A great little find opposite the massive chain stores at the north-east tip of Finsbury Park. Hot…read moreNuts sells a variety of raw and toasted nuts. My favourites are the honey almonds and cashews. The shop also sell all manner of other dried fruits, berries and seeds. Some are sold from a table with heated drawers in the window. Others are sold from giant, standing sacks. You pay per 100g, although they will probably give you a discount if you want bigger quantities. There are also a bewildering array of other random products lining the shelves - fizzy drinks, Raki, tins of chickpeas. As long as you look confused upon entry, which is pretty much guaranteed the first time, the assistant will scoop up a few nuts for you to try for free with a smile. I find the service better in this Green Lanes outlet than in the newer site in Kingsland Shopping Centre, or in the shop on Kingsland Road (now closed).

By far the best place for nuts, chocolate, fruits and delights!! Heard it has 6 branches wow! Once…read moreim in this shop i take ages to decide because theres so much to choose from. As said they have really nice workers and funny:) mmm eating fresh cashews now, delicious:)) everyone should try their products im sure youll be addicted just like me:))

In my endless quest to be cooler than all you people I shunned the food stalls of Sunday UpMarket…read morewith their mobs of people wearing ironic large sunglasses, I turned my nose up at the hog roasts at Shoreditch cliches 93ft East and the Truman Brewery, and I certainly wasn't going to join the More4-loving set lunching away at shiny chain restaurants in what used to be wonderful Spitalfields. No, I decided I'd abandon the Time-Out guided Sunday masses and wonder the wrong way down Brick Lane in search of authentic options. And because of that my lunch for £2.40 consisted of two of the best spinach samosas I've ever had and two hearty but dry fish cakes. It was window placement of these savoury cakes, samosas and pakoras that magnetised me into Ambala. The rest of the shop was largely devoid of the Bangla sweets they profess, but do I look like I'm bothered? It was lunch time, I wanted something salty, satisfying and solid value and I found it in spades. Next time you do the sunday brick lane thing, give Ambala a look. Don't just be another sheep having free range tofu sausage crepes with the other Nathan Barleys.

I work in the City with a team from India and they have established a custom of zipping out to…read moreAmbala on a Friday afternoon and returning with a huge box of hot samosas. When I find out who came up with the idea I shall demand that they are promoted and given some sort of employee of the decade award. Ambala sell a vast range of Indian/Pakistani savoury snacks and sweets. Both their lamb and vegetarian samosas are fantastic, their pakora is great and so is more or less everything else they sell. If you work near this part of London you absolutely have to go in here and buy enough of their delicacies to fill a wheelbarrow, push it straight back to your office and bask in the warm adulation of your co-workers as they scarf hot eastern yumminess. Unfortunately they aren't open early otherwise I would pick up breakfast here.

Visually stunning array of sweets here, though the few things I tried were not amazing. Samosas had…read moredefinitely been out for a while, and the mango burfi and baklava were just alright. Still a fun stop!

It's a nice enough sweet shop with tons of varieties of sweet and savoury items on offer. The taste…read morewas pretty average if you ask me and the jalebi was almost bitter due to high sugar content in the syrup. The samosa was also pretty average taste. This is more like a Bangladeshi sweet shop than an Indian one.

I will not return to this shop as they have been overcharging. Not the first time this happened…read more Although I do like some of their products I have noticed on my last bill i was overcharged again. My advise look at the bill twice before you leave the store. This time i have paid 10 pounds more. I was charged for 3 melons instead of one and something that was 99 pence i was charged 2.99. My fault for not returning immediately but I no longer believe this is an error as this is not the first time. I was served at till 3 and amount was 71.76 when it should have been around 60.

