Green Valley

This is an immaculate Lebanese store packed with lovely fresh products of Arab society. My wife and I had Arabic members of our families on both her side and my side, so we have a fondness for Arabic food and culture. We bought some fresh baklava and nougat. It was so delicious. The store employees were very friendly. I hope we can come back someday.

Wonderful supermarket just off Edgware Road. Excellent location. Green Valley is always very clean and organised. It’s easy to find your way around around. Everything is labelled and priced. I’ve had a pleasant shopping experience every time. They stock a wide range of produce from the Middle East. They sell fruits, vegetables, snacks, toiletries, freshly cooked food, meat, desserts, nuts, olives, rice etc. Definitely worth popping in if you’re in the area!

I usually come here for the food, I love their daily dishes of Lebanese food but now I tried their cakes and it was amazing.

I never thought I’d have to share this review. I have been a customer for sometime - always found their prices to be a bit on the high side but was comforted by their hygiene standards. Oh was I wrong. The picture attached is of a NEEDLE found inside the wara2 3enab product. It was INSIDE the roll with the rice and meat. I ate the product and thankfully caught it in my mouth while chewing before it could hurt me. I have a whole family eating this and they must be immensely grateful that no one got hurt else this would be a lawsuit. The worst part is that I emailed their management (after speaker to the manager in store over the phone). It’s been two days - no response yet. Goes to show how seriously they take these health and safety violations. I will be escalating to the relevant department in the Westminster council. (no production date stamp).

Very friendly staff. Disappointed to have walked far to eat kunafa and it wasn't available yet and they couldn't say when they were expecting it. Otherwise a lovely place for lebanese grocery.

I was introduced to fresh dates....I found that (Green Valley) has them. I popped in, Some shouldn't be on the shelves. I found some with moulds on it...? NOT GOOD FOR HEALTH. I Picked the ones without moulds. Not many options for Vegans. And meat, ( halal meat) are prepared at the back. Doesn't smell of raw meat, unlike some other places... Customer service, could be polished too, As I was called, ( next!! ) There were, no, eye contacts, from some of the staff. And the lady at the till, looked at my bag, as I walked towards her till. But... She said: Thank you.

The products are good but when you have no manager in the shop. Individual employees will destroy whatever you are trying to do. I passed today and asked for manaesh zaatar lebannies style the very then one. The baker tried to sell me whatever he has. I told him this is not the then one and he should do me a new one specially I wanted to order 6. He said it will take an hour and a half to do it. And he walked away. I had to take whatever he offered just because he does not want bother to do a new batch. He is not the Egyptian because the Egyptian was nice I told the cashier. But the seems they are not in charge and I felt no one in charge The dessert guy was very polite

Has everything a Lebanese person would need to be reminded of home. Fresh fruits Delicious sweets (baklava, knefeh…) Roasted nuts Groceries Manakish Would definitely recommend visiting, however keep in mind their products are quite expensive.

Gelato and many desserts! Hot food area with lots of middle eastern fare. Also fresh naan bread from the oven. Many different olives. Fresh fruit...today they even had cherimoya!!!! I like it here.

I'm quite excited about this Lebanese grocery store/market/salad bar/shawarma shop. Upon entering, I always feel like stepping into a different world - with spice jars, different kinds of baklava piled up, exotic fruits and vegetables, foreign packages, and the big salad bar in the back of the store that showcases all kinds of mezze and salads (where in London can you find palm-heart salad?) Granted, I came here with two colleagues of mine and they said that their shawarma wrap was inedible, as the meat was too chewy. So, maybe you should shy away from the wraps - but please, go crazy on the mezze: ask them to put together a box of different kinds, take them with you to the office and have a little bit of Lebanon in your cubicle! And I envy anyone, who can leave the store without picking up a few sweets...

Go To the back of the store where they have ready made food and get your taste buds ready . I practically had my entire iftar standing up at that counter because I must have looked hungry, the kind peoole working there kept giving me samples of different kinds of samboosas and let me take pics of the biriani. They have so many options for vegetarians , too ! Its much cheaper and more delicious than any other place on Edgeware Road, and you can take your food to Hyde Park and have a picnic in the park after Ramadan is over. Green is the only place that I can find the red Saudi Coffee with or without cardamom and the zip sealed package of sweet and chewy Tamur dates. Lastly, they sell Oud Shampoo for $2 pounds. It makes my hair extra shiny and smells like Tom Ford perfume!

