West Side Markets and Garden Of Eden Reviews

Great little grocery store, interesting selection, some excellent prices, stock changes often

Extremely courteous cashiers and generally very fresh fruits and produce. Sometimes there are great sale prices on organic vegetables. A place to go for quality fruit freshness, but pick and choose carefully as some of the prices are quite high.

First time shopping here. Of course went with my children, they loved it! Think this will be our new go to market. As for the prices, I personally haven t found prices that match the product until I came to this store. Your really only paying for quality here haven t seen to many over priced items. Also a blind person could tell exactly what area of store they are in, with every turn delicious fragrant cheese, breads I was so pleased.

Good food and as the name suggests, so many types of vegetables and fruits. Also have vegan cakes!

Very nice place for groceries. They have fresh produce and very helping staff. Columbia students get discount by showing their ID cards.

I prefer Garden of Eden over West Side Market, for it's much better quality and wide variety of choices. Also I like the checkers, they are courteous and very professional.

I love this place even more than my wallet hates it. Expect to pay through the nose for produce and packaged meat. The Garden of Eden's strength comes from their house-made products. The meat and fish counters are of the highest quality. Their prepared buffet and even the sushi is phenomenal. And above all, their crumb cakes (across from the fish counter) are beyond phenomenal. Combine that with the welcoming, helpful staff and the calming classical music they play and you've got a fantastic market.

Vegetables and fruits are not expensive but everything else is

Nice store super warm staff they have every thing you need . Good job

Clean, fresh and great variety of food prepared to take away

Neighborhood market with excellent produce and gourmet foods. Salad bar, hot foods, sandwiches, deli et al. Management always accommodates requests.

Beautiful place with some gourmet items offered, but too many items are very pricey. The wide array of fresh fruits and vegetables are priced fairly. Nice baked goods.

Always a pleasure. Great selection and welcoming staff.

Beautiful supermarket with all kinds of fruit, vege, juice, nuts, salad. Pricing lower than other supermarket around this area. Salad bar: half price after 8pm!

I asked a man working in the vegetable section to please raise his mask while I pass by and he refused. A manager asked him for me so he raised his mask until the manager turned around then he completely took it off. I tried to stay away from him but ran ibto him again as I tried to get thru the aisle and asked again if he would please raise his mask just for me to pass by. He laughed at me and said " shop somewhere else". I left a whole shopping cart of groceries behind and went to a different store. I guess I wont be back to Garden of Eden.

It is best possible gourmet store in upper west side

Really impressive market. We prepared spaghetti and cake slices for dessert. Very good. So many choices of pre made food available for late night snacking.

Expensive but everyone in staff is very polite and I always find what I need.

Loved to shop here BUT NOT online. Their site is disgraceful! I was glad to learned that they have this kind of service. Just shopped here. After entering all my required informations in order to complete the purchase, the site was just keep processing and of course doesn't gives you the status of my order. I refresh the site and do it again but same problem occurred. When I checked my bank account the two re runs I did was both taken out. Hope the management fix their site.

Only place I know on Manhattan that has Turkish Merve Yogurt and labne (like sour cream but not sweet you eat straight) and cheapest place in Manhattan to get Ayran. Only truly sour yogurt I know besides coach farm.

Everything you need minus alcohol. Good enough. Bit expensive, though.

Extensive selection and great staff. Best fish selection in the area.

They have a good selection of quality food overall but it is a bit on the higher priced side. The fruit quality is fantastic though.

Sparkling clean. Good selection. Abundant fresh fruit in bins, outside and in.

Very good there is already an immense variety of products, however there are foods that need salt.

salad bar is great! The manager will follow you like you've stolen something.

Good selection for a small supermarket but badly overpriced

Great selection of cold cuts and seafood. $2 off on sushi after 6:00pm... sushi for dinner it is! ;-)

This store sells rotten fish. Granted great layout, friendly service, and generally good quality stuff but at the end of the day none if this matters if you are going to sell a shoddy product and then refuse to apologize.

