Central Market

Tracey Parish (T) 2 weeks ago

This is such a cool store. They have such a beautiful selection of produce, deli, wines and cheeses. Everything is fresh and delicious. I am ready to go back and do a little more exploring, I dont think I got to see everything. If you live in the area, it's a must for your grocery shopping!

brianna ayala 4 months ago

I had such an amazing experience at the Chef’s Case thanks to Derek. His customer service skills are amazing and he made me feel like top priority. I even mentioned to him that I was vegetarian and he suggested Mushroom Carnitas to me which it looks and tastes like meat but is 100% vegetarian. I was so amazed by this and it’s even changed my life. I never knew something plant-based could be so good.

Yuval Carmel 8 months ago

Last time I visited Central Market, I grabbed a fresh salad and a cup of their coffee — both were excellent. The produce section looked beautiful, everything crisp and colorful, and the staff were super helpful. The coffee had that rich, roasted aroma you usually only get at specialty cafés. It’s one of those places where you can feel the quality in every section.

T T 6 months ago

Very Wow. No telling what you'll see here people in velvet suede slippers, about every ethnicity, many languages spoke. Beautiful well taken care of women shop here. Products and selection were unimaginable for most. This place is nice, nice you'd have to be pretty well off to shop here a lot.

Aaron Abdo 7 months ago

Variety and freshness in produce has been poor this year. Trying to ask most employee’s anything is like pulling teeth. They seem inconvenienced like you offended them, Especially in the meat department. I called to reserve some short ribs. Man on the phone told me that he did not need to take my order because we had more than enough. When I showed up, they said they were all gone and all they had were the Dino ribs. I mentioned that there were not much meat on those ribs and he informed me that the bone is bigger on that end so there’s less meat and that the next day they would be getting short ribs in so I put in an order. I called to see if the order was filled. They said yes come pick it up whenever you’re ready. I went in and the Dino ribs that had been there from the day before is what they cut down a short ribs for me. There was literally about a quarter inch of meat on the bone no way I could use this as a center of a plate, dinner rib. They could’ve called and let me know that they didn’t get the order of short ribs, but instead they tried to pass off this inferior product on me and hope I wouldn’t know the difference.(I left a picture below of what they were trying to sell me as short rib.) out of the 16 that I ordered there was only about four of them that were decent. I talked to the girl in the Meat department. She said they can never really tell what’s coming in so I had her put a new order in for me. When I was telling her about this, the other man behind the counter was scowling at me with that thousand yard stare. Like I offended someone in his family. I went and spoke with a manager about my concern for getting the product that I needed. And that I had done this four days early that way I could really make sure that I had the product. He passed me along to the meat manager. The meat manager came and listened to what I told him and gave me a bunch of excuses of why they couldn’t get good product in and that they didn’t have any control. Then he promised me that the following day he would make this right and that they would make sure that I had my order. The following day I got a phone call telling me that they could not get my order. Luckily, I had already had an intuition that they were going to let me down, ( this was not my first experience with being let down by this meat department ) and I went to a real butcher. “Deep cuts” in Richardson. They were able to get me what I needed within 10 minutes and it wasn’t even butchered it as of yet. I am sad to say that I’ve seen this Central Market go downhill in over the past couple years, in service and quality and variety. Used to be able to buy hangers steak they don’t carry it anymore, I was able to get veal bones there cannot get them anymore. And when you ask for something that they don’t have the people working behind the meat counter are more than happy to tell you that they can’t get it for you. They seriously look like War torn soldiers that have no life in their eyes anymore. It used to be you were going in there and people in grocery would ask you if you need help now they just put their head down and hope you don’t say anything to them. I don’t know if this store went through a new management, but it used to be a really great place to shop and now I fret every time I know I have to go in there. I shopped there because my clients want me to, but even they say they don’t like going to the store anymore. I’m much rather shop at the one on Midway people there are way better. I have seen the big guns( corporate )in here, standing around staring at counters and displays and talking to each other. And they won’t say anything to you either. You can tell the culture here is horrible place to work. Everybody here looks miserable. Nobody wants to go out of their way at all to help the customer. Actually, there’s been one lady that was in the cheese department who helped me. I don’t remember her name. She spoke broken English, but she went and grated some cheese that they were out of for me and did it with a smile.