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Premier Gourmet
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- Wheelchair Accessible:
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5 reviews for Premier Gourmet
OUTSTANDING GOURMET STORE IN BUFFALO,NY
**Arguably one of my favorite retail locations in Buffalo and beyond.
The best part about it is I live just up the street!
Great place to poke around on a lazy Saturday or Sunday. Christmas shopping could be done exclusively here.
a.) Anything you could possibly need to outfit an amazing kitchen!
From coffee supplies to high end appliances. I just gaze at their knife selection dreaming of what a $300 Japanese knife would look like hanging in my kitchen!
b.) Goumet Spices - Sauces - Ingredients galore. Their hot sauce selection rivals any in Western New York.
c.) A++ Microbrew and International Beer selection. Six Pack-Single bottle-large format-hard to get. Regionally organized with easy to read descriptor cards.
d.) Cheese - Sausage - Seafood - Local and From Abroad.
Chorizo-Manchego-etc...
e.) Great Gelato selection along with other gourmet frozen foods.
f.) THEY ROAST THEIR OWN COFFEE ON SITE! Amazing selection-grind yourself. Flavored or No. From every major region. The gentlemen in charge of the coffee does his research and the finished product is insanely delicious.
g.) Their Bakery and Prepared foods ROCK. Especially around St. Patrick's day - Irish Soda Bread/Guinness Rice Pudding .....
Attention chefs, foodies, gourmands, wine connoisseurs, beer enthusiasts, Giada wannabes, and prospective party-hosters: This is the place for you!
I'm really only one of these things (beer enthusiast), but I will often go to Premier/Premier Gourmet after I finish Dim Sum at Peking Garden down and across the street. [Have any other Yelpers been to or reviewed Peking Garden besides me? I think it's the only local Dim Sum option in this region.]
Permier Gourmet has a very good bottled beer selection. It's basically the same as what's available at the Village Beer Merchant on Elmwood, but PG lacks the growler-filling draft option. They DO list all of their beers (complete with up to the minute availability) on their website, which is a very nice feature. And their display of beers is a bit more organized (by country and region) than VBM. I also come here to buy the hard to find Underberg herbal bitters shots that I can no longer get at Tops or Wegmans. They even have some whimsical local artwork for sale.
I've looked at some of their exotic foodstuffs, and it truly is an impressive selection. They have everything you'd need to throw a really kick-ass party in your home. Although, looking at the people who tend to shop here, perhaps I should translate "throwing a really kick-ass party in your home" into pretentious HGTV lingo and call it: "entertaining" in your "fabulous space."
Incidentally, I sometimes watch HGTV too, but only to revel in the retired California gay couple's (not that there's anything wrong with that) reaction when they're appalled that their 900 square foot, tastefully decorated home isn't worth the $2.5 Mil they actually thought it would be. Ha!
A wine warehouse on one side, a gourmet "grocery" on the other.
The wine selection is outstanding. Where else in Buffalo can you purchase 7-8 varieties of prosecco and at least 20-30 other sparklers?
Next door is the gourmet grocery and kitchen supplies. Imported olive oils, pastas, small batch vinegars. Amazing selection of cheeses and importated meats. Microbrews. European cookies and crackers and candies, including Haribo Gummies. In-store bakery too.
You can even set up a gift registry here.
When I want to try something different in the kitchen or find an unusual kitchen gadget, I head for premier, next to my favorite liquor store by the same name.
This store is great for a nice deli lunch or picking up a few extra nice or foreign things for a meal or snack. Imports from all over the world, cheese, sausages, teas, jams, sauces, mixes as well as a huge selection of foods that only need to be warmed up or a chocolate mouse or cheesecake for after dinner.
Teapots, pots and pans of extraordinary quality, gifts, candies from everywhere, I could go on all day and usually spend a good forty-five minutes shopping and just looking. Customer service is very good, although I miss the lovely gent from Leeds, England who taught me so much of British cheese history I never knew!
Things in freezers, imported beers and, like I said, a liquor store to get lost in it is so big, next door.
When you are not sure what you want, this is a great place for ideas and the deli will let you sample a few things if you want to. During Holidays give yourself some extra time as this place gets packed and and actually has people directing traffic in the parking lot so everyone moves along in an orderly fashion.
Premier Gourmet has great microbrew and imported beer selection. Their wine selection isn't bad either, but I go there for the beer. My vow is that every time I drive to/through Buffalo I try visit this place. I can't recommend Permier Gourmet enough to anyone stuck with the same old at the LCBO and Beer Stores in Ontario.
