Bahnan's Market
Opened: 2011
Owner: Henry Bahnan
Previous Tenants: unknown
Cooperative: none
Location: 344 Pleasant St, Main Middle, Worcester, MA
Photographed: November 18, 2018 and February 19, 2022
Bahnan's Market in Worcester's Main Middle neighborhood doesn't commit to a single country. The store represents the Mediterranean and the Middle East, broadly speaking. On
their website, you can translate to Albanian, Arabic, Armenian, Greek, and Persian. And yes, Worcester does have communities of each of those, especially here in Main Middle.
Bahnan's is around 4600 square feet, and is a bit more of a full grocery store than
Ed Hyder's a block and a half away. The aisles run side to side, with produce and frozen on the front wall; dairy, meat/deli, cheese, and bakery on the back wall; and a cafe on the left side of the store. The registers are on the right side.
The cafe serves up famous Middle Eastern cuisine like shawarma and falafel. And the grocery aisles are stocked with products from all over the Middle East...
A massive selection of cheese and deli items lines the back wall, with an even larger bakery on the right side.
Between Ed Hyder's and Bahnan's, along with some of the smaller independent grocers around here, Main Middle is the center of Mediterranean and Middle Eastern food in Worcester.
There's one chain grocery store in Main Middle, and it's about half a mile to the north. We'll round out the week by touring that tomorrow!
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