Ayoub’s Dried Fruits and Nuts

Everything I have tried here is fresh and delicious. The staff are extremely helpful and you can sample everything. If you are Lucky to be there when the owner is making the delicacies you will get a hot sample!

Stunning selection. Friendly service. High quality and everything was so tasty. Going back again this trip.

This place is like a candy store for grown ups. A slightly healthier option to candy but honestly the nuts and dried fruit might just be as much of an indulgence. This place feels super authentic and fun. Love the many pods that display the dried fruits/​veggies and nuts. I was in the store for at least an hour admiring all the things I can buy. l literally went NUTS as the signage outside their store suggests. They let you sample the things you want to buy as long as you scoop it and not dig your hands in. They sell a large variety of dried fruits that include sour cherries, dried kiwi, dried apricot, grapes and best of all candied strawberries. They are the main reason I decided to visit this store after being introduced to it by my boss despite dreading the lack of parking on 4^th ave. Parking does suck because it is all paid street parking unless you find a free spot a block up. They also have dried beans and Okra which were super crispy. They sell pistachios with shells or shelled with different flavors and also a variety of flavors of cashews. They also sell turkish delights for 50 cents each and tastes pretty good. You can choose to scoop the amount you want from their bulk pods or they have prepackaged items along the wall or you can choose from. They also have some gift trays you can fill with what ever you want at a set price. The girl who was there was super sweet and helpful. I love this store. Highly recommend!

Lovely shop with a fantastic selection of goods. The girl working there was very nice and kept offering samples of various things. All the things we tried were good, and I didn’t detect any staleness, although I could see that being a problem as one reviewer mentioned. I was impressed that they roast in house, given the number of different products they offer. I wish we had places like this is California! It feels luxurious and so much in there is healthy.

I really enjoyed browsing and buying in Ayoub’s. This was a fun stop on my very recent visit to Vancouver. The interior is decked out with chandeliers and huge metal barrels full of dried fruits, veggies, nuts, and sweets. It is definitely a luxury bulk retail experience (does that even make sense?). Ayoub’s roasts its own goodies and the roasting area is in the very back, fully visible through the glass walls. My group of 6 were like children in a candy shop, especially when the nice clerk offered us numerous samples of whatever we wanted. My favorites included the spicy cashews and almonds, the black raisins, and the beet chips. We ended up buying a couple of bagfuls of everything (so it seemed). Prices weren’t too bad (for Canada!) and the selection was amazing. Come here for the samples and leave with plenty to keep your mouth and tummy happy for days!

Love, love, love this place!!! What an amazing variety of goodies!
You have to bag everything in site!

Discovered this gem on my last trip to Vancouver. This store serves all bulk bin items, mostly dried fruits and nuts. Everything is beautifully displayed — a real luxury bulk shopping experience. Most prices are actually comparable to grocery store prices, save the specialty items & mixes (which are understandably a bit expensive) and common items like thompson raisins, which you may be better off buying at your local grocery.
What I really loved about this place, though, was that everything is SUPER FRESH. I am a dried fruit & nut junkie and the only place I’ve never come across bulk bin product this fresh. The nuts look hand-​picked — I didn’t see a single black speck on the cashews (and I looked hard!)
Another bonus — free samples of anything you want to try. I guess the downside to this is that people are more likely to stick their hands in the bins, but that’s always a risk you take with bulk shopping anyway!

Someone gave me a bag of dried veggie chips as a gift. Boy these are the best tasting veggie chips I have ever had. The ocra is especially delicious. I went back for more today. The service is excellent. My hubby also got a box of nuts from a coworker and they are also delicious. Prices are not cheap but you are getting a quality product. Will definitely be back.

The service is super friendly. I’ll admit that the women working there appeared very snoody (first impressions aren’t always right!) but when she came over to ask if we needed anything, she was extremely friendly and approachable. I was wrong!
She let us try a few things and some were extremely tasty. My friends and I all loved the mulberry. It tasted a little like dried figs but without as much intensity. They were also small (in comparison to figs) so more for snacking than entire dried figs.
My favorite has to be the vegetable chips mix 1 (taro, beets, beans, squash, etc). I wish they sold the taro and beans individually because those two were my favorites and I could eat those all day long!!!
I was not a fan of the fruit leathers. I didn’t like a single fruit in it (mango, pear, apple, pineapple, orange). In fact, the most unpalatable to me was the pineapple. I couldn’t even swallow it and had to spit it out.
Some of the nuts looked so tasty. I’ll definitely try them on my next visit.
Also, I’d say that it’s not that expensive for gourmet nuts etc. I was expecting exorbitant prices but was pleasantly surprised.

I was hooked after a co-​worker brought the lime and chili pistachios to work. Made my first (of many) visits to the Kits location today. The veggie chips are amazing and can’t wait to try the mulberries in my next cup of tea which was the suggestion of the clerk. Services was helpful and friendly. Prices were quite reasonable, I thought. A huge bag of lime and chili pistachios and a few smaller bags of fruit and nuts to try didn’t break the bank.

Really hard to find fresh nuts in Vancouver. This store is great. Amazing selection of fresh seeds, nuts and dried fruit. Tasty flavourings. The best saffron I’ve been able to find in the city. Generous with tasting products. We are going to become regulars.

I really want to like this place but the nuts are not stored in a air-​tight container. Some of nuts were a little stalled. I wish they had pine nuts.

I am addicted to their dried strawberries, which replace candy in my mouth. So good. Expensive, but so worth it.
I love the flavours they have for all of their pumpkin seeds, as well! I only buy a little at a time, so the price is pretty reasonable for the flavours that they have (I haven’t found any other places that sell LIME AND PEPPER pumpkin seeds) :)

The interior decoration is very inviting. Don’t understand why people dislike it — suppose they don’t have good taste.
I love their veggie chips! They’re amazing and decently priced.

The décor is rather interesting on huge silver pedestals/​statues. They do have some awesome bulk food, however, was thrown off by the chandelier on the ceiling. The prices are overly priced for their dried fruits and or nuts if you can get past the whole «I am in a rich Persian person’s home» feel.

The displays are a little weird (do nuts and dried fruit really need to be displayed on giant silver pedestals?) but they have some awesome bulk food here. My snack at work today was their roasted saffron pistachios. Amazing. We picked up some garlic pumpkin seeds the other day as well and we will have to go back very soon for more. They even have bulk dark chocolate! Prices are pretty reasonable for this part of town, and you can’t always make it out to East Van for cheap bulk food.

I love this place– the décor is amazing and feel free to test out any flavor combinations you may like.
I am obsessed with the dried kiwi and the pistachios.
Prices are reasonable and the staff are knowledgable.

I have gone to a Persian market in the Punjabi Market part of town for my dried fruit and nuts since I moved to Vancouver. The place is kind of a hole in the wall but there is so much turnover that the fruit and nuts are very fresh and the prices are super low… which brings me to Ayoub’s.
I don’t find it necessary pay double the price for the «privilege» of buying my dried fruit under a chandelier out of a silver urn. Their merchandising obviously appeals to those who would only set foot in a Persian market if it looks like a Sultan’s palace. Are you guys nuts?

This place is really dangerous, dangerously good! My fav is the dry kiwi slices. I can finish a whole bag in one day, especially when I was preggers with my son. They are sliced very thin and boy, it is sour, just the way I like it!
I also love the décor of the place, so exotic.

Brought back some of their mixed nuts for a friend of mine & she loved them — said they had an interesting citrusy flavor. I tried the veggie chips which were fantastic — wish I had bought a bigger bag.