Lunds & Byerlys

I am really happy there is a grocery store downtown. Yes, it may not be as big as the regular Lunds or a Cub, but it has everything you need within reason. They also have their Spirits and Wine shop behind the store so you can get your drink on as well. They have their own parking lot also which is really helpful when being downtown. Not only if it was skyway accessible!

Awesome service here. The other subpar Lunds in NE Mpls needs to train their employees better (this ain’t the suburbs).

It’s not so much a grocery store as it is an über-​expensive deli. You really can’t buy a weeks worth of groceries without going a quarter of a mile down the road to Target where a dozen eggs are over a dollar cheaper. How many olives do I really need from the olive bar? Or the salad bar, or the sandwich bar/​deli, or the hot food bar? You could put a ton of food in their exotic (think tangerine/​mango/​pomegranate) juice area. Mostly a show store with a lot of wasted space.

A very good stop for groceries in the Downtown area, with terrific produce and a wide array of other healthy products. I am especially taken with their salad bar, which is A-​1 in my book — a tremendous line of vegetables, cheeses, dressings, and other items — I feel healthier just being around all of this. But be aware that you will quickly be spending $ 10 for your healthy salad. There are appealing sandwich and burrito stations — but frankly, with the short time I have for a weekday lunch, the wait time is just too long.
Staff are all very friendly and helpful. Pleasant, clean area to sit down and enjoy your lunch choices. Free parking, which is a difficult matter Downtown.

The deli at Lunds saves lives, well, at least my life.

The saving grace of this place is the free parking below the store.
Their bakery is so small with little selection. Only a few small displays of baked goods. (I couldn’t find regular bread loaves either?) Maybe I’m just not familiar with Lund’s.
They have poor options for eggs. Though I am very picky about what companies I give my money too so that’s just me.
Their card selection is terrible with only a few towers of them for specific occasions.
Upon check out they only have plastic bags.
Employees seemed so-​so.
I went here specifically to get birthday treats and birthday cards.
So let down.

Weird shoudlnt this be the entry for the pharmacy next door to the main grocery? Was looking for some travel toiletries and in the vey back theyve got it in spades. Toothpaste, lotion, deodorant you name it. Employees were helpful in pointing all the things i needed out

This location is pretty convenient, but one of the smaller locations. The produce section is limited and often does not have many organic options. Sometimes there are entire foods gone, like green peppers or avocados. The isles are mini, so keep to your side when passing others! They do seem to carry lots of ready made to eat options. There is a cheese counter, hot foods, desserts, sushi, to-​go-​foods bar and packaged meals. I recently noticed there is a small corner dedicated to all things gluten-​free, if that’s your thing. It is up against the glass windows at the back by the bread/​desserts and cheese.
Lastly, checking out here is a breeze. I will typically use the quick self-​checkouts and using their weekly text coupons are simple. It’s free to join by texting fresh to 55 955.

Absolutely wonderful staff. Went there late at night — thinking I was going to get some drained and burnt out overnight workers, and the chashier and bagger were beyond friendly. Love it.

We had dinner across the street at the Butcher and were looking for some dessert. My only complaint is that we had to do a lap of the entire store to find the bakery items. Once we did it was on. We all were able to get our own mini dessert and they were fantastic.

New, beautiful store. I wish it had been here when I lived downtown and there was nowhere to shop. The downtowners these days have it so. easy. ;) Nice that there is parking for those who will be driving over as well.
I like their bakery and the deli, that’s mainly what I go in for. There are a few other more exotic or obscure items I also can only find here, and I am thankful for that.
The prices are pretty high but nothing surprising, I guess.
I thought the checkout lanes were confusing as hell. The day I was in there, there were cashiers standing around everywhere, even near the self-​checkouts so I wasn’t sure wth I was supposed to go or do. Ended up at a regular checkout and unsurprisingly the cashier was disinterested and unfriendly. What the hell, if anything Lunds has consistency throughout their locations.

It’s a basket not a cart kind of store, I stop here when I need a few things and can’t wait until my weekly shopping trip.
Most things are pretty pricey but their daily deals (sushi Wednesday) and flowers are really reasonably priced. They also have a nice selection of products that you can’t find at a typical grocery store, this is my go to stop for specialty cheeses.
This particular store has a private parking lot that is free and very easy to access. They also have a great liquor store and outdoor seating. The location is close enough to downtown that it even makes a good option or a workday lunch, check out their salad bar, it’s pretty extensive.

Lund’s has been pretty ok for me. Great cheese selection and quality (not that it matters since recently going vegan, but def noteworthy). They have their own parking lot which for any downtown business is great and makes going there convenient. And they have a great selection of fresh buffet foods and sushi. The store is pretty clean and the employees for the most part are friendly.
Produce quality has slipped quite a bit lately though (yes, they lost a star for this). They used to have the best produce of anywhere, but the last few times I have had a difficult time with this. This evening I needed some spinach and found the bagged kind to be twice the quality at half the price as their bulk spinach.
Another thing that annoyed me is that they don’t have sturdier paper bags. A half gallon carton of any liquid that has a sharp corner is likely to cut the flimsy plastic bags they offer. (I also like the flat bottom for things like takeout rotisserie chicken-​for my boyfriend)
All in all, it is a good place to go if you live nearby, but I would prefer Whole Foods for most things and even Target for some others.

I love this place! Convenient location and reasonable prices. Much better than Kowalski’ s. There is a generous selection of cheeses and daily samples. There is always plenty of helpful staff around even during the lunch rush. I also like that they have 6 self checkout stations, they usually run fairly smoothly. It keeps the lines short if your preference is to be checked out by a cashier. The aisles aren’t large but very easy to navigate which helps when you are in a rush. I wouldn’t tackle all my grocery shopping here but it’s great for everything in between. The only thing I haven’t done is bought the pastries or other fresh bakery items but I got a look at them today and they look amazing.
To get to the bathroom you want to go to the elevator located in the back next to the fresh meat section. Its on the second floor and tends to be clean. There is also a whole other section on upper floors that only V.I.P’s know about where you can purchase greeting cards etc.

