Mexican grocery stores are the best because as soon as you walk in, you can smell the freshly baked Mexican bolillo bread, tortillas, tamales, cooked chicharrón, carnitas, hot chocolate drinks from the bakery and food court. Northgate Markets, remind me of my visits to Mexico with all the amazing food, piñatas, and clay ceramics they import from Mexico. We stopped at Northgate Market the Paramount, CA location because we were in the area. We bought chicken, pork and sweet tamales they were EXCELLENT!! We also bought a champurrado drink and Atole de nuez "Mexican hot drink with pecans" both were 5/5 stars but my favorite drink was the Atole with pecans. It's a sweet creamy drink with chopped pecans. Their store in Paramount provided excellent customer service. If you've never been to these stores, check out your nearest Northgate Market. Happy Yelping :) read more

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It was an okay experience. Nothing about it screamed 5 stars to me. Lines at the counter are limited which leads to longer wait times checking out. I went there for the ceviche, which is currently at $11.99 a pound. I got the ceviche de camaron y pulpo. This stuff was SPICY, but oh so good! I did have to remove a fair amount of the chopped chillies in there and I realized that they also add in habanero chillies into the mix. Service was okay. The place can get crowded. I tend to only go when I want my ceviche fix. read more

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Northgate market is one of my favorite places to buy groceries, today I had a horrible experience with a cashier named Angelica, she began bagging my groceries as the associates always do. Then she said why don't you bag your own groceries and pointed to the bags, so I did. I hope I never run into her again. read more

I came in today to buy some gum because I had an interview and needed a pick me up. Went up to the register and was greeted by an Ariana. She was absolutely charming in every way and was very comfortable whipping up a conversation. Even some of the other staff chimed in on the jokes she was making. Very great atmosphere here. Not sure why there's so many bad reviews. I come here a lot and have never had a problem. But today really reminded me of why this Northgate is such a great store. Great service and even greater people working here! read more

Heading to the drive in and stopped here for snacks. No long lines, it was fast and convenient. Found lots of snacks and more. read more

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Great ambiance, bakery and selections. Workers are friendly and helpful. Prices are good.

Meat department as soon as you get close to the area it stinks. It stinks like you're not wanna be up there. Everything else looks good but the meat department is horrible. read more

Northgate Market - a variety of meats for sale - Grocery Near Me - Paramount, California

I would really improve there 10 items line check out the times I've gone it's always the same problem it's never respected, people with over 10 items always go to check out on this line and the cashier never tells them anything they take them, even if we tell the customer they ignore us also , this morning I went for 5 items I needed and this lady in front of me had over 20 items I told her this lane is for 10 items she ignored me and went to asked the cashier the cashier said yes it's ok instead of her saying to her she needs to go to another cashier this would help not make the line so long which it ended up becoming so long when it was not , the cashier took her anyway, this store has to have more respect to there customers and rules why even have a 10 items lane if you don't even limit the items I know other stores do, I guess this is why this is the reason I stopped coming to this store but I was in the area and I needed something really fast it will be a long time I will be back here again or maybe not read more

As a frequent customer at Northgate I am always greeted by the kind manager (the pale one with glasses); She is super helpful and takes her time to help me find the quality dog food that I like. Not only that but she makes me feel welcomed and at ease because as a child I forced to eat dog food for dinner. And that never really went away even with the years of therapy, so I still snack on it once in a while; But regardless, she assisted me along the way and even recommended the best brand of dog food I've ever had. Such kind and wonderful staff and the dog food was really crunchy and had the perfect Smokey roast complexion to it. read more

Don't come here unless you want expired food or moldy food. I came here multiple times thinking maybe i just got a bad batch of fruit or food but my last straw was when i got moldy tamales that have been expired FOR A WHOLE MONTH. read more

Northgate Market - Grocery Near Me - Paramount, California

We always buy our lunch from Northgate The tortas are amazing! But already 3 times in different Northgate we have noticed the protien ( carnitas, asada, etc They are putting minimal meat in burritos Tacos tortas.. If i wanted a bean burrito or bean torta i would have ordered one. I know recesión is starting but ..this is not Northgate Quality. read more

