A. Russo and Sons

I LOVE LOVE LOVE Russos! I generally go on the weekday where it’s not as packed as a Sunday unless I’m in need of grabbing something small or flowers for an occasion. Great prices and so fresh

Love, love, LOVE Russo’s! It’s the place for all your produce needs at a reasonable price.
PROS: Amazing produce! Small deli section with Boars Head meats. Great cheeses and prepared meats. Other prepared foods. Fresh pasta. Pastries and cakes. Fresh Bread. Salad bar. All at great prices.
CONS: It gets super crowded on Sunday and there’s no room to move at all. Avoid Sunday between probably 11am and 5pm.
OVERALL: Russo’s is the best for fresh produce. You won’t find it cheaper or better tasting outside of maybe those pop-​up farmer’s markets. Russo’s is superb! Their produce selection and taste way out does Whole Foods!

Fantastic. Whether you’re looking for cheese, produce, baked goods, deli meats or other delicacies, you will not be disappointed with Russo’s

Very disappointed. Bought a crate of mangos for 10 dollars. All went bad and never ripened. Too much trouble to take them back but I’ve posted a picture.

Doesn’t take EBT cards.
C’mon, get it together. If the corner store can do it, so can a store of this size.

Love Russo’s. Love living next to it.
Small place (physically) compared to large chain box stores and yet carries more produce variety than most. Whole foods quality at lower rates (but higher rates than Trader’s Joe). Great variety though!
Must try: fresh pasta.
Tip: Use baskets instead of carts, easier to maneuver in crowded aisles.

Vegetables r fresh.
Sometimes it’s cheaper in rate but produce is good.
Must take lemons here, u get good deal.
Greens r also good.
Compared to other stores in waltham this store is best.
Tomatoes r always costly here .
But shop is opened only till 7pm. weekday and in weekends. only till 6pm.
It will be good if they r open till 8pm.

Freshest produce ever! Lots of interesting products like an upgraded Trader Joe’s. Also pretty expensive though, sometimes you get the quality you pay for but other times it’s just the «organic» label and packaging.

Big store with plenty of vegetables and fruits, cheese, bakery and flower. It is very pleasant to shop here and it is not expensive. Try it as soon as possible !

Russos has an incredible selection of fresh fruits and vegetables. Their cheese selection is huge and their pastries and fresh pasta are so so delicious. Even better are the prices! You are getting great quality food at a price you can’t beat. I love the ladies the woman that runs the cheese section. She went out of her way to cut a new wheel of cheese so I could have what I was looking for. The folks at the registers are generally pleasant, with the exception of Tammy. I may have caught her on a bad day but she was the rudest employee I have encountered in all my Russo trips, which is a lot. Overall I love Russos and haven’t found any place that comes close to what they offer.

Genuinely amazed by all the fruits and veggies this place carries! It literally had almost everything I was looking for and then some. I also have to mention they have a really nice flower selection as well which was surprising for what I expected to just be a grocery store! I was also very impressed by their prepared food selection and pastries! (The coconut key lime tart was so good!!)
I would definitely make a trip here again but maybe not on the weekend when it’s so crowded; I get that everyone needs to grocery shop but there’s no need to push and be rude to others just browsing…

I write this as they have earned the review. The produce is ridiculously inexpensive. The prepared food ridiculously good. Why do I not want to writ a five star review for them? Because you are just gong to take a parking space that could have been MINE!
They have an overflow lot. Hell they have a police detail on some days.
Doesn’t matter. packed.
Yet the produce keeps pulling me back in!