Yesterday I bought a whole fish (red snapper) from this store along with a small piece of tuna. The tuna was fresh but when I unwrapped the red snapper I suspected it was not. I cooked it none the less but one bite in I was overcome by a pungent and sour taste. The fish was decidedly rotten.

Now I understand, quality control errors happen but when they do I expect 1. an apology and 2. appropriate compensation. When I explained my story today to both the manager and the fish guy, I was given neither an apology nor a refund. Both rudely questioned my intentions and I walked out of the store without an apology or my 20 dollars back.

Even if this is just a one off mistake, they way the store handled it is indicative of some serious problems. They swindled me with a shoddy product, hopefully you won't make the same mistake. Go to west-side market or literally anywhere else. At those places they don't serve rotten food and the service I presume is at least passable.

P.S: Also, I almost forgot, the funniest thing about this whole debacle is that the fish section still had fish which looked rotten and were at minimum not very fresh (cloudy eyes, limp browning flesh, and funky smell). I mean, come on.

0/10 would not recommend

Great little grocery store for staples, the brand's always change so if you love something write it down. Great staff, so fast and friendly, I almost never go anywhere else

They have this coffee called go Uganda s coffee it s the best coffee. I will buy it again I have never found it anywhere else, and also they have fresh Fruits and groceries at a reasonable price.

Expensive but a great variety of food. Lots of European specialty food and good fresh fruit and veg. Deli counter is great and makes sandwiches (soda included.) Fresh fish also available here.

Excellent customer service, friendly cashiers. Prices a bit high for groceries.

The selection of products of this market is very good. It's the only place around this area where I found Auricchio provolone cheese.

It seemed like a good place, but since they sell the damaged or expired meat or chicken, it does not inspire confidence.

ZERO STARS. The Asian cashier who served me this morning was very rude and nasty simply because I asked for a plastic bag. I had been coming in five days a week for months, but they'll never get another penny from me.

Overrated. Overpriced, even for NYC. Horrible staff too. You don't matter. Just suffer through the TINY aisles and try to find anything. Good luck with that.

This has been my primary grocery store for years, but I can no longer justify the expense. $7 for a bottle of corn oil? There appear to be fewer and fewer customers in there every year, and the owners seem to compensate by continually jacking up prices. They might try improving their products selection instead. I understand that it's a small store, but they make some pretty strange stocking choices. The wall of functionally identical olive oils, for example, seems an extravagance.

As many other reviewers have noted, it's badly overpriced. Some of the prepared food is OK, some is flat disgusting (I've had to throw out stuff from the salad bar that I'd just bought). Nice concept, mediocre execution. Some ok employees, but some are surprisingly rude.

The service at this store gets worse by the day. The folks behind the fish, cheese and pastry counter basically ignore customers until you demand service. The cashiers, though, are very nice, so go figure why they have such apathetic employees manning the food area. I have walked out a few times tired of waiting for someone to take care of me. I just walked out again tonight and headed for West Side Market on 110th Street where the service is much better and friendlier--including the cashiers.

Large store with a huge selection of gourmet items! Meat and vegetables are really fresh and huge variety.

Cheap for produce, friendly staff and they have a 10 discount for college students

Love this grocery story. It is such a inviting place to shop. Often it is cheaper that Gristidies and has much better selection. Everyone is really friendly too!

I find the items that I'm interested in such as bananas, carrots but no more yummy reiner cherries nor did I see donut peaches which were delicious. They're a little pricey but worth it.

This has been my supplemental Go-To Artisinal Market for Decades! The selection of fresh produce out of this world--not to mention the vast array of bakery delicacies along with the staple grocery list essentials with a gourmet-flair infusion! So, if you find that you have not had a chance to stop into your nearby market, but find yourself in Garden Of Eden Marketplace--all of your shopping needs and THEN SOME will definitely be met!

Half expensive and the people who attend are not that cool!

I love going there, it's a wonderful experience and everyone's so helpful

Not sure about the rest of the store but they have amazing scones for only 2 dollars and a breakfest deal that comes with coffe for 2:50 the staff is incredibly nice as well i cannot recomend this place enough it saved my mornings

One of my favorite markets in NY. Produce quality is tops. Great variety. Always fresh & available.

