The Nutbox

So I was craving roasted hazelnuts (filberts) and went to the NUTbox to buy them. I took them home and they were stale. I looked on the bag and there was no packed date or expiration date. They tasted terrible!

If you love all things snack food, especially of the nut variety, look no further than The Nut Box in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn. This is a snacker’s heaven. When the regular old chips just won’t cut it, you can head here for all things sweet and salty. While the name let’s you know one thing they have for sure, they also have an extensive variety of their own coffee, candies, chocolates and trail mixes.
I really like their Wasabi Bean Mix (soy bean, red bean, black bean, edamame), it’s something I haven’t seen at other stores before. Sure, you have wasabi peas, but this is a different, more exciting spin on the spicy pea snack.

found maggots in the almonds at the trail mix bar. grossss.
do not buy from this clearly over-​priced store!

PLEASE READ THE LABEL BEFORE BUYING!!! THEY SELL EXPIRED FOODS AND ARE SHADY. I went to get some granola a few days ago and bought some and the sales person noticed they expired 11÷28÷13 and said that that i should take it with no charge. I actually didn’t want it but he put it inside the bag. I noticed that he had charged me for the expired granola. Without thinking anything, i opened to try and it tasted staled, gross disgusting. I want to call the health department on them for selling expired foods. I will never step food inside that store ever again. Its nasty nasty nasty.

This place is NUTZ!
Crazy selection of just about every kind of nut you can imagine. Plus the draw for me is they sell authentic Turkish Delight.
I just wish some place would sell pine nuts at below market value — that would be a big draw to keep coming back and they’d expand their customer base. Macadamian nuts too.

Why does this place stay open so late?
I’m not convinced why anyone would come here rather than go to a grocery or health food store with a decent bulk selection.

Good selection of nuts and stuff. Prices range from very reasonable to not so much. Good for those who buy in bulk as well. Self made granola is neat.
Tried the baklava, was solid, each piece was a dollar, 2 flavors. guy in front was nice as well. Music was an odd mix of techno and arabic.
3.5

Candy! Phil H. and I wandered in the other day and ambled around like sugar fiends looking for a fix. Cookies, candy corn, chocolate covered pretzels, and gummi worms were just some of the tasty treats they sold here. The fact that it was late and people were still filtering in to make their purchases showed that we weren’t the only junkies about.

I LOVE NUTS! NUTS! NUTS! NUTS!
All types of nuts. Salty nuts, baked nuts, Cajun nuts, chocolate covered nuts, corn nuts, mixed nuts, hot nuts, seasoned nuts, raw nuts, spicy nuts, candied nuts, sweet nuts. I love them in my mouth.
Wait? WTF did I just proclaim? Sounds pretty dirty to me. But I just love chewing on some tasty nuts. Wait!!! What??? This sounds worse!!!
Anyway, this place has all type of nuts and things to snack on. Holiday Gifts, Nuts, Dried Fruit, Snacks & Mixes, Chocolate & Yogurt Candies, Chocolate Covered Nuts, Natural Seeds, Honey Products, Organic Nuts Seeds, Organic Dried Fruit, Coffee Beans and much more. Can get a bit pricey, but nuts are expensive to begin with. They even have a small gelato stand here. We found this location while out bar hopping last night along Smith Street. Nice little shop. Very clean and organized. A ton of selection and merchanise packed into every shelf and display. Of course I took home a bunch of stuff to snack on and give out as gifts to family.
In fact, I’m chewing on some tasty nuts right now. What did I just say? Holy crap this whole review sounds bad!

I like nuts, like a lot.
If a nut shop, hell if the nutbox itself moved into my hood I’d be going «nuts». He he.
Great selection — corn nuts in every flavor imaginable people! And nuts, nuts, nuts galore. Oh but you want some spices too? And a coffee? And some gelato? Yup, you can get it all here.
I also loved that they had nut flours/​meals too and the prices were reasonable, I actually regret not picking any up while I was there. And the prices on the spices were awesome! Where the hell can you buy an enormous container of cream of tartar, like enough to seriously last you a lif time because what-​the-​hell-​do-​you-​really-​ever-​use-​it-​for, for $ 4.99? I mean it costs that in the supermarket for like ¹⁄₁₆ of the size of the jar in the store. But I digress.
This store is awesome, reasonable and the there are no pushy salespeople working the floor. We went back two days in a row and the same guy was behind the counter — maybe he’s the owner? But he was courteous and friendly-​enough.

Lots of nuts and other small food related items at reasonable prices. Nice folks working here as well. If you needed nuts, now you know where you can get some.

The Nutbox has a great variety of teas, nuts, trail mixes, and other snacks. The store is clean and well-​organized. My favorite part about the store is the selection of macarons. The macarons are fresh, colorful, and absolutely delicious. Last night, I tried the mint macaron with chocolate cream filling and it was amazing.

