I love this shop. Ever since we moved to the Netherlands and my father found the Kanaalstraat, he's been dragging me there. Yes, dragging, I don't really find Kanaalstraat all too interesting.
We used to have a few shops that we frequented that have now gone that I didn't mind going to. But this shop, this one I even volunteer to go to!
My dad loves to find some of the stuff that we buy in Israel and can't usually get here and quite frankly, I do too! I must say that the shop has lost a little bit of it's charm with the redecorating they did last year, but it does look a lot neater and it means more room for the gigantic assortment of nuts they added, including chocolate covered nuts. Mmm...
Other than that, the shop has a nice array of cheeses, high quality fresh produce, lovely snacks and ingredients that you just can't get at a Dutch store and also a lot of different pasta's, pulses and sweets.
The only thing I can't quite figure out is why the store is called Perse Polis and it says to be a Persian grocery store. My dad being a chatty Cathy of course knows his vendors and these guys are Iranian! Oh well, I'm not sure it's even a mystery that I want to solve. ;) read more