There’s a kosher pickles pop-up bodega on Rivington Street right now

The Lower East Side has been serious about pickles for well over a century, so it’s only fitting that Grillo’s Pickles, one of the country’s most popular pickle brands, has opened a temporary bodega at 2 Rivington Street. It’s there through June 20 and open daily from 1pm to 7pm, giving pickle lovers plenty of time to stock up for the rest of the summer.

The pickles are certified kosher, which is the part worth saying out loud before you plan the trip. Inside the Pickle Fridge you’ll find limited-run flavors that never make it to a normal grocery shelf: pickled green tomatoes, hot peppers, carrots, mini pickles, even pickled grapes. There’s exclusive merch and a few collabs with neighborhood spots (keep in mind: not all kosher), plus this year’s strangest addition: Pickle Slides, actual pickle-themed slide sandals, sold only at the pop-up through the end of the week.

The other thing to grab on your way in is a Pickle Card. It works like an old-school punch card: you carry it to six pickle-themed stops scattered around the Lower East Side, get it marked at each one and collect prizes and exclusive merch as you go (keep in mind that not all stops are certified kosher). Grillo’s is billing it as the replacement for the MetroCard, now that the MetroCard’s finally gone. Given that it’s the team’s fourth year operating a similar pop-up on the LES, they clearly know what they are doing.

Now, the origin story, because it’s a good one. Grillo’s started in 2008, when Travis Grillo got turned down for a sneaker-design job at Nike and went home to Connecticut to eat his feelings, pickle by pickle. The recipe was his family’s, Italian, a hundred years old, featuring a total of seven ingredients: cucumbers, water, distilled white vinegar, salt, garlic, dill and grape leaves.

Grillo built a wooden cart, parked it at Boston Common and sold two spears for a dollar, making the pickles at night and biking them over each morning. Whole Foods noticed, so did the Red Sox and, by 2013, the cart had become a million-dollar business. Now, you’ll find Grillo’s in refrigerated aisles from Target to Wegmans across the country.

Not bad, right? Now go on and taste what all the fuss is about.