Broadway Fruiterers

The best fruit and veg shop in Crouch End. The staff is always helpful and smiley. The oranges and tomatoes are real! Yay! They taste like fruit! I forgot what it is like after years buying fruit and vegs in Tescos or Lidl. They have always seasonal stuff and it is worth a visit: you will love their vegs. Also they have variety of olives, something I really miss from home! You can pay by card with a minimum of 10 pounds. I love this shop!

Nice to be able to go to a traditional independent greengrocers and avoid the big chain supermarkets. Good range of lovely fresh produce. Slightly pricey as you would expect with organic food so I can’t afford to come here all the time but it’s great as a treat! Would be nice to have a receipt so you could see how much everything costs individually because it’s quite tricky to work it out with the per Kg items.

This place simply deserves my five stars… just because I am always looking forward to shopping here! (Yeah, I’m kind of weird that way — looking forward to be shopping at a greengrocer.)
But seriously, I always find their fruit and vegetable selection to be impeccable — fresh, beautiful and bountiful! On top of that, they have a huge variety of resasonably priced organic products, such as all kinds of dried beans, pasta, cheeses, müslis, spreads, dried fruits etc etc etc. I mean, this store is jam-​packed with healthy goodies and you cannot be leaving this store not feeling good about yourself!
On top of that, and this is really where they’ve won me over, the folks working here are always super-​friendly. Not the in-​your-​face, let me chat-​you-​up-​kind-​of-​friendly, but a friendliness that is subtle, but extremely agreeable to me.
In other words: need your five-​a-​day and wanna support the local business scene at the same time? Broadway Fuiterers are your mates!

People in Crouch End are so lucky they have these wonderful little privately owned shops where you can get fresh and organic products at good prices instead of having to deal with the ‘food’ at the big chain grocery stores. It’s like shopping in the early 1900s, when people bought from their local markets. Broadway Fruiterers is one of these adorable little market shops that is open every day not just on the weekends. This shop has been open since 1975 and is still going strong while big name brands are going out of business. Broadway Fruiterers stocks fruit, vegtables (of course) cereals, and pasta.

This is my favourite greengrocers. It sells lots and lots of greens, as you would expect, and fruits and roots, but also a range of pastas, tinned foods, etc, and a lovely olive selection and, best of all, a whole area of chocolate coated nuts and raisins and even chocolate coated dried fruits at the back. They only take cash, which is sort of quaint and sweet but can be a bloody nuisance.