The Fresh Market

Fresh market is not your typical supermarket. I’ll start by saying that coming here is a treat. This isn’t a place for your weekly food shopping experience unless you don’t mind splurging.
That said, I love coming here. From the moment you walk in the fresh flowers welcome you. The selection of beautiful flowers and smell alone is enough to keep you coming. I especially love the hydrangeas. This location is perfect. The parking is ample and is located right next to The Falls shopping plaza.
The store is extremely clean and well organized. The fresh fruit and vegetable selection is really different from Publix. I especially love the wine selection. You can find an excellent choice of wine at an affordable price. I’ll tell you what my favorite items are at Fresh Market. The cherries, can’t say enough about them. They are the sweetest cherries I’ve tasted. The fish dip is phenomenal. In fact, for every gathering I host, I serve the dip. The bakery items are above any. The croissants are soft in the middle yet with a crispy flaky crust, just perfection. You want a good cut meat? Not a problem. The Ribeye at $ 10.99 a steak is amazing. Yes a bit expensive but well worth the bite, I promise.
Like I said, I don’t come every week, but on special occasions when I want to splurge and impress my guests, I come to Fresh Market.

Enjoy going here, clean, has everything you need for groceries. bakery’s awesome.

I like their gluten free selection; however, I find that some of the same snacks are way overpriced compared to Publix, Target and even Walmart… same brands I’m talking about… I wouldn’t do basic shopping here, but only gluten free items that I can’t find at other groceries.

Egads. How have I not reviewed FM yet? Haha.
I love coming here. Everything is always so neat and pretty, and I absolutely love their deli section. Also — have you been by during the winter holidays? Because everything is SO FRIGGING CUTE. (But maybe it’s because I absolutely love the holidays.)
The boy and I come here a lot to pick up some sushi, relax and chat, and eat outside.
I also love that they offer free samples of their coffee, which is a nice pick-​me-​up after whatever I’ve done that day.
We love their Jamaican blend coffee grounds, nova salmon, and I can’t stop stuffing my face with their Brownie crisp cookie crisps things (the name is escaping me at the moment, but I’ll update next time with a picture, lol!).
I do think they’re expensive in comparison to Publix, so they are most definitely not competitively priced (i.e., Chobani yogurt here costs like $ 1.70-something or $ 1.80-something — more than Publix, which charges $ 1.25). So, I wouldn’t do my basic shopping needs here.
BUT, again. I love their sushi! Their crab avocado inari packs are YUM. My typical go-​to sushi lunch if I’m in the area! :) And then the shaded seats outside where you can just relax and wind down is fun. Especially as we head into the cooler months. :)
Staff is always super friendly and helpful — so yeah. GO TRY THEIR SUSHI. :D

Their meat and quality is great, but I’ve had some bad experiences with the customer service. The customer service really makes or breaks the experience they’re the people who are the faces of your company. I had a rude encounter with the lady in the meat counter, I asked her for a lb of beef and I wanted a fresh piece… Well obviously cause I came to the counter rather than getting a prepackaged one. And she hands me over a prepackaged container, I asked nicely if she could please just give me a fresh cut. Her answers was «it’s as fresh as if I would of grabbed this piece». I understand but I wanted that specific piece that was right in front of her. Needless to say some of them need a bit of customer service lessons

I was highly impressed with all the specialty items I found here. There were so many gluten and dairy free items that I had to control myself and not buy everything I saw. The sushi was actually really delicious and I had a vegan chocolate and almond butter tart that made my day. I had to drive 30 minutes to get there but I will definitely be going back!

I enjoy coming here to find really fresh and unique foods and wine. It may be on the expensive side, it’s worth it if you’re having a party or small gathering and you want to WOW your guests. You cannot beat the fresh meat, produce and the large variety of wines.
I usually stop in to pick up some food and provisions while on my way to our boat. There’s one located in the grove, next to Dinner Key Marina. It’s very convenient.
If you’re looking to do a months worth of grocery shopping, then this wouldn’t be the place, unless you are willing to spend the money, it’s a great place to purchase items for that one special occasion.

They don’t sell any kind of baby products. There goes one star. If I’m going to be doing my groceries, I may need to be able to pick up a few baby items. Their pricing isn’t very consistent. They have sales on a random weekday, but rarely on weekends which is when many people shop. Their staff seems confused about the location of most items — and this hasn’t been an isolated incident, it’s happened numerous times. Overall, I rather drive down US1 to one of the Whole Foods or Trader Joes.

Went for the first time today. Store was clean and staff very friendly. A little expensive.

Two ruined dinners in one weekend! Bought a rack of lamb and froze it use 4 days later. Unfroze it and it was rotten. Took it back and got another and opened it today and again rotten. The smell was nauseating. The manager said no one else complained, ??? I wonder. I am not going back. This store was great but lately things are not as good and this is the final straw. Not going back.

Hit or miss experiences. If there was no Trader Joe’s, BigPublix, Whole Foods, Aldi in the area, it’d be a go-​to source for various imports. The deli sandwich menu is pretty awesome. I recommend the rotisserie roast pork, with mango chutney on the onion roll. Smoky and good. The price is right for a mile high sandwich, too, with side and a kosher pickle, and the tables outside in the shade would be a nice picnic for some. Good cold drink and beverage selection. Nice prices on store brand dairy.
Friday night meat specials can give you some seriously thick and pretty steak specials that beat or match publix or winndixie sales. Great for a BBQ, but the produce leaves something to be desired (as is usual with organic selections locally). The cheese selection is about half of that at Whole Foods, and same as publix, without the deals. No one has ever offered me a sample without some kind of strange «I’m busy» attitude, whether it be wine or cheese or some vendor within the store, and there are a lot of them. With a cart full of purchases, I don’t get their purpose. The coffee sample usually cold whenever I go, unapologetically not maintained. Despite that I will buy seasonal gifts of coffee (but not from the bins which would be stale in this climate).
Pressure fried okra, nice chips, nuts, snack options. Stock up before a flight. Great old timey candy and new chocolate, as well as hard to find icelandic, salty licorice, and other goodies from europe. The bakery quick breads, from pound cake to nut breads: peach to zucchini are the best around, very moist and full of berries.
The service though, hrm. The staff varies from rude to weird, to slow, to kind of arrogant. I don’t get it. Maybe the clientele is hard on them or maybe they don’t pay well. I also find it strange there is no way to see prices during your final register visit until the transaction is complete.