It’s weird to be reviewing a grocery store, no? But there’s just something about this new Lund’s that just makes it so… reviewable. That’s the unsexiest term ever, but there you go; Lund’s Downtown is one lovely, interesting, review-​worthy grocery store. I sometimes cry in my sleep, thinking about how I could’ve waited just a little bit longer before moving away from Downtown and benefited from being thisclose to a Lund’s. Then, I dry my tears, take the bus past the Wedge Co-​Op, and get off the bus stop immediately in front of Lund’s (what convenience!).
This particular Lund’s manages to be both navigable and huge at the same time. I mean, they still manage to have an olive bar for chrissakes. Their meat selection looks very tempting, although if ever I’m going to buy more than a few items at Lund’s I need to be better-​prepared. The most dangerous thing you can do is set me lose at this store with an empty stomach and no idea what I want. I mean, Lund’s is more affordable than the Wedge, but it’s also no Aldi.
When I do indulge, it’s usually straight to the cheese section, where I could spend minutes figuring out what stinky, moldy cheese I’m going to devour that evening. I love finding those great deals on random foodstuff, like buy 1 get 1 hummus thank you very much. When I don’t know what to cook at home (which is often), I’ll just go and grab a whole rotisserie chicken, or craft a meal from their awesome hot and cold dishes. By the way, is it just me, or are their salads just the best thing ever?
They have self check-​out lanes, where you can go and bag your own groceries in (gasp!) plastic bags because you forgot to bring reusable totes. Or, like me, just march up straight to the regular checkout, forgotten reusable bags be damned. This isn’t a funny skit on an episode of Portlandia; get over yourself.

I was excited about this Lund’s opening so close to my home and I have been pleased with the outcome. I don’t do the majority of my shopping here ($$$) but the BOGO sale and the daily specials are worth a stop on the way home from work. I don’t interact with the employees much due to an easily laid out store and convenient self check out so I cannot speak to their customer service skills.
I love that I can always count on a wide variety of Minnesota Grown products. The price is more than other chain grocery stores but I AM willing to pay that for the local produce. I am unimpressed with the over pricing of other goods though. Another benefit of this location is the addition of the separated liquor store. I frequently take advantage of the build your own six pack option.

I am starting to grow very found of this location.
1) They always have my favorite white chocolate apricot bread. Others locations always run out.
2) The salad bar
3)The olive bar
4) Cheese
5) Location and hours!!!
6) Clean and well organized
7) Deli meats! This girl likes her beef.
8) Sushi
9) Self checkout lane
10) Best oranges in town.
The only con of this location — the staff. The bakery girl is amazing, always friendly, courteous and efficient. But the rest… the cashiers are especially nasty and bitchy.

This is one of Lund’s newest locations and I love it. It is perfectly located downtown and always has parking. They have a Wells Fargo ATM, Caribou, and Redbox so it’s truly a one stop shop.
–Cheese selection is great.
–Pre-​made salad area in the deli cases are nothing special. Certainly not as nice as their Uptown location.
–Staff is friendly and very helpful.
–Produce is fresh and has just the right mix of stuff you need.
All in all, I love this location and am very glad to see them coming into downtown.

Lund’s Downtown — it’s almost too good to be true! After years of talk and speculation about «will or won’t» Lund’s open in downtown Minneapolis, it has finally arrived.
Downtown Mpls has long needed a grocery store with a large selection of healthy and fresh high quality foods. Sure the downtown Target store has quite a few staples, but I always found myself heading towards Uptown to go to Kowalski’s, the Wedge or Whole Foods to fill up on quality produce. Enter downtown Lund’s, exit stress over grocery shopping.
Of all the Lund’s stores I have visited, I like this one the best. Bright, clean, well-​organized and well-​stocked, it’s the perfect place to grab everything I might need to try out a new recipe from the Food Network. The staff is helpful without being overbearing, and I’ve never had a problem finding what I am looking for. The prepared foods are amazing (samples on Saturday always get me to buy whatever it is they are hawking), so if I’m feeling too tired to cook and would rather just buy something someone else has made for dinner, I am never disappointed.
You can fill up your wine tank while you’re here too with the adjoining wine and spirits shop, or plug in your electric car with the outlets provided in the parking lot. A trip to Lund’s can leave everybody happy, and I think one trip to the downtown Lund’s will have you agreeing wholeheartedly :)

I am fortunate and spoiled because I live in the Bay Area, where there are more gourmet supermarkets i.e. Mollie Stone’s, Draeger’s, and Lunardi’s to name a few.
Alas, there are not too many gourmet supermarkets in Minneapolis. The Lunds & Byerly’s grocery-​chain has open a new store in the Hennepin District since June of 2012.
This is a very nice store though with the ample store carrying full-​service grocery, fresh produce, meat department, deli and bakery. There is a separate cellar for wine and all alcohol though. I did a quick glance and bought a 6-​pack of Newcastle beer on sale for $ 7.99. All alcohol purchase is separate from the actual grocery store. Also the cashier asked this forty year old-​fart for my ID for the beer purchase. «Yay!»
I came here for dinner and I had a few pieces of chicken tenders and a medium bowl of French Onion Soup. The soup was a bit too salty. The chicken tenders were decent despite being in the hot counter for a while upon my 8:30pm purchase. My meal:

At least I know there is a full service grocery store in the downtown area. But this store is nothing too stunning. I still think the giant Draeger’s in Downtown San Mateo is still the nicest store.