Rouses Market

I am not pleased with this Rouse’s. The staff could be a little more helpful. Produce could be better. Good price on Coca Cola today.

My current go-​to Rouses since I live 3 blocks away right now. Love it. Excellent selection, per usual for Rouses. Good fresh sushi, which I’ve gotten a few times. Good alcohol section. Good meats, good produce, good pre-​prepared food, good gourmet section, good everything. And there’s a sno-​ball stand in the store. So yeah, 5 stars.

Rouses at Gause in Slidell has the worst beef I have ever purchased. It was my second time giving them a shot but I can honestly say their filet was cut wrong and so tough even my dog turned it down. I expect premium beef when paying 24 – 25 dollars a pound for what was supposed to be prime beef. Never again !

I live smack dab between this Rouses and the one up on Tchoup.
The layout of this store is awkward and the produce is really hit or miss, but I generally get a wider selection of basic items here than I do at the Uptown store, with Uptown having a better meat department and specialty items. Checkout tend to move slower at this location also and parking can be a pain.

This is a good very up-​to-​date style grocery. If you live in Carrollton, this Mid-​City grocery is going to be your best bet. They didn’t have much in the way of fresh seafood, but they are great for fresh fruits, veggies and pre-​made foods. Its an all around solid grocery with reasonable prices. This is going to be my go to grocery any time beef is on the menu in the future.

Came here this past sunday to grab some seafood and a king cake to bring back to Houston. The seafood selection was quite great, but I didn’t find a stuffed duck like I looked forward to. Everything was quite nice and clean, the butcher wasn’t as hip to whether they had any stuffed duck or not, he kinda just stared at the glass like we did. Overall nice store, will try another location when I visit again.

My neighborhood Rouse feature a huge beer and wine selection with great produce and an ok seafood and meat section. Rouses is a little on the high side but they do have great quality and a very good bakery featuring some of the best oatmeal cookies you can buy. Overall this is a popular store because its a one stop shop for groceries especially local hard to find items.

In a back corner of this gracer store is a remarkable little deli, small but delicious menu including seafood, pasta, salads. The food is better, and the service is better than in many restaurants. They even have a decent wine selection! This place fits my bill for good quality, convenient dining. I was rolling toward the produce section, a waiter came out, and implored me to follow him, I guess I looked hungry. It is setup like a sidewalk café, casual, clean, and even some customers. This was the Rouse’s at Tchoupaloulas and Napoleon. I don’t know if other Rouse’s have delis like this.
Rouse’s is our favorite grocery store. Locally owned and operated with courteous service and good selection. My only concern is the parking lot. There is plentiful and safe parking, but the landscaping is higher than most lots. I have an auto that sits low and I can’t easily see crossing lot traffic, and have had some close calls. I spoke with the store manager and got a «Not My Department» answer.

I love Rouses’! I’ve lived a block from this Midcity location for 7 years now. Sure the staff know me, and sure it makes my life easier than most due to my proximity. One of the benefits of living as close is seeing the transformation happen to this store about a year and a half ago as the impending grand opening of the Winn-​Dixie/​Mid City Market loomed. Due to the competition, Rouses’ has expanded it’s offerings in nearly every department to include a sno-​ball stand open year round, an extensive lunch counter that includes sushi, mongolian grill and pizza and an expanded organic department as well as new offerings in produce, bakery and liquor.

I worked a Jose Cuervo sampling event here recently, and although their staff was way more helpful and friendly than their neighboring competitor Winn-​Dixie, I thought the Rouses layout was a lot more crowded with displays of food, which was kind of a pain when trying to maneuver a grocery basket with my table and ice bucket throughout the store.
Other than that minor issue, I enjoy having a Rouses in Mid-​City, and I enjoy coming to this store as a whole.

I don’t want to not like Rouses but it has reached the point where I just do not like Rouses… at all.
Why?
It started with the arrival of the Winn-​Dixie across the street. At the time it was exciting to see the results of actual competition. Prices were reduced all over the store, and it was plain to see they were very worried, to the point of almost panic.
That lasted for about two whole weeks. Once they realized they didn’t have so much to worry about after all, prices went back up throughout the entire store, and have just kept on rising ever since.
$ 7 for Community coffee? Come on now…
Meanwhile, their quality has gone down. This used to be a great place to get fresh seafood. Now? Not so much. We’ve purchased old dead mussels, fishy crab, and where the fresh tuna used to be good enough for sushi, well from the looks of it that’s now just asking for a fun night on your knees.
Whole Foods is our new go-​to meat and seafood destination, and everything else we try to get at Winn-​Dixie or Costco, because everything is almost always cheaper and/​or better at all of the above. That’s right, the prices can be even cheaper at Whole Foods.
Full disclosure: the reason I felt I finally had to write this review, is because Rouses mocks me. It plays fun little games with me like where every time I want naan bread, it is NEVER there and every time I don’t want it, it is ALWAYS there. This observation has become a law of physics, where I now know if I want naan bread and it’s actually at Rouses, I am guaranteed to either be asleep and dreaming of Indian food or in some alternate parallel dimension where the laws of physics are different. Let’s call this the Rouses-​Naan Bread Bridge Theory.
This is how bad Rouses has gotten. It has created new physics. They might as well start slamming their shitty prices together at relativistic speeds to study the formation of greed.
Rouses, if you really cared about locals, you would price for locals. When it’s reached the point of being cheaper for your customers to shop at Whole Foods…

