El Mercado Latino
El Mercado Latino is a grocery and specialty store at Seattle's Pike Place Market, in the U.S. state of Washington.
Description
El Mercado Latino is a female-owned grocery and specialty store on Post Alley in Pike Place Market's Sanitary Market building, in Seattle's Central Waterfront district. Seattle Best Places 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."The business sells Latin American foods and related products such as chili peppers, corn flour, dulce de leche, hot sauces, guava and passion fruit concentrates, Kaffir lime leaves, Lizano sauce, Mexican candies, Spanish saffron, and other spices. El Mercado Latino has also stocked canned goods, habaneros, Inca Kola, masa, tortillas, and other Mexican products. The shop serves empanadas on-site.