Bestway Supermercado

Large supermarket eith everything that you need for Hispanic/​Latino cooking and snacking, along with some select Asian food products. It can be very easy to miss the parking lot entrance, but that’s not their fault.

Most of time I’ve shopped here the place is stocked and usually has what I need. Avoid the frozen foods esp the veggies. The frozen green beans I bought had freezer burn, so it was completely unusable. Meat is cheap but you get what you pay for. Who knows where it’s sourced from. I go here for the produce (plantains, cilantro, etc) mainly. There is a teeny tiny section of Asian products which is great if I need fish or soy sauce in a pinch when I can’t get out to LA Mart or Global Foods.

If Latino cookery is your passion, then a visit to this Bestway is a must. All of the ingredients are waiting to be purchased and commingled.
Even if you don’t care for Latino cuisine, do come to this Bestway. This store has a produce section that puts Safeway, Giant, Harris Teeter, and Shoppers Food Warehouse stores to shame — always fresh and enticing.
And the same is true for fish. Come to this Bestway and satisfy your need for fresh seafood.
Prospective customers, operating motor vehicles, should approach this Bestway by proceeding past it going south on Telegraph Road, make a U-​turn at Farmington Drive and enter the store parking lot by making a right turn on to Lenore Lane.

A spur of the moment decision lead me to Bestway Supermercado, and I have to say that the experience wasn’t all that bad. I often hit a Latin market on Rt 1, so I’m not new to this type of shopping experience where the smells of real food hit you as soon as you enter the doors and strange but exciting items can be had just a few coin. Yes, this place is pretty much the same; however, it is well-​lit and stylistically, its layout seems a bit closer to Safeway.
Still, overall, it was a pretty nice experience. Oh, and they even had my Mexican style sour cream in a squeeze bottle, which is supposed to enhance the taste of tacos and salads, but let’s face it, I squeeze that stuff into my mouth like Bart Simpson and Milhouse drink frozen Squishies from Apu’s tap.
Yup, it was all there for the taking: Sour cream, green mangoes, cheese, ears of corn, a ton of Pepsi, and lunch meat… All of it for just under $ 20, which I am pretty sure that I could never pull off at Safeway. But the prize that really caught my eye was a row of pinatas lining the front window. They were exquisitely made, and my eyes soon settled on an Aquamarine bull that seemed to be calling my name. «Jeff, buy me. It will be mootastic!»
«Look, Ferdinand, I’m sorry, but I have absolutely no use a Toro piñata.»
«You do, my chubby little matador, you do… You just don’t know it yet.»
«Well, if you’re going to get cheeky, Ferdinand, you can just hang up there until next year’s Cinco De Mayo, for all I care.»
So it was that I somehow managed to resist this bovine siren’s call, but on the drive home, I couldn’t get the idea of owning an aquamarine Toro piñata out of my head. What could I possibly use it for? OMG light bulb moment!!! I could stuff it full of mini bottles and turn it into the perfect adult birthday present… Olé! It seems that Bestway really does have everything a shopper needs. Time to go pick up Ferdinand.

Nice hispanic mercado with full line of products.

Do you know how hard it is to find green platains in VA? It’s hard man! The struggle! Giant has platains that are «green» but they’re soft inside and sweet and not ideal for when you want to make tostones. They also have fresh guayabas! OMG I haven’t seen guayabas in NY for months! And they have the little yellow ones and the green sour ones! And golden apples!!! And tamarind!!! And ginups!!! This is the mecca of Hispanic food. Also, everything here is cheap, eggs, cheese, bread, fresh meat and fish, so recent college graduate me is ecstatic about finally finding this little gem with items from home!!! Oh and their Asian food selection is also the
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If you’re looking for a place with cheap cuts of meat and fresh produce, look no further.
Don’t be scared of the name, embrace it! I have a friend who refuses to shop here because he thinks it’s «all Spanish stuff», which is borderline racist — but that’s another story. I went in Bestway for a few beers and came out with four bags of groceries!
I love the ethnic items at low prices and when I saw how fresh all the meat was, my face lit up. The fishy smell you might notice coming in is from all the fish in the back sitting out. I’m not sure I’d get any fish from here but the cuts of meats looked colorful and fresh. The staples of a meal weren’t pricey, it’s all the processed stuff that’s a little bit more.
Everything is easy to find, they have a variety of beers (some imported), and there’s even a yummy food truck in the parking lot on warm days.
If you need something quick for dinner and pass this before Wal-​Mart, give it a try, you’ll be surprised.

