Continental Spices & Halal Meats

I usually buy goat meat here. It's really nice. Place seems little shady but yeah I have been lucky on my purchases for more than 2 times.

This place is a health hazard. My b/f and I loaded our basket up with spices, then we saw a package that had an expired date. We looked at the contents of our basket and found multiple ones with bad dates. We went in Jan 2012. One package read good through "8/2004." Are you serious? They are selling 8 year old spices. I also noticed dates were missing on a lot of their food. One package had a partial (nonlegible date) and some adhesive stuck to it. They are unethical and are using tape to remove the dates. Caviar Emptor! Saving a few bucks on spices is not worth putting your health in jeopardy. What shallow measures some will take to make a buck.

Crowded little maze of a store, but they have labneh (lebna)!!! It's nice to be able to walk down the street and grab my favorite snack. Just gotta watch the expiration dates. Lots of canned goods and spices. Also sells halal meat, though I haven't tried it yet.UPDATE:last week i went to get some labneh and the guy working asked me to explain what it was. I drove north to Pacific Market instead, they DO have labneh and nice owners.

Since there are not many store that sell Halal meat in Seattle as compare to Northern California, I have to give this store 3 stars. Limited selection of meat on display but they have lamb/goats. The meat here is a little pricey. The rest of the package items look old like other had reviews. Private parking is at the back of the store.

Once a great little grocery. Now, the earlier review re: vacant register, dirty and spooky is typical. I'd add, parking area has seriously foul odor.

This place isn't bad at all, and if you live anywhere near Green Lake or its surrounding neighborhoods, it's a great place to buy halal meat, fresh or frozen. Just ask for what you want. The great thing here is convenience. You can count on them having what you want, and can go pretty much any time. A lot easier than going to either a farmers market during the few hours it is open and hoping to find what you're looking for, or (given where I live) driving down to south to Rainier or MLK.And if you're looking for labneh, this is one place to find it.The best thing is that it's next to Barriga Llena, so you can find the meat/groceries you're looking for AND have an awesome torta for dinner (and then go to Uber Tavern or Duck Island).

Bought a bunch of dried beans and besan etc.....at home there was bugs and moths in the food

Store was filthy. There was a smell that bothered me. I know what a meat shop should smell like but this store had a foul smell throughout. It was not well lit, it looked shady and spooky in there. There was something that didn't make me feel welcomed or even comfortable nor safe. Several items in the store were either expired, or being sold past the suggested "sell by date". And to my dismay there were products that didn't have any manufacturing date or sell by date. I'd rather go elsewhere.

Store does not look very clean. When I first walked in, no one was in the store, and it was a little spooky! The price of the item I wanted to purchase was not on the package and the guy seemed to simply make up a (too high) price at check-out. No one in there could speak English very well - that along with the poor labelling meant I wasn't even sure I was getting what I wanted to purchase... I do not recommend shopping at Continental Spices & Video & Halal Meat.

Very dishonest owner. Lied on phone to get me to the store by promising there is fresh goat meat and all there was at the store was the frozen one. The meat was crap and gave random excuses that it's because it was imported from Australia. The other time, lied on phone to promise the availability of boneless meat and all there was at store was with bone. Not visiting again.