Short staffed as the managers are cashiers and no security either. My dad's truck got stolen right in front of the store (literally where the entrance door and carts are). My dad was left with no comfort and no one to help him. He's 60 and we are in holidays season. Disappointing to know there's no customer service or security in this one. You are safer in the Compton one than this one. read more

Grabbed a groceries trip and 3 days later everything went bad fruit, meat, and vegetables and it was refrigerated

They tried compensating me $20 on account of the COCKROACH that came out in my tacos. Never going back to northgate again read more

Northgate Market - COCKROACH with chicken on a tortilla - Grocery Near Me - Paramount, California

This review is for the hot food service only! The hot food service has a variety of mexican foods from tacos, tortas, tamales, soups, burritos, 1/2 and whole chickens, and more! Tortas ($7)-The tortas are bomb! Large tortas with layers and layers of ingredients. Your choice of meat. I got it with carne asada which was delciious and flavorful. Very generous with the amount of meat in each sandwich. They start with a layer of refried beans, followed by the meat, lettuce, avocado, tomato, jalepenos, and huge block of queso fresco. The tortas are not only beautifully made, they are tasty with every bite. To top it off, the bread is toasted perfectly on the grill. Large tacos loaded with meat for $2. Choose from carne asada, chicken, lengua, and carnitas. They were out of lengua which my coworkers rave about. I will have to try that some other time. I got one carne asada, chicken and carnitas. The meats were bland and did not have much flavor. My tacos came with green salsa which give the tacos a good flavor and kick. The tacos had double tortillas which could have been split into 6 tacos since there was so much meat. I had this for lunch and was stuffed for the rest of the day. I didn't even have dinner that day. Agua Frescas ($2): Many many choices for you to choose from. There are milky and sweeter drinks with sweet condensed milk and other lighter fruit/vegetable drinks. I got the pineapple spinach which was very refreshing and not too sweet. read more

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Some cashier's don't like to help bag. Even if it's not busy, if they don't have someone else bagging, they won't help you.

El pastel de tres leches esta malisimo. Pensando que era un local fui a otro y otro y igual salen secos. Pedi leche aparte y no me quieren dar. Perfecto, yo lo compro pero ni asi me quieren vender los manejadores. Esta mejor ir a la Superior. read more

Northgate Market - En la foto se ve como esta de seco, solo una lambidita de leche ariba. Estan mejor en la Superior. - Grocery Near Me - Paramount, California

We waited at the meat department for over all an hour because they only had one person. Really? Are you serious? Only one person for over 15 customers waiting in line. When we ask the manager to add extra people to help with the line, she just froze, she had nothing to say, what kind of management is this? Won't be back. But I do recommend Carniceria Nueva Vallarta, is just down the street on Alondra & Downey. We went there & they have the best meat you can find. Way better than Northgate, better service & no lines. It took us no more than 5 minutes to walk-in, get our meat & be out the door. read more

I don't know who told them cooks they know how to cook! All the hot food is disgusting. read more

Northgate Market - Dry and hard chicharones, arroz acedo and awful Chile relleno! - Grocery Near Me - Paramount, California

Las carne la venden expirada y el pollo tambien y las orejas de puerco podridas y apestosas. Deberian tener a alguien Que cheque la carniceria eso no esta bien read more

Northgate Market - Pork ears - Grocery Near Me - Paramount, California

The store itself is fine. Pricey at times but ultimately a good place for our groceries. My gripe is with their money sending area, Prospera. The people in that area are utterly rude and do not seem to have ANY customer service training. I've had issues two separate times when I tried to send money to Mexico. First, they tell me I can't send a certain amount without two different identifications because I had sent money the month before. What business is it of theirs how often or how much I send??? When I tried to send money today, I was DENIED because supposedly I wasn't the person on my driver's license. Seriously??? Never again! read more

W we not to buy meat for tacos o. Friday, thank G6, I decided to buy it separately and not the taquiza the sell and I always buy. Okay will get to my point bought that and other items. Got home cooked the chicken meat first and good and then the beef which I went with the one with to less fat great choice. Okay when it came time and started cooking the meat of El pastor horrible the smell was bad the whole was smelling bad so I stopped and had to throw it out my husband was asking what is tu hat smell and my kids question how can you sell something that get people sick or worse. I just think how many people bought the the taquiza not good. I did called a lady told me come in I will take care of it. My point is this shouldn't be happening. This stores make so mu h money from our communities and our people we trust them it upset me. But it the job of the manager of the meat department. So please watch what you buy and cook carefully mi gente. read more

