Puerto Rican /Spanish Ingredients/Foods - Where?

Does anyone know where to shop for puerto-rican/spanish ingredients such as: culantro or recao (not cilantro), Yautia ( or Malanga), ajices dulces (cachucha, ajicitos) peppers, cubanelles peppers, and the frozen Goya Recaito?

Also, do know if I can get Pimientos de Padron peppers anywhere?
http://www.tienda.com/press/articles.html?id=76

Try Central park produce at Grand and Division. There's another grocery on Homan just north of Armitage which also serves the Puerto Rican community, both should have everything you need. The supply of ajes dulces has been spotty at Central Park lately, but I really like their prepared sofrito (both green and red), if you're feeling lazy.

Watch for the lady selling pasteles out of her trunk next to Central produce most weekends. Those are really good.

riskfree:

This is our go-to Puerto Rican grocery, mentioned in the old days by yours truly...
http://lthforum.com/bb/viewtopic.php?p=60568#60568

But here's the address:

Supermercado 'La Municipal'
2559 W. Division
Chicago
773.235.2408

Now, there used to be a PR grocery on California a bit south of Division that we really liked but it died some time back.

Also, for all manner of vegetative exotica, H-Mart out in Niles has a surprising number of things that turn up in Dominican, Cuban and Puerto Rican cookery... though I don't remember seeing culantro there... then again, I wasn't looking for it either...

I'm sure Kuhdo's suggestions are good too, though I haven't been to them meself.

Greetings, Kuhdo!

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For things Spanish, well, to an ever increasing degree all gourmet shops have Spanish items but a particular concentration of them is to be found at Deli-berico, the little shop hidden within the tapas purveyor, Café Iberico, written up by the present poster:
http://lthforum.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t= ... deliberico

Buena suerte!
Don Antonio de la Plancha

(a.k.a. Antonius)

Drove by tonight...the grocery on Homan is Armitage Produce. This is really PR produce headquarters. Sofrito is better at Central Park though.

Antonius...check this place out if you haven't been. I think you'd like it. Always nice to stop for a bite at Palmas restaurant across the street as long as you're in the neighborhood.

kuhdo wrote:Drove by tonight...the grocery on Homan is Armitage Produce. This is really PR produce headquarters. Sofrito is better at Central Park though.

Antonius...check this place out if you haven't been. I think you'd like it. Always nice to stop for a bite at Palmas restaurant across the street as long as you're in the neighborhood.

Thanks for the tip -- will do!

A

Just to clarify, Palma is a few blocks down at 1340 N. Homan.

Have a good time!

I took a trip this past Sunday to try Las Palmas and found a couple of grocers that had all of the ingredients I needed. Thank You all very much!

Anyone know if you can find things like aji dulce and culantro on the far north side? I live in Edgewater and have only intermittent car access, so somewhere public transit accessible would be ideal. I realize I can get to these groceries thru a public trans trip, albeit a long one, but it'd be nice to be able to get these things close by if they're available somewhere round here.

La Unica. If they don't have culantro (they will have aji dulce, though in jars), any Viet grocery on Argyle will have it.