Mi Tierra Foods

Great neighborhood grocery and Latino food store. They’ve recently started carrying organic produce but it’s often a little wilty, probably because not enough people know about it… so go buy organics there so they’ll stock it more! They also have a huge selection of Bob’s Red Mill grains. Also almond milk. And every Mexican foodstuff you can imagine. Nice staff. I’m giving them five stars because they’re the neighborhood place and they’re nice and I hope they stick around for a long time :-) fresher organic veggies would be even better!

Great selection of delicious and fresh food to take away. Extra delicious carnitas, and fresh corn tortillas are continuously coming off the grill. We often pick up pints of their ceviches for parties, always a favorite.

Love this place! Great meat market and fresh juices in the morning.

Their produce is pretty mediocre, and not well maintained. For a far better experience go to Rincon Latino in Richmond.

I love this store. I live in the neighborhood and it is so convenient.
Recently, though, there has been a lot of change with the staff and, perhpas, the management. I find the new cashiers to be very UNfriendly. I am a regular, we are talking 5 to 10 times per week, as well as a caterer, who buys more than your average customer and there is no longer friendly chit chat or even polite communication. SO sad.

This place has EVERYTHING.
What else can I say?
Hot latin girls!
Mamacitas Ricas!

I can find everything I need here for all my Latin American dishes. There wasn’t any fresh ají amarillo, but I found several types of bottled and frozen ajies so that helped!

I really like this place — the staff is super friendly and helpful and if you decide to get your Latino cooking thing on this is the place for all the good ingredients! Fresh produce, great selection of meats and seafood at reasonable prices, all manner of dried and fresh chilies, quesos Mexicanos, spices and more. Small parking lot in back.
Also some to go prepared food items at lunch time…

Love this place. Great organic vegetables. Good meat. Good burritos and tacos. They have Straus milk. They are really nice. Their prices are good. They have all kinds of ingredients for making really great Mexican food. Support them!

years before i would love coming here but now this place sucks. i have not found anything i come to look for anymore. One of the cashiers was really rude and disrespectful towards me. also, this cashier knew clearly i speak spanish and she decides to act like the is better by speaking english to me. I forgot her name it was either marisa or marisela or some name that starts with an M. The manager should really see some of his workers while he/​she is not around. HORRIBLE customer service. never coming back

Compro comestibles para mi familia aqui.

I love Mi Tierra Foods for more reasons than I could ever list in this space. But I’ll try out a few and you can let me know if I’m going overboard.
1. All of the Mexican goods/​spices/​meats/​snacks that you can handle.
2. Great fresh produce section with some harder to find items.
3. Really friendly and knowledgeable staff that can answer questions about your next pozole recipe.
Support your friendly neighborhood mom & pop market by dropping a few nickels at Mi Tierra.

Probably the best thing about these guys is the prepared or partially-​prepared foods — the baked goods, the marinaded meats, the ready-​to-​go masa mixtures, etc. They also have a useful selection of spices and condiments. Their butcher counter is large, fully bilingual, and offers a few tasty-​looking specialty items in the seafood area.
A few things stop this from being a 5* place. There is a lot of rotting fruit and veggies, which is a damned shame. Most fruits are badly bruised. Dairy area is a frustrating game of close-​reading, since a good third of the inventory is already at or past the use-​by dates and another third only has a day or two left. I don’t want to buy milk every 24 hours. (Mi Ranchita up the block has generally fresher dairy and produce). The staff is more or less polite but a little stand-​offish, and don’t seem very keen on trying to help non-​spanish-​speakers find anything. Finally, like many grocery stores around here, they lack beer.
Definitely check these guys out, though, if for no other reason than the meat counter and bakery, or if you want to put together a good dinner fast.

Here are some of the things I love about Mi Tierra Foods:
Dried Chiles, Chiles, Chiles: big bags of pasilla, mulato, chiles de arbol, guajillo, ancho. They’re all there.
They carry the best achiote paste – El Yucateco – no artificial coloring and full of flavor.
Papas Secas: a kind of dried Peruvian potato and the key ingredient in a delicious Peruvian pork stew called Carapulcra.
Frijoles Rojos de Seda: the only bean I love in its naked form. Just soak, boil, and eat. How can a bean be so good?
Abuelita Mexican hot chocolate tablets.
Frozen pupusas with loroco flowers.
The scent of the bakery churning out those fresh bollitos.
Fresh masa… I haven’t tried making tamales yet, but when I do this is where I’m coming for the masa.

