Green Aisle Grocery

About Green Aisle / Welcome to a new boutique (read: supersupertiny) grocery on Philly’s favorite crooked corridor, East Passyunk. We’re your spot for life’s essentials like milk, bread and eggs, as well as the foods that make life worth living: artisan chocolates from former Le Bec-Fin chocolatier Antoine Amrani, clear-as-a-bell Q tonic, slow-cured Indian vanilla beans, Zahav’s heavenly hummus and more. Our milk and cheeses comes from happy cows that feed on grass, and our eggs are laid by pastured chickens that live just up the Turnpike. Our cornucopia of produce is procured directly from small local farmers that are as passionate (read: obsessed) as we are about celebrating the fertility of the Delaware Valley. We have raw milk from Paradise and tofu from Allentown. But we also stock real cinnamon from Madagascar and single-estate olive oil from Abruzzo. Eating conscientiously doesn’t have to be scary, elitist or an all-or-nothing game mired by panic and guilt, so we focus on small, offbeat producers, growers and artisans who we think are doing cool things with food. Stop by. Eat well.

About the owners / You could say brothers Adam and Andrew Erace have some experience with food. Adam is the restaurant critic for Philadelphia Weekly, the Courier-Post and New Jersey Monthly magazine, author of the blog Blogalicious and a contributor to Philadelphia Style and Afar magazines. Andrew has lived in London and eaten his way through Asia. As native South Philadelphians, they’ve seen the evolution of East Passyunk and are amped to be a small part of its continuing renaissance.

Photo: Kirsten Henri for Grub Street