This place is riiiidiculous. I just started going this summer; I had passed it by hundreds of times over the years. In front they have a garden center, so I thought it was like an arborist or something. After just my first trip I wished I had been going here since moving to Boston.
It’s somewhat like Whole Foods, if Whole Foods sourced locally for every single thing that they possibly could. Whole Foods is a chain though, so while they probably try to, they just can’t because of the scale they need to buy in. Russo’s doesn’t have that problem; it’s a single store and they apparently have relationships with a horde of local farmers. I like that they label where everything is from (Massachusetts, local farm, USA, Guatemala, etc). They also support a ton of local artisans in their bakery & deli departments, which is great; I think a lot of times people that want to buy local produce forget that there’s other local food to be had, and Russo’s has it by the ton.
The selection is insane, it’s the most fruits & vegetables I’ve ever seen outside of a tropical market. I try and get a new vegetable or fruit to try every time I go, which isn’t an issue because they are always getting in new stuff depending what’s in season in different parts of the country (obviously by January it’s hard to get locally grown carrots or whatever). There are vegetables & fruits that I never even knew existed until I went here. They also have every staple fruit & vegetable you could need, as well as local dairy, and a full deli. The artisan pasta is excellent as well. Also, I almost forgot to mention: They have an amazing floral shop. Really great bouquets, vases, etc. It’s better than some actual dedicated florists I’ve seen.
With all that said, if this was Whole Foods you’d end up paying close to 80 bucks for a pile of vegetables/​fruits/​pasta/​whatever. So you would assume this place would be more expensive since a vast majority of items are locally grown/​produced on smaller farmers/​bakeries. The opposite is actually true; doing some price comparison, you can get out of Russo’s paying HALF of what you would at Whole Foods. Our record is 40 dollars for what would have cost just shy of 100 dollars of WF. I will say, every store like this marks some things up. So bananas that are 39 cents per pound at Stop & Shop are 69 cents at Russos, Avocados are more expensive, etc. What I do is just go to BJs warehouse for stuff like bananas, milk, etc. and then go around the corner to Russo’s for almost all my fruits & veggies. What’s amazing is that the specialty and locally grown items are almost always cheaper by a wide margin, even cheaper than BJ’s. I get raspberries at Russo’s that are local and cost about 70% of what they do at BJs.
Other points: it gets crowded on weekends, but if you’ve been there once before you’ll have an idea of where everything is and can still get in and out fast. The store is clean, the garden center in the front is always stocked with cool plants, the staff is friendly, checkouts are super fast even when there’s a line. Oh, and they play classical music, which is a nice change; it’s a welcome break from listening to Taylor Swift’s whine about her latest breakup instead of handling things like an adult, and reinforcing the notion that millennials are self-​centered brats.
Just give this place one shot, like I did. Odds are you’ll save money, be able to get fresher locally grown produce, and find a ton of new things to try.

Russo’s is a treasure trove of cheaply priced high quality flowers, plants, and produce. The little Italian guy who works in the deli is so incredibly sweet and doesn’t make fun of my husband when he says «moootzarella» in that incredibly exaggerated way only an Italian-​American from Brooklyn would pronounce it.
The customers in this market are the one thing that makes it not five stars. They are often brusque and frankly annoying in the car park e.g. freak out if you come within a meter of their 200 year old Volvo. It doesn’t stop me from going there though! I am in the process of planning my garden and love returning to figure out what else to buy!

Gee willickers do I love Russo’s. I worried I’d be moving too far away from civilization when I relocated to Watertown a few years ago, but guess what? That move simply brought me closer to Russo’s, and my life is enriched.
Let’s start with the bad. Russo’s is a complete nightmare on weekends. If you dislike large swarms of humans, screaming babies, people walking around like zombies, people bumping into you constantly, and crowds in general, I highly recommend going during the week instead. Or better yet, in the early morning when the sweet smells of baking bread are wafting down the aisles and peace is in the air. Or, if you must go on the weekend, plan what you need beforehand, brace yourself, and go in there like Sarah Connor from Terminator.
Onto the good. Russo’s is a place I recommend for excellent produce, deli meats, normal meats, deli foods, bakery items, dairy products, bulk nuts and sweets. Russo’s produce puts Whole Foods produce to shame. TO SHAME. And it is a gazillion times cheaper. And their selection is gigantic. Russo’s deli section and bakery are top notch. Their house-​made potato salad, guacamole, olives, pickles, veggie chips and other yummies are so good. The Dijon Potato salad is my absolute favorite and I get a container of it every single time I go.
Have we talked about Russo’s garden center? I get my summer flowers and succulents from Russo’s. I get the pumpkins I’m going to carve into jack-​o-​lanterns at Russo’s, and mums for my windowsill in the fall. And most importantly, I get my Christmas trees at Russo’s because their trees are FANTASTIC and priced well and the people are so very helpful and cut and wrap them so nicely. Russo’s also has awesome indoor plants, and they always always have very nicely presented gift-​type plants for when I need a last minute hostess gift or a Mother’s Day gift or WHATEVER.
Russo’s.

