{"id":45495,"date":"2026-10-07T05:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T05:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/us\/45495\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T05:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T05:00:11","slug":"6-grocery-stores-with-the-best-international-foods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/us\/45495\/","title":{"rendered":"6 Grocery Stores With the Best International Foods"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the best selection of global flavors, seek out these specialty supermarkets.<\/p>\n

The United States has been called \u201cthe great melting pot,\u201d due to the influx of\u00a0immigrants from all over the world that now call the country home. But that\u2019s not always represented\u00a0in the nation\u2019s grocery stores. Most supermarkets offer a wide assortment of American staples, but\u00a0are oftentimes more limited when it comes to international foods.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s where specialty retailers come in handy. While you might not be able to find specific\u00a0spices from India, or produce from Latin America at any grocery chain, there are plenty of\u00a0specialty grocers with a wide abundance of international foods to shop for.<\/p>\n

Whether you need gochujang to whip up some Korean dishes, or real Italian-style biscotti straight to\u00a0serve for dessert, it\u2019s important to visit a grocery store that has a great\u00a0international selection, and here are some of the best options.<\/p>\n

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\tH Mart<\/p>\n

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With 78 locations nationwide, H Mart is hands-down the most popular Asian\u00a0grocery store in the country. The chain, which originated in New York City, is popular along both\u00a0coasts and also operates stores in Texas, Hawaii, Illinois, and Michigan.<\/p>\n

Upon opening in the 1980s, the grocery chain initially specialized in Korean foods, and it\u00a0continues to have a great selection, selling shrimp-flavored crackers, red bean ice\u00a0cream, and of course, lots of kimchi. But since then, it has expanded to offer up foods from other\u00a0Asian culinary traditions like Japanese pickles and Chinese bao.\u00a0H Mart also sells kitchenware like rice cookers, sushi rollers, and kimchi mats.<\/p>\n

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\tFood Bazaar<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s not hard to come across international food in New York City. It\u2019s made even easier by Food Bazaar, a supermarket chain that specializes in Latin American and Caribbean items. The\u00a0grocery chain, which also has locations in Connecticut and New Jersey, has 24 stores in the city\u00a0and Long Island.\u00a0Food Bazaar caters almost exclusively to the city\u2019s immigrant community. According to its\u00a0website, the retailer takes pride in bringing its customers food that they\u2019d find \u201cback home,\u201d like\u00a0Peruvian papa seca, or plantains from Guatemala. Food Bazaar doesn\u2019t just limit itself to Latino items, either. The store also offers a variety of\u00a0Asian foods.6254a4d1642c605c54bf1cab17d50f1e<\/p>\n

\tTimes Supermarket<\/p>\n

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If you live in, or have vacationed on any of the Hawaiian islands, there\u2019s a good chance you\u2019ve\u00a0come across Times Supermarket. Based in Honolulu, the grocery store chain has\u00a0dozens of locations throughout the islands, providing food and, of course, postcards and\u00a0Hawaiian souvenirs. The groceries include not only Hawaiian staples\u00a0like fresh poke and POG juice but also a large selection of imported Japanese items, including Miko Instant Miso soup\u00a0and Yaki Sushi Nori. The chain is owned by Japanese supermarket company\u00a0Don Quijote and its expanded Japanese section takes up several rows in the stores.<\/p>\n

\tEataly<\/p>\n

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With a name like Eataly it doesn\u2019t take a culinary expert to guess what kind of food this\u00a0marketplace chain sells. The increasingly popular chain is headquartered in Italy, but has\u00a0locations in major cities across the U.S., including Chicago, Los Angeles, New York\u00a0City, Las Vegas, Dallas, Boston and San Jose.\u00a0Each location has a wide variety of Italian foods to purchase, including more than 100 different\u00a0types of pasta to choose from, and boxes of cannolis imported straight from Italy. More than just a grocery chain,\u00a0Eataly is instead a collection of several Italian marketplaces within one\u00a0building.\u00a0While being able to buy fresh, Italian ingredients is great, they\u2019re useless if you don\u2019t know how\u00a0to use them. Conveniently, Eataly also offers cooking classes guided by the store\u2019s chefs, who\u00a0share their wisdom on how to make the best regional Italian dishes.<\/p>\n

\tPatel Brothers<\/p>\n

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Patel Brothers has everything that shoppers need to prepare Indian cuisine, with shelves\u00a0packed with various curries, spices, and teas. It also sells produce that\u2019s rarely found in other\u00a0supermarkets, like dosakai, a popular melon, and \u00a0tindora, a tropical vine.\u00a0For shoppers who love Indian cuisine but don\u2019t know where to start, the brothers also founded\u00a0Raja Foods, a subsidiary of the Patel brand, that makes pre-packaged Indian meals which can\u00a0be quickly heated up.\u00a0Founded in 1974 by two Chicago brothers, Patel Brothers has grown to become the country\u2019s\u00a0largest Indian grocery store with 54 locations across the country. Several Patel Brothers stores\u00a0are found in Indian enclaves throughout the country, along Chicago\u2019s Devon Avenue and in\u00a0Houston\u2019s Mahatma Gandhi District.<\/p>\n

\tSedano\u2019s Supermarkets<\/p>\n

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Because of its proximity to Caribbean and Latin American countries, Florida is a hub for\u00a0delicious Cuban, Puerto Rican and Jamaican food. You can find all the ingredients for these great flavors at\u00a0Sedano\u2019s\u00a0Supermarkets, the\u00a0country\u2019s largest Latin food retailer.\u00a0The chain has more than 33 stores in the Sunshine State, and offers an array of Latin American\u00a0produce that\u2019s not found at just any grocery store, like Mexican papaya, malanga and plantains.\u00a0The store\u2019s bakery section isn\u2019t lacking either, with fresh-made guava pies and dulce de leche.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For the best selection of global flavors, seek out these specialty supermarkets. The United States has been called \u201cthe great melting pot,\u201d due to the influx of\u00a0immigrants from all over the world that now call the country home. But that\u2019s not always represented\u00a0in the nation\u2019s grocery stores. Most supermarkets offer a wide assortment of American<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45496,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2973,2459,5294,5292,5290,5293,5291],"class_list":["post-45495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hawaii","tag-grocery-shopping","tag-grocery-stores","tag-hawaii","tag-hawaii-dining","tag-hawaii-food","tag-hawaii-grocery-stores","tag-hawaii-restaurants"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/vive.im\/@dc\/117397869247703383","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}