This is my neighborhood Rouses and i’m happy to call it that!
There’s always fresh produce at decent prices, friendly and helpful staff, far from a place i dread going. I’ve yet to try any of their food from the hot bar (s) but i’ve heard raving things over them. I can say however that if you’ve ever wanted to try Rouses sushi but have been apprehensive about it, i am here to let you know, it’s official. Go ahead and go nuts, the sushi is bomb! Also don’t sleep on their house-​made chicken salad and their special roasted peanut butter (which can be found hidden inside a little fridge in the section with the weighted oats/​nuts/​etc.)
I have a CostCo membership and that works out great at times, but most of the time i don’t need a year supply of pickles or a tub of mayonnaise from each visit, plus i like the familiarity i have with the place.
I find going in the morning will get you in and out rather quickly. I know there are other grocery options in mid city, but Rouses definitely has my loyalty. Sorry Winn Dixie. Whole Foods; i’d love to but you guys are just outside of my price range, i know i should not trip over the dollar amount for food i put in my body, but we’ve got to meet halfway here on something. Until then, i’ll keep my regimen going at the ol’ Rouse house.

I really like self serve bins at this location. There is some additional variety in the self-​serve bins that I particularly like. On the most recent visit they had food and drink samples that my wife and I feasted on, which was a very nice touch. This is mostly a reaction to what Whole Foods has been doing with food and drink samples in their stores lately, which has gone a long way in reinforcing my loyalty to the Rouse’s name. The only thing that could possibly get me away from these stores is if Trader Joe’s decides to open up a location in the area. Rouse’s would be dropped in a heart beat.

Not my favorite of the Rouses. Doesn’t seem to have the same quality or variety of the others in New Orleans. I am disheartened at the quality of meat lately; it’s not the area in which to cut corners.

This is my neighborhood grocery store. I love Rouses. They have a good selection of locally grown /​made foods. When ever I couldn’t find what I needed they’ve offered to try to order it for me. Their grill is pretty good and the burgers I find comparable to 5 guys.
The snowball stand (?) is slow but never has a line (plus air conditioning!) so it’s worth it to get your snowballs here rather than down the street.

This is my neighborhood grocery. Competitors in this area are more expensive when it comes down to it. I know where everything I want is, that staff is nice, there are rarely lines, and I never have to park far from the entrance. A cheap bottle of wine, a couple of cheeses, some salami, and a movie from the RedBox machine isn’t a bad date night either, even if it’s by myself occasionally.
They renovated this past year, and it does spiff up the place. I do believe they’ve added more organic food items and products for the organic-​minded, but I don’t feel like there was as much of an upgrade in their produce department. I still find myself sometimes without ma’ cucumbers. And I’m a cucumber junkie. They also have this GREAT homemade pico de gallo, but they have it every blue moon. I know we’re still local, and things do run out, but I’ve obviously set a demand for cucumbers and pico.

While I will admit that this is not my favorite Rouses they do have certain things that I like. The best thing they have is the prices on their merchandise. They are cheaper than Win-​Dixie down the street but they lack the selection of their competitor.
If you want to go to a better location check out the Rouses on Airline Hwy in Metarie. The problem I have with this particular rouses is that it has more of a closed in feeling to it. It just doesn’t seem the same as all the other Rouses I go to.
In short its alright to check this one out if you live in the Mid City area. But still not my favorite Rouses Location.

As the name implies, Rouses Mid City Snowballs is located inside the Rouses supermarket at 400 N. Carrollton Avenue in Mid City. The only reason we stopped here is beacuse we happened to be in Rouses for a diaper run and saw the stand. My wife, the snowball «freak» tends to gravitate towrds her local favorite snowball stands. However, the sign out front stating that they served frozen custard caught her eye as we left the store. (She hasn’t had a really good frozen custard since we visited Ted Drewe’s in Saint Louis, MO… but I digress).
As we walked up to the window, we saw the sign stating that the window stops service at 7:00 PM, but the stand remains open from the inside until 9:00 PM. Oh well, it was 7:30 PM, so we walked back inside and saw that not only do they serve snowballs, but also espresso, frozen custard, coffee, popcorn and nachos. We ordered a frozen custard but were informed that they stop serving frozen custard at 7:30 PM so they can clean the machine. I get that the machines must be cleaned, but it’s a little ridiculous that they need to start cleaning it 90 minutes before they close.
Now, slightly perturbed, my wife orders a Dreamcicle snowball. If you are in a dire pinch for a snowball, then this place will suffice; but just barely. The ice was very coarse and was more like shaved ice rather than a velvety smooth snowball such as you’d get at Hansen’s, Plum Street or NOLA Snow. The syrup was overly sweet, even for me who just happened to have a big taste so I could write this review. Instead of being a refreshing ice cold sweet treat, it was heavy & creamy super sweet concoction.
Unless I find myself at Rouses again, I would not go out of my way to get a snowball here, as there are far too many superior places to go.

