Zupan’s Markets

Who is the nicest produce man you will ever know? DJ the produce guy! With his hip hair, cool ‘stache and amazing knowledge of the pear world, DJ is like the superhero of the produce aisle!
Also special mentions to Rustyn, Mark and Alise!
A bit expensive, but this is still one of my all-​time favorite grocery stores! Everyone is helpf

Zupan’s Market is where the people at the top of the ladder shop. It has so many options, while the store itself is walking distance from a Trader Joe’s location. Some items are pricy, but there are plenty of inexpensive items. A huge parking lot with a few other stores border this Zupan’s. This is just a wonderful tribute to food, with an especially noteworthy cheese selection.
Well me, I just walked in for a zero calorie beverage. That was less than a dollar and tasted great. Some of the adjacent areas could have more trash cans if you are walking by foot. The cashier was both efficient and polite.
Take a look at this Zupan’s.

There is only one reason to go here– the curry chicken salad in the deli section. Really I could stuff myself silly with their chicken salad– its perfect. Not too much mayo– very flavorful and way better than the Zupan’s on the east side where they like to drown their curry chicken salad in mayo (as well as the other high end grocery stores in the city– trust me I’ve tried them all).
As for the rest of the store, I love the cheese, deli section at Zupans’, however as others have touched upon, this place is mucho dinero. I can pick up Cheerios for cheap, but my lactose free milk is close to $ 6.00 a galloon here. I’m kind of a cheap ass and end up buying groceries at three different high end stores in the city (I’m sure you can guess which they are) depending on who carries the best/​cheapest items (so much for efficiency). At Zupans’, hit up the bread, cheese, fresh pasta, and that amazing curry chicken salad!!!

A most beautiful market. If there were a produce section in heaven, it would look like this. Ditto the floral department, which is more like a high-​end stand-​alone florist shop than a grocery add-​on. The deli section is the best in town, at least in my experience, and the beef is incredible. Staff seems smart and happy. I was making a special cake that required processed chestnuts. No other store had them, but Zupan’s stocked a couple varieties! Well worth the premium prices, imho, and not everything costs extra!

Zupan’s is expensive. Really expensive. Definitely not a place I go for shopping. Usually I stop at Café Umbria, get coffee, and then go to Zupan’s to buy some produce or flowers. Their flowers are amazing– some of the best in the city. Also a very nice, expensive meat/​fish counter. (For a special occasion, I pick up amazing meat/​fish here, but only occasionally). Parking lot is tight and often filled with drivers who have no idea what they’re doing (or maybe that they’re driving?).

We stopped here for lunch on a recommendation of a friend. Best thing we did that day. Their prepared foods were fabulous. I had their potato/​cheese quiche, several salads, cookies, and soup. All were of the highest quality and made with fresh ingredients. I toughest part was making the decisions. We ended up eating the food we purchased for lunch, dinner and even lunch the next day! We will make this a regular stop on our trips north.

Very nice full service grocery store. Very similar to Fresh Market on the East Coast.
Very good bakery and coffee shop and good selection of prepared foods. Salad bar also nice. Prices a little on the steep side but not unexpected.
Would return here… especially to grab meals to go.

yes. simply and deliciously yes.
we were in that lovely dry sunny winter spell this year and this was the first weekend of rain in weeks. they had a lovely fire going outside and the tents to huddle under. now, we didn’t go inside to shop or sit for dinner so i can only speak to dessert and our lovely server. but it was delightful. the smell of hooka all around and camp fire. PERfect dessert and steamers. all too rich to finish but so indulgent how can you not try. and our server was the adorable vintage portland girl with sweater and skirt, so sweet to us even though we weren’t staying long or spending much. the steamers are creative and luxurious to the pallet.
simple and amazing. just enjoy this place as long as it’s here. it should be able to stay a belmont staple for years to come i hope.
cheers to the glorious hands that make zupan’s amazing.

