So are you looking to grow your own instead or are you asking where you can buy better tasting tomatoes?

Most any home-grown tomato will taste better then store bought simply because the store tomatoes are picked greenish and artificially ripened. If you want to buy better ones then a local Farmer's Market is the solution.

Dave

You're going to pay a fortune at Farmers Market. A couple years ago I bought a big Cherokee Purple, I payed around 4 bucks for it. Grow your own, not only is it cheaper it's a lot of fun.

If looking to grow your own, check the variety description for keywords like 'sweet' & 'great flavor' - if taste isn't mentioned @ all, they might not be so flavorful.

& for what it's worth, if you buy organic tomatoes in the store/market, they tend to have better flavor than the conventionally grown ones - in my personal experience...

Store tomatoes, smaller the better. Like grape , cherry and saladette sizes. Those are the kinds that when O crave for tomatoes off season

Sey

@Vince At least you get to buy Cherokee Purple $4 a pound at farmer market. Farmer markets are ridiculous expensive around here in Fort Lauderdale, usually nothing except typical Beefsteak and Rutgar. Finding a good tasting tomato at all is counted as luck, although my definition of good tasting have gone up significantly since I started growing my own.

Grow your own or find someone who does and become friendly. I become VERY popular when my tomatoes are ready to pick....

If you want a tomato that tastes like they did in the 50's, grow the tomato everyone grew then: Big Boy. I have never found a better tasting tomato in my opinion. Others prefer Brandywine's taste today, but I like true acid tomato taste like I had growing up, and that's Big Boy. It is easy to grow, and produces prolifically.

Whatever you do, don't make the awful mistake of substituting Worse Boy (incorrectly named "Better Boy" ) for Big Boy. The taste just does not compare. Supposedly, Worse Boy has more disease resistance, but I have never had a disease problem with Big Boy.

If you decide to grow, don't be fooled by the fad of worshiping OPs, which are incorrectly called "heirlooms" - even though most were recently discovered or bred. People rave about the taste of some OPs, while often failing to reveal the extent of the myriad of problems growing them. Unless you have a farm to grow many many plants, you get almost no fruit from most of them (with a few exceptions). Diseases, BER, splitting, unever ripening all destroy many OP crops, which only set a few fruit anyway. The exceptions are generally foreign cultivars (like Costoluto Genevese) that have been grown continuously and loved for many generations (true heirlooms). Great-tasting recent American discoveries, like Brandywine and Cherokee Purple, are a total mess to grow. Beginners need to be warned about this.

If you want 50's taste, it is Big Boy and no other. If you want a different, but excellent taste, work hard to grow the newer OP's.