Food Maxx

Best place in Winchester to get fresh cilantro and other international foods. Be sure to check out the discount rack in the back corner for less than perfect items discounted for a great price. I’m thrown by the fishy smell of the place but that’s just my sensitive nose.

Glad I could find a place to buy groceries after moving from Prince William County since I don’t eat the hamhock/​potato salad/​cooked to death canned vegetable diet of the yokels. Sell phyllo and you’ll get an A+. PS — kill the freakin’ air conditioning! It really doesn’t need to be that cold

Coming from living in the northern Virginia area for about 8 years, I was super excited to find this gem after moving to Winchester. There are no Korean or Vietnamese restaurants in Winchester, so having this International grocery store is a lifesaver.
The produce is cheap and always fresh (except for the summer fruits).
I should take off a ton of the stars for the tobacco smoke coming from the back near the vegetables. I wish the owner or workers went out to smoke.
Cost is a little more than Lotte or Hmart, but it’s the only international grocery store in Winchester.

This is my Husbands Favorite Grocery Store in Winchester! He loves all foods that are ethnic and this place has got it all!!! Also amazing produce section so cheap & Fresh!

Great place if you’re looking for more of a variety than you get at other grocery stores in the area.

M-​F 9am-​10pm, S-​S 8am-​10pm are their hours. Such a fantastic place! I’ve lived an hour away for 3 years, and had no idea. I’d been driving two hours to H Mart [and this store actually has some things H Mart does not stock!]. Now this is my go-​to grocery store. Great selection, awesome produce, fantastic sauces. Definitely a few things missing, but so much more than I ever expected to find tucked away in VA. Not the cheapest grocery store, but also not too expensive. The staff are very polite, and the store is quite clean. Three cheers!

Food Maxx is the largest international grocery store in Winchester. International is code word for ethnic stocking lots of the products you just can’t find at the other chain supermarkets such as Martin’s or Food Lion. There is that distinct, ethnic store scent that hits you when you enter the store.
I thought I’d look for mixed fruit spread here, but they didn’t have any. However, I was delighted to find tons of Asian food like I eat at home, i.e. fish balls, yaki soba. It’s a mix of Mexican and Asian grocery products for the most part.
I bought teriyaki beef jerky for my plane trip home and two pieces of coconut cake roll for my aunt to eat with the strawberries she bought earlier.

On occasion I decide to try to make one of my favorite Thai dishes that I usually get in restaurants, such as Pad Thai or Drunken Noodles. They have had all the exotic ingredients I have ever needed for any of these dishes. I am very thankful Food Maxx exists because I don;t know where I would get this stuff if it wasn’t for them.
Note: They carry both Hispanic and Asian products — they have a hispanic food aisle, and a traditional asian food aisle. They have a good variety of fresh produce for cooking dishes such as the ones I mentioned above such as thai basil and various forms of peppers, including thai chili peppers.

Excellent store, has 95% of what i need to make exotic foods, and its not pricey. Never had a problem there, and everyone is friendly.

I really enjoyed this place. Had everything I needed and good prices. A wonderful variety of international produce. I’m a big fan of daikon and burdockroot and can normally not find them at traditional grocery stores. They had both. Also, got a extrememly large bag of kombu for around $ 3.00 which is rare. They also have «regular» brands such as Coca Cola and Pillsbury. Also the staff was very helpful and kind.

Very good prices on produce and meats. You may find some cuts of meats here that you would not find in mainstream grocery stores because the target population is Asian and Hispanic. That’s OK with us. The business model is similar to other Korean-​owned stores in the DC area (e.g., Global, Grand Mart, etc.).
They also have a full service seafood counter, and they will prepare seafood (cut, fillet, etc) any way you wish.
They do have chicken necks, which is the main staple of our dogs’ BARF – Biologically Appropriate Raw Food – diet – raw chicken necks. They are packaged in ~2-​lb packages, which is convenient for daily feedings, but also I am working with them to purchase a 40# box at a slight discount per-​pound because I would be doing the packing into smaller zip-​lock bags and freezing.

This place has been open for over a year and I finally found out about it — Thank you, thank you Food Maxx for opening in Winchester. No more traveling all the way to Loudoun County for Asian groceries! The produce dept is well stocked. There is a lot of Latino groceries and one aisle for Asian items (Japanese, Chinese, Indian, etc). The freezer section has wonton and potsticker and spring roll wrappers, in addition to many frozen pre-​made Asian and Latino goodies. There is a huge selection of rice and a Latino baked goods section.
I will only have to go to larger international stores for a few items that Food Maxx does not carry, but this store does seem to have all the common, basic items.