Ya mero me picaban la cara con una pluma! Anoche fui a comprar 20 minutes antes que cerraran y una trabajadora le pidio una pluma al cajero de enfrente. Sin decir cuidado me rozo la pluma por la cara! Fue en la primera caja a la izquierda! Trabajadora una mujer delgada morena madura! Vieja animal! read more

People that work on the meat department take so long and they have some personal issues they really need more people to work in the meat Department they need more staff to help that meat department every time I come there is a lot of customers waiting be attendant and nothing please store Manager so something about this issue with the meat department??? read more

Compre unos productos, y fue un gran error. Compre 4 aguacates y todos me salieron malos. Manzanas , duraznos, y un melón. Al día siguiente echados a perder. La línea de la carnicería está bastante lenta, no tienen suficiente cajeros. Y aparte de todo , uno cree que ayuda a la comunidad latina. Ni madres, todo está el mismo precio de Ralphs , Albertsons, etc. Mejor les recomiendo que vayan ahí. Por lo menos los productos son más buenos. Vayan preparando estar en línea por 20 minutos y más. Jamás llevo mi negocio a un lugar asqueroso read more

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Bought a flan yesterday and found a hair baked into it! Wtf do you now wear hair nets here? read more

Northgate Market - Found a hair in my flan - Grocery Near Me - Paramount, California

The store has false advertising and poor customer service. My mother went in on 2/25/18 to make a purchase. The paper and online sale ads were advertising Frito Lays brand chips as 3 for $5. The cashier rang up the chips as $2.69 a bag instead the advertised price from the store. I went online and looked at the 2/21/18-2/27/18 weekly ad and sure enough it has the advertisement my mother was trying to tell the cashier about. She was very rude and asked her for payment before my mother insisted that the ad had a 3 for $5 price. The cashier sent another employee to check the price but my mother simply asked for her change back and exited the store. Will not return here. read more

Northgate Market - Grocery Near Me - Paramount, California

Oh my! So I absolutely love their pozole and salsas, but after my experience with one of their agua frescas, I don't think I could ever purchase anything from there again. I purchased one liter of the frescas con crema drink and there were THREE pieces of plastic. I will be taking it in for a refund. This is obviously a health hazard. Hope management sees this and does something about their quality control. read more

Northgate Market - Grocery Near Me - Paramount, California

I used to lived in the area (2010) and go to this place often, the service wasn't good but the food was, now I moved back and service is really bad, the employees (some (most of them)) don't even want to speak english so on top of finally getting someone to help I also got to learn spanish to get three tamales which turn out to be as tasteless as the service. read more

Very horrible customer service from the staff of Prospera. It's not the message is the tone of the message that is being conveyed to the customer. When you provide all the documentation that is requested and simply because they don't like you because they can't provide a legit reason why money can't be sent to your country is not acceptable. The excuse is "money gram is stricter", but in what way? Provide reasons so all customers can prepare with the knowledge and be able to support documents in order to send money. For the customers that are in line, they do not have a sign/list of the required paperwork that is needed to send money as it's confidential as it "depends per person." But having a generic message on the counter for all persons that are in line for hours when the lines are long. Should not be hard to do nor confidential. A simple sign saying "please be prepared to provide the following documents, if needed xxx as rules and regulations have changed with Money Gram". This way a lot of people don't stand in line for nothing. Or better yet stand in line for an hour to be told on the register you cant send money. Just because it's Paramount and we are Hispanic. The staff cannot treat customers as criminals. The entire Prospera Staff needs retraining on customer service! There is a manager there all the time, pero se pasan la bolita saying "she is not here. We don't have a site manager". Because they don't want to hear complaints from customers. Seriously, if they don't like their job. They need to get a higher education, get a different job and find their soul purpose, but a simple thing as being nice and respectful to customers is not hard to do!!! Northgate should enforce rules of etiquette /customer service to their subleasers that rent booths at their locations. Or better yet if it's that one employee with the attitude, a corrective action should be given or that employee should be permanently be removed from their position. At the end of the day is the reputation of Northgate that is on the line. read more

