Madras Groceries

One of the better groceries I have been to this side of the bay. They have a good selection of grocery brands and other goods.
The groceries, vegetables and fruits are decently priced and fresh.
Customer service is good; the owner and stuff are very courteous and cheerful. I’d definitely keep coming back here again and again.
The store is small and the aisles too narrow to take the weekend traffic, hence I took off a star :).

Good option to buy indian groceries. Well arranged and much more items than other competitors like ICC and Namath bazaar. Fresh INDIAN vegetables are available which are much better quality and more INDIAN in taste than other INDIAN stores in el Camino.

One of the good store to find the spices, sweets and all the kitchen and homely stuff.

Stopped by today just because we were in the neighborhood and needed to grab some quick groceries. This place is a gem! It’s large, clean, and very well-​stocked. (They have Straus cream-​top milk!) The mini-​carts are perfect for navigating the aisles. We found everything we needed and then some. If we lived closer, we’d come here every week.

Was looking for Mulhatti (Liquorice Root) in every Grocery outlets in Sunnyvale. At last found it here :-) This place has almost every Indian spices and condiments in store.

Had not been here since it was Nilgiri’s. WOW. Congratulations Madras! I stopped in the other day and was pleasantly surprised. They took over the neighboring one or maybe two sections. Knocked down a wall, renovations and they carry much of what you need. Rice, flours (bulk and bachelor/​bachelorette sizes;) dals, dried, spice packets, spices, sweets, dairy/​curd, drinks, extensive freezer item section, produce, a huge wall of various cookware, pooja items, hair/​hygiene stuff. The snack selection is not as extensive as some other stores in the immediate area but all the sections are clean and organized. Guess I have to become a regular again despite the whack parking:) AND THEY ACCEPT CREDIT/​DEBIT CARDS:)

Going to try not to let my excitement over the fact that this is a very large Indian specialty store overshadow reality. So as a visitor to Silicon Valley, I was just completely mesmerized by the surrounding culture and diversity. I love Indian food and specialty Indian stores are quite literally the best thing to happen to mankind, so clearly this supermarket chock full of Indian grocery items needed to be ransacked by me. Only problem was my flight back to the East Coast later that evening, which I decided didn’t matter as much as Indian groceries. I ended up buying quite a few specialty items and reminiscing at the others, yet my order total did not top $ 10. The cashier informed me that credit card payments were for $ 10+ of merchandise, so that was a little annoying, especially since I knew I didn’t want to exceed my baggage limit. Anyway, it was a small price to pay to be able to visit this beautiful place full of happiness. I wish there was a place like this back home!!!

This is a great store for the variety of Indian items you can get but it gets my 1* rating because it’s management continues to conveniently ignore the need to put correct price tags despite reminders for over a year. The items on their shelves are either mispriced or do not have prices. At the time of checkout you will be in for a rude shock.
If you confront the checkout clerk or their management, they will give a sheepish grin and apologize claiming it’s a work in progress to update the prices. However, I sense because it conveniently suits them to not put price tags/​correct price tags, this work has not been done for over a year.
Buyer beware. Please stay away from this dishonest store.

This was my go-​to grocery store for a year. The place is clean. All the products are fresh and inexpensive — as much as you can expect from perishable items. I preferred this store over any other grocery store in and around Mountain View. It satisfied all my needs for South Indian cooking. A friendly cashier who recognizes you after a couple of visits is a bonus. I have moved away from Mountain View and I miss this store.

I come here for both Indian groceries like frozen parathas, spices, Milo, etc. and «non-​Indian» groceries like milk, Eggs, Vegetables etc. Now if only they were closer to me or delivered… :)

Come by for the Indian groceries, if you’re looking for a great shopping experience, you’re not making the vest decisions. They have Indian classics ranging from Parle G biscuits to homely dosa batter mixes that surprised my mom who just flew in assuming things are going to be different.
Docking a few points for the cleanliness.

Decent place and pretty much everything that you need on a daily basis. Most of the Veggies were fresh but some of them not such as (Fresh Methi, Cilantro, Mint). As one of the reviewer wrote they do not have pricing on some of the items such as today I found no price tags on any of the rice bags. How do they expect a woman or man of the house to make a judgement when it comes to running the household budget with these unknown prices and variety of items to pick from? Either you keep asking an associate or just pick one or two items that you later decide at check-​out (whether to keep it or leave it). Otherwise it seems to be a decent place to buy your grocery from.

Racist and condescending to non-​Indian customers. I don’t understand what Madras Groceries gets by behaving rudely with customers. Disgusting.
They make up prices and do not care to explain how prices change in 5 minutes.

By far the worst place for indian groceries. The owner at the counter has a terrible attitude. I don’t like to shop at a place with no concern for customers.

Old stock and very poor customer service.
I am force to write this review after a bad experience at Madras Groceries, Sunnyvale.
Yesterday i visited there and found that Some of the vegetables (Ginger and Carrot) Was old stock and asked the staff member for new stock as he was piling up the new stocks in the same area. He responded me that, they will add new stock when the old ones are gone. I starting picking the better ones while this man watched what i was doing. I have continued my shopping to other aisles for Dal, Reva etc and I noticed that, the same person stacking the fresh Ginger and Carrots. what an attitude!
I will never go back to this store any more.

Groceries were not as fresh as other places. Good selections of Indian snacks and Many kinds of rice varieties.

they are expanding! woohoooo. that is all.

Once upon a time my most frequent go-​to store has now become the store I go to only if there is no option. The reasons for the same are:
— They stack four things in a rack and label just one. Labels are often misplaced and takes twice as much time to find someone who can tell you what costs how much.
— Their prices for packed snacks are always higher than Patel Brothers, paying 30 cents more on a product that costs $ 1.29 in Patel Brothers is not worth it! Sometimes even ICC or India fresh has lower prices.
— Their vegetable prices are more than the prices in their next door Felipe’s Market, which has fresher vegetables and lower costs.
Its high time they survey the competition around and buck up. Patel Brothers has just recently arrived in CA and becoming my favorite already!

They have good variety of Indian spices and nuts. E.g. the mustard seeds and raw peanuts sizes are huge in cash and carry where as here they store both big and small variety ones. They stock sweets and savories from the famous sweet store Grand sweets, Chennai, so yumm ! But yes, of course they are expensive. I brought a box (8 nos) of Bagan palli mangoes (from AP) for ~ $ 40 !! They were the sweetest mangoes I have tasted so far, worth the price. Friendly staff.
Comparison to Cash and Carry —
Their vegetable section includes fresh curry leaves, drumstick leaves, raw banana, banana leaves, banana flower and banana stem to be specific. Basically they have rare south indian vegetables.
Not crowed.

The South Bay really isn’t short of Indian Grocery store’s yet I felt that this one was a middle of the road average place.
It’s a decent sized place but the isles are narrow and cramped, prices are also not always listed and I didn’t find Creamed Coconut here which is an essential ingredient for the Curry that I make. They do however, have a good selection of fresh Vegetables and is cleaner than most of the Indian store’s I have visited. They also have a small selection of British item’s, mainly Biscuits (Cookies).