Whole Foods Market

I think this location has the best seafood. Cashiers are very friendly and helpful! Defiantly one of the smaller whole foods I have been to but they offer variety of produce.

Definitely one of the better managed whole foods. All the lines were effiicent, hot/​cold food bar was stocked, parking was really easy in the underground garage (had attendant directly), and they weren’t out of stock for anything we needed.
If I needed groceries and were in the area, I would definitely go to this Whole Foods.

It’s a shame the salad bar area is poorly managed. I went in at 4:15 pm and their we’re just scrapings of lettuce, barely anything left of stuff I like on my salad. As usual the salad dressing bottles are a disgusting mess. Surprising people don’t get communicable illness from how unkempt the whole food area

Whole Foods has the best produce and meat. Everything is always stocked, fresh and extremely clean. I think this location has the best seafood. I also love the prepared food selections, they have everything from burgers, mexican, pizza and sushi.

It’s expensive but quality is good, food and salad bars are quite nice, salad is fresh most of the times .
I like the bakery most, good bagels.

Great store but damn! The little lady who tends the hot bar, in particular the breakfast bar, needs to relax! She thinks wiping up a grain of rice is more important than customers getting their food that they’re paying for! LOL! All jokes aside, she’s great at her job, almost too great. #hotbarnazi

Just what you expect. Good products, moderate prices and great customer service. Lunch time is the worst here because people block the aisles, rush and bump pass you like it’s the end of the world. The hot food bar is great with a large selection of mixed fare. You can also find a spot to eat inside the store and folks don’t mind sharing a space. I love this grocery store and I’m a big fan of its prime fresh produce area.

This is much smaller but has lots of good stuff. Their Sampling Sat is great. You can taste many things and purchase. Their products are not cheap. So it’s really nice to try them before purchase.
I really like Wine Wednesday. You can taste 5 wine and 5 dishes, small portions, for $ 10!

THEIR WIFI IS TERRIBLE.
Lots of samples always in the bakery. Great food bar.

This is far the smaller whole foods been too but better then springfield… layouts are similar to fairfax one but smaller… cashiers are friendly variety of produce but overpriced I would go to Hmart or LOTTE Market for sure and I like their buffet section and I think they need to work on their take out foods wegmans is perfered on that one…
Minus one star on their cramp parking lots way to narrow for entrance like that hummers couldn’t get through… only 2 levels for parking? Is insane…

This review is for a weekday lunch at Whole Foods.
service
Every staff member we encountered was unfailing polite and helpful. They are efficient without being rushed and professional without being impersonal. The guys running the grill on Thursday, 13 August were especially great and positive.
bar
The combined coffee and craft beer bar looks exceptional, but — without some session (low alcohol) offerings — we were forced to admire from afar. Who puts an Imperial Porter on tap at a market? Now, if offer put Port City Brewing’s Ways and Means on tap, then we’d be pulling up a stool at lunchtime!
food
I ordered the cheeseburger. Be forewarned, this is an awesome monster burger. I mean, a towering, meaty mountain of goodness. Two patties, plus I foolishly added bacon and cheese. At seven bucks, it is as good of a burger as you will find anywhere. Stack it up against the big boys and you’ll be impressed. I added fries for two dollars and they are VERY credible, house-​made, great fries. I could not finish the burger and will be downsizing to the kid’s single patty in the future.
My wife had the street tacos: one tofu, one chicken and one pork. The tofu was hands-​down, our favorite. It has great texture and flavor. A really great offering. The pork might have benefited from some more care in pulling out streaks of fat. Then again, some folks like that flavor. Despite our best efforts, she and I together could not finish three of the street tacos. They’re also a great value.
details
Seating at lunchtime is a bit of a madhouse. We waited four minutes or five minutes for two seats to open up indoors. Free parking in the garage downstairs.

Many reasons to like this place but primary is the location.
If you’re looking for a healthy quick bite to eat, this place has a great food bar.
So many healthy choices and the price is affordable.