Edgware Road and the surround is a middle eastern hub of activity in the evenings, with most shops, supermarkets and cafes staying open well into the night. I love Arabic food so we often come to Green Valley, a Lebanese supermarket as it has a sizable deli counter, a fantastic bakery and an ample cake selection. They have an in house oven so you can buy freshly baked pizzas and traditional, unleavened bread whilst it's still warm. They do a delicious Za'atar spiced bread that is great to have with dips. The patisserie counter is piled high with Eastern sweets. Everything is stacked precariously high in pyramids on silver plates. Their Baklava is very good and the small range of Indian sweets, such as the sickly sweet jalebi, are very well made. They are quite pricey, much more so than the same offerings on Green Lanes, but if you're at this end of London Green Valley is one of the better quality supermarkets.

Now as I'm sure you've all read all of my reviews and memorized them by heart, I'm going to give you a pop quiz. Question: What kind of food stores do I love? Answer (s): - Really reasonable organic ones - Granaries from ancient Babylon - I am a rapscallion and, at times, speak in stentorian tones. - Foreign food grocery stores. Green Valley. I was hesitant when I first heard the name because it sounded like some place I'd find in the backwaters of upstate New York where I group up. A place that sells low-quality, dry ice cream, greasy burgers and limp fries (chips for all you non-American speakers). This Green Valley however, is the frolicking curved meadow of joy that its name implies. A Turkish/Arabic foods store with fresh baklava, fruits and veggies waiting to be pressed into juice (pick me! pick me! I want to be squeezed like if those walls in Star Wars whatever number it was had really closed in on Monsieur Skywalker!) I ordered a fresh carrot juice - as delicious as pie - and my friends some tasty icecream and we wandered around the store. I wanted to buy everything. The fresh roasted and spiced nuts, the dried dates, the halal cut meat (well actually, I don't do much red meat, but if I did...), the spices, the floorboards, the display cases, the cash registers, the life sized cut out of an elephant seducing an orangutan, and so much more. The store has a great selection of Turkish and Middle Eastern like foods. An ethnic foodie's paradise.

A regular lunch spot. Uli drags me here quite regularly, it is a bit of a trek from the office and I whinge and moan every time he makes me walk so far. I walk in, straight to the food counter toward the back and am greeted by a rather humourless soul who takes pride in dolloping spoonfuls of amazing salads, humus, vine leaves, rice, whatever it is that you want dolloped into your plastic container. Does he smile? No Does he do it with finesse? No, not really Does the food he dollops look and taste amazing? HELLZ YEAH! The prices are really reasonable too. As it is all done on weight you can choose the size of container you want and just ask the guy to stuff it as full as you like, you are paying for it, so he doesn't mind if it is half full or over-flowing, he gets his money and you get your tasty food - everyone's a winner. Yeah I whinge all the way there, but man am I happy to sit down and shovel this healthy tastiness down my throat when i get back to the office.

Let's cut to the chase: you need to come here for the baklava. It's fresh, it's delicious, it's plentiful, it comes in every incarnation, and the price is a steal. This place is also a bit of a hidden gem regarding kebabs: the meat is succulent and juicy, the spicing is spot on, and the whole package is a delight. One might imagine that, given two really tasty offerings, this place would be a hit all around. Alas, the rest of the store pales in comparison. You can get a moderate selection of fruit and veg, a considerable range of shelf-stable foods (if it grows on a tree or shrub, it's probably in their jar aisle), and a good range of Middle Eastern spices (head away from the shelf by the entrance and towards the bins by the deli counter, where you can get fresher spices and spice blends by weight). Boxed teas from several ethnic traditions are also available, but some showed discolouration, so check your expiry dates. (Life tip: do that no matter where you are, actually.) But the whole store is dingy and showing its years, and you may find the range of personal and home goods, as well as coffees, lacking. While the lady at checkout was super nice, and the men by the baklava were knowledgeable and efficient, the guys at the manakeesh oven (not tasty, alas) and kebab/deli counters were clearly doing you a favour by, you know, selling you things. One thing worth noting is that the crossings along this stretch of Edgware Road are insane. There are pedestrian walkways, but no pedestrian lights or marked (lined) crosswalk. That means you're competing with cars, buses, and lorries turning every which direction. Having sprinted across more than my fair share of urban deathways before, I find this are particularly hairy and way, way unnecessary, considering the rest of London. If you have a pram or any mobility issues, may I suggest that you approach from the 'back' (the east side of Edgware, avoiding it altogether) for your safety and comfort.

Yes I'm overwhelmed by the sheer amount and then choice of food but I do find something to eat in the end! I love pick a mix food at the best of times and here I could choose from a little bit of salad topped up with a few veggie samosas. You could go here every day for a week and not run out of choice, even if you're a fussy eater.

You gotta love places like this. They put so much time in details and quality of what they serve, that you almost feel like the stockpile gold. This is place where you easily order too much, and things you have never seen or eaten before, just because it looks appealing. And you can never go wrong with the good look of food. So go for it, feel confident that whatever you eat will not disappoint you!

