| El Mercado Latino | |
|---|---|
 The shop in 2022 | |
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| Restaurant information | |
| Street address | 1514 Pike Place, Unit 6 |
| City | Seattle |
| County | King |
| State | Washington |
| Postal/ZIP Code | 98101 |
| Country | United States |
| Coordinates | 47°36′33″N122°20′28″W / 47.6091°N 122.3410°W |
El Mercado Latino is a grocery and specialty store at Seattle's Pike Place Market, in the U.S. state of Washington.
El Mercado Latino is a female-owned [1] grocery and specialty store on Post Alley [2] in Pike Place Market's Sanitary Market building, [3] in Seattle's Central Waterfront district. Seattle Best Places (1996) says, "The front of this diminutive store ... boasts a green grocery stocked with vegetables and fruits used in Caribbean, South American, Spanish Creole, and Thai cuisines." [4]
The business sells Latin American foods [5] [6] and related products such as chili peppers, [7] corn flour, dulce de leche, hot sauces, [8] guava and passion fruit concentrates, Kaffir lime leaves, [9] Lizano sauce, Mexican candies, Spanish saffron, [10] and other spices. [11] El Mercado Latino has also stocked canned goods, habaneros, Inca Kola, [12] masa, tortillas, and other Mexican products. [13] The shop serves empanadas on-site. [14]
Established in 1988, El Mercado Latino has been described as "one of Seattle's oldest Mexican grocery stores". [15]
In 2006, Neal Schindler of Seattle Weekly called El Mercado Latino a "hot-climate haven". [16] The business topped Clive Irving's list of favorite Seattle shops for Condé Nast Traveler in 2011. [11] In 2014, Thrillist's Chona Kasinger said the store "slings some of the city's best empanadas". [8] Steven Hsieh included the business in The Stranger's 2017 "guide to Seattle for international students". [17]
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