Sousa’s Wines & Liquor

A Portuguese friend of ours recommended this place. Lovely staff and a store full of portuguese goodies.

Besides a liquor store, they sell Brazilian products. Wish I had known they were there before.

So I stopped by this liquor store to purchased Powerball tickets. I had forgotten to add a number, and I have 0layed the lottery for over a decade. I filled out the missing numbers. The cashier did not tell me to go back in the line. I stood there like dumbass staring at the guy to be served. He ignored me and continued to help other customers. I decided to get back in the line. He gave me the same no smile look. He did not bother conversating or wish me good luck. The owner came up and took my tickets, process them and told the cashier, 12.00. I should have walked away from the snooty store but he was nice enough to give me a pen earlier. If I win, I better see a smile.

I have been coming here since I moved to Mountain View in April 2015. Since day one the Owner Alberto and his lovely friendly wife have always treated me as a person and not just another customer. Alberto even knows that one of my favorite beers is Steigl Pils and he will tell me most of the time if they have some in or not. I don’t buy my alcohol anywhere in the san jose, sunnyvale, mountain view, santa clara area except for here. Great people, great selection.

This is the place I come for Pao de Quejo!
and some other brazilian goodies.
The owner is nice.

The Portuguese owner was very friendly :) I was looking for Brazilian corn flour to make farofa and found it!

Good prices, good selection of Brazilian and Portuguese food and wines, also cachaças.

Great place to buy brazilian food items and portuguese cod! The owner is very friendly! Whenever kids ask for brigadeiro, pão de queijo, bombom and maracujá mousse, that is my store!

Mr. Sousa has an excellent selection of Portuguese wine, including port and Madeira. If you are longing for a different kind of wine experience this is the place to buy your liquor. In addition, you can find some fine Iberian olive oil and other specialities, such as Portuguese Maria biscuits that all children love.

I love going and buying my Brazilian goods there. The owners are Portuguese. They have a good selection of wine. My favorite is going to buy my Brazilian Easter chocolate eggs.

5 stars for having 12 packs and liters of Guarana and Pao de Queijo in their assortment! I have been on a hunt to find a local store that carries these in the Peninsula/​South Bay. I love that they speak Portuguese here. They even have Easter chocolate eggs hanging from the ceilings for a festive touch. This place takes me back to Brazil! This is now my go to place to stock up on some of my favs.

Good selection. Great prices.
Found these place via a Unilocal check-​in and walked out with a few earlier vintage Grgich and Silver Oak cabs.
Friendly cashier. Place is a bit out of the way.

Service was really bad! Nobody pay attention at this place towards the customers. This place is over priced and with non stack shelf. Will never go to this place again ever.

Great place to find Brazilian culinary ingredients, manioc flour, bacalhau, dende oil, etc. Great selection

This place has a good assortment of chachaça, including my hard to find favorite Ypioca.

This is one of the Bay Area’s glorious smallish ethnically-​specialized grocers that even attracts some shoppers from far away, for hard-​to-​find products. In this case the specialties are Brazilian and Portuguese and the proprietor is a lively wit (worth engaging if you value verbal repartee, or just need suggestions) — sample dialog in last paragraph below.
Justly famous for the bite-​sized Brazilian cheese appetizers (exact name and spelling: pão de queijo, «cheese bread»), sold frozen in bags in various versions and flavors. As the Merck Index might warn: Caution! Addictive!
Made from tapioca-​starch dough with cheese added, they’re a unique, denser, intenser cousin of French gougères (I see gougères occasionally in US restaurants, and people make them at home — they’re the timeless perfect simple accompaniment to good red wine). One of these days some NYT food journalist will get around to writing an article making pão de queijo trendy, then everyone in the US will be chattering about them and displaying hipness by serving them with cocktails. If you don’t want to wait for all that, go to Sousa’s now. I’m told the shop even keeps a toaster oven in the back to offer hot samples sometimes. I find Sousa’s frozen pão de queijo cook up best in a full-​size oven on a non-​stick cookie sheet or cake pan, not rushed, allowed to brown gently.
I’ve also found unusual Portuguese pastas and other ingredients at Sousa’s, and there are many items I don’t recognize at all.
Note that Mountain View has long housed a significant ethnic-​Portuguese population (many of its families having roots in the Azores), with local festivals and two Portuguese community organizations with meeting halls (IFES, SLV).
Besides groceries and the said dangerously habit-​forming frozen appetizers, Sousa’s is a wine and liquor store with (naturally!) vast selection of Port wines especially. (Sample of actual repartee with proprietor: Me: I need some Port to cook with. He: These ports are in your price range but too good to cook with, they’re for drinking. Me: Then they’re good for cooking too, because if you cook with an inferior wine it shows in the flavor. He: I’ll drink to that.)

A true gem of Mountain View that only the locals know about.
If you have never been — it’s not just a liquor store. They have a nice market with imports from Europe and Brazil. I believe it is the only Brazilian market in the area. Even if you have no desire to have Brazilian foods, you must try their Pao de Queijo, their cheese rolls shipped in frozen from Brazil. He even has mixed in which you can make your own Pao de Queijo, but it’s hard to beat the frozen ones.
They also have a great wine selection that’s great in price. The owner Al who is Portuguese carries a good bit of Portuguese and Spanish wines. if you are in the mood for Port or something else liquid from the Iberian peninsula, this is the place to go.
Make sure you get to know the owner Al. Purchasing wine and groceries from a person like him is worth visiting him over Whole Foods or BevMo.

Al is a great proprietor, and we like to go here to support a local non-​chain shop. We’re so lucky to have this store too. Al takes special orders over the phone from us, and he has these killer cheese rolls, like you get at the Brazilian BBQ restaurant. But now, we can get them at Sousas. Yeah!
Sometimes, when we go in and make a big order, Al will throw in a nice bottle of wine that he recommends, on the house.
I’m calling him right now to order my 21 year old Balvenie Portwood. He’ll have it in just a few days too.
A great local liquor store. You should stop in.

Wahoo! Looking for brigadeiros and typed it into the Unilocal search on a whim.
Found this place that’s super close to my house. Drove over. The guy was super helpful; bought the chocolate, the sprinkles and the cases super easily.
There’s a cool HUGE rubber band ball too.

There are only 2 things you need to know about this place:
1. The owner is super cool and friendly.
2. They sell frozen Pao de queijo.
Yes, I said Brazilian cheese bread!
You’re welcome.