Harper Foods: MY FAV HYDE PARK STORE. They have a real gourmet selection of ingredients and prepared foods; an international selection with an emphasis on Indian ingredients. They also upgraded their ice cream section. I go there especially when I want to cook something which needs a lot of spices--their spice selection is great. My partner and I love taking a walk there and getting one of those kulfi ice cream snacks and continuing our long meandering walks with kulfi in hand.

Wow! Harper Foods appears to be under new management. I have shopped at this store on occasion and always found the staff to be very kind and friendly. The inventory was lacking and so I went there only to purchase certain certain foods(milk, I cream, eggs, etc.) today I stopped by and was very happy to find the store is now stocked with lots of different foods and fresh produce. The staff is lovely and they were nice enough to order a few specialty items for me. Wonderful to have nice store nearby for specialty items and delighted to see they were not overcharging for these items. Thanks Harper Foods!

Yo, Harper Foods is NOT closed. I checked Yelp last night to check what time they closed, then freaked out when I saw this erroneous notification that they were permanently closed. I ran over there to discover them open until 10pm as usual. The place is better than ever, with some fresh produce even. Please take remove the false alarm!

I'm really impressed with this place! Came here craving a soda at 9 pm at night and their selection is really excellent--- they had cherry Coke Zero by the can which I never see anywhere and they also had La Croix by the can as well which I've only seen at Target. It's clean inside and the checkout man was friendly and quick. Has international food and quite a few staples for such a small store. It's a minimum $5 charge for credit cards.

Once, when I lived in Hyde Park, I drove all the way up to Devon for a certain Middle Eastern spice, only to find later that they had it at Harper. Check here for your obscure ethnic ingredients before you make a road trip of it. Also, lots of the staples here like jam and tea come from off brands with Eastern European names. Buy these. They're the cheapest and best.

For months, I'd stopped in at the Medici Bakery for coffee (and an incidental chocolate croissant) on my way from the 6 to class. My pants were a little tighter, my wallet a little lighter, and I complained about it one morning before class. My friend Alex said, "Dude. Go to Harper Foods. They have Intelligentsia coffee for, like, a dollar." It's true, they did ... a small of Intelligentsia for 99 cents, 1.10 with tax. They've since bumped the price up by about 10 cents, but it's still fresh, good coffee for a very good price, without the temptation of the chocolate croissant. I've also bought foodies in here on the days that I've forgotten to eat breakfast. A lot less intimidating and much cheaper than trying to get something at University Market down the street. The owners are very friendly, and it has a lot of stuff that you wouldn't imagine a corner store would have, plus the staples like Air Heads, cigarettes and gum.