Whittens Naturally

For someone like me that likes to cook, that has a cooking blog and has an interest in buying the best products this place is a mandatory stop. This green grocer is my favourite. It’s close to my house, it’s really nice and has good choices when it comes to buy fresh fruit and vegetables.
The fruit and vegetables are of good quality, the service it’s not pretentious at all, as it happens in some places nowadays, and the relationship quality-​price is satisfactory.
It would be easy to think this would be an expensive place to shop comparing to the big chains but I don’t think that’s the case. Sometimes it can even be cheaper.
So for me the best reason to buy here is because they do try to have as much as possible local products and sometimes it is possible to find fruits and vegetables in season that are not available in grocery stores.

It impresses me no end when a greengrocer sells ripe plums that look as if they came straight from an old country orchard not far away. Sometimes there are even damsons, which I have only seen once before ever on a fruit stand. All the fruit at Whittens is fresh and ripe, so much better than that hard cold sort you get at Tescos. It’s an old fashioned sort of shop and quite large inside. In addition to fruit and vegetables there are extra things like eggs, dried beans, lentils, jams, bread and milk. It seems to take the staff a while to notice you when you’re at the till, they’re too busy unpacking all that lovely produce though when they do they’re friendly and seem enthusiastic about their produce.

Wittens is a good old local green grocers. These are a complete dying breed which is a terrible thing because Its always good to have local produce.
This place is filled to the prim with everything you could ever want. Everything is in season and picked on the only a day or two ago. I get my eggs here, mainly due to the fact that they are local free range eggs and eggs is where my ethics when it comes to food comes to an end! The till is at a really awkward position and you have to kinda loiter around in the hope of being served at it, but that just adds a little something more to its local charm I think.

Every now and again I go through a weirdo crazy fit of eating healthily (but invariably it never lasts long, hence my rotund shape), but when I do get this urge for goodness, I try to call in to Whittens Fruit Market, as it always seems so pleasant and inviting a place to go into and get some mouthwateringly lovely fruit. Everything is bulging forth with freshness and there is every possible choice of fruit or vegetable that you could possibly wish for. It certainly makes a change from rooting through dubious sickly green bananas and bruised apples in Tesco and the like. The staff are really obliging too, and the service is excellent. I would recommend this if you’re strolling along the Lisburn Road and are looking for your soup veg for the dinner or even just a tasty apple.

What a pleasant little shop to have in such close proximity of huge chain stores and takeaways. Situated on the Lisburn Road, Whitten’s looks and smells like an old fashioned green-​grocers and is a favourite among the locals.
With its well-​stocked shelves, cheap milk and traditional feel, this particular green-​grocers is certainly my favourite in Belfast. It does not have the ‘market stall’ impact when you walk in, as if they are waiting for you to buy your food and leave. Instead you can roam around the shop as long as you like and pick the freshest ingredients to cook for that someone special.
They have great offers on all products, especially their potatoes which for a huge bag comes in for a £1. Their fruit is top drawer, with a huge selection of everything, whilst their mixed salad bags may not be as cheap as a supermarket, but taste much nicer.
For fresh fruit and vegetables with a real homely feel, I suggest you come to this pleasant little place and you never know, they might even give you some discount.