Have you ever been stalking someone? - Well, I turned in to a food-stalker yesterday...but let me…read moretell you the whole story: I was walking peeking into the window of a bakery on Green Lanes when I overheard the conversation of a couple next to me; she was saying: "This bakery isn't so good...I know a place up the street that my Mom swears by!" This conversationary bit made my rudimentary detective instincts come alive immediately: I folded up the collar of me trench coat, put on my sun-glasses and picked up the trail. The couple, she in pink trainers and he in checkered yoga-pants - blazed their way up North on Haringay Lanes...I stayed behind at a non-intrusive distance and made sure to always look lackadaisically into a shop-window when they happend to turn around... After a few minutes they seemed to have reached their destination, as they disappeared into a store. I waited a few polite seconds until I entered the store as well...and let me tell you, I thought I'd entered Nirwana...at least a Baklava-and-other-Turkish-Pastry-Nirwana! AMAZING!!! I walked around the store for quite a while and I was simply just in awe...my mind began racing: What should I buy? What should I eat now and what should I take home? But, would it even make it home? In the end, I settled on a nice selection of different kinds of baklava-type pastries, which the kind lady behind the counter helped me pick out. Then I discovered a door that would lead into the grocery store next door: a Turkish/Greek supermarket that not only sells amazingly fresh produce, but also features an impressive selection of olives and other mediterranean goods. In fact, in the fridge I discovered "Cyprus Style Pastirma", which was looking so deliciously that I simply had to buy it...even though I had no idea what it would taste like nor how I would have to cook it. I guess I'll figure it out before the expiration date on April 20th... So...in the end I think I have to re-evaluate my opinion on the activity of stalking...at least when it comes to food-stalking. After all, it can make the difference between an ok and a an amazing day out!

The best shop in the uk and perhaps the world. I got a falafel wrap here like 3 or 4 years ago and…read moreI think about it twice every day because it was the most delicious thing I have ever eaten. All of the employees deserve a nobel prize for their contributions to humanity

Are you in need of a place where you can both indulge in a delicious Middle-Eastern wrap and…read morebreast-feed your baby? - Well, then you should come to Phoenicia! Phoenicia is a lot: it's a supermarket, a butcher, a quick-lunch place, as well as a place where you can come to and have a lovely chat with a friend while eating away at their delicious selection of baklava. As for the wraps/sandwiches, there are basically two choices: the Lebanese wrap (a plain flat-bread wrap) or the Moroccan wrap (a flat-bread with spinach inside). Once you've made this difficult choice, you have to make more choices...you can fill your wrap with salads (such as tabbouleh), spreads (such as humous) and meats (such as spicy chicken or merguez). But, if you don't want to choose, you might as well order two kinds of wraps as the prices of one is very reasonable. Later, you may want to top it all off with a nice baklava, which you might even get for free if you're really nice. In fact, speaking of nice, the service here is super-friendly. Everyone is very polite and they bring your food to the table... After your lunch (or whatever you've had) you should go check out their supermarket...you will basically find here anything you need. They also have a very nice selection of organic products.

Kosher supermarket in j-town central stocks a wide array of goodies and over-salted kosher…read moredelicacies. Popped by whilst in the area to pick up Channukah candles but couldn't resist the Kosher Haribo, smoked salmon and my special favourite new green cucumbers. I'm not sure if this is the Yarden store of the Kosher brand that shares the same name but they do stock plenty of other brands too. Interesting clientele - whilst in the store a man backed into *me* and shouted 'God gave you eyes to see'. But it was his fault. Oy Gavolt!

Good store, great selection of products, especially from South Africa…read more Obviously a lot of (if not all) Yarden products but a good mix.

I still dream about their deliciously fried samosas - filled with potato and meat goodness, made…read moreperfectly. I stopped here to get a little snack before my trip out to Oxford, and I'm glad I did! A little mart that offers your basic snacks as well as other fried goodies, a nice place to fill your belly up before a bus ride. +fried samosas :D

Delicious gelato and waffle cones! Pistachio, mint chocolate, and shortbread cookies were all…read moregreat! Excellent spot to people watch too!!

I wouldn't do my usual grocery shop here, but this is a nice place to stop by for a treat or to buy…read morea food gift for someone in your life. I got some nice honey, dried fruit, marmalade, cake rusks, and crackers for a birthday gift. A friendly staff member helped me pick out a jar of honey from their cabinet and also locate other items on my list in the store. Next time I might try one of their bagels out.

Some novelties but things will cost you 3x the normal supermarket price. I thought the American…read moresection was funny but reeled at things like spray cheese for £7 and chips ahoy (US equivalent of Maryland cookies) for £10. Even "normal" products have a significant markup. The bagels - which are the main reason I went- were fine but beigel bake on brick lane and Papo's in Dalston were far better. The staff are very snooty and as I was leaving without purchasing anything eyed me down as if I was stealing. I had never experienced it and I was shocked if I admit. Overall - if you need a niche product that's only sold here it's fine, but it's not a feasible "everyday" shopping store nor is it worth the prices.