Love how big the store is . Love how they make their tortillas there bc the one off la Palma unfortunately doesn't have this luxury. Love their pollo asado and carnitas ( ready to eat aka already cooked ) . read more

4:30pm 06/21/20 First time here, first impressions Groceries staff helped me wonders Cashier with long thin hair with earrings, first time in my life have I went to check out and said hi and thank you and he never looked at me or said hi or the total or reply back when I said thank you. How tf did you get hired this guy is literally the bottom of the standard and I barely write reviews Don't know how name, might be able to tell from his trashy hair and somebody should tell him those earrings are for little girls read more

Mal servicio! Estube en la carniceria y 2 empleados se la pasaron platicando y criticando al cliente porque a una persona se le paso el numero y tubo que agarrar otro, eso es entendible pero que se la pasen diciendo que ellos siempre van a tener la culpa enfrente de otro cliente y hablando cosas personales... osea van a trabajar o a platicar... eso haganlo cuando es tu tiempo de... me parecio irrespetuoso su trato! No regresarè mas... read more

I rarely come to this particular Northgate location...I usually travel to the one on Cherry Ave and Del Amo in Long Beach. WHICH I SHOULD HAVE DONE YESTERDAY! I went in for some pre made rice and beans because I wanted to make dinner quick and simple. The rice was completely rancid! How TF do you ruin something as simply made as rice?! Then I noticed the expiration date 7/14/17!!! That's 2 days old on the shelf! ABSOLUTELY NOTHING should be expired or spoiled from their pre made section...I mean come on they have a cocina right there!! I'm going to travel further to go to the LB location if I feel like getting any more pre made items from Northgate. Paramount Northgate you suck! read more

Stop in when only need a few things and it's always quick, there's usually somewhere to park and the employees are friendly. The prices are little higher but that's expected. read more

went yesterday and when the cashier was charging me she charged me wrong . . i got 3 bags of flamas doritos they were suppose to be buy 3 for the price of $1.99 . . the cashier charged me $2.49 for each bag i got the receipt to prove it . . then i have also purchased some eggs and somehow they didnt end up in my cart as i was leaving . . i remember seeing the cashier already loading some other customers stuff into the "bag up your groceries zone "so i figured i didnt leave anything behind "wrong"! they were left behind so i noticed when i got home although cashier was very nice but charged me wrong and rushed me to leave which caused me to leave my eggs behind . . next time i will triple check for over-pricing and making sure all my groceries are on my cart read more

Be careful --the ladies who bag your food will toss your delicate fruit into your bag and bruise your apples and bananas. Also, be watchful because they will bag your hot pan dulce with your cold cheese and butter. It's either laziness or just being rude. It's happened to me so many times here. I'm irritated tonight by this fact. It's empty here pretty much. Maybe everyone is at Vallarta of Imperial Blvd/paramount Blvd. I like coming here to shop but I hate the way they bag my food. I'm spending my money here so why can't the ladies be more careful when bagging my food. I rather bag my own food like food for less than let this happen. read more

Just what I need during these tough economic times: Another Hispanic market that offers low prices to its customers trying to save a buck that seems to get away. Yes, it caters to Hispanics but they do offer an excellent variety of items essential for your grocery shopping experience as well as your palate. Nice and clean as well as pretty helpful staff. You can also pay your Edison bill here free of charge. Disclaimer: There is a Chase branch here for those who have Chase and need their monetary matters taken care of. read more

Ceviche de camaron y tostadas...... *drool* It's only Northgate that I've been to where they all don't stare at me and think to themselves "¿Qué diablos es eso gringa haciendo aquí?".... and I feel better if they didn't. :) Seriously, my coworkers and I totally dig this place. There's nothing in there we don't buy at Northgate! It would be 5 stars, but alas.... parking is crap. And there are crazy-ass drivers there.... I always feel like accidents are just waiting to happen in that lot. read more

I came here to pick up some Mexican ingredients. Parking can be difficult because of the location of the store. I didn't appreciate the cashier speaking to me in Spanish. Yes I understand it's a Hispanic store but don't assume just because someone looks Hispanic that they speak Spanish. Besides this is America. English should be used as a first language no matter where you're at unless the other person speaks a foreign language. The entire staff seems stuck up. read more