In A Pickle

I LOVE pickles, but am, admittedly, a pickle snob. So I won’t eat just any pickle. And am addicted to these! The spicy & full sours are the best! So glad to have these high quality pickles in the DMV area!

Siracha hummus stuffed olives? OMG! I love these guys and try to frequent every time I am at Eastern Mkt or the vicinity thereof. You can’t go wrong —
love their full sours, half sours and wasabi pickles!

These pickles are delicious. My current fave is the wasabi pickle. It’s REALLY good. I get pickles here every time I go to Eastern Market.

Whaaaaaat who gets a pickle walking around D. C? It was just too hard to resist! They had flavors from bread and butter, hot and spicy, old bay, almond filled, kosher, wasabi and more. I picked out the old bay and it was very crispy and juicy! Just the way I like my pickles! Also, the hot and spicy pickle was… pretty hot and spicy. I’m a baby when it comes to spicy food so I only had a tiny tiny bite of my boyfriend’s but what I tasted was flavorful… and spicy. I got my pickle on a stick where they gave me 3 on one stick but you are able to get it in pints. The sticks were $ 2 each and definitely worth it. Will be back here next time I stop by eastern market!

HOLY CRAP!!! I will never eat another pickle for anywhere else unless it is from here !!! Ask for samples. The guy is super informative and will tell you everything you want to know. The only question i have is … Will you mail me some pickles ?!?

The best pickles in DC; the best value anywhere also olives. They are outside every weekend.

I’ve got one bad thing to say about In a Pickle; they no longer come to the Riverdale Farmers’ Market on Thursdays. That’s it. So I’m just going to have to find a way to get Eastern Market into my weekend schedule, because these are seriously good pickles, olives stuffed with garlic or almonds, mushrooms, sweet peppers — and a wild variety of dill, kosher, ranges of spicy up to wasabi. They are very generous with free tastes and they believe in filling their pints and quarts to the point that you can’t imagine the lid going on. The guy selling them is so personable that you’ll be tempted to buy even more…

Lousy. I thought I’d give this place a try after Oh Pickle closed down at Union Market. Oh Pickle had great pickles that had good firm crunch and great taste. The pickles I got at In A Pickle are soft, have very little crunch to them, and are quite possibly the saltiest pickles i’ve ever had. I got the hot and spicy and they are not hot at all. They have no sourness to them either, and just taste like they were soaked in salt water for weeks. I don’t know how they got such good reviews here on Unilocal.I guess it’s my fault for not asking for a sample. Maybe some of their other pickles are good but i would definitely not recommend the hot and sour. I probably won’t be trying this place again. I don’t know what I’m going to do with the rest I bought. I still have a pint that I think I will probably just throw away now. I wish Oh Pickle wouldn’t have closed down.

I’m writing a 5-​star review for one type of their pickles: the wasabi pickles. I tried hot and spicy and didn’t like it. I haven’t tried the others. But the wasabi pickles… I would pay a lot for those.

My wife loves these, she asks me to buy 4 tubs of the hot and spicy. I like the regular the Kosher dill — very excellent.

The pickles just aren’t that good. I know I am going against the grain here since everyone seems to love this place. Or maybe, they are not in the fashion of kosher dill pickles — which is what I grew up on. Go to New York, or yes Chicago, and go to a deli. Any pickle you get will be superior to these pickles. And pickles are supposed to be cheap. You get them for free in New York when you sit down at a deli… think about it. Free in New York, hence, they are cheap!
If you like the thrill of buying locally produced pickles, go to the store, and buy some McCutcheon’s. They ain’t kosher, but they are way better tasting than In a Pickle.
Go Bulls.

DIRTY MARTINIS
Yes, I love pickles more than a normal person but In A Pickle also makes garlic stuffed olives that will knock your sox off. AND if you smile really sweet, the great guys there may give you an extra jar of olive juice that will make you want to put your Dirty Martini in the Christina Aguilara-​tattooed biker chick-​using the pool table for things that don’t require sticks category.

I am a huge pickle fan, and when I saw the «In A Pickle» stand at Eastern Market, I made a beeline right towards it. The hot and spicy pickle, which was served to me on a skewer, was probably the best pickle I have ever had. I will never go to Eastern Market again without having a pickle. I mean, YUM!!!