Absolutely fantastic. I'm a good cook, and I cook middle-eastern food. Yet this actually exceeds homemade cooking. It's pretty much homemade food for you. The food is YUM and tasty and perfect. NO exaggeration. If you love excellent arabic food from magloube, to Taboule, to mloukheya, to kibbeh, this is for you!! The sweet section is outstanding. I tried Lukmat alqadhi and kenafe and it was brilliant, hot out the oven ! My family have been customers to this for 20 years. It started simple, it's now grander and has a wider variety. It never lacked in goodness. If you wanted to taste the real flavours of the middle-east in London, then this, I sully recommended.

The hummus is extremely over priced, It's 12.50 a kilo when you get it from Waitrose for £5

Stale pişmaniye and a broken down pastirma slicing machine....very disappointing

Quite an unusual mini-market type place... has lots of Lebanese food that you cant find in other places... a nice change of sainsburys... but service at the tills is slightly cold / rude... once I asked for my change to be in coins (because I wanted to use the coins in the launderette) but the till guy refused, which I had not expected from a small place with a happy sounding name

Who knew heaven was Lebanese? About ten years ago I was taken by a friend to Green Valley, a Lebanese supermarket just of Edgware Road, and I thought I'd died and woken up in a better place. It is a truly extraordinary shop - huge and packed to the gills with the most exquisite collection of food I'd seen in a long time. Seriously gives Harrods a run for its money, and in my opinion is better because this shop is used by thousands of people to do their weekly shop rather than mostly gawping tourists who will buy something in a jar, mostly for the attached label. I have returned a thousand times though that web of streets Marble Arch is not really on my way to or from anywhere that I go frequently. Or even rarely. The huge plate glass window at the front display pastries in great circular mountains, glistening palely, tempting me in. It was from here that the man first tried baklava - a new delight to add to his list of fine things. At the front of the shop there are serried ranks of vegetables, common things like fresh tomatoes through to more exotic fare like fresh dates and okra as well as enormous bunches of dill, coriander and parsley. It smells good. They sell seemingly every herb and spice known and have barrels of olives of various flavours and hues next to sacks of dried pulses if your need is greater than the packaged varieties on nearby shelves. Keep going and you will find a bakery making flat breads and a food counter selling dozens of different kinds of prepared food, salads and little sausages and mini pide. They have huge swords of meat - one lamb, one chicken, rotating slowly that makes probably the nicest kebabs in London. Rich, juicy and garlicky they are certainly the best I've eaten. They have a full butchers counter, a dizzying array of dairy, great varieties of halloumi and yoghurt, handmade falafel fresh or frozen, tahini in jars large and small. When I go in I shop! It invariably takes a while, even if I know what I want I still must check every aisle, every package, every possibility. Though I know the things I will definitely buy - halloumi, green lentils, falafel that cooks from frozen, a tray of baklava, shiny fat kalomata, a pack or two of flat bread, tahini if I'm running low there are also new treats every time. Spices I've not seen before, fresh pine nuts, a twisted sheeps cheese and most recently a tube of harissa paste. The place is endless joy!

I love this supermarket; they sell all varieties of fresh fruit, vegetable, coffee, ice cream, halwa, bon bons and backlawa - all fused with a delightful mediterrenian Lebanese culture. Its one of the few outlets that accepts credit/debit cards on Edgware Road and they are friendly and efficient. Parking can be a problem but they are open late and over the weekends.

Green valley is a wonderful supermarket. Things i love about it: Walnut baklawa Smoked almonds by the kilo Jellab (fresh date juice) Freshly baked khobez bread Bamia (okra, where else in W1 sells it?!) Halal meat counter, the marinated saffron chicken is divine Pre-prepared salads and dips to take home for when you feel too lazy to cook. Things they could improve: The guys behind the sweet counter are creepy, and overfamiliar. on the plus side I now eat way less sweets than I did prior to this beginning! The salad and butchery areas have a strange 'queueing' system- if there are no middle eastern men present, a queue operates on a first come first served basis, however as soon as they do, i have on occasion been overlooked whilst 3 or 4 people are served. Im still confused by how a middle eastern supermarket can possibly charge twice the price that waitrose do for a can of chickpeas ?! This is not a cheap supermarket, however its great quality, and considering the location offers decent value and an amazing selection.

This is a gem. Wonderful middle eastern groceries. Excellent fresh food. They do a dish of the day that is always delicious. If you are looking for lamb to cook then this is the place to buy it. The BEST lamb in London for sure! I love this place.

it's a shame- this would have been a better place if staff were not so rude- one even physically threatened a customer before my very eyes after being rude to the customer- and the Manager did not even apologise for his employee- appalling behaviour.