Pricey– yes
Quality– high
Snooty– at the deli, hot foods counter a wine– yes. Cashiers are always nice.
Bakery– many times you’ll get something old and dry but there is a big selection and nice if you get there on delivery day.
Meat counter– quality, nice cuts, fast service
Cheese counter– helpful ‘monger, nice selection with nuts, salts and crackers to go with.
Deli– nice selection, way over priced and here is where you run head on into ‘snooty’.
«Hello? How can you waste my time? Oh you would like enchilada casserole? Eh ok I guessss I can do that» No that is not what has been said but it oddly appears to be the attitude. Last week my hot items were slapped in the to-​go box with sauce running down the side, then smeared up over the top when the box was closed and dropped on the counter in front of me. «Gee, thanks. Are you BLIND? Wipe the box off!». It goes on from there but again… hot counter and deli– snoot.
Would I grocery shop here? No. This is the place I buzz into when I need something fast and dont want to park in a mega lot and walk a mega store.
Geee I clearly need a star between Meh and Ya! Need quality and need it fast, run in here, otherwise run on past.
Now that Market of Choice has built their new place on Saltzman… BOOM …Zupans I’m gone. See Market of Choice review. There is NO SNOOT

Great selection of wine and beer but as far as groceries go they overprice everything. Example… I got a small salad from the salad bar and it was $ 18 which should be illegal if you ask me. Also they sell items that you can get from Fred Meyer for cheaper and it’s just down the road.

So I don’t typically think about reviewing markets, and they probably care less but I figured it couldn’t hurt!
Super pricey place, it’s a gourmet/​high quality food place so duh! I love it because I am a big foodie, and many places don’t carry the unique ingredients I need. I usually go to Whole Foods, but Zupan’s is closer to me so I swing through there.
Reason I took 2 stars off is because their staff is so darn snooty! I mean, it’s cool you work at an «upscale» grocer, but its still a grocery store… you are customer service oriented so turning your nose up if I am not exactly dressed head-​to-​toe in overpriced clothing doesn’t mean I am not going to buy something. Their cash register attendants don’t make much eye contact and I’ve gone twice when an older lady literally kept talking to the other employees the entire time she was preforming my transaction. I was spending over $ 40 in groceries too, sooo why the snotty behavior? Again, you work for a grocery store, not Louis Vuitton.
Main point, awesome food/​wine/​beer selection, but horribly unfriendly staff. At least at this location.

So yeah, this is a Zupan’s and it’s pricey. But most of their stuff really is better. Salami, beer selection, yogurt, granola. I’m always impressed with their selection/​quality.
I love that at Belmont they have the Greek yogurt bar and I asked specifically about that here. They said in about a month or so, there will be one here too. YES!
Parking lot, coffee shop inside, cards. Nothing to dislike except the bougie feel. But the stuff here is great! I got a noosa yogurt and some salami and both were good.

Out of the three Zupan’s Markets that I visit with regularity, this is by far and away the my favorite. The staff is friendly and helpful, they have a larger selection of craft ciders, and the deli, cheese, and meat counters seemingly have larger selections. Living in NW, I wrote off Safeway a long time ago and gladly pay the few extra dollars for a higher quality product and friendly staff.

Zupan’s is one of the high end groceries in Portland. It’s up there with City Market in terms of quality of ingredients (and price). The prepared/​hot foods are great including the sandwiches, as are the baked goods. They have breads and pastries from several local bakeries and very good produce. The store is layed out very well and items are well displayed. They have plenty of parking, but beware of the time limit or you may find a ticket on your vehicle.