This place gets 4 stars for their selection of yummy snacks, from what you would expect — nuts, to cotton candy and gummy candy. The prices seem reasonable and I like the selection; however, I would like some opportunity for a la carte items.
What really brings it down a star is the service. The woman who was working there was rude and gave me evil eyes the whole time I was browsing the store. In some ways I was tempted to just leave without buying anything, but I did want to pick up some stuff for an upcoming birthday, so I just dealt with it.

Love.
My favorites: roasted chickpeas, sour gummies, granola, orange and cream taffy.
This place has an amazing selection. Prices are mostly on the cheap side (it is in bulk, after all) and never more than what you would pay elsewhere. Services is consistently good. I love just coming in and looking around to see what I can find.

Wasn’t impressed.
I was initially. A big variety of small things… nuts, candies, chocolates, snacks, etc. It seemed a cool, unique shop.
Then I started asking questions. The guy behind the counter, while texting, asked me if I needed help. I explained my needs and he replied with: «would you like to sign up for our email list?» Then I asked another specific question to which «I don’t know» was the reply.
To me it has the feel of corporate chain store you’d find in a mall or tourist retail area like South Street Seaport and lacks the charm of other Brooklyn shops with a bit less polish.

No Cobble Hill grocery shopping trip (meaning you’re going to Trader Joe’s) is complete without a stop at The Nutbox. Whether you have the eating habits of a foraging squirrel or you need to stock up on some decent party snacks this place has almost any kind of legume and drink complement you could need.
My three must-​haves:
— Wasabi peas
— Chocolate-​covered almonds
— Yogurt peanuts
The bags don’t lend themselves to resealing after you open them so it helps to have some containers at home to store your goodies.

Sometimes you get an urge to throw some nuts in your mouth. I had an urge like that once… it ended pretty :-) How did I manage to quickly satisfy my urge for a nut festival in my mouth? I’ll tell you how… THE NUTBOX!
Look, sometimes you just want to walk into a place where there are sacks of nuts EVERYWHERE! Sacks of peanuts, almonds, cashews, corn nuts, macadamia, pine nuts, pecans, pistachios… ah hell, you get the point! Then you can point and say «I WANT THAT NUT SACK!!! You know what? I’m going to be crazy tonight… GIMME 5 NUT SACKS!» Looks like tonight shall be fulfilling, indeed! I know mine was, haaaayyyyy!!!
This place is really well organized considered the amounts and varieties of nuts and such that they carry. But I would have had the nuts (pun intended) to name this local shop NUT SACK! Why not? The clientele in the beginning would have been… um…interesting…but once everyone finds out it’s a store of actual nuts (not the other kind), the pervs will disappear and you’re left with the poppin’ NUT SACK! I may have to go speak to the owner about this…

Since all the nuts come in sacks, it should more properly be called the «nutsack». Oh, wait. I get it!
Sacks and sacks of nuts abound, together with other awesome goodies such as sacks of grains, sacks of spices, sacks of trail mix and sacks of candy. A great spot to pop in for specialty spices (a la Penzey’s) and grains (bulgher wheat and the like) if you find TJ’s overwhelming (and I do).
I do not recommend buying the sack of holiday pretzels, as you will eat them all in one sitting. Ouchers.
Everybody’s getting chili-​lime corn nuts in their holiday sack!

There’s a lot of nuts in here. They don’t come in boxes though; they are actually all available by the bag, or the sack, if you will. But I can see why they went with «box» over «bag» or «sack.»
They actually have TONS of other things besides nuts: Barley. Beans. Rice. Sea salt. Spice rubs. Candy. Chocolate-​covered everything. Yogurt pretzels. Mixed nuts. Trail mixes. Berries. Dried fruit. They’ve got little sacks of it all, and everything is very reasonably priced.
There’s even a little gelato stand at the front of the store. But the cookies and cream is chocolate based for some reason, so I skipped it.
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I should note that Juvie’s «Back That Azz Up» was playing as I perused the store. And also that my girlfriend was unamused by my insistence that she call me «big daddy» while she browsed The Nutbox.

I’m a bit of a gummi bear whore: give me a bag of gummi bears, and I will chew my way steadily through it in one sitting, one wee bear at a time… The Nut Box sells the best gummi bears I’ve ever had: their wild fruit gummi bears ($ 3.98/lb) are very rich in flavor without being too sweet, are of the perfect consistency (softer than Haribo’s Gold Bears, the ones you can get in the Subway), and come in 12 flavors: orange, pineapple, granny smith apple, watermelon, lemon, wild cherry, banana, lime, strawberry, raspberry, grapefruit, and grape! Highly addictive…
On a recent visit I tried their sour gummi bears ($ 1.99/8oz bag), which are a valid alternative if you like sour candies (I still prefer the real thing though).
Oh, and their selection of more healthy products like nuts, dried fruits, granola mixes, seeds, chocolate, and yogurt, is pretty amazing.