“My name is Florence and I am a Nigerian immigrant that came to this country over 25 years ago with my family. I recently moved to Oshawa back in 2019 and noticed there was no local grocery store catered to selling groceries from Nigeria. I found myself having to journey to Toronto every weekend especially since I love to cook Nigerian cuisine and frequently needed Nigerian groceries. This became a hassle as it was time consuming and costly. Hence, I saw this as an opportunity to create Oshawa's first African grocery store, not only for me but for the rest of my fellow Nigerians living in the Durham municipality.

JD Beat Afro-Caribbean Variety Market is a specialty grocery stores that sells imported goods from Africa. Not only are we an African grocery store, but we also offer ready to go hot meals and catering of Nigerian cuisine. Our specialities are our uniquely handmade Nigerian patties which we call meat pie; bean cake (moin-moin); fried tilapia drizzled with spicy stew; and our popular affordable jollof rice meal combo. We recommend a newcomer try our jollof rice meal combo with any choice of authentic imported from Africa, cold drink. If they really want to treat themselves they can add meat pie on the side. We promise you that
it is nothing like they had before!”

Florence, JD Best Afro-Caribbean Variety Market, 136 Simcoe St South