Garrett Popcorn Shops

Now I know where to get Garrett’s outside of Chicago! And trust me, you have not lived a full life until you’ve had Garrett’s Chicago mix.

Chicago Mix is the best. Although I have to get just a little extra cheese flavor popcorn to balance out the sweet caramel flavor. This popcorn mix us truly addictiveit

Best popcorn I’ve ever had! Get the Garrett mix. It’s their cheddar popcorn and caramel corn mixed together. They pop it in their kitchen in the back so it was still warm when we got it and it just melts in your mouth. A small bag is a little under $ 5 but the portion is huge! My friend and I could barely finish a third of the bag.

I have been eating Garrett’s since I was a kid (I am from Illinois). I always get the Garrett Mix (cheese and caramel). I don’t know who would order anything else. Since moving to Atlanta, I would pick up a bag or to in the O’Hare Airport to and from home. I was so very excited once a store opened here in Altanta. Now I can get Garrett’s whenever I want. Which is a good thing and a bad thing. Luckily, it’s location in Lenox Square limits my visits. That place is so crazy that I usually try to avoid it. I have been in quite the line at night or on the weekend. But during the lunch break during the week is a great time to grad a bag. They offer a military discount which is wonderful. The popcorn is great. However, it seems (1) it is slightly better in Chicago and (2) they don’t fill the bag as much here as in Chicago. The latter may be a practice issue. Feel free to ask for a sample if you are on the fence. Frequently, they will already have a few sample trays on the counter.
Take home: Best popcorn in Atlanta.

Huuuuge fan of Garretts! So much that I used to order the tin buckets full from Chicago on a regular. So of course I was excited to see a store open here in Atl! But whyyyyy is the cheese popcorn always stale?! Chicago mix (Garrett’s mix) was always my go to and I keep going back to Lenox hoping that the next time will be different… To no avail.
ALWAYS TASTE BEFORE PURCHASING!
The caramel ones are usually always ok. That cheesy one, however, is almost always stale.

Being from Chicago, Garrett Popcorn is a Chicago favorite of most native Chicagoans. I’ve been to this location a few times and the customer service is great from what I’ve experienced.
The popcorn is delicious, I recommend the Garrett mix (also known as the Chicago Mix). They allow you to taste other flavored as well but I highly recommend you start off trying the Garrett mix.
I recommend you trying Garrett’s if you’ve never tried them before, their Gourmet popcorn is delicious!

Im from Chi-​town born and raised… enjoyed garretts all my life. until now… maaaaaannnn take that stale ass popcorn outta lenox… carmel was cool but the cheese tasted like it was from 1998…

I went to Garret’s popcorn back in July at Lenox mall I’m from Chicago so once I found out steve Harvey had opened up a Garret’s in Atlanta I just had to come and get some Chicago mix popcorn

A few weeks ago while at @lenoxsquaremall in #Buckhead I went to @garrettpopcorn and bought the Garrett mix… cheese and caramel popcorn. The store in Atlanta is the only franchise store of the family owned business. #STEVEHARVEY owns this one. The popcorn is decent but I was more impressed with the presentation. They place a bag of popcorn into a decorated paper bag and then into a decorated carry bag. Glad I tried it.

While I am intolerant to corn I’m willing to risk it for Garett’s!!! It is melt in your mouth popcorn!!! Amazing!!!

I could not have been MORE excited to have a Garrett Popcorn Shop in Atlanta.
The people who work here could NOT have cared less.
Put a damper on my excitement until I tasted the goodness.
SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO GOOD.

Nothing beats fresh carrots from Chicago in the loop. However while driving to Atlanta, I just had to stop for my jumbled back in Chicago mix. read some reviews here, I’m sure most of you have no clue what it original popcorn taste like. Whatever in Chicago headed downtown to the loop get yourself a fresh bag. I take this back to Florida divided into freezer bags and it will stay fresh in the freezer for months

Visited here today on an unexpected trip to Lenox Mall with relatives and as we left CPK, my cousin rushed over to this place saying all of her Chicago friends raved about it. I’ve heard of the «Chicago style popcorn» craze years ago but I never really understood it. I taste tested two flavors: chocolate caramel and butter. The butter popcorn was greasy and tasted like butter but the flavor was off target. I guess I was thinking it would be like a gourmet movie theatre flavor. It also is very much missing the ‘salt’ factor. The chocolate covered popped kernels are a thumbs down, but the caramel flavor gave a melty-​rich experience on the tongue. I’m not from Chicago, so maybe I just don’t have a palate for the whole popcorn thing. I’ll post photos later.

