Import Food Market

LOCATION: HALAL Import Food Market
(817) 265-8875
701 E Pioneer Pkwy
Arlington, TX

Ever read Claudia Roden (A Book of Middle Eastern Food and The Book of Jewish Food) or Paula Wolfert (The Cooking of the Eastern Mediterranean) and wonder where you could find all of those impossible to find ingredients they talk about in their recipes such like: Zaatar, Fennugreek, arab and greek cheeses, middle eastern peppers, sumac, tahini, pomegranate syrup (molasses), rose and orange blossom water, etc... Well right here in Arlington there is an import food market HALAL that carries all of the above and so much more!!!!

No need to mail order!!! In Halal you will find all sorts of Middle Easter, Indian, Greek, and even some Mexican food ingredients. As well as a few food items from Croatia, England, Germany and Russia. The variety of items is huge: produce, canned goods, all kinds of spices 2 huge aisles with great prices!, syrups, jams, cookies, many cheese varieties, halal meats, yogurt (laban) mediterranean cooking utensils, Arabic coffee, basmati rice, Indian and Arabic flours to make pita and chapattis, beauty products and soaps etc… so many products so little space to list all!

Though I must warn you this is no picture perfect market where all is priced and clean still worth the visit as you will find prices to be so much cheaper than at specialty import markets like Cost Plus World Market and such. So do expect some dusty cans and missing price tags but, aside from that expect to find lots foreign products you havenever seen and will never see at Wal-Mart and such. Halal has its own bakery and restaurant on premises. The bakery produces pita bread in various varieties and sizes and some other middle eastern, Indian and African breads like: chapattis, paratha and ingera.
The prices on the bread are super! as you get 4 pitas for $1. Halal supplies its pita bread to groceries like Whole Foods Market where they resell it for 3.49!!!!! same 4 pitas you get for $1!!!!!!!!

I love to go to Halal and take my time to explore the isles and write down the names of ingredients that I don’t know for later research. Some of my favorite finds at Halal are: Falafel maker, mamoul cookie mold, import dates, zaatar mix, Turkish delight, baklava, fresh feta, kasseri (greek cheese), dry mint for tea, Neapolitan Wafer Cookies by Manner (from Austria), ‘Cortas’ brand syrups and flavorings (pomegranate syrup, rose and orange blossom water) as well as fresh made pita bread. After seeing so many yummy foods on my way out I pick up some freshly made Samosas!!! MMM A common Indian street food, samosas are delicious bubbly pastries filled with a savory filling.