Denhard’s Market

Super convenient. Owner is super friendly. Strike up a conversation about his body building days in his youth.

Great little store. Very convenient because it’s very close to me. Always super nice when I come in!

There is a population of street people that hangs around this store that seems to drive the economy of 10^th and Cabrillo. They do odd jobs like sweep or pick weeds out front, presumably get paid for it, then use that money to buy cigarettes or booze or food or whatever from Denhard’s. Like most Inner Richmond homeless, they seem relatively harmless, but they can make you feel a little bit uncomfortable.
Good beer selection — stuff you can’t get at Safeway up the street.

Denhard’s Market has the usual goods for a neighhorhood corner store. beers/​microbrews on the pricier side. (those that were priced)
store is cramped in the sense it’s too long aisles with no breaks.
drink: bruce cost, «jasmine tea» ginger ale (2.25)
–tasted fab, 37 gms cane sugar, 160 calories
didn’t taste sugary.
take outs:
–some hard liquor behind the counter
–friendly service.

Great neighborhood corner store with the best people. They are so nice.

The older lady who works at this store is incredibly rude. I was doing laundry across the street one day and decided to pop in for a drink. She was mopping the floor, so I walked around the wet area to grab an iced tea from the cold case in the back. She glared at me suspiciously the entire time, as if I were attempting to steal something. (I’m a grown-​ass woman! Why would I rob a local business?!) As I was deciding between flavors, she kept asking me, «What do you want?! What are you looking for?!» Frustrated by her interrogation, I left the store without purchasing anything — AND SHE CAME RUNNING AFTER ME. She continued to shout at me about what I was «looking for» and demanded to know why I hadn’t bought anything. All within the span of five minutes. For a neighborhood liquor store, this is ridiculously pushy behavior. I won’t be shopping here again — or doing my laundry across the street.

Denhard’s market is one of those great little places to go if you’re looking for a variety of things. There’s a wide variety of food and drinks, including falafels, one of my favorites, and you can even make photocopies here. It’s situated in a nice neighborhood, and has ample parking if you come at the right time.

The Guy was nice for a bit, then was a jerk all of a sudden. I think he was drinking that day. He is hella cheap too. I would be 20 – 50 cents short in cash and he would make me whip out the atm card.(this is after spending literally thousands of dollars in alcohol there. They also smoke in the store which I find repulsive, I dont know if they still do. I don’t live in that neighborhood anymore and I don’t have to deal with the dude.

Across San Francisco there are little surprises worth documenting and sharing, and Denhard’s is one of them. There are eleventy zillion corner shops strewn about the city but this one stands above the rest for one very important reason; little foil wrapped chocolate eggs.
They are called Kinder Surprises and the US Federal Government hates them more than Cuban cigars.
The proprietor obviously doesn’t care for Washington’s overreaching bullyboy tactics when it comes to confectionary. In a display of brazen entrepreneurial defiance, customers are provided the opportunity to walk in, exchange money for chocolate, and walk out. This simple economic exchange could be used as an example in the foreword of an Introduction to Basic Economics text. It could also land the customer behind bars.
Most people in the United States are oblivious to those little chocolate morsels because of section 402(d)(1) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. The bureaucrats in Washington have lots of issues they could be addressing; rampant unemployment, abysmal education standards, a growing illiteracy rate, the resurgence in tuberculosis cases, crumbling infrastructure… but they chose to turn their attention and resources to making sure we are protected from that insidious, morally depraved, culturally intrusive European chocolate. The bureaucrats decided to come up with a law which provides that confectionery having partially or completely imbedded therein any non-​nutritive object is adulterated unless FDA has issued a regulation recognizing that the non-​nutritive object is of practical functional value to the confectionery product and would not render the product injurious or hazardous to health.
That is Washington-​speak for «we won’t allow food with toys in it because we decided it is evil.» So Kinder Surprises are banned in the US. Our Canadian cousins can have them because the bureaucrats in Ottawa have better things to do. Our Australian and South African friends can buy them because their governments are more concerned with weightier issues. Even Venezuelans and Laotians can walk down to the corner store and buy Kinder Surprises. Those people don’t even speak English! In fact, there is an interesting correlation between civilized nations which allow Kinder Surprises, use the metric system, and aren’t bothered by exposed breasts but object to the glorification of meaningless death on television and nations still clinging to barbarism as evidenced by actively prohibiting citizens from consuming Kinder Surprises, complete intimidation by the metric system, a puritanical need to conceal all breasts, but the loving embrace of any and all gratuitous violence on television.
Kinder Surprises are manufactured by the same company that makes Tic-​Tac and Nutella. We’re not talking about an international munitions manufacturer making bullets to kill children, or a multinational chemical firm making the concoctions that will mutate kids. We’re not even talking about big tobacco. This law might make sense except for the fact that Cracker Jack has a toy imbedded in it and that’s OK. Breakfast cereal regularly has toys embedded in it and that’s OK. But let one of them pesky foreign firms embed a toy in chocolate and the next thing you know we’ll be subjected to exposed breasts on television and the weather forecast will be in Celsius!
The product is simple; a chocolate egg covered in colorful foil. Within the egg is a toy. A simple idea that appeals to children — but terrifies Washington. US Customs Agents actively look for Kinder Surprises in the luggage of Americans crossing back over from Canada. They confiscate the chocolate eggs and punish the evil chocolate traffickers. Remember, this nation has the death penalty.
The rationale is that American children would choke on the toy. Allow Kinder Surprises in and kids across the United States would start dropping like flies. Remember last year when 1.2 million German children choked to death on chocolate? Remember back in 1986 when the entire state of New South Wales was devoid of children due to Kinder Surprise-​related coking deaths? No? Somehow those foreign children avoid killing themselves on the imbedded toy in side Kinder Surprises. American children avoid killing themselves on the toy inside Cracker Jack… one would think the skill is transferable.
Washington is known for its hypocrisy. Case in point — the night before his Cuban embargo was to go in to effect JFK sent Pierre Salinger out to purchase as many 1200 H. Upmann Petit Corona cigars as he could find because Kennedy, being a Kennedy, lived by a different set of rules. He didn’t want us having Cuban cigars, but he wanted to make sure he had a steady supply.
If you’ve had enough of the Washington hypocrisy, then get yourself to Denhard’s and buy a Kinder Surprise and defy the nanny state as you savor the chocolate and assemble the toy. What better way to shake your fist in the face of the man?

Great hours, really nice staff, and for the size, a fantastic selection of quality foods/​snacks @ decent prices. Way better and more unique beverage selection than Safeway has, and never a line.

Best falafel I have eaten, I wish the other dips etc were available more.

hot doggy! pickled eggs and homemade falafel. neat gum.

5 stars for being so easy to reach from GGP. Good variety of stuff and a friendly staff.

The Hummus and Baba Gonoush are AMAZING FRESH and HOMEMADE! The store has a great selection of items for a corner store. There are always random sale items. The guy at the counter is so nice and caring. I love this place!

Update — -
Just changed my review to five stars because I was in getting my Its-​it craving filled and I was thinking how great it is that the guy at the counter gives us napkins with our Its-​Its. It’s just a very nice gesture and I like having Denhard’s as my local bodega.

I can make photocopies for a nickel each;
Get a plethora of cash at the always functioning ATM;
I’ve gotten enough bottles of wine for cheap to fill a cellar (check out the «specials» for $ 8 or less next to the ATM);
I’m not sure what they are smoking but it sure has a couple of the cashiers talking strange and one of the guys kind of creeps me out but I’m always coming back for more since he is pure entertainment.
I love walking 100ft to my neighborhood market.
Tres’ convenient!