Sun Valley Dairy

Your basic corner store with a great variety of pints of ice cream: Strauss, Three Twins, Haagen Dazs, and Ben & Jerry’s, in addition to the single-​serving popsicles and Drumsticks.
They’ve also got bottles of liquor and refrigerated six packs of beer, in case you need to grab a last-​minute host/​hostess gift.
Though if you’re visiting me, I’ll gladly take a pint of Haagen Dazs; mint chip, to be exact, please and thank you.

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A true neighborhood corner market! It offers a surprisingly large amount of items all displayed neatly and cleanly. The owner is the reason I stop in here frequently. He’s a great guy that genuinely enjoys his business and all of the people that stop in to buy whatever they may need.
I’m there often for Lottery tickets and not once has he forgotten to wish me good luck. I’ve scratched off quite a few winners there too! Just won $ 40.00. Whoo-​hoo!

On my usual quest for weird beverages I stepped into Chuck’s Sun Valley to see what they had. Stars and Stripes sodas… El Sabroso Chicharron, and wide variety of good frommage. Not something you’d expect from the corner liquor store. Friendly lady working the counter but I think she thought we might have been casing here store since we were looking at the items so intently.

Cheap wine and expensive chocolate! And for those of you in my ‘hood that are even lonelier than I am, they also have nudey magazines.

My girlfriend thinks I’m crazy, but I jump at the chance to run grab some morsel we need at Sun Valley. One, they have a great selection of healthy food and snacks. Two, the prices are reasonable (well, except for the $ 8 for a tiny bag of organic chicken nuggets). Three, the staff is so friendly and so are my neighbors.
From the outside, it looks like a liquor store (and they have a fine selection of that), but it’s much more like the neighborhood corner stores from the long, long ago before super wal-​marts ate small businesses.

chucks sun valley is hands down, the best corner store ive ever been to. the family that owns it are the best anyone could ask for, just genuine, honest, friendly people. they have a great selection for very reasonable prices. they always are open and have anything you could want from any other grocery or super market. the best of the best

I love my neighborhood corner store!
I can get my rice crackers, cereal, rice milk, Morning Star breakfast sausages, Smart Water, Amy’s gluten free frozen pizza, and organic cheese here. And they even have monthly muni passes!
And Chuck & his wife & everybody who works here are so genuinely nice.
This place makes the grocery shopping experience bearable.

I go here atleast once a day to get something, and love that they have so many different things that not every corner store has. There is something to be said about a bodega that you can listlessly wander through unsure of what it is you want for a late night snack and yet totally come across EXACTLY what you are looking for. I find other stores in the neighborhood have lower prices on certain items (for example a bottle of Calistoga sparkling water is 1.50 $ at most corner stores in the area but is 2 $ here) but this the only place in outer noe open past 9PM.
Friendly service and a big selection, and the fact you can buy MUNI fastpasses here is just another great perk!

This is one of the better corner stores in the neighborhood.
It’s well organized, has got a surprisingly large selection of all the basic items you’ll ever need, and overall the prices seem quite reasonable for a small store.
And (drum roll please) they sell fast passes! Which for some reason is a rarity here in Noe.

It’s 10 o’clock… and you have a taste for something but you don’t know what? Stop at this store!
…need beer, milk, chips, bread, refried beans, crackers, brie cheese, smokes, spirits, dirty/​porno mags, Vienna sausage, a Muni pass, or lots of different ice creams???
It has all the random goodness of a corner market store, without the seediness of say some crackhouse alley or dime bag store. It’s clean, well lit, and not at all creepy. That’s a plus in my book!!!

Quite an idyllic name for what is basically your average corner store. They do have a huge selection of ground coffee, though, and the store is surprisingly large. Good for the last minute needs, or the walking-​around provisions, or some friendly neighborhood interaction. But, in a neighborhood this sickly sweet, who needs more of that?