Viva Grande Ranch Fruit Market

Great deals on fruits and boar’s head meats. Bring cash.

I love this place! Produce is fresh and affordable. Store is well organized, clean and the employees are helpful. Love that it’s on my home from the rail road. Makes life so easy! The one con is that they are cash only and they don’t have an ATM. Come with cash.

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The very best… Everything is fresh, organized and clean. Very good prices! Stuff is lovely. Love this place

I love viva grande! Great prices, friendly cashiers, convenient parking lot. I highly recommend. I love the fruit and veggies and actually purchased some meat there and it was very fresh.

Good prices on a wide variety of fruits and veggies. The outdoor market carries things that are riper and a bit cheaper than indoors — I usually check out both before choosing what I want.

Very good prices on a wide variety of honeys — acacia, alfalfa, etc. Those are kept at the indoor check out counters.

Great reasonably priced produce and deli meats. Yes, sometimes the quality goes up and down on some of the stuff, but that’s no different than any other grocery store. Overall, I think their quality is better than most of the grocery stores in the area.

This green grocer is known by most patrons as Viva Grande Farms. It’s the place where people who use fresh fruits and vegetables can keep their kitchens stocked without going broke. People of all ages, income levels and ethnicity shop at Viva Grande. The owners are Korean and almost all of the staff are from Mexico or Guatemala. Listening to the Korean managers speaking Spanish on the store’s public address system is one of the high points of my week. Prices range from reasonable to incredibly cheap. I have yet to see any items at Viva Grande cost more than at the mainstay supermarkets in southern Westchester. Grocers like Stew Leonard’s in Yonkers, Fairway in Pelham Manor, Stop & Shop in Mount Vernon and New Rochelle, and Shop Rite in New Rochelle charge considerably more for fruits, vegetables, eggs, milk and other staples. There are four distinct shopping areas of this store:
– The outdoor market is where inventory changes daily based on what’s truly ripe and ready to sell at rock-​bottom prices. Some of the prices outdoors are identical to inventory inside the main market, but many of the items are only sold outside. These include multiple varieties of New York State apples (99 cents a pound) and local carrots (50 cents a pound). Other recent deals have included strawberries for $ 1.49 a quart, small navel oranges for 20 cents each, and green seedless grapes; orange, red and yellow bell peppers for 99 cents a pound, and cantaloupe for $ 1.99. All outdoor merchandise must be purchased at the outdoor cash registers. The store takes cash and checks; no credit cards.
– MoMo flower shop is a basic florist in a separate building in the parking lot along Centre Avenue. They take cash and credit cards. It’s not as well stocked as Sutton Florists, at 296 Huguenot Street, but prices are lower and hours are longer.
– Inside Viva Grande is an exceptionally deep inventory of fruits and vegetables, many Mexican foodstuffs, a much smaller amount of Korean items, dairy and breads. We always consider lemons as a telling sign of price. They rarely go higher than 3 for $ 1 and sometimes sell for as low as a dime. Compared with stores like Gristedes, where lemons routinely sell for 89 cents, we’ll stick with Viva Grande. This week we bought giant fresh navel oranges for 50 cents each, Fuji apples for $ 1.49 a pound. a 10-​pound bag of potatoes for $ 1.99, eggs for $ 1.49 a dozen, baby carrots for $ 1.49 a bag, romaine lettuce for 99 cents, a bag of clementines for $ 3.99, and four heads of garlic for $ 1.
– Indoor meat/​cheese market and deli. We don’t eat meat in our household, and we buy most of our cheese on Arthur Avenue in the Bronx. But we have purchased chicken and cheese at Viva Grande in the past. The quality was good and the prices were lower than other grocery stores.
We’re dedicated fans of Viva Grande and highly recommend shopping there.
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have you ever been to a 3^rd world country marketplace? picture yourself in one– from mexico, guatemala, chile, whatever. the feeling you get here, is identical to that of an authentic supermarket in another country. AND I LOVE IT!
trust me, not only do i go for the freshness in each product, AND the reasonable prices but also for the experience and atmosphere! the people are so humble, friendly and hardworking. it’s so beautiful :’)
it doesn’t surprise me though. that’s just how we are, like one big family. i’m going to get a little off topic but i swear, being latinamerican is an honor, and i love being a latino!

This is a question of value.
It is true they have cheap stuff, but unlike other places, they sell it cheaply. You will rarely find anything here that doesn’t have a fair value, and to me, that makes it a five star place. If there’s high quality stuff, they do sell it, and that does have a higher quality price. Still, the higher price is usually well worth it, especially when contrasting with supermarkets.

Cheap, but for the most part you get what you pay for. Produce is fair to good, however you get some really great deals. I wouldn’t go there for the meats though they do offer boars head cold cuts and seem to have a full scale butcher operation. IMHO, I would use Viva to supplement your normal trips to the supermarket to offset some of the higher shopping costs. Some interesting mexican and chinese items in the corner that I always enjoy checking out. It blew my mind when I found out the owner are asian and not mexican!

this place is great i do all of my produce shopping there. fresh produce everyday and cheap fill your fridge for 35 bucks also a great place to buy cold cuts they have the best prices on boars head cold cuts around.