Everything about Russo has been pretty much been said here already.
PROS
Awesome/​Top-​notch selection of veggies from the common ones to the exotic asian ones. Trust me — whatever asian veggies you’ve been craving, you can get from Russos with high quality and affordable prices. I’ve stopped going to asian markets since then
Awesome selection of nuts and fruits. I’ve been on the hunt for goji berry (the orange antioxidant-​filled dried fruit that people’ve been raving about) and couldn’t find it anywhere until I came across it in Russo!!!

If you are into flowers and plants, again Russo has it all.
CONS
The only con I can think of is that their selection of meat and seafood is fairly limited. I always end up having to go to another supermarket for that.

If you want great quality produce, at an incredible price, take the trip to Watertown. I am a huge cook, and am always looking for the best ingredients, at the best price. I am also a big gardener as well — I’ve bought many plants from Russo’s, from outdoor herbs, to indoor plants. One thing is their indoor plants are a little pricey, but they are so healthy they are hard to pass up.
The dairy department — They always have samples, and I alwaysss cave and buy whatever sample they have. Their fresh cheeses are to die for. The staff is always very friendly and they always let you try any cheese you’d like.
FRESH PASTA– DELISH! Their fresh pasta is out of this world. I have had almost every type of home made ravioli they make, I’ve tried their spinach linguine, and all sorts of other pastas I can’t pronounce. Very inexpensive, and totally worth it.
My favorite… The dessert department. Their little treats are so inexpensive, and they are decadent and perfect. I try not to shop often at this section… but when I do cave, I’m a tiramisu fan — and theirs is perfection.
Russo’s has a great mix of organic, and local produce. They have virtually no packaged foods at all, it makes it easy to eat healthy, when you do all your grocery shopping at Russo’s! You can NOT beat their prices
Quick tips: When you walk in and take the left, if you go straight all the way back, you will see a bunch of Chinese produce, then a bunch of standing rolling shelves FILLED with discounted produce. Some things I have found are: bags of 6+ zucchinis bruised slightly but still edible and ready to cook, Giant heads of cauliflower, packs of perfect mushrooms, bags of 4+ peppers-​that might have slight bruising. Everything you find on these shelves is .98 cents. It’s incredible. If I know I’m cooking that night, I always get as much produce back there as I can

After hearing about Russo’s for years, I finally made the trek to Watertown to see it for myself. The produce is beautiful, and the selection is amazing. My only disappointment was that the dry goods are located under produce and it is tough to find specific things. Otherwise an amazing place and worth a visit!

Well, with nearly 500 reviews I expected something pretty good, but this market is awesome! The fresh vegetables and fruit are amazing. Really beautiful flower section as well. If you go here, you also gotta check out the bakery!

Russo’s is an A+ across the board except for the fact that it’s not T friendly. If you have a car and want to buy fresh produce/​baked goods for an affordable price, come here. Stop&shop rarely has anything in stock and when they do, only the wilted greens seem to be available. Whole foods is pleasing to the eye, but you leave with an empty wallet & only 4 things in your bag. Your only solution? Russo’s.