For the love of tomatoes, go here!  Now these are not your average tomatoes. These are the famous beefsteak tomatoes you get at one of my all time favorite Greek restaurants, Cris’ Taverna on Lantana Rd.  Cris, as you probably know if you’ve ever been there, serves the most impressive beefsteak tomatoes in its famous salads. They are so impressive, I had to ask Mama where they get them. She smiles proudly and patiently tells me in precise detail just where to go to find them. Tsunami makes a note in his phone and we carry on with our meal.

Greenacres Farmer’s Market, it turns out. I didn’t know the name of it until I finally made my way to the place, having only Mama’s crossroads description and GPS at hand. Lo and behold, it’s right in my neighborhood where we do almost all of our produce shopping. It will easily fit into our rounds and I’m so excited it’s so close to where I live.

Happily, I meander the aisles and I ask the cashier if I can get the tomatoes from Cris’ here. She smiles and says enthusiastically, “Of course!! Everyone comes here for our tomatoes. We take great pride in our tomatoes.”  As you should, I think to myself, just tickled and thoroughly excited to find the ones I’ve been dreaming about for weeks.

These are some of the best tasting storage tomatoes I’ve come across. I know they are grown locally and usually I will buy about 5-6 lbs at a time but the cashier recently told me that if I just buy them by the case, they were a lot cheaper. I buy enough, according to her to make it worth my while. So that is exactly what I did the last time I went and sure enough, for about $23 I walked away with a lot more than 5-6 lbs and it turned out to be roughly $1/lb. A super steal of a deal for these beautiful tomatoes.

No longer pressed to get it right in my own garden, I have a backup plan until I finally get my green thumb back on track.

Greenacres Farmer’s Market
3091 Jog Rd.
Lake Worth, FL
561-968-5782