Since I’m often powered by pickles (I’ve even been in a pickle eating contest — finished in second place, at least I think), I love that Eastern Market has a pickle stand! I usually get either the hot pickles, the kosher dills, or the pickle chips. I sometimes get the marinated mushrooms (great for parties) or the olive (ditto). But the pickles — unless they are in chip form, those are all for me!
The pickle guys are great — always ready to help with a pickle sample or two or three or four. The pickles are pricey, but so much better than the kind on the shelf in the supermarket. If only they would use these pickles for the pickle eating contest — maybe I would win this time if they did!

I don’t eat pickles, but my husband will drive across town for a good one, and today made a beeline for In A Pickle where they let him taste the two he was interested in, and then he bought a big jar. Guy there was friendly and helpful. Husband couldn’t wait to get home to eat another one. I foresee a trip to EM again in my future very soon.

You might as well call me Snookie, because after eating a pickle at In A Pickle, I am in heaven. Seriously.
I always feel silly coming back from the Eastern Market walking down the street lugging my groceries in my Unilocal swag bag and eating my pickles on a stick, but it has become my Sunday formula. Get groceries at EM, save two dollars for a pickle, get the spicy pickle and eat it on the walk home. What better day than that?
I am afraid to buy more than one at a time because I think I might just eat them all in one sitting, and something tells me that might not be good for the tum tum… Always a line, but you can eat samples of all the different kinds and, please… it’s worth it!

Ohhhhh I love me some pickles! I was so excited to see someone eating a pickle like a lollipop outside Eastern Market. I HAD to find out where this person got their pickle. I paid close attention to all the stalls until I finally spotted them around the back of the Market. Yay victory!!!
The guys that own/​run this are sooo nice. We asked plenty of questions about the types they had to offer. Plus they were more than happy to give us samples of pickles. It was so helpful because they have such a big selection to choose from. kosher dill, garlic, sour, half sour, wasabi, horseradish, and many more. They were fine with my lack of enthusiasm to try a few (I don’t like sour pickles), but seems honestly happy with my excitement over the ones I tired and loved.
Boyfriend and I shared a plastic container of them on a near by bench. It was a hotter than hot day and these, somehow, cut the heat. Maybe eating their hot pickles made everything else just seem soooo much cooler.

Holy delicious pickles, Batman! These pickles would DEFINITELY scare the crap out of that cat on the Vlasic pickles commercial!
Crisp? Check. Fresh? Check. Great Value? Check.
The guys who work here are incredibly nice — they cheerfully let me try all of the pickles I wanted before I settled on some good ‘ol fashioned Kosher Dills. The hot and spicy ones were great too — a little warm by the time we got to them, but they had incredible flavor. Mmmm.
I’m eagerly anticipating sandwiches this week because I now have delicious pickles to eat with them!

I’m going to try very hard not to use profanity in describing how delicious these pickles are. It will be extremely difficult.
This is the best $ 5 you will spend all day, maybe even in your life. The wasabi pickles are life-​changing. Everything is so perfect it just makes me want to kiss them and then move them to NY with me.
To top it off, the guys who work here are incredibly nice. They let you try everything, in fact they ENCOURAGE you to «make sure you know what you like before you buy it.» WTF?! Encouraging you to eat their food for free before you buy it? It’s not like you’d be eating it there and realize you hated it and ask for your money back. But they want you to be happy, even if you won’t be touching your purchase until you get home (good luck not touching them before you get home, btw).
My favorites are the wasabi pickles (as stated earlier), the kosher dills, and the green tomatoes, but everything I’ve tried has been beyond delicious. They let you mix and match pickles in one container, or you can spend all $ 5 on one variety. Very impressive. Oh, and dirt fucking cheap.
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I don’t even like Pickles, but I like In a Pickle’s pickles! Crispy and fresh indeed. Nothing like those sad wimpy things you get at restaurants with your burger. Since I’m not a big pickle fan, I like the half-​sours, which are still crisp with a little bit of pickled flavor. They feature old fashioned pickles in their giant barrels: half-​sours, kosher dill, horseradish pickles, and garlic sours (that’s what I can remember off the top of my head). They also have weirder stuff (cinnamon pickles?) but I haven’t been brave enough to try it. Their line can be a bit crazy, so make sure you’ve got a little time to wait. $ 5/​pint, $ ⁹⁄₂ pints or $ 9/​quart. Pint+Pint=Quart
They also have a selection of olives and other pickled veggies.
Location: North of Eastern market by the Aquatic Center on N. Carolina St. Sat and Sun only.