Pokerville Market

Write a Review209-245-6986

OPEN NOW - Closes at 8:00pm

This place is not the same Pokerville Market that I grew up with. Not only have I stopped shopping there, I actually used to work there, but was fired for following the chain of command in reporting the several health code violations and broken laws in the deli department. In my few short weeks I witnessed the slicers not being properly cleaned between uses, sandwiched being prepared by dirty, open sore covered hands without gloves, food prep surfaces not being properly cleaned after preparing raw chicken, the same oven mitts being used every day without being cleaned to remove the chickens for the rotisserie, pastries being pulled from the freezer bare handed after employees took out the trash, never stopping to wash their hands, most cold foods are prepared with the same knives and utensils not to mention all the pre-cooked cold foods are just foods from the hot case after that sit in the hot case for 6+ hours. Food safety says 4 hours then food begins to be unsafe. Then it needs to properly be cooled down within a certain matter of time. They take the hot food, dump it into plastic containers that are heat sensitive (slight melting occurs), labeled then put out to be sold. Oh, I forgot: the slicers. Roast beef blood dripping all over before your cheese is sliced. Hope you're not vegetarian. Raw cooked roast beef sliced (again, blood dripping) then smoked turkey being sliced. Taste funny you say? And the fact that the 1st time I properly cleaned the slicers, I was told specifically that I don't have enough time for that, and that I filled an entire deli bag (those things that we would get pounds of meat, cheese, etc) FILLED with old shavings of crustated meats and cheeses from around the slicers, beneath the slicers and encasing the power cords. But don't take my word for it, stop in, risk your health, or your family's, pick up some sandwiches, maybe some soup (sits for the entire day), try some puff pastries fresh from their freezers with God only knows how filthy those hands are.

Pokerville MArket has great Produce, Fantastic Meat Department and a huge asssortment of Amador wines all at very reasonable prices. Lot's of specialty items especially considering location and size. We love that it's small, friendly and inexpensive!!