I know, I know, I can’t possibly get more exciting than by offering up yet another supermarket review. And another review of a Rouses, at that. My first compelling review of a Rouses can be seen here
And in the spirit of that review, I’m going to go with a similar formula and also show what makes Mid-City’s Rouses a different shopping experience than the one in the CBD.
Why I’d opt to go to Rouses over Whole Foods:
(these are the same points as my first review, I took out a few for the sake of brevity)
1. It’s Louisiana-​owned
2. They have Cajun hot nuts
3. Related to the above, they have an array of other NOLA specialty items (tourists, buy your foodie souvenirs here rather than the FQ)
4. Kick ass olive bar (but just about as pricey as WF’s)
5. They just have a lot more grocery items, and more affordable options at that
6. Not everything has to be gourmet specialty foods and products. They have those, but sometimes you want a bag of Zapps chips or a harsh cleaning product for eff’s sake!
7. Phenomenal wine/​beer selection (see my note about hard liquor below).
There is no hydrophonic rooftop garden at this one, but that’s OK. What they do have that the CBD Rouses doesn’t have is a larger and easier to navigate produce section. That said, the organics are still seriously lacking. And what’s with the tomatoes imported from Mexico? The store is bigger and there is less of that clusterfuck feeling that you’d expect in any supermarket smack dab in the middle of downtown.
The popcorn selection is bliss, by the way. An entire section of the snack aisle and I found those black and red popcorn types that promise all kinds of antioxidant benefits. I don’t really care, though. I just wanted to buy black popcorn.
On a distressing note, I cannot believe there is an entire subcategory of Hot Pockets, as noted on the aisle sign (Ie the head category is Frozen and then below it, they have subcategories of normal stuff like pizza, vegetables, fruit etc.) I mean, Hot Pockets are a brand, not a type of food. Actually calling Hot Pockets «food» is also a stretch. Sorry, that’s just my hatred of convenience foods shining through and has nothing to do with my star rating. But please, for the love of your body: Stop your Hot Pocket habit.
One thing that is really hella lame: what’s with the separate counter for hard liquor? It’s just terribly inconvenient and we actually skipped buying the bottle of vodka we had planned on buying because who wants to check out twice at the grocery store?
I think of all the Rouses, my favorite is the one on Tchoupitoulas, followed by Mid-​City and CBD at a tie. Tchoup’s location has the added bonus of the Cellar restaurant, which would make me drive the 5 miles out of the way just to get some of that veggie lasagna…

This is my local neighborhood Rouse’s! I try to support local and besides Canseco’s this is the only grocery store close by in Mid-​City! Love their fresh produce, their associates are very helpful (one night a cute stocker helped me find all my ingredients for chili and it turned out fantastic in the slow cooker!) and some of my students work here which is funny. New Orleans is so small you can’t hide! :)
The food making folks are super friendly and I have ordered catered sandwiches from there and they are delicious! They had my order ready on time and were gery professional. I miss my Tchoupitoulas Rouse’s but like the newly renovated one in Mid-​City. It’s home now! I like the salad bar (usually make salads for my weekly lunches plus a protein) but wish it stayed open beyond 8pm (sometimes I miss the cut off Augh!). I also like their wine selection and it me convenient to have refrigerated beverages when I need to pop in to grab drinks for a party (can you tell I don’t usually cook! My go to is usually chips, queso, or pita chips and hummus, plus alcohol according to my host’s tastes).
I also like their organic and natural food section. The Amy’s frozen food is yummy! Especially the Indian food!
Usually I try to run past the pastries because it’s deadly! Love the carbs but they don’t love me! Hehe…
I like that they carry my Silk Almond vanilla and dark chocolate (lactose intolerant) too. I even bought a Barbie toy for like $ 10 for my niece’s birthday next month! I also have to peek at the LSU and Saints stuff bc I’m a sucker for my teams stuff!
I also appreciate that you can buy a bag to donate to a needy family. Way to give back ya’ll! And of course when it’s crawfish season you will see me there in line getting my crawfish til I pop!