Dean's Produce

Dean's Produce has a wide variety of European grocery items such as tea, coffee, pickled vegetables, bread, pastries, sauces, honey,sandwich meats, and cheese. The prices are reasonable for most items. There are some, but not many, organic products. The shelves are well stocked, and the store is clean.

Dropped into this little treasure of a place for the first time earlier today. I will be coming here on a regular basis now. Excellent produce and very fair prices.

The food is great, although the overly aggressive, rude older lady with glasses, overseeing the cashiers is way too much!The sweet cashiers can do a much better job without this overbearing Karen of a woman breathing down their necks. Somebody needs to teach her some manners before a customer teaches it to her. Get her out!!

Lovely local market that carries great produce, local bread, and lots of European goodies. I love coming here to pick up bread (all kinds such as focaccia and white bread) and bakery goods. Lots of good produce too. Fresh. They also have lots of Milka chocolate bars which are a favorite. There's a ton of biscuits and cookies from all over Europe, and neat jams and fruit preserves. I stock up on digestives and jaffa cakes here, it's the best. They also carry lots of teas and cool Greek frozen foods.

My family has been loyal to Deans for two decades (to their Millbrae location first), so it pains me to leave a negative review - I hope that the management/owners can do something about a handful of their employees. We have been tolerating their behavior in part because we know how difficult life is these days. However, this was pretty gross. While I'm sure the hyper aggressive will label this as a Karen-esque review, I believe it's appropriate to complain when only certain employees behave rudely and do things that are a little... unhygienic.I'm picking mangoes from their outdoor fruit stands on Saturday August 5th at 12:45 PM, when their male or male-presenting cashier employee comes over. He is picking through the fruit (not organizing it per se, but selecting one, perhaps for a customer). As he is doing this, he is awfully close to me, I can hear him chewing and sucking on something in his mouth. He is also tossing mangoes aside and one of them hit my hand. I move aside to let him do whatever he is doing. Then, here is the gross part - he is still standing beside me - he SPITS what later appears to be a lychee seed - so it flies past my face.Later he rang up my groceries without saying a word. Alright, cool, I'm grossed out thinking this employee eats and spits while handling produce. Good thing we can wash our food, obviously. This review is a long time coming, as a lot of my mother's visits involve her being treated the same way. Deans did not used to be this way and it is frustrating that this kind of behavior occurs when the family/owners of Deans are nowhere around.

Love Dean's produce! Their items are always fresh and they have so much variety! I went to get bread and there were many items to choose from. Will definitely go back!

This was a great find in San Mateo!!I was in need of some vegetables before heading home, and this place just stood out!!Given the location, I was really surprised that the prices were so reasonable!!It's a pretty good sized market, very fresh vegetables along with other items. And the employees were very friendly, I would definitely come back here!!

My go to store. I buy everything I can at Dean's before I try anywhere else. Produce is so much more reasonably priced than Safeway. Cheese and dairy section is fun. Great spices. This review was long overdue!

I've been coming here for 10 years now but unfortunately I feel like there's been a decline in my experiences, most specifically around the quality of the produce. I stopped buying anything from the frozen section years ago since items frequently had freezer burn, indicating either age or they defrosted at some point and froze back. More and more the produce just doesn't hold up and things start going bad soon after purchase. Bananas going from green to black. Berries getting mushy or moldy. Cut into a nice, firm apple and it's dark inside. Other examples as well. They still have a great and cheap selection of spices and dried goods but I've lost confidence in the quality of most of their fruit and veggie options. They seem to have a big issue in how they're transporting and storing!

Double-check receipts for overcharges and unexplained "purchases" amounting to $7.00 or more. An occasional incident might have been a mistake. Two or more occurrences are not coincidences.