Pineapples at Super H Mart
Starfruit at Buford Highway Farmers Market
Now here’s a delicious dilemma:
Buford Highway and its environs have two great markets to choose from.
The newly renovated Buford Highway Farmers Market is cleaner, brighter, better organized and better stocked with more international foods that it has ever been.
But new it has some serious competition from the national chain of Super H Mart stores, which already has several branches throughout metro Atlanta. Super H recently opened its Doraville branch about a mile away in a new mall near the Peachtree Industrial exit off I-285. This market isn’t nearly as large as the BHFM (nor as large as the local Super H flagship in Duluth) but the groceries are well curated.
To compare the two I spent a long morning walking through both and examining the wide array of international foodstuffs. Both markets have baseline specialties in Korean and Mexican groceries as befits the local population, but they both also run …