Iqbal Halal Foods

My go to place for spices like garam masala, cumin, black pepper, chilli power, bay leaves, cinnamon sticks, etc. Huge selection of masalas, beans, flour and rice.
Parking is a tad bit crazy here so I always either park at the mall and walk on a nice day or closer at the Wind store.

Hugest desi store ever. You’ll get everything you need here to make desi food. It’s all super reasonably priced but poorly organized. They have brands I hadn’t seen since my childhood. Service is awful — they will straight up lie to you if they don’t know where something is just to get rid of you. Plastic bags are overpriced and they make you bag your own stuff. The meat counter situation is ugh very messy — takes for ever, there’s budding going own, lots of yelling. Even though the meat here is of high quality and well priced, I generally just buy elsewhere so I don’t have to deal with the madness.
Even with all the flaws, you gotta love this place because it’s pretty much the only contender in the giant desi superstore niche.
Protip: for additional dirty stares, wear revealing clothing and/​or bring white boyfriend.

This is where it’s AT for Indian groceries!!! They had everything I was looking for and couldn’t find downtown: fresh curry leaves, idli flours, dosa flours (and even premade mix), a tawa/​tava for making dosa (get the nonstick one on the top shelf), sambar, karelei, okra AND EVERYTHING to make pani puri! (already made puri or ones you can fry yourself, mix for cumin water, masala channa!). A few of the younger staff speak English so if you need help, just ask them, they were very friendly and helped me find everything I need.
This place also has Indian hair products like Amla oil. And they have cheap and fresh meat. I will be coming here every few weeks to stock up on my Indian supplies!

Great selection of groceries with very reasonable prices. You can get most of middle east and indian groceries that you miss back home

So far the best grocery store for South Asians. Lot of dry food brands, frozen food, fresh vegetables and fruits and halal meat. Just one drawback is long waiting time to check out.

Great spot but always make sure you weight whatever meat they give you. Normally the just eyeball it and it’s always short a couple pounds! But then charge you full price.

Leave your jacket at the door, and unbutton your pants a bit — this place is full of flavour (and smells to go with it) but solid Pakistani food. You’ll want to try everything (and perhaps regret your poor life decisions later).

If you like ethnic cooking, this place is incredible! The most diverse and vast selection of spices, flour, rice and oils. They carry pretty much every spice you’ve tried looking for at other stores and could never find. They also have a produce and meat section, which was okay, wasn’t very competitive in pricing compared to other Indian/​Pakistani/​Bengali stores but their spices mainly are an amazing bet to get great value for prices. I wish they had something like this closer to the suburbs.
Expect chaos on the weekend. The place is packed!

Wow, incredible selection! Popped in for some Pom concentrate and discovered they have several different varieties. I had purchased some on Baldwin but found that it was close to expiry once I brought it home (duh). This store is very busy so I’m assuming the turn over is much higher and the stuff I bought today has a lengthy expiry and looks brighter and fresher. I look forward to exploring more of this store as the selection is vast. The meat dept was very busy, it’s Halal.
The store is pretty clean and I only paid 5 $ for the bottle of Pom concentrate, on Baldwin it was 10 $. So it seems like it’s worth the drive for their low prices.

By far the best place to buy Indian groceries in GTA. I would say i’m a regular customer at this place, usually visit once a week to stack up my fridge with everything right from fresh meat and vegetables to practically all grocery stuffs that your kitchen needs.

Large selection. Reasonably priced.
the wait times at the meat counter are a bit too long. But the meat is of reasonable quality.

It’s pricy but at least I get the tea that I love from back home :) though there is a huge wait time at the meat section something that they should improve as waiting 2 hours is ridiculous hence 3 stars

So I come here to get my meat and groceries. The great thing about this place is that they have a alot of people in and out so you know the meat will be fresh– be sure to let the butcher know how you want it cut, cleaned etc they are pretty good, sometimes they forget but generally speaking they pay attention to how you want it cut.
Apart from that a great selection of groceries, I also get my flour, daal and spices from here. It gets very busy on Friday so avoid this place unless you don’t mind waiting. I find mornings are the best.
Fruit selection is not that great, I find that the quality is not that good so I tend to stick to things I won’t find else where like fresh dates/​kino. Grapes/​papaya etc I don’t buy from there because I find better quality at places like Walmart/​Loblaws/​No Frills, also don’t assume fruit will be cheaper here compared to other places.

