Andres Latin Market

Its a restaurant as well. Enjoy the pictures if the menu i just posted. Look for it in groupon.

The market is great!!! But the restaurant next door Very disappointing experience … Slow bad service … Ran out of most of the food my table wanted

Andres Market is constantly saving my arse! I have a few items I buy there regularly the Yerba mate, the Colombian cookies and Inka Cola my favorite soda. Prices are good and service is always friendly!

Great selection of Latin America ingredients and food products, recomend for any cook trying to find new things to try and make.

GREAT variety of Yerbas and the prices are not horrible. They have lots of other products and candies. And the best thing is I got pascualinas to make tartas. The lady in the store is very very nice. It was a little piece of Argentina (and other places) for me, and I loved it.

I go here a lot for Pan, Maltas, Plantains, and more. Great Latin market with most stuff here being From Brazil, Argentina, and other pockets of Latin America. Big supply of sodas, beer, candies, and rice. Not much of a meat place. Also parking is fine and this place is just off the I-​5 in Mission Bay.

I was in desperate need of finding masa for my empanadas and I loved that this place not only had masa from Argentina, but that it was salteña. I was surprised at how Manu Argentina items they had: mate, alfajores, quilmes, etc.
Although it’s a small bodega, it has just enough of what you need.

If your looking for yerba Mate this is the place for you. If you are looking for more Argentine things like meat and sausage then you will be disappointed. Very small place with very little Argentine things. Trying to find a place that sells Argentine meats. Lots of other Latin things you might be looking for. Third star was for the lady who was working there. She was extremely friendly. I probably would not go back because its far to drive for me and they didn’t carry enough things I would want to get but as for other Latin items you might find what you are looking for.

My mother was Puerto Rican. When I found Andres Latin Market in San Diego I was extremely happy. They have all the products I’m used to finding in the markets in New York.
This holiday season I decided to order their pasteles. I just had some and they taste AMAZING! Just like my mother used to make them… they also put in lean meat into the pasteles. I STRONGLY RECOMMEND you order a half a dozen to try them out. You will order more! :-)

Great little market for all kinds of Latin foods… Especially good selection of Brazilian products, at decent prices! I love this place because it’s always stocked with the things I need, it’s easy to get to (right of the I-​5), and there’s always parking available! Here, I find all the things I can’t substitute with American/​Mexican ingredients… I mean, every Brazilian out there knows that in California you can «make-​do» with products you find at Mexican markets, but there are some things that just cannot be subbed.
As far as the old reviews (3yrs+) about product being expired, I’ve NEVER encountered a single expired item.
Being Brazilian, I can get:
— queijo Catupiri
— Requeijao
— Guarana Antartica
— Biscoito de Pouvilho
— Farinhas Yoki
— Azeite Gallo
— Azeite de Dende
— Café Pilao
— Goiabada
— Massa p/​Pastel (in the freezer section, it’s actually an Argentine [I think] product but comes out tasting exactly like massa de pastel)
— Pacoquinha
— So much more!!!
Thanks for being there Andres Latin Market!

I really like this place. Great vareity of things you cannot find in San Diego. Products from D.R., Cuba, P. R, Colombia, and many more.

Andres has been my partner along road to becoming a yerba mate aficionado. Long before I actually visited Cuba or South America, I was introduced to Andres and his wonderful world of Latin American specialty foods.
I started drinking mate out of a coffee cup and a bombilla that I got from Andres. I used a french press before I knew how to cure and prepare the mate gourd. After spending a semester in South America, I was fanatical about drinking mate. Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil; enthusiastically shared their unique mate culture with me, and I became an evangelist.
Back to Andres, they have yerba from all over South America. They have yerba, they have bombillas, they have mate gourds of all kinds. I like that they have imports from so many different countries, so a problem in one export country wont effect my supply. Christina Kirchner wants to impose an export tariff and hike up the price of the Argentine blends, that’s fine, Andres has plenty of imports from Brazil and I think I even say some Paraguayan yerba.
This is a small market, but there are a lot of quality products that you are not going to find in a traditional market, or a Mexican market. This place is like walking into a Latin American cook book. You are going to get a lot of inspiration to learn more about the cultures and culinary arts of Latin America.

