The store offers immense varieties of dried fruits, cooking oils, olives, pastries, yogurts, and chocolates. The chocolates in particular are pretty outlandish--being from countries like Croatia and all. I never knew Croatia had such tasty confections to offer.
One thing that usually seems to disappoint me is the fact that Phoenicia doesn't really offer a Spanish section. They don't even, to my knowledge, carry Nocilla, Spain's answer to Nutella; they do, however, carry every other variant of chocolate hazelnut spread.
Another thing that's pretty unusual to find in a specialty foods retailer is a hookah aisle, and strangely enough, Phoenicia carries an expansive selection of not only hookahs, but tobacco in every flavor of every brand imaginable.
Normally "specialty" and "expensive" go hand in hand, but at Phoenicia the products are sensibly priced. Aside from being inexpensive and diverse, Phoenicia is both Halal and vegetarian friendly. However, if you don't have religious or moral standards, you might enjoy their deli and their limited pork products, strategically separated from everything else.
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Apparently the residents of my apartment building are so loaded that they are willing to leave clusters of full dish sets, glass sets, wastebaskets, vacuum cleaners, and artificial, fully lighted and decorated Christmas trees--all brand spankin' new--in the trash room for pillagers like Shaun and me to rummage through. I swear walking into the trash room is like Christmas; it is thankfully two doors down from my apartment, leaving me the benefit of discretely hoarding the treasures down the hall into my lair.
Anyway, here are some things I have accumulated from the "trash" room in the few months I have lived here:
I'm beginning to think that home goods retailers serve virtually no purpose to me anymore.
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