I must say I love Fresh Market (not more than Trader Joes) but do not like their prices. I don’t mind paying for quality, this is just a higher price for the same quality as other organic/​natural stores.
My last visit I noticed an additional FL sales tax. I know we get taxed at the bottom of the receipt, but when I bought an apple, bottle of wine, and apple fritters I noticed they charged me the cost of the product then right below it would say FL sales state tax $ 1.15. The bottom of my receipt was my total and an additional state sales tax. Now I told my boss about this and he did not get the same experience. Wish I didn’t throw away that darn receipt. Needless to say, I was irritated but it is what it is. I was happy to get my flowers, have yet try the wine, the Apple was great but a bit too sour (honey crisp). As much as they cost, I know I will return. FYI, Tuesday’s are the sale days!

I was so happy when this place was built because the only other one is go to was the one off of Alton Road on South Beach. I’ve always received pretty good service here & have been able to return anything that wasn’t up to par. At the same time you’re not bombarded with customer service so much that you can’t concentrate.
Sundays they usually have samples. Also, try the Smoked Salmon Philadelphia Roll with Brown rice. So delicious.
Cool to visit– especially if you’re in The Falls and super hungry.

The only reason I’ve rated this place as highly as I have is because of the panini’s at the deli. They are tasty and a really good alternative to getting a sandwich at Publix. The coffee selections are also pretty decent.
Besides that it’s no big whoop.

They don’t check through their produce often enough. Lots of moldy berries and rotting apples or mandarins. Mandarins and apples are in season now, there’s no excuse to have so many rotten apples and mandarins for sale. And not for the price they charge.

Employees always look drained… Wait times are ridiculous… deli is always understaffed.
This is based on MANY experiences… I only come back because they have some great deals on poultry and meat.

I used to work at The Fresh Market in a few different locations, and I was very put off by this location. As far as I can remember, The Fresh Market prides itself in providing excellent customer service and a remarkable experience. Part of the reason is because they have speciality goods that you can’t get everywhere and they also charge a premium price. They very much stand by making sure that the customer is ALWAYS happy.
Perhaps it was the day I came in, but I was alarmed by the fact it wasn’t that busy and it still wasn’t top notch. I love the food, that is never the issue, but the devil was in the details.
The bakery was kind of gross. The boxes were sticky and unappealing. No one wants to touch boxes that have food smeared all over them. When I was checking out, the cashier was so unhappy that it actually affected my mood. One of my items popped open and hot dog juice spilled all over the cash register. Instead of offering to get me a new unopened box, she just bagged up the open box of hot dogs and put my other items in there. So, when I went to get my items out, hot dog juice was everywhere. She wasn’t paying attention to me during the transaction, so I couldn’t help but say screw it and get out of there.
Maybe it’s because I know what I should expect when I go to The Fresh Market, but either way, I would much rather go to Milams and spend a lot of money than come back here.

Yo, no samples?
But, actually. The Fresh Market in the Grove always has samples at checkout, but this one did not. It could have been because we were there later in the evening on Sunday.
Okay, but down to business.
1. Standout point: They had Kabocha squash!!! This my favorite type of squash and so difficult to find in Miami. And it was very cheap for here at 99 cents a pound. And, they had large ones. All of this = very happy me and an entire cart filled with kabochas!
2. Delicious produce. The prices there can be a bit on the higher side. Sometimes they do have good sales. I bought an absolutely delicious apple there about the size of my head… for some reason their produce is ginormous!
3. The reason you come here: specialty products. I got some favorites and new favorites. Their dry dressing packets are my favorite. I love to mix them with greek yogurt. The pumpkin salsa… yum!!! Great spice offerings. Flax milk — on sale! Unique sauces. Basically, coming to the Fresh Market makes browsing fun. Literally, you could spend hours scouring the aisles for goodies. The Fresh Market brand also makes high quality products. Their pasta sauce is pretty darn good!
4. This location also had a cold self serve salad bar which the other does not!
5. The bins… just duh! One of the best parts of the Fresh Market. Pure amazing, unique items.
6. Bakery. It’s just awesome! You just have to taste it! That creamy, sweet, mouth-​watering goodness can only be done justice by the taste buds!
Overall, fun times (yes fun) at TFM!

Very nice an open layout. Minus a star for limited prepared hot foods, I much prefer going to whole foods for that.
Also the registers/​checking out area is extremely small with an awkward flow… annoying if you have a lot of items

New location at the Falls!
Great store to get what you need to eat or make a meal. This new location is bigger than the location in Coconut Grove.
Has everything you need to make a great meal. From fresh fruit, vegetables, spices, wine, cheese, and meats. Its a little pricey but you get what you pay for. You can also get prepared meals to bring home if you don’t want to cook. You just buy them bring them home and heat it up. Perfect
Also they have a salad bar to make yourself your favorite combo. Plus they also have different soups daily. their bakery makes some great pastries and bread. Service is great and staff is Awesome.