Lafayette Grocery

This store is NOT closed.

Oh man, Lafayette Grocery just made my night. I’ve been looking for a local place that sells hookah coals for a few evenings and assumed that this grocer wouldn’t have any. They didn’t. But what they didn’t have in store they made up for in fantastic advice and pointed me to a halal grocer on Atlantic. Everyone else just looked at me like I was totally ignorant and shook their heads at the request.
So there you go. If they don’t have what you’re looking for – even if it’s specialty coals at 9:30 at night – they’ll make sure you know where to go.
Rock on, Lafayette Grocery.

There are many things you expect to find when you enter a grocery/​bodega; drinks (cold water, soda, iced tea, V8 (you better!), beer, etc), derivatives A.K.A junk food (potato chips, cheetos, trans-​fat-​festival), canned goods (Chicken Vienna Sausages, Campbell’s soup, Tuna, SPAM, etc), a variety of Cancer Sticks (Marlboro, Camel, God-​forbid-​unfiltered Lucky’s), fruits, mints, chocolates, bread, and in short; everything you need when you are on the quick, or on the go, or on the red (hint, hint, shopaholics LARCONS «Last-​resource-​cup-​o-​noodle» category inferred) What you certainly don’t walk in expecting to find is honesty, and this is exactly what I found on Lafayette’s Grocery last Thursday.
So, have you ever walked through a predominantly residential part of town, where no sign of commerce seems to be present? This particular stretch of Lafayette in Brooklyn is just like that; brownstones upon brownstones, no convenient store for the next 4 blocks or so, and before you scoff away, let me tell you that it can be hell to try to pinpoint a convenient bodega when you just need «that thing» that you are missing in the morning or at night; whether it’s milk and OJ, or tobacco and beer; a grocery store sitting *ahem* conveniently in the middle of a residential fiasco can be a heaven sent!
And so I went in to buy some stuff, it was crowded and I was in a hurry and I didn’t noticed that I gave the dude one Lincoln more than I should have. I was walking away when he literally shouted, and went out of his way to bring this to my attention. I was perplexed at this show of honesty, and thanked him, and I even got an anniversary pen from the guy, which commemorated in simple fonts, Lafayette’s Grocery 25 years in business.
Did you think that I would deny a family owned business of this excellent kind, my Libra allegiance? On my own month? Hell’s no.
5 stars for 5 bucks guys. Karma, and again, Shukran!