Zimbabwean Grocery Stores, Butcheries, and African Food Shops Across the UK: Regional Directory and What They Stock

For Zimbabweans living in the UK, finding the foods that taste like home — Lobels biscuits, Colcom polony, Cerevita, Royco Usavi Mix, lacto, madora — was once a matter of knowing exactly the right person or waiting for someone to arrive from Harare with a suitcase of groceries. That has changed significantly over the past decade. A growing network of Zimbabwean-run shops, African food stores, and online retailers now delivers these products across the UK, from London to Milton Keynes to the West Midlands. The stores generally fall into three categories: physical shops (sometimes within larger African or Caribbean markets), online-only retailers that ship nationwide, and hybrid operations that offer both click-and-collect and home delivery. **Online Retailers Shipping Nationwide** ZimFoods (zimfoods.co.uk) is one of the most established online Zimbabwean food retailers in the UK, operating out of the West Midlands. Their catalogue covers the full range of what Zimbabweans miss most: Lobels biscuits (Lemon Creams, Custard Creams, Vanilla Creams, Marie Biscuits, Bermuda Creams), Royco Usavi Mix in both chicken and beef varieties, Cerevita (available in Banana and Choc Malt variants, including wholesale boxes of 24), Black Cat peanut butter, Family Peanut Butter (dovi), Knorrox stock cubes, Joko tea, Rajah Curry Powder, Moringa tea leaves, Moirs custard powder, and Colcom French Polony. They also carry South African staples such as Nola mayonnaise and Bakers biscuit ranges. ZimFoods ships worldwide, making them an option even for those relocating to other countries who want to send Zimbabwean goods to relatives. Hungwe Tuckshop (hungwetuckshop.co.uk) is another online operation with a Southern African focus. Based in London with collection available from Woolwich Arsenal, they stock madora (mopane worms), Savanna Dry Cider, Hunters Gold Cider, and a range of Southern African snacks and fabrics. They also run an intermittent city-to-city tour, contacting customers when they are passing through different areas — a useful option for buyers outside London. Lilbea Foods (lilbeafoods.com) carries Mufaro's Cultured Milk Lacto (hodzeko/amasi) at £4.99, Victoria Maputi, TS Coconut Peanuts, and other Zimbabwean and African grocery items, with delivery across the UK. Their registered address is in Covent Garden, London. AfroPots (afropots.com) stocks cultured milk (lacto/amasi) at £5.99 per kilogram alongside a broad African grocery range including meats, fish, grains, flours, legumes, vegetables, oils, and ready meals. Their delivery service covers the UK including Northern Ireland, and their customer service line operates Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday. **Physical and Regional Stores** MK Zim Foods in Milton Keynes operates from Units 32 and 33 at 140A Queensway, Bletchley (MK2 2AA), located inside the Agora shopping centre. This is one of the few dedicated Zimbabwean food shops with a physical retail presence outside London, serving the significant Zimbabwean community in Milton Keynes and surrounding areas. **What These Shops Typically Stock** Across these stores, the product categories fall into recognisable groups: - *Breakfast staples*: Cerevita (banana and choc malt), Joko tea - *Relish and cooking*: Royco Usavi Mix (chicken and beef), Knorrox stock cubes, Rajah Curry Powder, dovi (peanut butter), dried madora - *Biscuits and snacks*: Full Lobels range, Charhon's biscuits, Bakers Tennis biscuits, maputi, Rambawaraira cookies - *Meats and proteins*: Colcom products (polony), lacto/amasi, road runner chicken (sometimes prepared as gango with sausage, beef, gizzards, and vegetables — available at some London-based African food outlets like Mait3 Tiffany's for £13.50) - *Drinks*: Savanna Dry Cider, Hunters Gold Cider - *South African crossover products*: Nola mayonnaise, Moirs custard powder, Black Cat peanut butter **Practical Tips** Stock availability changes frequently — products listed online are often seasonal or dependent on import shipments. It is worth following these retailers on social media (particularly Facebook and Instagram) for new stock alerts before placing an order. ZimFoods is active on both Facebook (ZimFoodsUK) and Instagram (@zimfoods). For bulk buying, ZimFoods offers wholesale pricing on items like Cerevita boxes. If you are organising a community event, a church gathering, or simply stocking up for a few months, contacting these retailers directly about wholesale terms is worthwhile. For those in cities not served by these shops — Sheffield, Leeds, Cardiff, Edinburgh — the online retailers remain the most reliable option, with most offering standard UK delivery.