Whole Foods

So fresh and so clean!
Whole Foods has become one of the première grocery stores around the country, if not the première. My only counter argument would be the prices are sometimes inflated compared to other markets, especially on essential items.
Having said that, the freshness of the meats, produce and the flavors of their prepared foods go above and beyond. For that, they deserve all the recognition.
You can dine in for lunch (check for weekly specials) or even sit at their full coffee and juice bar. And you beer geeks are covered, too! Singles, bombers and six packs of local and the most acclaimed breweries are at your disposal.
Whole Foods, we appreciate your presence in the TLH community.

I shop here regularly, I’ll keep it short as I normally only write a review when I have a issue. WHY are you sourcing your only organic oranges from South Africa?! Half your «whole foods» are sourced from across the world where organic regulations are completely different. GTFO whole foods. As a very consistent customer I would like to see this changed.

Solid whole foods. Me like!
I’ve been to a handful whole foods in the past including the badass location in downtown Austin. If you haven’t been, you deff need to check it out b/​c it’s becoming a tourist destination in the ATX area. This one is pretty small in comparison but it gets the job done.
What I like most about this whole foods is the buffet area. It has decent selections of soup, salad, cooked meats and veggies. I can grab a quick healthy meal on my way home. I usually get the kale and Brussels sprouts salad and tofu. I’m not a hipster but I actually really like kale. And their tofu is awesome. They have at least 2 – 3 kinds. The price is on the higher side but I guess I’ll pay for convenience.
They also have a juice bar and a small café area where you can order pizza and sandwiches. I deff wanna try that one of these days. And not to mention they have a $ 5 lunch special on weekdays.
Overall, Whole foods fits my busy, active and healthy life style. I’m a regular.

What can I say? This place is awesome plain and simple. I was not so fortunate to grow up in a city that had a Whole Foods, much less a healthy option in terms of grocery shopping. Can you say Piggly Wiggly?! I’m not hating I’m just saying there really is no competition. I have been a regular here since I visited on opening day, and it was a sight to behold. It is always clean and bright, which are two major factors that I believe improve the shopping experience. The produce has always been appropriately stocked every time I have made visit, which at some other local stores seems to be a hit or miss. I buy mostly organic, but the conventional option is there. Free samples galore! And there is a bar, A BAR, in the store. Yeah that’s how you keep me coming back! I live within walking distance so a fresh juice or coffee is always close by. The thing that impressed me the most about this Whole Foods (not sure if this is a common theme throughout as this is the only one I’ve been to) was the level of knowledge each worker has about their specific field. I talked to the butcher behind the meat counter for about 30 minutes the other day, and I felt confident I had made the right purchase based on his advice and expertise. That’s customer service! I’ll be back, Whole Foods, probably like every day this week.

Writing this review to give a shout-​out to the young black gentleman that helped me pick out some cupcakes around 3−4pm. Thanks for being so helpful, sweet, and funny!

Whole Foods Tallahassee
By ordinary grocery store standards, this is a nice store. Good variety, clean, pleasant staff. By Whole Foods standards, it is not amazing. The prepared foods, particularly, are really disappointing — often flavorless, visually unappealing, frequently tired and dry looking. The juice and coffee counter is staffed by a variety of young people that vary in attitude, ability and knowledge. There is resistance at times ordering something that is not ‘pre-​designed’ and already on the menu. Seriously, ordering a carrot & kale juice can elicit blank stares, or the response of ‘um, I’m not sure how we can do that’. I think the store needs a new manager and a new chef. Just one guy’s opinion.

Whole Foods is a chain — I know. But, like various establishments previously locating themselves in TLH, it serves (to me) as an index of how very little is unavailable within our great city. (Pardon me for sounding like the chamber of commerce, but as my Unilocal tangling shows, I am TLH’s biggest fan).
I don’t know of a better cheesemonger. Sure, you could order from Murray’s if Whole Foods didn’t have a particular cheese — but it’s unlikely that they don’t, and… If they didn’t, you’d be better served just ordering through Whole Foods.
The butcher is about as close as it gets to a standalone butcher. I don’t know whether they’re purveying sides of hog or beef, of if its all coming prepped from the big whole foods source in the region, but regardless, the cuts look healthy and fresh — and corpulent in their own right! I noticed yesterday that our butcher here has added Moroccan lamb skewers to the lineup — they’ve traditionally carried Greek and Turkish skewers. Adding the Moroccan ones just expands an already good thing.
The buffet lineup, while costly, is very good. I do notice a substantial price gap between new leaf and whole foods, albeit with a tremendous gap in choices. Whole foods dwarfs new leaf’s line (understandably) in quantity — but not quality. I put them on the same par.
What I really enjoy about this whole foods (and I suspect it’s part of an overarching corporate culture of rapid community integration/​involvement) is the appreciative nod to the former Miracle 5 Theatre, retaining the signage from when they closed down. That’s very nice.
Whole Foods — spend the same amount here as you would at your own regular grocery store — eat more sensibly — and far better.

You can’t beat there 5 dollar lunch special. Really helps calm my fastfood cravings. Do miss that they no longer grill the burgers on the sidewalk. Great option when im out and about. I work 92 hours a week on call and am gratful to not eat poison when on that side of town!

Yes! Whole Foods! This store is clean, the employees are patient, helpful, and kind.