Compact Manhattan grocery. Store is clean and well organized with s nice fruit and vegetable section which has suprisingly good prices for Manhattan

Love salad bar. I would personally like to see more chicken wings

The sales person in the meat zone refuses to take orders of small quantities, disappointed.

Cozy shopping experience with a friendly and helpful staff..

Cute grocery store, but it's simply too expensive! Vegetable section small, cheeses unremarkable, and yet: virtually anything you buy here, you can buy less expensively elsewhere.

Very expensive for the portion they give you at the deli. Everything else is expensive just the same. Go somewhere else.

Grossly over priced ... they charge 13.99 for garbage bags 17.99 for raos tomato sauce that wholefoods has 7.99! Most veggies are not organic but priced as if . Your better off to eat out and get served . I also Twice I bought meat for diner that was rotten on the opposite side. I threw it out and the y would not give me my money back unless I brought it in. So I was to bring it to work with me all day and then bring the rotten meat in to their store. Argh ...It s a money pit

My husband and I have been coming to this supermarket on a weekly basis for 3 years now. The produce quality is good. The food is pricier than other supermarkets in the area, but we live a block away so it is worth the convenience. You can also get 10% off if you have a student ID or a garden of Eden card.

Despite its convenient location and good produce quality, the staff's unprofessionalism and attitude makes shopping at this supermarket an unpleasant experience. Some of the cashier staff are very rude- they don't greet you or smile or say anything at all other than the total price. I have also seen the cashier staff giggling behind the counters and too busy with their own phones or conversation to call the next customer and keep the line moving. A few weeks ago I even saw a cashier crouched down hiding while watching a movie on a tablet. This is very inconvenient after a long day when I just want to pay for my groceries and go home. Despite being annoyed by the cashiers' behaviors, I continued to come to this supermarket because what the heck! What's life without a good laugh? The cashier girls are young, hopefully they'll learn to be professional some day.

My experience today, however, was the straw that broke the camel's back. My friends and I are planning a surprise birthday picnic for our mutual friend and I was responsible for purchasing the cake. I took a picture of the cakes to send to the girls so that we could decide together, and right away a staff member who I believe must be the manager, told me not to take any pictures. I explained my intentions to him, and he repeated himself, this time with an attitude. I said I was there to buy a cake, not steal his ideas. And he told me it was "just business." I have no interest in the baking industry, nor in coming back to this place. Unfortunately I was too tired from my long day to go to west side market, so I bought the cake anyway, however, I will not be returning. I'll stick to fresh direct and west side market, which have better prices, friendlier staff, and equally good food quality.

It s heartbreaking to see what has happened to this store as of late. I have been a loyal customer for three years. During the past several visits, I have been belittled and derided by the male bakery clerk on Sundays for no apparent reason. For nearly three years, the bakery staff were friendly, jovial and caring towards me and the other customers. I don t think I can bring myself to shop at this store any longer... it s just too painful of an experience.

Lots of diverse products and fresh food. Great selection of cured fish.

Fantastic produce and nice selection of specialty foods.

Visited the Upper Westside location and was disappointed with the lack of maintainance. The location on East 14th st is the prefered location.

The food in poor condition ... Especially that fishy funky with vegetables .... Q disappointment ... Very bad

The staff is incredibly warm and friendly, they're always willing to go the extra mile to find something you need. It feels more spacious than many NYC markets, and that extra room to navigate the aisles is really useful. Their deli bar is wonderful if you need a quick side in a hurry, and their student and senior discounts are very generous.

This is a great supermarket, stocked with organic and fresh products. Very large, fully stocked, offers online shopping, and very helpful staff. Whether you are looking for all organic meat to salad dressings, this place carries it.

I ordered groceries including a sirloin steak. The steak was not fit for human consumption. It was NOT a sirloin but some other type of meat. This store has really gone down hill but I suspect they ripped me off advertising this during a crisis. Stay away from these guys.