I wouldn’t say it’s the best way for everything, but for cheaper produce, spices and a ginormous selection of Cotija cheese varieties, you’ve come to the right place.
I’d skip out on the meat here — while there is plenty of it, I wouldn’t say the quality is up to par. The fish is a bit better, if you can handle the stench navigating through the end aisles.
Special bonus is the taco truck that is parked in front most days — delicious Horchata and the tacos are decent.

Its such a relief to finally find a really well stocked and clean supermercado somewhat close to DC. They have obscure stuff from many countries in Central and South America. I havent bought any meat yet, but it does look really fresh.
I am a big fan.

Fantastic source for so-​called ethnic foods and ingredients; from yucca, to aichote, to West African yams. I love the produce section here for the variety and reasonable prices. I don’t buy anything else here, but noticed they do have an impressive meat section (which seems to include any and all parts of cows & pigs)!

I love Bestway! The spices & produce are so inexpensive & great quality. I grew up in California & still can’t bring myself to pay most East Coast market’s prices for produce but I can get avocados & mangos at Bestway for almost as cheap as in California. I don’t know how they do it!

you would think that the prices here would be cheaper than your average safeway, but it’s not… even though it’s owned by koreans. try lotte or h mart instead. i was disappointed when i only wanted 1 carrot and a small head of cabbage… there were huge bags of carrots for sale and the cabbage were all wrapped in saran wrap. no thanks. and yes, it does smell here… but the good side… they did sell logan’s chorizo here. but still does not entice me to go there again.

Super sale on eggs. 18 eggs for $ 1.99. what a steal!
Lots of fresh fruit and produce as well.

I’ve been in here a couple of times to grab a few items. They have an excellent selection of dried chili’s and other Latin ingredients. Additionally, it is extremely convenient to my boyfriend’s apartment so for getting last minute items, this is definitely a good place to go. The produce is only so so and honestly I can never see myself buying the beef, chicken or pork here, but then I see some of the reviewers are fans so perhaps i should give it a try. I will say that their prices are very good. One last note, as with many ethnic stores — you can smell the fish as soon as you walk in.

If you cook Mexican or other latin food, this is a great place! I have found everything I needed for my Mexican recipes and the prices are great.
Bonus: plenty of parking!
Negative: like typical ethnic supermarkets, it is very smelly… in particular very fishy.

I shop at Bestway for one thing: cheap meat and poultry. Mostly to be fed to my dog. :P

This is my go-​to store for barbecue meats: full packer briskets, whole racks of ribs (beef and pork), whole chickens and wings, and a decent selection of fresh head-​on fish. Just bag it, hand it to the fishmonger for cleaning and scaling, and tip a buck. Also got some nice offal like tripe, hearts, chicken feet, and the occasional frozen pigs head. Good selection of Latino foodstuffs, beans, masa, manteca, broad selection of dried spices and chilis, and their vegetables are fresh and reasonably priced. They even have some Carribeean items. Definitely doublecheck the freshness date on perishables; I was about to pickup some frozen octopus when I saw that they’d expired over a month ago, but you can get some sweet deals on about-​to-​expire veggies and fruits, which they shrinkwrap and place at the end of the potato aisle.

Yeah, the meat section here is a lil’ susspeck. A previous review by Aisha M. warns of the possible freshness foul, and I would heed it. Seafood, though, is fairly priced and you can just eye-​ball it for freshiocity. Now on to the positives! Bestway is largely a Latin market, with ingredients for everything from tortillas to pupusas (more on this later). You may need to need to brush up on your espanol if you choose to interact with the staff for more than 10 seconds. But it also has Asian owners, so you can see that represented in such vegetables as… oh crap, i don’t really know any Asian veggies. Oh wait, like eggplants and cilantro and the skinny Vietnamese chili looking things. Even more important are the different Asian condiments/​sauces available here, like the srirachi mouth destroying chili sauce, delicious Silver Swan soy sauce (from the Philippines, woot woot!) and other stuff. A friend of mine from Cali was really interested in going to shop with me here when I told her that there are taco and pupusas trucks outside of the store. This pleased her tremendously for some reason. Mobile taco dispensing units outside the store – nice touch, eh? They could clean up a little bit more though. And what’s that weird smell when you first walk in?

So you want to save money on your grocery bill this is the place to go. They have all of the american, latino and many asian vegetables. For example we got 15 limes for a $ 1, 50cents per avocado, Talapia is $ 2.99/lb. The dairy and dry goods aren’t really any cheaper. As far as the chicken look at it very closely. Despite our chicken being labeled to expire in 10 days when we looked closely at home we noticed it looked gray and indeed when we opened the bag is was spoiled. We should have paid attention to it’s grayness in the store but we missed it.