Singleton’s Mini Mart

LOVE SINGLETONS!!! The family who owns it is so nice and make delicious food. I love that Singletons is in the neighborhood!

It’s great for what it is… which is a corner grocery that serves quick Vietnamese food!
Their phở is tasty, and I was happy when I asked if I could just have a bowl of broth, and they happily obliged… no charge.
My boyfriend and his brother had banh mi on a separate visit, and they both liked them.

We got a couple of tubs of phở and a po boy, grabbed some adult beverages, and had a picnic on the Mississippi River. The food was perfect, delicious, and packed to go. Sorry to see the business is for sale. I hope new owners are as talented and conscientious as these folks. Loved the freshness and quality of the phở and shrimp po boy, both fully dressed!

A Black Pearl staple, this mini mart is a lunch stop for uptown working guys and locals. I love the Korean BBQ wrap, but the menu explores Vietnamese specialties like Phở and Vermicelli as well as New Orleans Poboys. Daily plate specials range from Fried rice to ribs. This is one of those places you can still get two meals on the cheap. YUM!

If you find yourself in New Orleans on a Saturday and can make it to the Uptown area for lunch, find this place. They serve the best prepared and most delicious Vietnamese meals I’ve had in the last 25 years since I first started trying and loving this cuisine. Sadly, they only make the dishes on Saturday but it is indeed a special effort on their part and worthy of praise. The phở, the vermicelli dishes, the rice dishes, fresh and fried rolls and sandwiches are all made with quality ingredients and well prepared and delicious. The owners are very hospitable and friendly. The value is light on the coin purse too.
Every other day of the week they serve equally good poboys that are worth another visit. They are stuffed full of a variety of delicious offerings and inexpensive. I wish all mini marts were like this one.

Singelton’s is a neighborhood market with prepared food served in the back of the store. I absolutely enjoy coming to these hidden gems especially when they are a short walk away from the office. I am a huge fan of oysters so I tend default this, otherwise I will go for a turkey sandwich. The price for what you get cannot be matched in the uptown area! I can’t wait to further explore their menu. Check this place out.

Yay. Came based on the reviews. This little deli features good flavors and a LOT of charm from the owners and the lively clientele. I had the Korean pork poboy. It was really nice.

The food is amazing and the staffs here are 2^nd to none. The Vietnamese food is truly authentic (like my moms cooking). The Korean pork sandwich was so good! I need to come here more often. I would recommend this place if you’re with in 50 miles of New Orleans!

What is there not to like about a corner store with a little hidden diner in the back. This place is a gem. Everyday they have specials that run out stunningly fast from red beans and rice on Monday to smothered pork chops. The Korean poboy or shrimp poboy are good standards. But on Saturday they have Phở and spring rolls to knock your socks off. Totally homemade. The Phở broth is delicious. You feel like you’ve gone to someone’s family home. Don’t be turned off by the simple surroundings.
The family that runs Singleton’s is such a delight.

This is a convenience store with a little restaurant in the back along with being the Miami Dolphins Football Team fan headquarters for New Orleans. They also have some of the best phở broth I’ve ever had and make some good po boys. Saturday is their big phở day so that’s when I suggest heading here to sample some of that fantastic soup.

I live around the corner and when I feel like having a cheat meal, this is my goto place. The food is always fast, hot, and delicious. Haven’t been disappointed yet

The Vietnamese Po-​boy here is amazing and the people working there are very friendly and the price is right. Also, it is in a cool neighborhood in the riverbend.
It is a mini-​mart with a deli where they make those amazing po-​boys. There is a long table with chairs where you can eat (kind of lunch counter style) and the French bread they use is the good, crunchy chewy kind. Highly recommended. I would say, go to the zoo in the morning, then have lunch here or get your Po-​boy to-​go and eat it in the park.

Let me just say that I appreciate a good dive, and I frequent several divey Viet sandwich shops in ATL. I’m also an avid Unilocaler and I really think that Unilocal reviews can help smaller, lesser-​known high-​quality businesses get more customers. That said, I don’t recommend going out of your way for this place.
We went in search of a killer Vietnamese po’boys. They were out, so we got shrimp and BBQ pork. The pork was gristly and bland and the bread was over-​mayonnaised.
I used the bathroom and if I hadn’t already placed my order, I wouldn’t have after using the facilities. You have to walk all the way through the kitchen to get to the bathroom, which grosses me out, and the kitchen looked dirty. The bathroom was more like a closet and the door didn’t close all the way. It was also really, really dirty (if you’ve read any of my other reviews, you may notice that I comment on bathroom sanitation a lot. I work in public health and it skeeves me out to think of food service workers preparing my lunch after using a rancid restroom).

It is rare for Unilocal to steer me wrong. My boyfriend and I were on our way to the zoo and I picked the highest ranking place in the immediate area that served sandwiches for lunch. This is merely a convenience store selling 40s and snacks with hot meals and sandwiches being cooked in the back. There is one long table for eating. At lunchtime it is filled with construction workers.
The special was pasta and the ingredients must have come from a can. It was anything but special and tasted like spaghettio’s from a can. The roll that came with wasn’t soft and seemed a bit stale.
I live in a largely vietnemese neighborhood in Philadelphia and regularly eat delicious authentic Vietnemese hoagies. This was anything but authentic. The vietnemese sandwich was smothered with mayo and the roll was not toasted. The sandwich had a ton of meat but the sandwich itself grossed me out and I gave it to my boyfriend. The cook also did not wear gloves which I tried to not think about while we were waiting for our food.
Other than being quick, I don’t see the draw to this place.