This is one of the cutest whole foods I have ever been to.
Every Wednesday night they have a wine tasting. For five dollars you can buy a whole foods old town Alexandria branded glass and walk around the store and taste about five different wines each one paired with a dish.
It’s a little busy on these Wednesday evenings so I recommend bringing a handbasket if you’re there for grocery shopping as pushing a cart will get you in traffic jams.

I love this store a lot. But I must give only 3 stars this time.
I went there around 9:30pm on Father’s Day and found many cheap organic fruits. Wholefoods organic fruits are usually much more expensive than other supermarkets though. I bought strawberries, raspberries, oranges,…
What a what!?! I found many moldy strawberries and raspberries. I didn’t buy them of course. Is that why they sell them cheap? Or did they just miss bad condition ones? I put those aside separately and reported about it to a staff.

*Update* Overcharging is being investigated in NY!!! So happy to hear this; maybe they will fix some of their practices locally too.
Whole Foods has changed. They never really respected me but took care of my needs, or so I wanted to believe. But then they upgraded a few things. I was happy about the wine/​beer/​coffee bar and I didn’t waver in my loyalty during the first few waves of price hikes. After all, there was no real competition for the types of things I wanted.
Over time however, I realized that WF often failed to please me. I threw out a whole cake on my birthday because it tasted like stale, unsweetened cornbread. On many trips, WF forgot to give me a bag refund. The new customer service staff was lacking and unfriendly, having me wait 20 minutes, only to refuse to honor prices that were clearly labeled. A worker putting up the wrong sign or failing to remove an outdated sign is the responsibility of the store, not the customer. And again, unlike other stores, when you are granted a refund, it is only for the price difference. So knowing that people don’t have time to waste 30 minutes on $ 0.10 price adjustments, the pricing issues I bring to their attention are seldom addressed on my subsequent visits to the store. On several occasions, I have just gone directly to customer service preemptively and take the sign down from the display myself. I should receive back pay for all the work I’ve done at WF for free. It really shouldn’t be that hard, or take that long to get some groceries all the time. And then, the price hikes continued…
We broke up. I am now a Mom’s Organic Market customer. Same or better prices. Free coffee. Respect. Love. Understanding. I no longer do unpaid work at grocery stores.

You had me at Eggs Benedict & Stone Crab!
Outstanding breakfast selections, hot bar, pizzeria and seafood department. I’m a Whole Foods pioneer and this one caught me off guard with its awesomeness. Haven’t seen stone crab in any other WF to date!
Cute little wine bar next to hot bar! Worth the drive! Old Town is a bustling hip, young and affluent area with a rockstar WF! Lucky residents!

