Pickle Guys

If tubs of briny veggies make your mouth water then this is the place for you. Forego the pampered pickle purchasing experiences of your past and pick out a peck of lip-​puckering treat from the rows of barrels inhabiting this Costco of preserved cucumbers, olives, tomatoes and more. It’s a tub of fun tasting new varieties and stocking up on your favorites. Prices are pretty reasonable and the quality is topnotch. If you are crazy enough to move more than an hour or so from their Flatbush or Lower East Side locations you can order directly off of their website. One thing that important to mention is that they are closed on Saturdays at both locations.

The pickle guy is extremely rude. I walked into his store looking to spend a lot of money for a pickle party that I am having. He didn’t let me taste the pickles, was extremely condescending, and seriously lacked customer service skills.
I cant even comment on the pickles because I felt so unwelcome that I left before making an order. I am the biggest pickle person you can ever meet, so this experience was extremely devastating.

Great little store with lots of pickled options, they were happy to give you tastes of things. Went in for the usual pickles, left with sours, half sours, and some amazing pickled pineapple. Friendly staff, great product.

Best pickles in Brooklyn… yes, better than the pickles in Clinton Hills (ahem)

I currently live in Hawaii and was complaining to my best friend that we don’t have anyplace in Hawaii that sells half sour pickles. She surprised me with 2 buckets of half sour pickles from the Pickle Guys in Brooklyn, NY. I’ve had their pickles before and they are the best by far! Love you guys!!!

Haha, that was my first respond when my friend asked me to join her to visit a pickles store. But then I found that she is actually serious. So I joined her, not every day I get such a unique invitation… And it didn’t end just with a unique invitation but with a unique location. You just enter the place, and you senses can’t tell if you just entered a store in Delhi or in Zanzibar.
By reading my first sentence, you already know that I am not a big pickles eater, but here if found things that I didn’t think I will see or taste: Pineapple pickles and Mango. The guy behind the counter was very friendly, and I think that since he could tell that I am not a pickle person, he offered me few tastes, and each one tasted different.
And then I tasted the olives. And then I decided that more people need to know about this cool place!

This place is pickle heaven! I will be back ASAP. Got a big container with 4 kinds of pickles, and a tub of whole grain mustard for 10 bucks. It was all bangin.’ Plus only a 5 min drive from my apartment. If you like pickles, you will appreciate the Pickle Guys.

Went to the Brooklyn location… lots of options, friendly service, delicious pickles and many more pickled items, I love the pickled mangoes and pineapple. Will come back whenever I’m in the mood for something different!

This place is much better then any hipster pickle places they are the O.G. Of pickles

Just like on the lower east side. great pickles i love sauerkraut. nice selection. clean and friendly parking is hard

Been looking around for a new pickle guy since Gus ‘moved. Mentioned it to coworker, and his reply was ‘Go see the Pickle Guys! ‘. Sam didn’t steer me wrong, they’re the real deal, barrels upon barrels of pickled/​preserved goodness! Pickles, olives, krout, pickled veggies. You can ask, and they will let you sample some items pre purchase. They sell individual pickles, & containers of various sizes for other items. Hot Jalepeno pickles I had were what I’ve been searching for, and worth the wait.

I had never heard of this place before, I stumbled upon it using the ‘monocle’ on the Unilocal app. It wasn’t far from me so I walked there. Doesn’t seem like there’s much parking near by.
The second you open that door, your nose is flooded with all these different pickle aromas! And that’s not a bad thing! It’s a strange layout, barrels with picked … Well… Everything! the guy serving seemed to be the only staff member in store at the time. But he was nice and happily answered a couple of questions I had.
I ordered some Hot half sour pickles, and sweet red peppers. they were put into separate plastic containers (which will come in handy at some point in the future I’m sure) and then filled the container with the juice they were in.
The hot half sour pickles were nice, although they were more bitter than hot I think. I still like them. And the sweet red peppers were, flavorful, juicy and of course… Sweet!
I’ll probably order something else next time, just to try other things. The prices are reasonable too. Next time I’m making burgers at home… I’m coming here to add new flavors to it!

What is this magic? A whole shop full of fermenters with all sorts of pickled things? Is this what awaits me in the afterlife? Or simply just the kind of thing you find in Midwood? Could be a little of both, I hope.
This shop offers kosher pickles made under strict rabbanical supervision. Everything from mangoes to watermelon to a full line of cucumbers. Sours, half-​sours, spicy and more. And plenty of other stuff. Olives, turnips, garlic… you get the picture.
Are they good? Yes. The spicy pickles are fantastic, and the sours are tasty. The mangoes are interesting, with cloves and similar spicing. The sheer assortment is overwhelming, and they’ll let you try out the goods before buying. Add on that the guys pulling the pickles are friendly enough, and you have a winner.
I don’t know if I’m spoiled by Portland’s ferments or it’s the fact that these are more traditional pickles, but I’m not as big a fan of these as I am of the ones I can find at home. But that doesn’t take too much away from the pure awesomeness of this concept and the sheer selection of pickled goods.

