Review Whole Foods Market

Edward Bourgeois

Always the best experience! Store was clean. Everyone was kind and considerate. Covered parking is nice. The store was busy when I was there, but I was out the door pretty quickly with self check-out registers open!

D Luc

The great thing about Whole Foods Market is that you can find a lot of great items you can't find anywhere else in the area. Good selection of food at the lunch buffet. I was a little disappointed this particular day with the selection of cakes and cookies. They did not have a lot to offer and it seemed like they weren't replacing anything. Other than that ample parking behind the building. A little pricey, but you get what you pay for.

Laura Young

Very convenient to my brother's house in uptown. I drive a compact car and it was still difficult to find a parking spot. Better to walk then try to park. The Amazon return kiosk is very convenient. They also accept larger packages at the customer service desk.

Zachary Russell, Keller Williams Realty

We enjoy the high quality food here :) There’s parking in the back, and if it’s too busy we can park on the side street. It’s usually a pretty speedy checkout process. Many of the employees are very friendly. If you’re looking for good meat, produce, etc, this is the place. For boxed/canned goods, go for the 365 brand for the best price.

Ty Provosty

Shooting at the magazine Street Whole Foods Market was a delight today. A staff member at the roasted chicken deli could not have been more pleasant. We enjoyed a nice exchange while he out together my order of a roasted chicken and coleslaw.

Dave Butler

The food is just plain better. The fact that it is in a reclaimed bus depot makes it all the more fun. The parking area is the must unique I have ever experienced, having once been home to New Orleans busses.

Bowen Cao

Really nice even compare to other whole food I’ve been to. There’s a covered up parking in the back. The only thing is I didn’t find the parking at the first visit. So probably a bigger sign and direction needed for that. That would great!!!

Lauren Williams

Everyone who workers there is super friendly and helpful! They have really good pre-made food. It's always clean. The bakery has made things based on requests before.

Vince E. Collins

The pizza was...tasty. And the blackberry Seltzer ... Was cold!

Leon Demond

The have smoke house options. The prepared food selections were smaller than the average wfm. Parking in back is limited but enough.

Shirley Fremin

Amazon return not easy. Do not know why Amazon on provided Whole Foods as the only option for free return rather than UPS as with other returns.

Will Tucker-Ray

Good grocery store uptown on Magazine, has good produce and a variety of fruits (finally pre-cut papaya!), usually has good bread from the bakery (though they do run out of sourdough and baguettes), and everything else from Whole foods.

Greg Johnson

Pretty good for New Orleans. The store has decent size and srlection. They have the hemp bioK that I luke and a decent selection of kombucha. The breakfast bar was also pretty good

RealDealFoodCritic

Very inconsistent and not a great option in this city. There are too many other options out there. Great as a grocery store chain but slightly below par to dine.

David's

Made to order foods are acceptable. Cold and hot food bars are terrible. I live a block away and would love to eat breakfast or grab a quick salad. The quality inconsistencies and tendency to be old and disgusting foods prevents me from doing so.

NFTM

Needs better baristas. Seems to have a broad array of under-qualified and untrained baristas turning would be good beans into mediocre coffee. The coffee station also needs to be remodeled to include it's own cash register; you have to stand in the grocery line to pay for a cup. Skip the coffee here and walk across to Velvet until things improve.

Nancy Rosow

I must be missing something. I shop here regularly for vegetables and meat. Cheese and olive bar are delightful. Prepped food bland, tasteless, greasy. Things that are supposed to be crispy are listless. The Metairie Whole Foods is ten times better. Why can't Uptown get it right?

Propa Fly

I love the salad bar. All the basics and usually a couple flavored tofus...my favorites are the basil tofu and curried tofu. A dinner size salad for me is $3.25-4.50. Add a pretzel roll or chocolate croissant and I have my favorite dinner. The parking is retarded so go off hours if you can.

Marcaroni

Good for a few things.. "Whole Paycheck" -- I am not the first to say that -- if you have no children or a student loan you don't expect to pay back, you can afford to shop here (plenty of cute Tulane coeds here). I go for a few things -- the olive bar and the cheese counter -- sometimes for fish, as they have a pretty good fresh selection. And I like the house brand flatbreads -- the plain ones have a flat taste and are perfect for good cheese. Parking can often be a pain -- and will get worse when the new Walgreens opens 1/2 block down -- boycot it -- I swear never to step into that place. For the most part, all the prepared foods are bland and close to tasteless. If you are already there and need a snack, the pizza can be pretty good (as with all places that serve slices, ask which is the freshest out of the oven -- I am not the first to say that either. For a while I loved the salad bar, but then I thought about the price and quit it. The bulk grains and candies section are a good example of the lunacy of the tree-hugging locavores -- if you think lack of packaging should mean lower costs, think again. LIke eating local produce from a farmers market -- mucho caro.

NOLA Dee

While I do like the food bar concept I did not like their pizza, I had a slice of pepperoni fresh and hot out of the oven, something about the crust was off and I don't like the pepperoni they use. Overall I like Whole Foods and majority of the employees there are friendly and eager to help.

Dragon Tamer Ray

Seriously. My sexy wife likes their sushi and the salad bar. it's also cool that they let you ride your bike in the store.

Prop Joe Esq.

Love the salad bar and pizza. I agree that the hot food part of the Whole Foods deli is understaffed. The pizza can be really good. My advice - if you do want to get pizza, get a slice or two of whatever looks freshest and hottest out of the oven, even if think you might not like it that much. A slice of really hot tomato and bell pepper pizza will trust better than a not-as-hot cheese or pepperoni. The salad bar is the best in town. Also they make pretty good sandwiches. The California Club is solid.

Nierue

Best pizza in town

NinaMcDaniel

Variety of cheap eats, huge patio. Salad bar, hot preprepared food, beer (one of the lovely things about nola is that you can drink in front of your grocery store) all make for a nice little picnic.

Urbanspoon Gimp

Hate it with a passion. Outsources most of stuff. Money goes elsewhere. The few local things you can get are at least twice as much as they are at local groceries. Pizza can be good, but can be terrible depending on who's making it.

Ray Cannata

Only chain store I will eat at. Most of you are probably familiar with the Whole Foods brand. Unlike most chains they care about health, taste and buying locally. Did you know that the chain got its name from New Orleans? It started in Austin with a different name and one of its first attempts at branching out was to buy a small independent grocery in the Esplanade Ridge section of New Orleans name.... Whole Foods. Once they bought that place they changed the name of the whole chain. That Whole Food outlet in Esplanade is gone, but this one came to the heart of Uptown a couple years before Katrina. A typically over-uptight neighborhood association initially opposed them coming, but now all agree its a major asset to the hood. They converted a rusting 1880s former bus depot to a wonderful space. Retained most of the historic brick shell and photos. One of the great walking spots in Uptown (and in the country), right on Magazine in the midst of zillions of boutiques, eateries, coffee shops, bakeries. The salad bar is amazing. My favorite of all time. Bakery also good. The refrigerated section ditto. Sushi is good for supermarket. The one area that is poorly run is the pizza and hot food part. Extremely understaffed, inefficient and slow. Its been that way consistently for years. YET the pizza is very good. Comparable to Nino's in Carrollton and Slice next door. Also -- everything except the BBQ by the butcher -- is expensive. I've been here dozens of time, and have had everything.

Review Whole Foods Market - New Orleans