Decamere Supermarket

This is a nice little upscale market. I was walking past and wanted something to drink so I stopped in.
It’s not very big but it has a good selection of the things I am likely to want.
The prices are a little high but not as high as I would of expected for a small market in this area

Decamere Supermarket is your friendly little neighborhood cornerstore. They have a good selection of brews and booze, but expect to pay a little more for a six pack. Think $ 12 for a six pack.
It’s convenient, but pricy.

Decamere Supermarket is definitley upscale. their pricing proves it. lots of microbews, wines, gourmet foods, deli items. not sure if competitive with whole foods. the times saved may be worth the extra coins.
buys: lungberg «rice cakes» (3.29)
–crispy organic rice goodies, reasoned with sea salt, yummy
4 stars
crumbs
–would come out ot the way to het here
–would stop by if in the area.
3ish stars.:

THis place is crazy bright. The fluorescents, they burn! Looked over their pretty solid beer selection. Lots of the expected convenience goods, and finally ended up with a Bundaberg beverage. Folks who work (even the late night) are friendly. Also very clean considering the locale and the shoddy exterior.

I’ve been coming to Decamere Supermarket since I was a small child. The guys who run the store are always friendly and like to have small conversations with me and ask how I am doing. They have a lot of items to offer and their store is clean and organized. They aren’t the cheapest corner store in the immediate area, but their location is perfect for me. They have a large selection of beer and wine, candy, cookies, snacks, and chips. They also offer a large selection of juices, sodas, and energy drinks. You can find any toiletries or household items you need, and you can find a nice selection of hard alcohol behind the counter. A great corner store for a great neighborhood.

What a beer selection! They have lots of great 22 oz. bottles. They also have quite a few six packs. Their beers range from Belgian Ales to IPAs to Pilsners. They have lots of local microbrews and imports. For examples, they have lots of beers from Speakeasy and Chimay.
Also for sale: wine, hard alcohol, chips, soda, salsa, ice cream. It’s your usual convenience store but with much higher quality. For example, the ice cream is Three Brothers and Ben and Jerry’s. Their wines range from cheap to pricey.
Really a go-​to place for snacks and booze.

they will over charger you

I rolled into Decamere with a group looking for cheap booze to be enjoyed outside with a group of coworkers. Turns out this may not be the most legal option for imbibing in SFO. Buyer beware.
We found a great selection of beer, liquor, wine and the ever popular, Censored on the Beach. They also have an intense supply of snack including some great candies, cookies and chips. The three c’s will make any group happy.
The store was staffed by two men who were funny and friendly and found a way to make the most of a drunk after midnight crowd. They also were happy to give discounts and breaks on prices if only in an attempt to upsale.
I had a great experience here. If you’re looking for a fantastic neighborhood corner store, give it a whirl. Decamere added an enjoyable twist to my trip to San Francisco!

snack mutherf**ng CENTRAL.
I came here tonite on a late night snack run/​study break and was so impressed by the orderliness, the wide array of gourmet potato chips and extensive Vitamin Water selection. They even have the obscure cran+grapefruit flavor that it so hard to find. And they were friendly! The clerk even rounded down the 2 cents on my $ 5.02 total, so I didn’t have to go fishing around in my wallet for pennies. Dammit I must agree that is awful neighborly of them. I also like the fresh lemons and limes in the cute little basket on the counter.
You know what’s funny though? I ran home thinking I could be the first, the FIRST to Unilocal something, because surely nobody had thought to Unilocal this place yet, and lo and behold 3 other people have Unilocaled it already. You know it’s a good liquor store when it gets Unilocaled! And there are like three or four other liquor stores on the block. But unlike the competitors, Decamere’s leaves me feeling clean, shiny and happy when I walk out the door.

The other night I was getting a soda here to chase my Serrano’s pizza slice with and on the way I ran into my friend Willie. Willie is a far more interesting guy than this quick blurb but the high points are these: He’s played drums with Sonic Youth and His dad was an actor who was in an episode of the original 50s Twilight Zone. In short, a cool guy. With Willie is the Bay Area’s own Mike Patton, he of Faith No More, Mr. Bungle, Fantomas, Lovage and a myriad other unique and cool musical projects. We stop and talk briefly in the cold night. Mike was cool, friendly and laughed at my jokes.
«That was weird», I thought as I walked to Decamere, «only here». Soda in hand, who do I see walking towards me in his same beanie, suit and Doc Martin’s but Matt Gonzalez? For those of you who are new to SF, the name is likely unfamiliar, but he’s the guy who narrowly lost the Mayorship to Newsom. He used to play bass in a go-​nowhere garage band, is the sweetest and most for reals lawyer you may EVER meet and in spite only having about $ 15 for his entire campaign he came about 20 dead property owners away from being SFs first Green Party Mayor. Whew!
Anyhow, the guys at Decamere are awesome store owners. You MAY have to initiate friendliness with them at first. Most of us should just get over yourselves and be nice first anyway. These guys are probably muslim, so if you think they’re meanies, its probably only because you’re a lady with tattoos who buys mostly booze and smokes from them, sometimes 5 – 10 times a day, usually in the company of either men likely not the husband or women with more tattoos than self. Just be nice anyway maybe because this place has some of the best snacks, beer, sodas and wine in the neighborhood.
Though, not the cheapest. Most goods here are priced slightly for Whitey, rather than The Working Man. Yet I am happy to pay more for something here than the same item from the Extremely Crappy Valencia Foods across the street. And only in San Francisco would a grown man be such a bitch about a lame health food store, but there you are.

When I lived a block away on Valencia, my boyfriend & I called this place the «Strong Black Male» store. Here is why: there is a church two doors down and one night, after services, a gang of children ran in to buy candy. One of the clerks cleared his throat and sternly told the children: «QUIET DOWN! NOW!». & the children quieted down. We were so impressed by this that they became Strong Black Male, or SBM, forever and ever. Or for the year and a half we lived two blocks away.
This is a pretty good, well kept corner store, a bit expensive, but they had some cheap Rene Junot table wines, and some fancier snack foods like Jones soda, kettle chips & Brent & Sam cookies. The Ethiopian brothers who run the store became friendlier once they knew you and would always ask where my boyfriend was if I came to the store alone, which was a little creepy, but also comforting in a strange way.
(Megan W. is going to be pissed I got first to review on a corner store!!)