If back in the day you were a regular at Foodland (Juhu), the suburb’s first (now defunct) supermarket, you’ll remember Jyoti, the stern but effective manager who struck terror in the hearts of employees and dawdling customers alike. This butch(er) boss has now started Super Fresh, a four day old fish, meat and poultry shop in Khar. 

Cold Shoulder

Apart from frozen ready-to-fry/cook Venky’s and Al Kabeer products, Super Fresh stocks fresh halal broiler and boneless chicken, beef slices and mince, chicken drumsticks and different sized prawns, pomfret and crab – all stored neatly in refrigerated containers. You can even get exotic fish like baby sharks, oysters and large red snapper fillets on order.

According to Jyoti, Super Fresh will soon offer pre-marinated meats and cooked dishes like chicken Kolhapuri and special mutton biryani over the weekends. With an in-house fryer in the pipeline, you can even get your fish fried. It’s getting batter and batter!

All the meats here are sold below standard market rates – 1 kg of boneless chicken costs Rs 200 (market price Rs 280). Still, the best part about this store is the high level of hygiene maintained, as opposed to the local butcher shops with their skinned wares hung in the open.

Meat Up

With no supermarkets around save for a pricey Nature’s Basket on Hill Road, Super Fresh could become the friendly neighbourhood meat shop where bleary-eyed husbands on a forced Sunday morning poultry run complain over fish fry. Crabby, aren’t we? 

Getting there: Super Fresh, shop no. 3, 325 Siffin Apartments, Ambedkar Road, opposite LIC colony, Bandra (W), 26058508, visit Facebook page here, free home delivery anywhere, Rs 118 for 1 kg broiler chicken.