Niagara Grocery

Niagara Grocery is located in beautiful, historic James Bay. Victoria BC’s oldest grocery store; updated! The corner grocery is alive and well in Victoria. There’s still a place where you can buy local produce, daily bread, artisan cheese & sausage, and house-roasted coffees. In fact, there are two of them. Niagara Grocery in James Bay [...]
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Fairfield Market

Fairfield Market is located in the friendly neighborhood of Fairfield, Victoria, BC. Canada. The corner grocery is alive and well in Victoria. There’s still a place where you can buy local produce, daily bread, artisan cheese & sausage, and house-roasted coffees. In fact, there are two of them. Niagara Grocery in James Bay has been [...]
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Fairfield Market

We’re Number 3!

It’s been three years this week since Jen & I began the adventure that is Niagara Grocery. What possessed a couple of naïve keeners like us to buy a run-down, 102-year-old corner store I’ll never really know. There were onions in the candy rack, the back room was packed with old cardboard, and there were [...]

Chalk One Up

Awhile back I knocked together a sandwich board from some discarded lumber, and painted it with chalkboard paint. Aside from the obvious “Local cucumbers just arrived” or “Coffee and muffin only two bucks,” I’d chalk the odd food quote or (to my mind, anyway) witty pun. Well it didn’t take long for the sign to [...]

Kid Stuff

Hi, I’m Nina McKimmie, age 10, and I’ve tasted almost everything in Niagara Grocery. Here is my top five list of foods that kids would like (and they happen to be good for you!) Bull Kelp by Dakini Tidal Winds. Trust me, seaweed is yummy: salty and a little bit chewy. Bull kelp is a [...]

Cabbage Tops

We love braising greens: kale, chard, collards, rapini. dandelion, spinach… But I’ve never cooked with cabbage tops. They’re the second, leafy growth from cabbage plants after the familiar round head is picked. Like a lot of early-season vegetables they’re here and gone within a week or two. So when a box of fresh-picked cabbage tops [...]

The Handsome One

Our food cart raves continued this weekend as El Guapo (“the handsome one”) pulled into Fairfield Market on Friday and Niagara Grocery on Saturday, serving up their signature sandwich: grilled Berkshire pork chorizo, roasted red peppers, and arugula on a crusty bun (with a splash of olive oil). This is an incredibly flavorful sandwich made [...]

Spaghetti Western

It was like an episode from Eat Street: Foodies lined up on the sidewalk, the smell of simmering pasta wafting down Niagara Street, and friends & neighbors elbow to elbow around our harvest table. Last night Cowichan Pasta backed their food trailer into our driveway, and from 4 till 7 served up steaming bowls of [...]

Before: yellow cedar at De Vine Vineyards

The Community Table

Food builds community. That’s a philosophy that we’ve preached—and tried to practice—since we took over Niagara Grocery three years ago. So when, in a fit of reorganizing, Jen removed a whole aisle of shelving and dramatically opened up the center of the store, we asked ourselves, now what? Rather than the scattering of bistro tables [...]

Neighborhood Grocery

Don Genova wrote about Niagara Grocery on his blog. The feature is titled ‘Island Artisans – The Return of the Neighbourhood Grocery Store’, Read Don’s words here. Thanks Don!

The Celiac Scene

Niagara Grocery get featured in Celiac Scene. Read more here Jennifer writes: “When my daughter was a toddler she had a friend who could not have wheat, it was always my mission to find him things to eat or create them myself-it was rewarding.

Video by ‘The Daily’

Great segment on Niagara grocery and the local food movement. Watch the clip here. Niagara Grocery is the oldest corner grocery in Victoria, BC. It brings the farm to the city, with fresh produce, free-range meats, line-caught fish, house-roasted coffee, and local food products. Get fresh with a local! Niagara Grocery on The Daily

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The corner grocery is alive and well in Victoria. There’s still a place where you can buy local produce, daily bread, artisan cheese & sausage, and house-roasted coffees. In fact, there are two of them. Niagara Grocery in James Bay has been transformed from a tried convenience store into an award-winning neighborhood market. Now Fairfield has its own little slice of foodie heaven: Fairfield Market, near the corner of Fairfield & Moss. Drop by either store and say hello.

Open: Monday to Friday 8am – 7pm / Saturday 9am – 7pm / Sunday 10am – 6pm

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Open: Monday to Friday 8am – 7pm / Saturday 9am – 7pm / Sunday 10am – 6pm

250 590 1772

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