Aso Rock Market: Authentic African Grocery Shopping

It’s fitting that a city as geographically large as Houston has a market and eatery that claims a whole large continent as its inspiration; their “About Us” blurb states on their website states, “As a market, we operate within the African Food and Grocery space, offering produce and the best-branded products from across the African regions.”

The grocery store is named for the Aso Rock formation in Nigeria and offers not only dry good groceries such as spices (asiko thyme), oils (akabanga chili oil), and grains (akanozo amasaka flour) but also has a fresh meat section, produce and a sizable frozen area of prepared food and/or perishables. They also have several varieties of bottled beverages, including their own branded natural spring water and sorrel juice. While not overly large at about three aisles of Afrocentric products, it offers a lot more than the local international aisle at our local national chain grocery store, where, at best, if we’re lucky there might be half of one shelf offering anything comparable to what Aso Rock Market has in plentiful amounts.

This location also has a kitchen and provides daily prepared food presented cafeteria-style at a hot bar, which they refer to as “the joint.” All the varieties offered at the joint can be a bit overwhelming to those not familiar with African cuisine, but the staff is helpful in answering questions.

Discover the heart and soul of authentic African grocery shopping at Aso Rock Market. Aso Rock Market is planned for 3255 Lawrenceville-Suwanee Road, according to a Gwinnett County building permit application. The space for the store is 6,012 square feet.

Aso Rock Market is a grocery store specializing in African goods, with several locations in Texas. At the time of this publication, the company website was undergoing maintenance, but the brand’s Instagram page says the store offers “a wide selection of authentic African food products, meat, pastries & ready to eat meals.”

According to the Suwanee Crossroads Shopping Center website, Aso Rock Market is “coming soon.” The market would be in a building with Dollar Tree, Top Crawfish, a beauty salon, and other food and retail tenants. A Walmart is also located at the property. The Suwanee Crossroads Shopping Center is northeast of Atlanta.

“We offer a wide selection of authentic African food products, meat, pastries & ready-to-eat meals!”