Excellent small grocery and Mexican prepared food shop. The place is somewhat cramped and not at all fancy, but appears authentic, the prices are good, and the prepared food tastes great.

Cute little market with a mouthwatering bakery section. Not only do they have loads of yummy treats, the prices of the baked goods are very affordable. It makes it difficult to talk myself out of buying a sweet snack when it’s so easy on my wallet. :)

I’m a fan of Mi Terra market and shop here often because it’s one of the bigger stores in my area that sell a variety of Latin foods.
They have a large selection of dried and fresh chile peppers, spices and vegetables — which is mostly what I buy. A larger variety than other stores, so when I don’t want to run around I just come here.
The torta rolls are made fresh daily and 4/​$ 1.00. They have fresh cheeses, meats and a seafood department. You can buy delicious fresh mexican cheeses by the pound, I love the queso fresco and the cotija.
You can get some good deals with better flavor (marinated meats) over shopping a larger grocery store. They also make fresh squeezed juices and sandwiches that look delicious.
If you love to cook as much as I do, you’ll find Mi Terra to be a great resource for those hard to find ingredients.

My go-​to grocery store for so many things:
1. Tamales (chicken or pork), hot and ready to consume.
2. Pan dulce (yum)
3. Pre-​marinated carne asada fajita meat
4. meat at good prices (did I hear someone say pork shoulder?)
And all the stuff you might need at a grocery store, milk, oranges, etc.
A great cornerstone to the West Berkeley neighborhood.

Local Gem Market in the East Bay!
I’m a sucker for local gem Mexican markets mostly because I grew up in LA. I grew up watching the butcher cut up my meat, buying corn tortillas in bulk, and especially buying pan dulce in a variety of flavors.
The pan dulce is a must! Come in the morning when they come out fresh. I would caution buying daily made food at night because there are flies that roam about once in awhile (lured by the delicious smell throughout the day), but the cases are emptied daily, so no need to worry the next day.
Around 9:30AM everyday, they make turkey sandwiches ($ 3.95) and cream cheese with jalapeño sandwiches ($ 0.99). What a deal, right? For their sandwiches, they use housemade bread called bollios. They also freshly squeezed juice daily, including orange, carrot, vampiro (beet), and verde (a combination of different greens). I’ve also had their rotisserie chicken, which is absolutely fantastic! Also look out for housemade salsa, spicy guacamole, ceviche, and a bunch of different cakes. I did not like the horchata, so I wouldn’t recommend it. (It’s much more worth it to go to La Mission, only a few blocks away).
For special holidays, Mi Tierra comes out with their own selection of specialties. For the Day of the Dead, they have sweet bread. For Christmas they make their own cookies. For Three Kings Day, they have King cake.
They have a good selection of organic food, which the exception of their meats, which I have eaten, but would be wary.
Overall, I highly recommend Mi Tierra. It’s my go-​to market!
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When I get the craving to make some chilaquiles, this is the place I go to for the essential. Small Mexican grocery store has everything I need and more. I like that they always have epazote and the tomatillos. Their carne asada preparada is ok but I really love their pan dulce.
I give them 4 stars because they never disappoint :)

Holy guacamole, this place is fantastico! Not only will you find exotic Latin staples like bocadillos, carne asada, and jugos frescas (fresh-​squeezed fruit & veg juice!) but they’ve got a lot of mainstream grocery essentials too. You could practically do all your normal shopping here, as long as you don’t mind the cramped quarters.
I was surprised to see items like like RW Knudsen juice (he makes the best tomato for bloody mix), beautiful fresh produce, and snack foods like kettle corn. While they obviously cater to Latin customers, there’s a large clientele of gringos too, so you won’t feel out of place.
I’ll definitely be back for the spinach-​celery-​pinapple juice for $ 3.75! *Insert requisite «Me gusta mucho!» here.