goat milk, which helps with the mouth feel (no slimy after-​texture) and the creaminess. Truly delicious and better than anything you’ll find for thousands of miles. So good that just a couple of tablespoons on top of fresh fruit makes a spectacular breakfast, lunch, or dessert.
Also – amazing olive bar, cheeses that people come from New Hampshire to buy, taramasalata that I have to buy by the quart when I have parties. (I need several containers if I have more than four people – everyone clusters around it.) Delicious desserts (including those itty-​bitty little mini-​mousse things that are great for dinner parties), baklava, and cookies. If she has almond macaroons when you get there, BUY SOME. they’re gorgeous.
Last – lots of good freezer things Inexpensive artichoke bottoms and baby okra, frozen cheese and spinach pies and sausage – the list is long. LOVE YOU, SOPHIA!

I love Belmont. This little corner has a few cute Greek spots. Sophia’s has very good Greek pantry supplies (like homemade olive oil) and really great prepared foods — their homemade Greek yogurt is the best I’ve had (try the honey or coconut) — and their grape leaves are firm, well seasoned and very fresh. I didn’t try the Baklava but I will next time!

The only thing that’s better than the ABSOLUTELY AMAZING yogurt is the service. George was so helpful and such a gentleman. The quality and service are consistent which is rare these days. Support local business and get the coconut yogurt!

A-​M-​A-​Z-​I-​N-​G! One of the best things I’ve ever had in my life. The coconut and honey yogurt here is to die for. You haven’t lived until you’ve had this woman’s yogurt… seriously.

What a fabulous store. The Greek yogurt is amazing (unlike anything you’ll find in the typical grocery store). The selection of cheeses is excellent. The pastries are delicious and made in-​house, and the prepared food is also great. Sophia’s is quickly becoming a weekly stop for me.
And the icing on the cake? (as if we needed one) — they sell kinder bueno bars!!!

At first glance, I overlooked the gem that is Sophia’s Pantry. However, on two occasions, I’ve run in there in a panic, trying to get a couple of things for some last minute guests. (I live within walking distance to the store, so its a convenient option for me, especially when I’m short on time.)
On my most recent run to Sophia’s, some friends were planning to stop by and I had 35 minutes notice.
I decided to serve some mezze-​style apps and picked up the following:
Dips:
–Beet Tatzki: delicious shredded beets with home-​made yogurt, dill, and garlic
–Roasted Red Pepper Hummus
–Taramasalata: my favorite; fish roe blended with bread and lemon juice, delicious!
Other:
Fresh pita and home made bread sticks (kristinias) for dipping
Spinach and cheese phyllo pies which I cut into smaller triangles
Fresh Feta Cheese
Olives from the extensive olive bar.
Some veggies to complete my crudite platter
Sophia’s also has various pantry staples: pastas, grains, olive oil, delicious yogurt, prepared greek foods, cheeses, deli meats.
My friends were well fed and I looked like I had my sh*t together, not an easy task with little notice and a 15 month old baby at home.

I never thought I would go to a store and find 5 different kinds of fresh feta, 4 different kinds of frozen phyllo dough, and all sorts of black olive varieties I never heard of. But that’s how Sophia rolls.
We came here because we’re obsessed with their yogurt (we got it from Something Gud and Savenor’s) Turns out, surprise surprise, they have many types of homemade greek yogurt too. We got honey, honey vanilla, and honey coconut. I grabbed a box of homemade toasted pita chips as an afterthought for the tapenade and feta dip I bought and turns out they’re amazing! I usually hate store bought pita chips because they’re super hard but these are fresh and perfectly seasoned with olive oil and spices.
My favorite part was seeing the prices at the antipasto/​olive bar– 4.99/lb. Take that Whole Foods and your f-​ing $ 10.99/lb (seriously???)
So, yeah come here. Definitely a don’t miss kinda place.

