Ian Wilson

This place is as basic as they come. It is the only fruit and veg shop in Saintfield and it has been owned by the same people for years and years, but it has never treated itself to a fully functional sign of its own!
Hopefully one day it will to give itself a more established and professional feel. The store used to be very shoddy and old on the inside but got renovated recently and the place is all the better for it.
The place itself sells everything you would expect from a store like this, with a wide range of all fruits and vegetables, which are always good quality and are relatively cheap too. The store also sells a few other tinned items and milk so you can get a bit more shopping done here than you would have thought.
The place is hardly special but I like to support my small local firms so it gets the thumbs up from me!

What more can you say about a fruit and veg shop other than it sells fruit and veg? And attracts a few wasps? (Darn creatures).
Well, this particular greengrocers certainly sold a huge number of fruit, including the most ginormous watermelons I have ever seen, and a few strange looking characters that can be most likened to a cross between an apple and a plum. They also had a vast range of veg, as well as salads (my sister got rather excited at the prospect of shredded beetroot), coleslaw, a few health food snacks (sesame bars… mmm. Or not) and other typical purchases in a fruit ‘n’ veg shop.
I picked up a few kiwi fruit at 29p each (pretty cheap I reckon, and they were really quite delicious to boot), as well as a couple of nectarines for 45p each.
And this is where things changed. Up until this point I thought the smooth-​skinned, hard-​hearted fruit I had been eating for weeks was a plum. Apparently not. It was actually a nectarine, and if it hadn’t have been for Ian Wilson (cheers sir), I never would’ve known the difference.
Now, I know this epiphany could have happened in any fruit and veg shop, or even Tesco, but that is not the point. It happened in Ian Wilson’s in Saintfield, and I am a better, more knowledgeable person for it. Plums /​nectarines… I will forever be able to tell you apart now. Ha.
And that’s why this little place gets an impressive four stars.