Don’t leave this place without trying the pickled pineapple and mango. You won’t regret it. The only issue is that there is never any parking in the area.

i mean, really?
look at my name. if i fully endorse this place 1,000%, that’s probably a good sign.
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dear pickle guys,
thank you for opening a location in the heart of the place with the people who admire you the most.
with love,
every jewish person in south brooklyn, ever.

I know a good pickle when I see one. And I am very particular about my pickles.
BEST SOUR AND HALF SOUR PICKLES on the planet earth! 75 cents buys you some happiness in a tiny bag. 1.50 will buy two! I can eat a whole barrel. They are tasty, fresh, have the right about of crunch and wont make you too thirsty after. The service is always friendly and they have other pickled stuff too, cabbage, tomatoes, mushrooms, olives, some interesting looking green stuff.
One word –yum!!!

Yes, they make good pickles… No surprise there!
The location is good, but i just wish the meter maids weren’t so crazy about giving me a ticket. Coney Island is a hassle!
Talk about being in a pickle!

The pickles are pretty good. I liked the pickled mango too. But one of the guys who works here is a jerk. Maybe he thinks he is being cute but he is condescending and it makes me not want to come here. There are plenty other places to get pickles in Brooklyn.

This place has a huge selection of pickled products. This location is deep in Brooklyn in Midwood which is close to me. They have all kinds of pickles, other vegetables even fruit. I loved the pickled mango, pickled pineapple, and the sweet sauerkraut. The staff is friendly and very helpful. The prices are reasonable. I definitely have to go to their LES location.

I grew up making pickles in my grandma’s kitchen, so I’m a little picky about my pickles. That’s why I love the pickle guys so much. Whenever we have a party or a get together (once a week or so), I love to stop in to pickle guys to get the goods to make a platter. I love their hot-​sour!
A little pricy but totally worth it. Much tastier than the pickles at the grocery store down the ave.

Was walking past this place on Christmas morning and decided to stop in. So glad we did, b/​c my fiancé and I are hugeeee pickle fans. There was a sample plate of half-​sours and after our first sample we ordered a quart of those! So good and just right. We went on to taste (and buy) the Spicy pickles (my fiancé is in love with them) and the pickled mango. So glad we found this place and so glad they ship b/​c we don’t live in the area, but we will be ordering from them again and again.
The guy at the counter was suepr pleasant when it came to offering explanations for any and everything we wanted to try as well as offering sample after sample.

I used to be a faithful customer to the famous Guss Pickles on the Lower East Side in Manhattan. I was devastated to learn that they closed down their location in Manhattan and moved to somewhere in Brooklyn about a year ago. I was never able to figure out the address to the new place and felt very deprived of good pickles, especially my favorite kind, spicy half sours. Yes dear Unilocalers, I even like to have my pickles burn me.
Recently, I’ve found out about The Pickle Guys and how the owners were former Guss Pickles employees that opened their own shop. They not only have a shop that were only a mere stone throw away from the original Guss Pickles location, but they even opened up a newer location in Brooklyn within a easy drive from where I live. Woot woot!!!
The small shop carries barrels and barrels of a large variety of pickled items out in the open for patrons to gawk at. These range from traditional fares such as pickles, hot cherry peppers, olives, sour kraut, etc… but they also carry some exotic and sometimes seasonal pickled items. Pickled watermelon anyone? Yeah, I can’t wrap my mind around that one either. Sadly the pickled watermelon was out of season during my visit so I can’t report back whether it succeeds in taste but I could tell you that the current spring’s seasonal offering, pickled pineapple, is awesome.
The staff so far have been a very patient lot and are more than willing to answer any questions. Patrons are free to ask for samples before they purchase something. During the time I was there, they had no problem with letting me sample 6 items after I already bought my pickles.
So why am I gushing so much about a mere pickle place? Try sampling a properly made small batch pickles which is snappy, crunchy, and retains a small bit of flavor from it’s cucumber origin, and compare it to the processed, heated, mushy, canned variety that have lost almost all of it’s cucumber flavor and you’ll see. Better yet, if you could stand a bit of heat in your food, try out the spicy half sour or spicy sour pickles. Let it pickle in it’s brine for a week after it’s purchase. You’ll never go back to the store bought ones again.
FYI. Everything is kosher here and is being overlooked by a rabbi for those that thinks this is important.