Seriously, if you think you love Greek yogurt, you don’t even know what love is until you’ve tried this place’s. So full, fluffy, rich, and just straight up DELICIOUS. The plain flavor is the perfect amount of sweet and tart. I’m officially in love. This beats any other big brand Greek yogurt out of the park. My only sadness is, how will I ever go back to eating grocery store yogurt?

«It’s yogurt. How good can yogurt be?»
This was coming from someone who eats the commercial stuff pretty much daily. Well, friends, don’t doubt it. Sophia’s yogurt is good enough to pen a 5 star review about nothing but. You can go traditional with the super-​duper thick plain yogurt and make the best tzatziki in your life (or just eat it plain, renegade), but don’t stop there. Two words:
Honey Coconut.
No fruit on the bottom games here, the flavoring is infused so every bite is as delicious as the next. As decadent as dessert, you’ll lick the container clean and cry yourself to sleep when it’s gone. Fage is dead to me. Long live Sophia.

Shelves stocked with all sorts of Greek canned and packaged goods, as well as freshly-​baked pastries, produce, fresh feta (I didn’t know there were so many kinds of feta!), homemade Greek yogurt in 5 flavors, and Greek olive oil on tap.
This place is a neighborhood gem! I went in looking for mahlepi to bake an Easter tsoureki bread that would impress my boyfriend’s Greek family. Not only did a random Greek woman help me find it, she also gave me baking tips — and the bread turned out amazing.
Also noteworthy: The Greek yogurt and house olive oil are so good that I will make the trip out for refills on these items alone. I have yet to try their Greek granola or feta, but those are next on the list. Everything I’ve purchased here is so, so good. This is the kind of place that makes me truly happy to live in this area.

Every review says this, but to reiterate…
BEST GREEK YOGURT
EVER.
That’s all.

This place is ideal for the Waltham-​Cambridge commuter like myself, but I never seem to make it in here as often as I should. That may or may not be for the best, since I tend to spend a touch beyond my usual damage for the «fun» supplementary grocery trip of the week here.
First and foremost, the yogurt. The honey flavor is absolutely delicious, and I can’t even eat Fage any longer (to say nothing of Dannon or Müller.) Then there’s the baklava, and the pastichio… The frozen spanikopita directly from Greece. $ 13 a bag but sooo much better than the impostors they push at stores like Trader Joes (hint: a mozzarella cheese blend is not part of the traditional preparation!)
In an area where Greek diners are non-​existent, this is the place where I keep that nostalgia alive.

Okay so this was my first visit to Sophia’s Greek Pantry. I was blown away. Let me try to articulate from impressions from first to last (I left three times and came back to get more). Firstly, the store is immaculate. The shelves are neatly laden with Greek products of every kind, there are bins of fresh olives, many kinds of greek olive oil even Sophia’s own estate grown super premium olive oil, every variety of feta, and then there’s the yogurt area! Sophia offers 0% honey or plain and a thick 2%. I cannot decide which is more heavenly so I guess i will continue to buy all three. This is goat’s milk yogurt just like you find in Greece but maybe better. She also offers the best tasting granola I have ever eaten which makes a great addition to the yogurt!
The homemade food in the store is a must try. Having grown up in a family with many wonderful Greek chefs I was ecstatic to find this type of quality. The spanakopita and tiropita were delicious. We had them right there in the store with a cup of delicious organic tea. There is a place to eat her food at a counter and there is also one table there.
I also took home the vegetable moussaka and some stuffed red peppers with meat and rice. Now that I know how good Sophia’s food is I plan on stocking up and coming often. The whole visit was the best kind of adventure. Sampling her food, checking out her kitchen, meeting some of her customers. It’s worth the hour drive for me. I like knowing my farmers and grocers and meeting Sophia was an inspiration. She’s talented, sharp, hard-​working and full of spunk. That week she had been donating meals to fire victims, cooking them after work and delivering them to Burlington. Big heart, beautiful store, delicious food, new friends. Not sure it gets any better.