Where to Find Halal and Desi Groceries Around Cincinnati

Cincinnati is better stocked than most people expect, but almost none of it is close together. The South Asian shops cluster along Lebanon Road in Sharonville, the halal markets spread north through West Chester and Liberty Township, and the restaurants run from Clifton and Corryville out to Mason and Kenwood.

This list was compiled in August 2026 and the addresses were checked against Google rather than copied from directory sites, which turned out to be badly out of date — two shops had moved, and one had closed altogether. Even so, call before you make a long drive, and send corrections through the feedback form so we can keep it current.

Start here: fish and meat for Bengali cooking

• Bengals Quality Fish & Meats — 11974 Lebanon Rd, Cincinnati, OH 45241. The closest thing we have to a Bengali shop: fish from Bangladesh, India and across South Asia, alongside halal goat, lamb and chicken cut to order. If you are hunting ilish, rui, koi or shorputi, start here rather than working through the general grocers.

South Asian groceries

The Lebanon Road corridor in Sharonville is the densest cluster — you can do a full month's shopping within about half a mile.

• Patel Brothers — 11985 Lebanon Rd, Sharonville, OH 45241 · (513) 769-0400. The largest, and the most reliable for dals, atta, whole spices by the pound, and frozen paratha. Closed Mondays — open Tuesday to Sunday, 11 AM to 8 PM.
• Bombay Grocers — 11965 Lebanon Rd, Sharonville, OH 45241 · (513) 733-5050. Open daily, 9 AM to 8:30 PM, and a few doors from Patel Brothers — so it covers you on the Monday that Patel's is shut. Some older lists call it Bombay Bazaar; that is a different shop, up in the Dayton area.
• Niva Grocers — 6182 Tylersville Rd, Mason, OH 45040 · (513) 234-0888. Indian supermarket carrying spices, flours, fresh vegetables and halal meat. Older directories still list it on Lebanon Rd; that address is out of date.
• Jagdeep's Indian Grocery — 270 Ludlow Ave, Cincinnati, OH 45220 · (513) 961-2699. Small, but walkable from Clifton — useful for students without a car.
• Nepali & Indian Market — 916 Hempstead Dr, Cincinnati, OH 45231, in Finneytown. Also trades as Neighborhood Grocery.

Halal and Middle Eastern markets

This is where to go for meat cut to order. Several also carry South Asian staples, so you can often manage one stop instead of two.

• Casablanca Mediterranean Food — 7743 Tylersville Rd, West Chester, OH 45069 · (513) 847-1600 · casablancahalal.com. Fresh halal meat daily, open 9 AM to 11 PM every day, and the only shop on this list that delivers — across Cincinnati, Northern Kentucky and Dayton. Worth knowing if you are without a car, or driving in from Florence or Covington.
• Halal Foods — 818 Reading Rd, Mason, OH 45040. Well regarded for meat and priced sensibly.
• Halal Market — 7755 Tylers Place Blvd, West Chester, OH 45069. Small restaurant attached.
• Jerusalem Market — 300 Northland Blvd, Cincinnati, OH 45240 · (513) 771-8888
• Albaraka Market — 7835 Cincinnati Dayton Rd, West Chester, OH 45069
• Crescent Market — 7831 Cincinnati Dayton Rd, West Chester, OH 45069. Next door to Albaraka, so check both in one trip.
• Emir's Supermarket — 3209 US-22, Loveland, OH 45140. Also listed as Emir's Farm Market; the north-east option.
• Uzbegim Halal Market — 12141 Royal Point Dr, Cincinnati, OH 45249. Uzbek, strong on meat quality.
• Samarkand Food Market — 9956 Kings Auto Mall Rd, Cincinnati, OH 45249. Central Asian — good for bread, spices and non-Desi cuts.
• Al-Madina Market & Grill — 6 W Corry St, Cincinnati, OH 45219. Market and restaurant in one, right by the UC campus.
• Mt. Olive Market — 2702 Vine St, Cincinnati, OH 45219
• Darou Salam Halal Market — 4158 Hamilton Ave, Cincinnati, OH 45223. West-side, African and halal.

Eating out

South Asian:

• Nawab Grill & Restaurant — 11277 Reading Rd, Cincinnati, OH 45241. Pakistani and Indian, and the closest thing locally to the food most of us grew up on.
• Biryani Pot — 7912 Mason Montgomery Rd, Mason, OH 45040 · (513) 247-9264
• Al-Madina Grill — 6 W Corry St, Cincinnati, OH 45219. Fully halal, Lebanese-leaning grill, popular with students.

Turkish, Central Asian and Mediterranean:

• Kebab House Grill & Bakery — 7835 Cincinnati Dayton Rd, West Chester, OH 45069 · (513) 644-2080. Uzbek and Lebanese, at the same address as Albaraka Market.
• Turkistan Lagman House — 8729 Fields Ertel Rd, Cincinnati, OH 45249. Also listed as Turkistan Kebab House.
• Truva Turkish Kitchen — 8060 Montgomery Rd, Suite 400, Cincinnati, OH 45236, in Kenwood.
• Greenwich Pita and Grill — 5220 Kings Mills Rd, Mason, OH 45040. Fully halal.
• Symphony Mediterranean Grill — 7100 Foundry Row, Ste 254, Liberty Township, OH 45069, at Liberty Center.
• Andy's Mediterranean Grille — 906 Nassau St, Cincinnati, OH 45206. Long-standing Walnut Hills institution for kabob, kafta and shawarma.

Quick and casual:

• Halal Burgers — 7037 Yankee Rd, Liberty Township, OH 45044 · (513) 644-2290. Fully halal burgers and fried chicken — the easiest place to take children.
• Halal Food — 121 E Court St, Cincinnati, OH 45202. Handy if you work downtown.

Bengali cooking, practically

• Fish. Bengals is the first stop. The larger South Asian and halal markets also keep frozen ilish, rui and koi, but stock is inconsistent — ask when the next delivery lands rather than driving out hopefully.
• Bulk orders. Several families order fish together twice a year and split a shipment, which brings the price down considerably. Ask in the Facebook group before ordering alone.
• Spices. Panch phoron, kalo jira and mustard oil are all easy to find, and far cheaper by the pound at the bigger markets than in small packets at Kroger.
• Vegetables. Lau, jhinga, kochu and shojne data appear seasonally and go quickly. In summer several members grow lau and data shak in their own gardens and share the surplus.
• Sweets. For roshogolla and mishti doi most people still make their own. The recipe thread in the group gets busy before every Eid.
• Qurbani. A few families place an annual bulk order together through one of the halal butchers.

If a shop is missing from this list, tell us — it is easier to keep current with a few hundred people watching it than with one person writing it.