Just the other day, I was thinking, there MUST be a place in SD to get harder-​to-​find Peruvian foodstuffs, in particular, aji amarillo. I was headed to eat dinner at Andres when I noticed they had a market and was so happy to have found it. They had aji amarillo, huancaina sauce, dried purple corn, rocoto sauce, chicha mix and the big olives that my Peruvian bf loves. He was happy. And not only did they have Inca Kola (not a big deal, freaking Target carries it)… but DIET Inca Kola! I didn’t even know that existed.
To top that, prices weren’t too bad.
It is a small shop, and the stuff on the shelves looked rather dusty, so def check the expiration dates before you buy anything.

Although this market is tiny, it is packed with lots of Latin goodies that remind me of my travels.
I dropped in this weekend and picked up the following…
*Yuquitas (cassava chips from the Dominican Republic)
*Maduritos (sweet plantain chips from Columbia)
*Organic Yerba Mate (from Argentina)
*Aji paste and whole peppers (from Peru)
*Guanabana juice (from Puerto Rico)
Some things may be a little pricier, but good luck finding these things at your local grocery store. Also it’s a small price to pay for my taste buds to take a trip down memory lane.

As for Mate in SD, well this is the spot. Go here for mate, go home, french press it, and Enjoy! You will Thank Me and Andres.
Add a little milk and honey for a real treat

I have been a client since I come to San Diego. Great selection of Latino groceries. I had some problems in the past with expiration dates, so most of the times I check them.
I was there in the middle of December 2010, bought lots of goodies and a 6 pack of Argentinian beer (Quilmes) that I saved for today: Super-​bowl day!
Beer was flat, so I looked at the expiration date, couldn’t believe my eyes:
November 2009!!! Never occurred to me to check in the store when I bought it .
Now I learn that next time I be more careful checking every single item I buy in Andres latin Market.
Shouldn’t have to be this way.

We came here in search of aji amarillo paste so we could make our own tomato ceviche from Nobu’s cookbook. It’s ahi amareeyo. At first, I thought it was a Japanese-​Latin American product and was pronouncing it all Japanese-​y like aji (mackerel).
Called this place up and confirmed it was in stock. The store is tiny! They don’t have much of an inventory, but am glad we found what we were looking for and then some. My bf found plantain chips which, according to him, were better than the ones he’s had from Whole Foods. We also found Kola Champagne (smells like bubblegum, but tastes like a light coca-​cola). I once saw a clip on HULU where Sunny Anderson made a dessert using guava paste. Now I know where to find it. We also saw lots of Brazilian coffee in vacuum sealed packs.
Even before we made the tomato ceviche, bf had to taste it so we used it as a substitute for ketchup on our fries. It was HOT, HOT, HOT! But yummy! It’s the kind of spicy you can get addicted to.
I made the tomato ceviche a couple of days later and it was a hit with the bf!

Some supermarket chains have either a few sections of ethnic Asian, Indian, Mexican, or similar Latin American foods. Andres Market is a small store that is dedicated to providing specialty items that may not be offered at other grocery stores.
The lady in the store was super friendly and told me to take my time, even though I explained to her that I was simply waiting for some friends to have dinner at the Andres Restaurant next door .
I haven’t spent a lot of time in the Latin American aisle, but what caught my eye this time was the unique soft drink offerings
. I had to look up Inca Kola because I was fascinated by the 2-​liter bottle of golden soda. Apparently it’s an incredibly popular soda pop brand in Peru, and it smells and tastes like bubblegum. I’m even more curious now.
Anyone interested in trying some Inca Kola with me? I wonder if it mixes well with other beverages…

This place has the largest selection of yerba mate imported from Argentina and Brazil in San Diego… way more yerba than Tropical Star. It’s cheaper than buying a little bag of Guayaki at Ralph’s. They also carry:
–malt beverages (tastes like carbonated molasses)
–sodas like Guarana Antarctica, Inca Kola, and Materva
–various Goya products
This is perfect for my yerba mate fix.

cute place to find ingredients and candy from Latin america but BE CAREFUL… I bought a box of Nestle Chocolates from Brazil. Spent $ 7.00 for about 15 pieces. Ate a couple. Didn’t like it…
I was surprised I didn’t like it since it’s a Nestle brand. It turns out the candy was expired about 3 months ago. I was upset this market still had it on their shelf to self. This place should go over their products. It’s not a small place at all and not busy so they should take the time to make sure their products are not old. I rather go to tropical star market on Balboa to buy my candy.