DC - where to live?
Nov 5, 2015 | 9:21 pm
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Nov 8, 2015 | 11:12 am
#77
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Never been to a Trader Joe's before - what are the prices like compared to typical supermarkets?
Nov 8, 2015 | 11:51 am
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What they don't have is deli, seafood or meat counters; you're stuck with prepackaged items in those categories.
They also don't carry name-brand soda or tonic water of any kind, a failing shared with Whole Foods. To get that without driving or biking out of the neighborhood, there's a good little store called Streets Market in the same new apartment complex at Pershing and 50 that has a Bonchon Chicken.
And I'll second You want to go where?'s endorsement of the farmers market. I've been going there every Saturday that I've been in town for about the past 18 years.
Nov 8, 2015 | 12:16 pm
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Thanks! I will definitely be visiting the farmer's market on Saturdays. The Trader Joe's sounds very convenient given its location, so no doubt I'll be stopping by there often.
Nov 8, 2015 | 12:34 pm
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Safeway in Rosslyn? Out of the way from Clarendon (unless swinging by Rosslyn anyway), but it's had good pricing sometimes.
Nov 14, 2015 | 9:03 am
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Good to terrific, depending on what you're buying. A lot of their inventory is their own brand (under ethnically varied spellings as the kind of food warrants, such as "Trader Giotto's" pasta and "Trader Jose's" salsa), and that's all been high-quality stuff in my experience. They're a great deal for wine and beer, although the "Two-Buck Chuck" Charles Shaw is nowhere as good as some people say.
What they don't have is deli, seafood or meat counters; you're stuck with prepackaged items in those categories.
They also don't carry name-brand soda or tonic water of any kind, a failing shared with Whole Foods. To get that without driving or biking out of the neighborhood, there's a good little store called Streets Market in the same new apartment complex at Pershing and 50 that has a Bonchon Chicken.
And I'll second You want to go where?'s endorsement of the farmers market. I've been going there every Saturday that I've been in town for about the past 18 years.
What they don't have is deli, seafood or meat counters; you're stuck with prepackaged items in those categories.
They also don't carry name-brand soda or tonic water of any kind, a failing shared with Whole Foods. To get that without driving or biking out of the neighborhood, there's a good little store called Streets Market in the same new apartment complex at Pershing and 50 that has a Bonchon Chicken.
And I'll second You want to go where?'s endorsement of the farmers market. I've been going there every Saturday that I've been in town for about the past 18 years.
Nov 30, 2015 | 7:58 am
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