Gourmet Garage

Cool market, with GREAT selections!

Good selection poor customer service

This used to be an outstanding destination, but it has somehow lost its edge in the sea of new neighborhood grocery options . Nonetheless, it is worth stopping in, albeit pricey, when in need of premium ingredients.

Expensive. Great cheese selection

carefully selected variety of goods, heavy on cheese and upscale condiments, meats, and other "gourmet"selections. You can easily pay more for a small bag of a fancy brand here than I pay for a large unfancy brand bag elsewhere. One problem that I witnessed here, and at 4 other Gourmet Garage locations on multiple occasions is labeling conventional produce as organic. I don't believe it is company policy, but employee carelessness, lack of training or supervision. Last summer I saw a sign on the window advertising "organic blueberries". I walked in to see another "organic blueberries" sign above a rack full of nothing but blatantly conventional (not organic) blueberries (for anyone questioning my expertise, I have been buying organic for a quarter century. The blueberries on the rack were Driscolls with yellow labals which are always conventional. Driscolls also has organic berries all of which have a green label.) I didn't find any organic blueberries in the store. I also saw clearly conventional produce (4 digit plu code. Organic is always a 5 digit code beginning with a "9") with a store sign claiming it was organic on at least 2 other times at this location. At a location downtown, I saw an employee dumping a box of again blatently conventional garlic (no organic certification, USDA organic symbol, no 5 digit plu code starting in a 9, ect.) into a box of garlic with an "organic garlic " sign above it. After he walked away, leaving the sign, I asked him about it and was told that they ran out of organic garlic. At other locations I caw clearly mislabeled conventional leeks, tomatoes another produce. I don't shop where conventional food is mislabeled as organic, whether due to fraud or lack of concern by either employees or management and don't believe you should either.