Microbiological analysis of 148 various food samples over one year period revealed that the microbial quality of raw meat and seafood samples was generally high except that of chicken. More than half of the chicken samples were found to contain Salmonella with four different serotypes. Repeated isolation of same serotype in same retail shop suggested the existence of secondary contamination. Salmonella and fecal coliforms and or fecal streptococci seem to vary independently. However, fecal coliform counts of the Salmonella positive samples (59%) exceeded 10^4 MPN/100g. Antibiotic resistance of 50 Salmonella isolates revealed the persistence of drug resistance in most of the strains. Salmonella serotypes exhibited resistance to all the antibacterials tested with colistin (30 μg) as most common one. S. paralyphi B was resistant to 5 different antibiotics and all Salmonella serotypes isolated from food samples were found to show multi drug resistance.