Bread & Butter Market

Great deli with the fresh Turkey Sandwiches, great side salads and surprisingly delicious shish kebabs make this a great find for visitors and hidden haunt for polk locals. The service is friendly and helpful and all kinds of beverages and chips. Highly recommended for grabbing a quick meal on the go like a picnic or for the local movie theater.

Surprisingly good sandwiches for this random marketplace! We were in dire need of a quick lunch to bring in to AMC and really lucked out going here!
THE WAIT: None around 1pm on a Saturday, they were pretty much empty.
THE SERVICE: Friendly!
See my pictures for additional details.
* Fresh Turkey Sandwich — 4 stars
This isn’t your average cold cut sandwich — the meat was very hearty and really great!
* Pastrami Sandwich — 4 stars
The meat had flavor that really popped!
* Ravioli — 4 stars
The pasta was thick, the ricotta soft, & it had a fresh thick sauce.

Down the street from my work, I pass by here everyday. I try to check out the local businesses in my neighborhood since there are so many to enjoy.
I stopped in for a breakfast sandwich. While I’m waiting, I’m noticing that the salads were all from the day before and looking pretty bad. I wait for my sandwich and leave, when I got back to work — I unwrapped to find the saddest looking croissant sandwich. After a couple bites, I tossed it.

Bread & Butter Market is well stiock with edibles though a bit pricey. deli section didn’t look beyond being aVerage.
beers not sold singly, no big bottles seen or not priced
coffee, «america’s best» (2) not a fav
sparse selection of donuts, bagels, pastries, not priced.
buys: big bag of generic potato chips (2)
–just salty and crunchy, not a surprise.
take outs:
–B & B has whatever one wants if one is willing to pay the market price
rent isn’t cheap in this area so eats are pricier…

During our visit, we were greeted by the staff and they were very kind to us. The store has a lot of variety: bakery items, a little lounge to eat, and all of your «convenience» staples that you could possibly need. This is a very well-​stocked store with a lot of variety that we can all appreciate.

I have been back to Bread and Butter many times since my first visit in Oct 2014. Service has always been cordial and genuinely friendly.
The «salad» are endless: kale salad, egg salad, tuna salad, chicken salad, macaroni salad, beet salad, brussel sprouts, antipasta, marinated mushrooms, crab salad, shrimp salad, and on and on and on!!!
And every so often, you’ll meet an off-​duty stripper or two. What’s not to like about this place???

The deli food is sub par, you’d be better off going to the Subway a block away. I’m pretty sure potato salad isn’t supposed to be sour, i’m hoping I don’t get violently ill.

Always friendly service, and they have everything packed into a very small space. Even though this is in the Tenderloin, the outside of the shop is kept neat and clean.

The market has a decent selection but I have to say the service SUCKS. I went in there today to make a purchase. Brought the item up to the counter and the man told me there was a $ 10 min. to use my debit card. I mean that is so ridiculous and has let me make purchases under $ 10 using my card Sooooo many times. Anyways he moves my product over and I offer him my card and he looks at me and just says «no» and moves on to the next person in line.
Customer service is key in the food industry. Why do you own or work at a market if you don’t know that. Such a moron. Anyways my friends and I who live in the Tower above his building will not be going there any longer and has lost our service.

Not really understanding any of the 1-​star reviews — its a very well-​stocked corner store with a fresh deli bar. Better offering than 95% of San Francisco corner stores!
We like to hit this place up en route to a movie at the nearby AMC 1000, grab a sandwich, some treats, and a six-​pack. I’ve enjoyed every sandwich I’ve tried there, and they have lots of great snack options including many of the local chips and chocolate options. And the prices are right on-​target.
My personal sandwich invention: toasted baguette with a combo of hot pastrami & salami, plus pepperoncini’s, mustard, tomatoes, and pickles. You could say I’m a bit of a sandwich artist.

Great variety of healthy/​not-​so-​healthy food. My sandwich was delicious, but my friend got an egg sandwich and he put the eggs in a plastic container… then microwaved it. I got some other healthy snacks that were good and my favorite juice and coconut water. The guy behind the Deli was the most unwelcoming person I have met in California thus far. But the cashier guy was awesome. Id go back again, but its definitely not a favorite place.

I am this is a local and I will say that this is a untrustworthy place to shop. Not only was I over charged but at the end of the transaction it was attempted to charge me 100%a for a tip. These action were taken directly due to my circumstance. We do not need this business in our neighborhood. I hope that this message will help you from being the NEXT VICTIM.