I spoke to the Manager at Food Maxx to find out more about what species of shark they were selling — and he didn’t even know. I find that a sign of poor business and he was very cavalier about addressing my concerns.

This is where I get all of my groceries that I can.
For one thing, Avocados, no limit, 2 for a dollar special last month? HELLO.
Limes always run cheap– the best I’ve seen is 14 for a DOLLAR. I’m not kidding.
This is the second international food mart I have been to in my life– the first was an H-​Mart in Falls Church, which I thought was okay but could have been improved. I love our FoodMaxx here in Winchester.
Only con is that they aren’t bigger. I would love to see expanded Asian cuisines. THey have most of the produce I can use and I am only lacking a few ingredients. When they don’t carry something, they order it in. Awesome.

I am not someone who is familiar with international foods however I am always drawn to places like this, where a piece of a countries culture and food is present. I have never been outside of the us but in particular I love Asian goods and most Hispanic foods I have had. Its all about the spices! And there is an abundance of that and other interesting things. Everytime I go I try to pick something up that I have never had before. So happy that this very friendly store is in Winchester now. Look for Mr. Squid in the Asian food section its great. (thai spiced squid jerky)

We love this store — lots of super fresh exotic fruits, veg, fish, and packaged foods from around the world. Usually we go for the produce — last time I went I came out with five bags of fruit and veg and spent just $ 25. Great for the budget and I love, love, love, the exotic choices.

At last, a genuine international supermarket in Winchester! In fact, this might just be the best one in the region. Wide selection of brands I haven’t seen for years, not to mention foods that have been difficult to find at best, even in larger areas like Leesburg.
The majority of the focus is on Latin American foods (and household product brands, like Ariel laundry detergent) but the selection for other countries is fairly decent. (It’s the only place I can get the Korean version of frozen udon noodles) The Asian selection has gotten a lot better lately, and now Food Maxx has an even more extensive selection, like frozen bao. (Not as good as fresh, of course, but it’s a decent substitute) And as before, the butcher sells fresh-​made loganzia and chorizo for dirt-​cheap.
Lastly, the staff are attentive and friendly, even at odd hours. Definitely has that small business feel to it.

Okay, since I moved out here to Winchester, I’ve really been wishing for a «tienda», that is, something that focuses on international foods (read: real Mexican stuff, not just El Paso and Alice’s Gourmet Tortilla Wraps). Well, one moved into town and I am in luv.
I could sit here all day and just drool about the store, but my wife says that my eyes grew tears of joy when I saw walls of chorizo, tortillas, pasteles, rice, and such. I think I could be making buckets of my childhood dishes for the next century based on the stuff that I found here.
But it’s not just Mexican stuff here, there’s also Korean, Chinese, Caribbean, other Latin American foods. Oh, and there’s also some local (read: American) stuff for those who can’t live without that.
The staff is also incredibly friendly and helpful, something I haven’t seen in a grocery store since my days in Los Angeles… back in the 80s. The prices are also extremely reasonable (I would say «dirt cheap», but somehow that feels just insulting.)
Granted, all is not perfect in paradise: some of the national brands are a bit more here (this is an international store, so that’s to be expected) and the selection of some products here may not impress people if you’re used to the walls of American stuff at Martins or Wegmans (not knocking either, but they focus on a different segment of the market.)
In short: why are you reading this? Turn off the browser, get in the car, go down there and start shopping. You’ll be glad you did.

Finally! An international grocery store in Winchester. Some things I saw that I haven’t found at any other winchester grocery stores:
rice spring roll wrappers
jackfruit
coconut cream
cassava root
plantain chips
produce:
Indian Bitter Melon
Aloe leaves
thai chilis (these were frozen)
My best finds were:
–an 18oz bottle of sambal oelek (chili paste) for less than what Martin’s charges for an 8oz bottle
–0.4g of saffron threads for $ 4.99– the only saffron threads you can get at Martins are 12.99 and I’m pretty sure it’s for much less of them
They also had a pretty big tub of frozen chopped lemongrass for under $ 2.
The prices were pretty reasonable for the most part, and the employees were nice. Some of the shelves were still a little bare and I don’t think they’ve gotten their alcohol license yet because the aisle marked beer only had soda and juice in it.
The only thing I found disappointing was that they had a huge aisle of hispanic candy, but no asian candy or snacks. Also, they don’t have any potsticker wrappers or wonton wrappers. Maybe that’s something they’ll eventually carry… I hope so.
We’ll be doing a lot of shopping here!
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They have potsticker wrappers now! And sliced lotus root, and vegan soy-​free taro spring rolls and banana spring rolls in the freezer section. I also noticed a few snacks in the asian products aisle this time, but only a handful.