Talk about a visit back home! I love coming here, staff is at times sweet and friendly. Place is always well stocked. Prices are about the same as any other place for south asian grocery. Always crowded!!! drive safe when when parking.

I visit it quite often because of all the supplies it stocks, however I dread going here. I swear some of the customers here are out to run you over with their carts. The place is loud and noisy, aisles are narrow and its always bustling with people.

In my search to get the ingredients from the sub continent the name of the place kept popping up. Unfortunately due to the location I was unable to visit this place for the longest time.
Finally made it here when I was offered a ride. Initial impression was chaos right from the parking as a) it was the weekend b) it was the weekend before the Muslim holiday of Eid.
Inside is a bit cluttered and with all the people zooming in and out it one has to watch where one goes.
However they more than make for this chaotic impression by the variety of the goods here. In addition the prices are amazing for regular everyday items like milk, bread etc.
There is dedicated area just for spice mixes (something that I use extensively when attempting to cook stuff from the sub continent)
One can also get the spices from an aisle dedicated to that to make your own mix. Some of the more exotic ingredients are available in their full glory here Kudos for that.
Frozen aisles are well stocked as well with great variety.
The meat section had lines that went on forever with a good 20 – 30 min wait to be served. Prices were decent as well and I appreciated the special cuts that are hard to source. I can’t comment on the quality of the meat as I didn’t indulge.
Some dessert samples were also being handed out and one of them was so good I ended up getting it.
I think I will need to come back here on a weekday to fully explore this store.
In the meantime if you can tolerate the chaos this place is a gem.

this place is AWESOME!
You can find EVERYTHING you need here for your cooking needs — at GREAT competitive prices!
From a butcher, to a produce section, to household cleaning supplies, to spices, condiments, snacks… and on, and on.
If you need to cook with it, its guaranteed its here.
They are open everyday until weeknights and the place is so clean!
a true hidden gem of a grocery store.
ps: its halal meat

It’s been a while since I went to Iqbal. Iqbal is the brown equivalent of H-​Mart. For those not in the know, in the US, H-​Mart is the Korean equivalent of Walmart, humongous stores filled with Korean groceries and goodness. But I digress.
Iqbal is a South Asian grocery store. Walking into it, is like being transported to the sub continent and that is why is get 4 stars. It’s very comprehensively stocked, if you need anything South Asian food related and halal, chances are Iqbal will have it. The store itself is quite well organized, clean and reasonably priced as well. It has a butchery as well which see huge line ups over the weekend. Even though the store is decently sized, if you can, avoid Iqbal Fri-​Sun.

IF your Indian or Pakistani, this is the place where you can get everything… Hell you might even find a suitor for marriage…

Why has nobody reviewed this place??? This is off the hook the best halal grocery store in the GTA!!! You name it and they have it! Ill review based on categories in the store.
The Meat Department: Wow!!! I dont think ive seen something so organized before. You pull a number and can shop around the store until yours is called. They have every cut, every type of meat and super clean. The gentlemen behind the counter always understand what you are looking for. And there is none of that «khoon» smell if you know what I mean.
The Produce Department: They had chikoos, baier, custard apple, kahji etc and then the regulars like bitter gourd, cilantro, peppers, squash etc.
Breads: The rotis are plentiful and very fresh.
Spices: Again the prices are amazing and they have several sizes of packets so you arent stuck with a costco sized bag of fennel. They also have all the regulars like shan, national, suparis etc.
Misc: They have everything just go!!! Pakola, rani float, fayrouz!
They were also open until midnight during Ramadan, dont know if that is regular.