During the pandemic, King’s Gourmet on King’s Highway (beneath the Q/B train station) offered me a limited but unique supply of groceries along my morning walks. Decent $8/lb coffee, a small butcher with good quality meats and pre-marinated shish kebab, bulk nuts, pre-packaged Turkish pide bread, and large tins of Valbreso cheese. More recently I’ve become aware of a new, much larger Turkish grocery on the very same block, Okka Foods, so I checked it out. My first impression was this place is sadly going to put the smaller store out of business pretty quickly, with an excellent selection of produce, a bakery department with a wide range of reasonable fresh breads, including a German sunflower bread that I am now addicted to (and cakes that look great but am afraid to try). In fact, it had everything that King’s Gourmet offers at lower prices (the Valbreso at King’s inched up to $18 or $19…but is still $15 at Okka). I started visiting several times a week. There’s a little corner with its own register when you walk in with fresh boreks, which are actually killer, and other pastries. Overall the prices are much lower than any of the shitty Brooklyn grocery stores like C-Town and MetFoods, which a higher-end selection of goods. However, the place is starting to lose me. You really need to look at the expiration dates and check the quality here (a fancy jar of peanut butter was expiring in one week, avocados incapable of ripening, etc.) All that said, hard to see how I’ll stop visiting for select items (e.g., the goddamned sunflower bread).