I love, love, love Whole Foods and was so excited that they had just opened this location before our move to Tallahassee. Amazing produce, smoothie/​coffee bar, salad bar, hot dishes, soup, bakery, sushi, fresh pizza, cheese selection, butcher. You name it! They’re really doing a great job of educating people that might not be familiar with their brand and I think it’s catching on! Who doesn’t love delicious, fresh and local food?
Check it out if you haven’t already, you won’t be disappointed.

This is a nice Whole Foods location. The store is huge and carries every product you could ever need — well, organic, Whole Food-​y products, and the bakery display case makes my mouth water every time. The hot/​cold bar is also impressive. They usually have good weekly deals, too, because every penny counts.

This Whole Foods is pretty nice and is on par with the other Whole Foods I have been to in the past. It is really clean, however and is much cleaner than the other stores I’ve visited.
In terms of organic offerings, this place has it all, pretty much. There’s also a good hot food bar with a TON of soup options as well as an olive bar and an area where you can order burgers and other food like pizza and cakes.
The staff is really friendly here. A lot of them are college kids but they seem happy to be there which is always nice while shopping. I’ve pretty much been greeted by somebody every time I’ve been to this Whole Foods, which is very unusual for most grocery stores.
The coffee shop is pretty good too. They have almond and soy milk options which is great and they also serve Cuban coffee!

Why, oh why must you be so far from me WF?!?
Perfect to hit them up on your way out of town but a bit of a trek otherwise (though could be worse). Good service, good variety of products and deli choices/​salad bar/​prepared foods. Make it a trip and get lunch while you’re there, the sushi is good though Im still on the fence on the quinoa-​for-​rice substitute business.

Bakery staff is amazing. They went above and beyond to help me accommodate my daughter who is has severe allergies. Could not be more impressed.

I love the layout of this store. It has a mom & pops feel to it. it’s Gorgeous!
I love that they serve breakfast here. The coffee bar is ONE my favorite spots in the store. That, the Wholebody Dept and the Specialty Department (wine, cheese & bar).

I love this whole foods. Anytime I have any issues they are very quick to handle them. Once they scheduled an event and it was cancelled, so they compensated us with free smoothies as an apology. The other day when I was checking out my yogurt did not ring up and she just gave it to us for free. We never have any issues here. The employees are super friendly and helpful. It’s a very laid back store.

I like whole foods, especially the buffet area and their drinks. But coming from Miami this whole foods just can’t compare. Still, I am grateful that their is one in this small town.

Your typical Whole Foods experience. Great selection of salads, entrees and fresh appetizers in their food bar area. Always some tasty cookies, snacks, beverages to choose from.
The «go to» place for many of my coworkers for lunch. Pricey, but probably worth it.

Sorry Whole Foods Tallahassee… I am spoiled by fantastic Whole Foods stores in other bigger cities. This place looks messy and dirty each time I have been there. It doesn’t have a welcome feel at all and in fact it is hard to find the front door because most of the frontage is blocked out as a separate café.
The produce does not look fresh; Earth Fare, Fresh Market & New Leaf all have much better looking produce sections. I would guess it’s because we are not a good location for growing year round organic produce except that these other stores keep fresh produce in good shape.
The ready to eat section usually only has one undercooked mixed vegetable option; any other veggies are sparsely buried under noodles and cheese — mostly southern casseroles and too much overcooked dry meat here — again not what Whole Foods is known for everywhere else. Very few raw veggies to choose from on the salad table.
disappointed but will give it time.

I’ll try and keep this short and sweet. As Whole Foods go this location runs about a 3 out of 5 but I admit that I’m a bit spoiled by the flagship stores in Dallas and Austin, and others in Chicago, Atlanta, etc. I’m not sure how exactly this measures up in square footage but it feels like a significantly smaller footprint than many, more on the scale of some of their urban stores that are crammed into busy city neighborhoods, like in New Orleans.
Having said that, it’s instantly the best grocery in Tallahassee and a long anticipated and much welcome addition. The selection and quality of butcher meats is unrivaled locally, the fish and seafood is above other grocers (although still better options exist in Capitol Seafood and Southern Seafood), and of course there’s the extensive hot, cold and room temp bars for which Whole Foods is mostly famous. Plus the cafeteria area for grabbing a meal in-​house, and the sit down coffee and wine/​beer bars strategically situated at opposite ends of the space.
I did notice a handful of items here that are either difficult or impossible to find elsewhere in town (quail eggs, taro root, burdock root, sunchokes) but for the most part you won’t have to make a specialty trip here from across town if you don’t want to; you can find pretty much everything here at Earthfare, New Leaf or Fresh Market, just maybe not all under the same roof. For whatever reason, Whole Foods is just better at what they do than anywhere else is, and they have been for a long time now.
My only gripes are that the cheese and olive bars, and beer selection, are all very pedestrian by Whole Foods standards, if you fancy yourself a connoisseur. Otherwise you’d never know the difference and can find plenty to whet the proverbial whistle. To be honest the cheese case was the feature I was most anticipating, and I think Earthfare currently has them beat, although its a pretty close call. In either case WF’s cheese and olive offerings typically rival some of the best shops I’ve found in Europe, and that certainly isn’t the case here, bummer.
Parking is also completely asinine at the moment, but I’m not sure there’s anything they’re going to be able to do about that going forward. We’ll see. Despite that, this is the new hotness in town and easily a twice-​a-​week pitstop for any novice-​and-​above foodie.