A good sized market, that has everything from pasta to a full deli, to British and German Chocolate to bulk foods and many, many other things. A great place to grab a quick lunch, as well as a place to pick up a few groceries before heading home.

Walk in, skip the front of the store. Go directly to the Deli Counter, where they have some awesome Salads and Fresh Fare. Love the Brussell sprout and carrot salad and the Torettelin pasta salads. Quite possibly my favorite. However, I try something new every time I go. Yes, it is a corner store, yes, its going to be a bit pricey on some items, but it is one of the better ones around. The Variety is good and the Deli counter is even better!

Usually I would walk past this market. Today it was cold. And when it’s cold, there is a positive correlation between the cold and my laziness. I lamented the 5 blocks I was going to have to walk to Golden Veggie. Instead, I curiously walked in and was pleasantly surprised. I found everything on my small list… and then some. You know you’ve found a good market when you are standing in the aisle for more than 5 minutes picking and choosing pastas. Normally a market in the TL has the basics, you know, elbow macaroni, spaghetti and maybe if you’re lucky some linguine. I treated myself to some cappelletti and radiatori. It’s shmancy stuff! I also picked up some gnocchi, falafel and tabouli.
Not bad for a market in the TL… across the street from the strip joint.

How it took me over a year of living a few blocks away before I finally wandered in here I have no clue.
There are maybe, hmmm lets see, 17 billion convenience stores in the TL? 18 billion? Maybe with them every 50 feet away I’d just never been inclined to check this one out. Good thing I finally did (of course it was like two weeks before I moved).
The other stores in area have Doritos, Oreos, and maybe a few bananas. This place has organic chips, Newman’s Own cookies, and organic produce. Other stores may have some shady sandwiches that have been plastic wrapped on the counter for I’m betting a few years, this place has a deli in the back where they make fresh pasta salads, falafel, and other goods.
It’s just an all around better store, and I nearly shot Vitamin Water out of my nose when I found out they were open til like 2am daily. Perfecto.
The only downer was on my first oh so magical visit they double charged my card and the pasta salad was lets say «not the best» I’d ever had. But they vowed to fix the charge and hey, the salad was like $ 2.
Definitely better than any other quick stop shops in the area.

**For Realsies! ALMOST DIED**
I chooked on those tasty grilled chicken kabobs. They almost killed me. Lodged in my throat, and I had to go to the emergency room. But, I Love them sooooo much! :)
I even have the emergency room bill next to me as I wrtie this– $ 6,314!!!
But, even that fateful night, before I rushed to the California Pacific Medical Center-​I carefully wrapped that tasty kabob for tomorrow, — if I lived.
YES! I SAVED MY LEFTOVERS IN CASE I LIVED!
In conclusion, from the outside, it looks like a typical Tenderloin beer/​liquor market — but it’s not! The Deli in the back offers to 2am foods like potato salad, shrimp salad — and, of course; those damn, tasty grilled chicken kabobs. Yes, they are pricey, but the next time you are coming back late at night, either form the bar or the Movie theatre, and you are hungry, this is a wonderful option then pizza, ugh.
Just, make sure your insurance is paid up, My wasn’t.
:) James

OVERPRICED!!!
Seriously… there are way too many other corner stores around here with the exact same selection for a fraction of the price they charge here.
Ugh
I got charged almost 6 dollars for one pint of ice cream… I can usually get it for about 3.50−4 dollars.
Boo!

I think I’m in love with the name more than the actual contents of the store. The doors are always open with old men talking about politics and money who wink and smile at a pretty girl walking in.
The prices are a bit steep yes, but what do you expect from a convenient store really? It’s a nice place smack dab in the Tenderloin. I like walking to the theatre from the garage and picking up a quick little snack on my way.
They have an eclectic collection of things you didn’t know you needed but you’re sure as hell not gonna say no to. Yes, they sell AXE body wash, falafel sandwiches, and all kind of ethnics snacks. They also sell egg sandwich which is my secret deli favorite. I love surprises like walking into a convenience store and walking out with a filafel sandwich or warm toasty egg sandwich and Arizona Tea.
4 stars for this place. Don’t forget to pick up candy on your way to AMC!

Checklist for the Polk Street Fair:
Cheap Booze… check
Mixers…check
Plastic cups… check
Cigarettes…check
Lighter…check
Cocaine*…check
Ecstasy*…check
*NOT purchased from the Bread and Butter Market BUT they still get mad street cred for being a totally legit, well stocked market, in a ‘hood where I CAN get the aforementioned items. And a lap dance or a hooker.