Almadina Market

My husband's physical therapist recommended this place and we were wonderfully pleased with the food and service. This is a takeout counter inside of an ethnic grocery store. I have never been to India, but if I had, I believe that I can say this food here is very authentic. They do not skimp on the spices and flavor as some other places do.I ordered a few samosas, chicken 65 (very spicy) over a bed of basmati rice, and butter chicken. Portions were great! This was accompanied by a white yogurt sauce that mellowed out the heat and spicy notes of the food.Service was great! Each member showed eagerness to get the order right and to pack it up to go.Pricing was very reasonable too!

Stopped in while traveling through town to shop and eat some food. The market has a wide variety of items you can buy from spices and canned goods, to frozen meats, cheese, and snacks. The restaurant portion has all of the menu items listed with the prices for easy ordering. We ordered the chicken biryani, butter chicken, and a few desserts from the check out counter as well as a few miscellaneous grocery items. The chicken biryani was a fan favorite with the chicken melting in our mouths and falling off the bone. The butter chicken was good but definitely don't recommend for car eating - we learned that the hard way and had quite a bit of spillage! The desserts at the front were not our cup of tea but we were glad we tried them regardless.

Stumbled upon this place during my visit to Raleigh. I'm glad i did, handsdown the best biryani i have had in the US. The meat, biryani rice everything is so perfect and delicious. Highly recommend to check them out!!Its a retail store with a small kitchen within the store. Their samosas looked delicious too! Cant wait to go back to Raleigh for more biryani!Decent prices and few parking spots avaliable right by the store.

I agree with Jane below that this place is definitely A DIAMOND IN THE ROUGH! It's difficult finding the variety of Middle Eastern groceries that are available here anywhere else in the Triangle! Case in point: went to 5 different stores looking for a specific kind of dates. Most places only had 1-2 types, but there was a large shelf here with 10+ types to pick from!I was impressed by all the spices and quick mixes they had of common dishes like falafel. They also have a bakery with fresh bread including fresh date bread which I haven't had outside of the Middle East! So delicious. They also carry fresh meat, and have lots of frozen meals including Turkish flatbreads. This is also the only place around I think that will have a variety of frozen knafeh/kunefe to pick from - which if you haven't had yet, you're missing out. Best dessert ever.There's a takeout restaurant, Biryani Factory, within the market, that I have yet to try! You can call ahead - see the pictures of the cards I uploaded with phone numbers!

Craving for good Birayani, missed an exit and saw this name. Walked in, wow what a flavor of Basamati rice and masala's with chicken and goat meat. Than I meet the awesome person to talk to, Arif bhai.... he treated me and other customers so respectfully and gave us samples. Ok, if any Asian restaurant's can give you a sample, they are very confident of their quality of food. And, i will not buy Birayani, sitting their for sometime. But, here freshly made and excellent food. Do not forget to get gravy with your Birayani and off course Double ki Meeta.

I love this store. Nice people, and a GREAT selection of Middle Eastern groceries. If you love different grains, this is the place to get them. Feta and nabulsi cheeses? Here. Every type/weight of phyllo dough you could need? Right here. Great halvah? Here. A great selection of breads from local sources (my favorite is the samoon which I'm thinking comes from Baghdad Bakery). But my favorite has to be the bulk biscuits that they keep moving around but are worth tracking down. So good with coffee. And yeah, they have a great coffee selection too. I haven't tried the little grill because the siren song of kebabs from the restaurant next door called me.I only wish I lived closer,

The notice says they are open till 10 but you can show up at 8.15, and they are out of everything except some kind of old tasting butter chicken and biryani, that would be just biryani rice, not any full pieces of chicken. Yesterday I ordered one chicken biryani which came with 8 pieces of bone, and one single leg for $10, which has to be the most ridiculously small portion of meat possible in an entree. The people behind the counter are very nice, but only order the biryani at your own peril, the rice is delicious, the meat is non existent, and they will charge you full price, with no shame at all, for a pile of bones.

Mama says the smell fills the entire store! If you truly love Mediterranean food, you'll really like it here. Mind you, they didn't have half the menu. But the chicken 65 biryani is amazing! They'll even give you a free sample. On to the market, the market has so many interesting and unique to the culture items. I did quite a bit of shopping, especially in the spice section. I also got some fresh goat meat from the butcher. So, the butcher section has a B food safety grade... enter at your own risk. Since I've eaten food in third world countries off the side of the road... it didn't scare me at all. The 5 stars is there because I got all I needed in one place to make my hubby goat pepper stew! And of course.. the chicken!

A Mediterranean supermarket with Turkish, Arabic, Greek, etc. goods along with fresh halal meats and even a small area where you can get prepared food to go, Almadina is a nice store. Compared with some other markets like it, Almadina's is very clean and well stocked with a variety of things you may not expect. They have items such as azan clocks and prayer rugs and other non-food items that make it more of a supermarket than a grocery store.In the back of the store, after you've perused the dry goods, you can find fresh and frozen food and spices. A couple of times I've stopped in, though, it must have been in-between deliveries since they were pretty sparse on the fresh food, but otherwise they seem to have most things you'd expect to find. On those visits where I've had need of some help, the employees have been polite and seem very proud of their store. I think that speaks volumes. And when you've made it through your shopping list here, you can go next door to the Almadina bakery for some dessert and coffee. How perfect a set up is that?

The rate for the indian restaurant inside the market Not for the market its straight rip off and they will try to sweet talk to you be careful horrible food was disgusting literally gave them the food back and told them to keep the money Stay away ‼Inb4 there are suddenly many positive reviews under this one