Like Wholefoods but better. And more expensive. Wait… is that possible? Yeah. Come see for yourself.
Giant selection of meat, poultry, and seafood with giant prices to boot. They even have caviar in the butcher case. Beluga caviar, not salmon roe or whatever other cheap fish eggs other markets try to pass off as caviar.
Lots of local products from the region, including chocolates and wine.
Fancy bakery with high quality cakes and baked goods from some of the best local bakeries.
Clean, small store. Easy to navigate. Plenty of parking.
OMG. SO. EXPENSIVE.
But worth it

Zupan’s reminds me of the Metropolitan Market chain in Seattle: thoughtfully and beautifully prepared produce, deli and baked goods, and a meat section filled with knowledgeable (albeit super hipster) staff and respectfully sourced seafood and land based meats. I’m certain that stocking a kitchen with the basics would certainly be cheaper at Safeway/​Fred Meyer and the like, but for those splurge items, like the $ 18 bottle of strawberry infused balsamic vinegar, de-​cracked crab legs, and prepared meat items for grilling, Zupan’s reigns supreme.
Also: the deli and baked goods here are excellent. And very easy to navigate if you have any sort of good group you want to avoid, or specific allergy. The Peet’s coffee counter attached to the deli had some absolutely gorgeous baked goods available for sale when I stopped there.

I am almost positive that I could give up eating out entirely if I had buying groceries in this market as my only alternative.
Such a beautiful food store with so many wonders! Everything looks great and tastes the same. We picked up some fruit, fresh baguette, smoked chicken (get it in their meat counter– get it!!), coconut yogurt, some combucha drink. Everything yummy, wholesome and excellent quality.
So many items they I have never seen anywhere else before, all merchandise seems to be hand picked and special.
I am always very excited to come here and don’t mind spending more money here. It’s worth it.
We in Seattle have Space Needle, but Portland has Zupan’s Markets… Jealous!

If you are bargain shopping and trying to get the most out of a penny… don’t even think about this place. Fred Meyer’s is down the road, that’s more your speed. However, if you are in the market to splurge a little … get your butt in there! The wine selection will make you swoon. The meat selection could turn any vegetarian into a carnivore. Sparkling water… did you know there are 5000 different kinds of sparkling water? There is just so much stuff going on in this store that you won’t get at FM or Target. It is not cheap… but I think all Portlanders know this by now. And oddly, the parking lot is pretty small, but I have NEVER had trouble finding a parking spot.
The cashiers can be a little condescending if you forgot your reusable grocery bags, but in a weird way I kind of like it. It reminds me how accurate the TV show Portlandia really is.

When I spent a month in NYC recently, one of my favorite places to lurk in order to feel at home was the Dean & Deluca in Soho. Creeping around the tiny displays, nodding in recognition at the expensive oils and vinegars, comparing sea salt origins, salivating over the precious, precious, ridiculous deli items… There’s a reason my man took me to a grocery store for our third date.
Stepping into Zupan’s for the first time, I felt the same overwhelming mixture of love and familiarity (and the same desire for a six-​figure salary to afford my tastes). The spice aisle alone is one in which I could have spent a half-​hour, and bought everything; I love to find everything from ten kinds of salts to sumac all in the same place. Prices on some things are expensive, yes, but weren’t out of line for the quality, or compared to what I pay in Seattle. I appreciate that the selection isn’t endless but thoughtful; makes the decision process easier when someone has already curated the choices for you. Everything looked beautifully fresh, the produce was cleverly stacked and arranged, and the cheeses nicely labeled.
While I plan to be good and shop at Fred Meyer, I’m doing so in order to free up funds for buying the worth-​it things at Zupan’s and soaking up the culinary affluence that inhabits at least a small part of my kitchen.

This place puts a smile on my face EVERY time I come in.
The atmosphere is relaxing and inviting. All senses are stimulated.
Every single employee experience has been truly amazing. Management must hand out pot brownies before every shift. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve walked into Starbucks next door and have been greeted with a scoul. They don’t even try to fake it. Zupan’s employees seem to be genuinely interested in assisting their customers. I feel valued and appreciated every time I come in.
The products ALWAYS impress me. The produce is SUPER fresh. The meat DEFINITELY tastes as good as it costs. The deli and bakery items CANNOT be beat.
Everyone bitches about the prices. Go somewhere else then. This place is certainly not the only grocery store in town. I would understand the bitching if this place had a monopoly on grocery stores. It’s capitalism baby. Freedom of Purchase.
Every time I walk in to Zupan’s it feels like a treat.