So this is the Great and Powerful Whole Foods Market. I took the Yellow Brick Road into Whole Food’s parking garage and was immediately beset by a congress of flying monkeys that is the Whole Foods’ fanatic clientele. The parking garage itself was bad enough, with very little space and confusing signage, add a score or two of desperate Whole Foods’ shoppers, and you have something more out Dante’s «Inferno» than Baum’s fairy tale of Wonder.
A charming Metro Goldwyn-​Mayer musical it wasn’t, and in the bowels of the inferno/​parking garage, I had all but given up on the idea of shopping when a munchkin-​like voice whispered that it had worked out for Dorothy, so maybe it would work out for me too… Eh, I should have socked that munchkin square in his lollipop and followed my first instinct: Leave!!! But I am a sucker for a happy ending so I forged ahead into a sea of Whole Foods’ shoppers, patrons who can only be called cult-​like in their zealous devotion to the Mother Ship that is Whole Foods.
Where do I begin, at first it was very much like Oz with happy, colorful displays of fruit and veggies displays, presentations that really did surpass anything found in Trader Joe’s or Harris Teeter. Moreover, the veggie crowd was smiling and wide-​eyed in veggie wonder, but I soon realized that this was a mask for brutal, cutthroat shopping. This smiling hoard was not messing around, and I struggled to get out of its path, as several flying monkeys zeroed in on the freshest avocado or blood orange. «Oh, Toto, we’re not in Kansas anymore.»
I dodged. I weaved. I dipped… All the while avoiding the Whole Foods’ flying monkeys so that I wouldn’t end up like the Scarecrow with my stuffing scattered everywhere. Intact, I surveyed my vegetable and fruit booty: four blood oranges, four tomatoes, a container of spicy humus, a package of lettuce, and a sweet bruise from some old woman’s shopping cart. Except for my bruise, It all looked remarkably fresh and inviting, and I realized that the quality of their produce was certainly a major reason why those of the cult were so loyal to the Mother Ship.
However, for myself, I would need more than fresh vegetables before I would swear off all other food stores.
I made my way to the food court section with its salad bars, pizza stalls, and deli counters. This area is always my favorite in any grocery store, and it is where I usually spend most of my time. Ugh, the crowd was worse here than in the vegetable section. I would need to graze on my meager veggie rations if I was going to wait this one out; however, as soon as I observed the salad bar, I knew that this was not the place for me. The troughs of various salad selections really didn’t look appetizing at all. I had just pulled back the curtain of hype, revealing the old man behind the Great and Powerful Whole Foods: compared to Harris Teeter or Trader Joe’s, this store was just average and really nothing more… such a disappointment, Toto. .
I had one more stop before I made my escape, soda. I spent about five minutes looking for Diet Pepsi or Diet Coke, but found nothing. Finally, I asked one of employees where I might find my cola connection, but was met with, «Oh, we don’t sell those brands, but we do have sell our own brands.» She flashed me a «if I only had a brain» smile usually found in someone who has drunk the Kool-​Aid long ago. No, Sweet Sister, I thought. I pray to different beverage Gods. Direct me to the Cola Cousins or begone. This was the end, and I made my way out of the store, wishing that I had been gifted a pair of ruby slippers so that I might click my heels together three times. Yes, Dorothy was right, there is no place like home. No, place like Trader Joe’s…No place like Harris Teeter.
[Disclaimer: Although my experience was not the greatest, I have to acknowledge that people who love this store, love it hard. In a way, their passion for Whole Foods contributed to my frustration. Therefore, on that fact alone, it deserves three stars. It’s just not my wonderful world.]

Great location in heart of Old Town Alexandria. Parking a little tight but at least it’s there underneath the building.
Wonderful selection of local products I have not seen at other locations, especially some nice coffee for me to grind. And I bought some Einkhorn wheat.
Expansive food bar area along with the pizzas, pastries and all the yummy stuff. Enjoyed a very nice lunch from the hot bar.
I also loved the shaved cauliflower and brussell sprouts in the produce aisle which are perfectly geared towards lazy people like me who prefer to eat out vs. stay in unless you give me something easy to prepare.
Also picked up some nice wine as it was so convenient. Wish all states allowed this.
Good job guys!

This Whole Foods wins because of their WINESDAY (Every Wednesday from 5−7PM for $ 5 if you have a WF Wine Glass and $ 10 to get a wine glass, you get five food pairings with wine). They typically feature food and drink from a special region or country of origin. I have only been to two Winesdays, but I really should make it a priority to break up my week with this cute little event of humpday happiness.
Through Winesday, I have been able to try (and subsequently fall in love with) many amazing wines that I just may not have tried if it had not been so easy to walk around and select wines for such a great deal.
As far as the rest of the store goes, I have no complaints. They have a nice food bar selection with a plentiful salad bar, sandwich station, and more. The selection of the entire store and the size of the store is not as large as say, the Fairfax Fair Lakes Location, but for what it does offer, it does very well.

Wine Wednesday review:
Five bucks for 5 food pairings with wine not bad… but the food definitely did not «wow»
my tastebuds. The cuisine and pairings from
this week were from South Africa. The set up was nice… you navigate your way through the Whole Foods Market in Old Town guided buy a program of recipes and wine pairings. The downside is the bland food and the people serving the food and wine who are in no way educated on the preparation and the history of the food and wine. After the tour, my friend and I decided to stick around to hang out at the bar where we sampled four 5 oz servings of the beer on tap. My favorite was the Allagash. I would consider going back to try the different food pairings and wine from another region.