I’m a myopic eater. When I find something that I like, I’ll stay within that tasty periphery until I’ve been virtually clubbed over the head with other equal or better options. Not too different from when I only listened to Mr. Jones on August and Everything After for three years before knowing the whiney, nasal soaring of Omaha, Round Here or even Raining in Baltimore.
Which is to say, catfish. I’m stuck in a cycle of catfish poboy lunches, and I don’t want to get better. I have legitimately thought about this sandwich before going to bed, woken up excited about it, and rewarded myself for a productive morning with its tasty balance of fresh flakiness, satisfying crunch, and flavor-​over-​heat hot sauce. Dressed, my friends. Get it dressed.
I’ll come by on a Saturday after work for the Korean menu and update in about three years.
This is a corner shop a la gas-​station without the gas pumps, so if you need some cat food or off-​brand mouthwash you can kill a flock with a single stone.
Bonus: the best combination of swimsuit posters and Sacred Heart of Jesus wall swag that I’ve seen in NOLA yet.

A great local hub! Mr. Bo and Ms. Laura have really had a huge positive impact on this neighborhood. They are friendly, helpful, and welcoming. It’s family-​owned, so you see (and know, if you live in the neighborhood) everyone who works there. A+ atmosphere.
As far as food goes… I love me some philly steak on french. I always buy it thinking I’ll save half for lunch tomorrow, but 10 minutes later it is all up in my belly. Korean BBQ Pork and Shrimp po boys are also delicious; previous statement about being all up in my belly applies. PLUS, as other reviews have stated, the real treat is to come in on Saturdays for Vietnamese specialties. There is nothing quite like a steaming hot bowl of phở on a rainy (and possibly hungover) Saturday morning. I now crave the stuff every «morning after.»
So, great atmosphere, great food, that just leaves… great prices! Very reasonable on beer/​other alcoholic drinks. They also carry all the general household supplies you never know you’re running out of until OH NO I HAVE NO TOILET PAPER AND I NEED SOME RIGHT NOW, plus basic cooking fixins’ for when the mood strikes.
Only thing I’d watch out for is that the kitchen closes at 5:30 on weekdays. You can call ahead though and order.

New Orleans has the best local hole in a wall spots. Bo is the most chrasmatic die hard miami dolphins fan I’ve ever met and his wife laura is lovely. Awesome gumbo that’s reasonable. PO Boys are awesome. Surf n Turf! Korean BBQ PORK, so good!!! The Phở on Saturdays is a must! If your ever in New Orleans go off the beaten path and visit this spot u won’t regret it.

Awesome catfish…
Shouldn’t every review start with the first two words that come to mind? This family-​owned establishment is just blocks from my job and my home, so I have ample opportunity to go and buy some yummy eats.
When you see the menu, you may be a little thrown… Yes, you’ll see shrimp and catfish po’ boys, you’ll see turkey and roast beef sandwiches. You’ll also see a Korean pork wrap, phở on Saturdays, even good old banh mi and bun. YUM.
The fish platter includes a generous helping of well-​seasoned and fried (not greasy) catfish that comes to the counter PIPING HOT with two sides. You can choose from french fries, fried rice, green salad, or potato salad. There are other plates, but I can’t get beyond this fish… all you need is some hot sauce, and you’re set.
Saturdays, you can order a big bowl of phở, grilled meat with the vermicelli noodles (bun), or a yummy banh mi sandwich. There’s a big table for community noshing if you decide to eat in, and you can definitely have hot food if you take it to go.
Plus, the convenience of your corner market is also in this place — anything you might need. If you want to pick up milk or some other snacks, you can do that too. One stop shopping with a big plate of fried fish!

WoW!!! Mouth watering poboys. For those who does not know what poboys is you are missing out!
A poboys sandwich is filled with lettuce mayo pickles Cajun sauce on toasted French bread and ur choice of any deep fried shrimp, oyster or whatever they have on the menu…
Yea it’s in the cut somewhere but It was definitely worth going to.
First stop when I first arrived to new Orleans and I got the best sandwich in my tummy… Scored!!!
It’s a little store with a little restaurant in the back and everything is fresh! 5 star!!!

If the world were perfect, every neighborhood would have a place like Singleton’s Mini Mart. Located in the middle of a residential area, Singleton’s is an homey family-​run business that serves as a community hub.
As a mini mart, it has what you would expect — drinks, snacks, batteries and the like. But what makes it unique is that it’s also a restaurant serving po-​boys, burgers, Korean short ribs, chicken wings, etc… The menu is surprisingly extensive for a mini mart restaurant.
There’s a single long picnic table that allows you to dine in. Everyone has to share it so it’s actually a neat way to meet other diners.
On Saturdays this place serves Phở, Vietnamese noodle soup. The dish is authentic, as the owners are Vietnamese. The parents cook and the kids — four daughters and a son — serve the customers and work the register. The patriarch of the family is quite nice and is good at carrying on a conversation. The family lives right above the mini mart.
The day I was there, I saw the family interacting with a non-​Vietnamese child, maybe 3 years old. When I asked whose kid it was, they explained that the kid always asked his parents to go to the mini mart so on weekends the kid’s parents would drop him off at the mini mart to hang out with the owners. And the owners don’t mind, they treat the kid as part of the family, feeding him, cleaning him, and teaching him.
This is a really great community business, run by a really great family.