Best Shops to Buy Garri in Liverpool (2026)
You can buy garri, the roasted cassava flour used for eba and garri soakings, at most of Liverpool's African and West African food shops. The best rated are Harvestfield Store and Temmy African store around County Road and Breck Road, Matta's on Bold Street in the city centre, and the Kensington shops.
African Stores Editorial Team
The short answer
You can buy garri, the roasted cassava flour used for eba and garri soakings, at most of Liverpool's African and West African food shops. The best rated are Harvestfield Store and Temmy African store around County Road and Breck Road, Matta's on Bold Street in the city centre, and the Kensington shops. You can find African food stores near you on African Stores.
What to remember
- Garri is a pantry staple in Liverpool's Nigerian and West African food shops, so it is easy to find once you know where to look.
- The best rated shops for it sit around County Road in Walton, Breck Road in Everton and Anfield, Kensington, and Bold Street in the city centre.
- It comes as white garri, often called ijebu and more sour, or yellow garri fried in palm oil, so it is worth asking which a shop has in.
- To find a shop near you across the city, African Stores lists African and Caribbean food shops wherever you are.
Few things say home like a bag of garri on the shelf, ready to become eba in the time it takes the kettle to boil, or a cold bowl of soakings with groundnuts on a slow Sunday. For many Nigerians in Liverpool it is the first thing on the shopping list, the staple everything else is planned around. What we liked across the city is how many of these grocers are run by people who cook the same food themselves and will steer you to the white or the yellow depending on what you are making. That is worth more than any label.
1. Harvestfield Store A County Road favourite and one of the highest rated African shops in the city at 4.8, run with a clear Nigerian and West African focus, which is exactly what you want for garri. Shoppers praise it for fresh stock and hard to find staples, the sort of shop where you can pick your white or yellow garri off the same shelf as the rest of your swallow ingredients. You will find it at 165-169 County Rd, Liverpool L4 5PB.
2. Minara Farm A busy meat and fish market on Prescot Road in Old Swan with a strong 4.7, handy if you are buying the goat, tripe or fish for a soup at the same time as the garri for your eba. Reviewers rate it for freshness and value, so it is a natural one stop for the whole meal. You will find it at 4-10 Stanley Building, Prescot Rd, Old Swan, Liverpool L13 3AS.
3. Temmy African Store A well loved Nigerian shop on Breck Road at 4.7, the kind of neighbourhood grocer where regulars come for their garri, semo and dried fish. Shoppers mention friendly service and a good, reliable range of Nigerian staples. You will find it at 292 Breck Rd, Liverpool L5 6QB.
4. Mj Unique Ventures A West African shop just along Breck Road in Anfield, rated 4.7, small but well stocked and rated highly by the people who use it. A good local call for garri and the soups and stews you would eat it with. You will find it at 82 Breck Rd, Anfield, Liverpool L4 2RD.
5. Matta's International Food The Liverpool institution, on Bold Street for around forty years and rated 4.6 across more than a thousand reviews. Its range runs well beyond African food, but the African and Caribbean pantry shelves are proper, and garri sits among them. If you are in the city centre, this is the easy one. You will find it at 51 Bold St, Liverpool L1 4EU.
6. Kensington Superstore A large, busy store on Kensington rated 4.5 across nearly three hundred reviews, with a wide African and Caribbean grocery range and the footfall to keep stock turning over. A dependable Kensington choice for garri and the rest of your shop. You will find it at 287 Kensington, Fairfield, Liverpool L7 2RG.
7. Blue Nile Grocery Store A friendly grocer on Holt Road in Kensington at 4.4, with a butcher counter alongside the groceries, so you can pick up your meat and your garri in one trip. You will find it at 43 Holt Rd, Liverpool L7 2PL.
8. J & I International Store A well rated halal grocer on Mulgrave Street in Toxteth at 4.4, with a butcher counter and a solid African and Caribbean range, useful if you want your soup meat halal alongside the garri. You will find it at 101 Mulgrave St, Liverpool L8 2TD.
How we picked this list We hold data on the African and Caribbean food shops across the city and ranked them by the rating real shoppers give them on Google, reading the reviews so the strengths we mention are the ones people actually value. For garri we leaned toward the Nigerian and West African shops, where it sells fast and stays fresh, and we included the well rated general African and Caribbean grocers that stock it too. One shop worth a mention outside the top eight is African Caribbean Food store on Townsend Lane in Anfield, whose shoppers name garri directly in their reviews. Grocers gather fewer reviews than restaurants, so we set a sensible review floor to keep the list fair. Small shops change their hours and stock, so it is worth a quick call before a big trip, and it is worth asking whether they have white (ijebu) or yellow garri in.
Where to buy garri in Liverpool The main clusters are County Road in Walton, Breck Road across Everton and Anfield, Kensington and Toxteth around Lodge Lane and Granby Street, with Matta's as the city centre landmark. Wherever you are in the city one is rarely far. And if you want the nearest shop to home, African Stores helps you find African food stores near you, so you can pick up your garri, dried fish and greens close by.
Frequently asked questions
Where can I buy garri in Liverpool?
Garri is stocked by most of Liverpool's African and West African food shops. The best rated include Harvestfield Store and Temmy African store around County Road and Breck Road, Matta's on Bold Street, and the Kensington shops. African Stores lists African food shops across the UK, so you can find one near you that stocks garri.
What is garri?
Garri is a granular flour made from cassava that is grated, fermented, dried and roasted. Stirred into hot water it makes eba, a swallow eaten with soups and stews, and it is also soaked in cold water with sugar, groundnuts or milk as a drink known as garri soakings.
What is the difference between white and yellow garri?
White garri, often called ijebu, is roasted plain and tends to be more sour, while yellow garri is fried in palm oil, which gives it its colour and a milder taste. Both make eba and both work for soakings, so which you buy comes down to preference.
Is garri gluten free?
Yes. Garri is made only from cassava, which is naturally gluten free, so it suits people avoiding gluten. As with any product, check the packaging if you need to be sure there has been no cross contact.
How do I find an African food shop near me?
African Stores lists African and Caribbean food shops across the UK, so you can find one near you that stocks garri and the rest of your staples, wherever you are.