Pitifully sad. Even on busy mall days when the food court is crowded, this place is empty, and understandably so. They had some samples out. Tasted NOTHING like the goodness served at Garett’s in Chicago! Stale, cold, hard. I asked the lady at the counter what time is the popcorn freshly popped so I can return. She said, this is how it always is. We don’t make it at certain hours, only when we need to. A little while later, their side door opened as an employee came out. There were bags and bags and bags of popcorn. Supersize bags. No wonder the popcorn is stale! They have a warehouse full of already-​popped popcorn! The lady said they only make popcorn fresh when they ‘need to’. They will not need to because there’s no demand for old, stale popcorn. Pathetic! See photo below to see how deserted the place was when all other mall eateries were packed!

So this weekend I visited Garrett popcorn, so many people rave about their popcorn especially the Chicago mix, I felt that I needed to give it a try. Here is my review of the good and bad.
The good: The line was not as long as I heard. Also, the two people on the register, I wish I had their names but one was a male with long dreadlocks, they were both so nice.
The bad (the so/​so): I wouldn’t necessarily say it was bad, but I the popcorn did not live up to the hype. I love the mixture of cheese popcorn and caramel popcorn. My aunt bought me some from Illinois that was not Garrett’s and I loved it, and since this is THE FAMOUS Garrett’s I was expecting it to be ten times better, and it was just okay. I felt that the cheese popcorn was greasy, it was greasy in the bag, it was greasy on my hands, and it made the popcorn taste a little soggy. The caramel was just okay too. Oh and for $ 13 for a jumbo size bag to share with my family I really felt let down.
Overall: Garrett’s was just okay to me. I am glad I had the experience because my son did love the popcorn, but for me it was just okay. Try it for yourself you may actually love it. I just didn’t.

Unfortunately I have to agree with the other posters who commented that the popcorn was not fresh. Only wish I had test tasted it before buying today. Was there on my second visit since opening this afternoon, 01÷07÷14, and purchased a small cheese, small cashew carmel & small pecan carmel. After getting to the car and breaking out the cheese IT WASN’T FRESH!!! not even luke warm AND full of seeds!!! AND the kernels were puny! Almost broke my tooth on this stuff! SEEDS! Very Disappointing.
On my first visit, when the place first opened it was Awesome! How can this happen? How can a place go down so quickly???
I am a HUGE Garrett’s Popcorn Fan. HUGE! So much so that I have ordered online many times. I travel a lot fly through Chicago just to pick some up at O’hare during layovers! In Chicago the kernels are always big, warm, fluffy, cheesy n delicious! Always. Even online — all except the warm part.
I very seldom write reviews but just HAD to in light of today’s experience. Note to GARRETS CORPORATE: pleeeze don’t let these jokers down here in Atlanta screw up your good name! Don’t get me wrong I’m not down on Atlanta, been here 20plus years from Cleveland and love the ATL!
Regarding customer service: sorta lackadaisical, I kinda of got the feeling that the staff/​line workers didn’t have much pride in the product. But — Worst of all — your product was BAD!!! This would not have happened in Chicago. This store won’t last if ya’ll let it slide.
I’m gonna have to go back to Ms D’s at the Sweet Auburn Curb Market! This isn’t a plug for Ms D’s just a review from a tried and true popcorn fan.
Get it together Garrett’s Atlanta or get out of town!!!

Went back yesterday & I’m still loving it!!! Steve Harvey thank you soooo much for bringing the Garretts Franchise to Georgia! It’s an addiction! Lol!

Had to wait 20 minutes in line today… little odd that they stopped sales completely and made the whole line wait 5 minutes until they restocked on the caramel popcorn when some people were not buying the caramel to begin with…
Besides the long wait, the popcorn was delicious. We overindulged and killed the whole bag in one sitting. I would advise a small bag to limit yourself and just so that you know, popcorn is super buttery and rich.

Came here on the 23^rd to grab some popcorn for my family. I got here half an hour after the mall opened and there was already a huge line. As I walked up it wasn’t moving because neither of the two people on the floor could use the register. And that was just the beginning.
I cannot get over how ill prepared this place that opened since Thanksgiving is. I’ve been waiting almost an hour now and I’ll be standing here at least fifteen more minutes.
They’re going through caramel corn faster than they are even making it. Why someone is not back there solely making caramel corn is beyond me. So now we are all just standing here and three employees are doing jack shit. I haven’t heard a single sorry for the wait to any person. They really only told the guy currently ordering that they are out of caramel corn. Someone came up to the register to buy a gift certificate. They were out.
When finally caramel corn was back in stock, the guy they told they were out modified his order by at least $ 12 because he was done with them. That’s pretty bad.
My jumbo bag was underfilled, which was pretty irritating after an hour of waiting. Nobody ever apologized for my wait. I’ve worked in customer service and I’ve had my fair share of shitty days of running out of shit (try working at Starbuck when the brewer breaks… yeah), and I cannot believe the absolute disregard for the customer. When they were out of caramel popcorn, people just stood there. Didn’t even ask if anyone wanted to order anything that didn’t involve caramel just to at least get some people out of there. The line was wrapping around the entire floor.
Knowing Garrett in Chicago I don’t get what the hell is going on here. But it’s pathetic and a sad representation of this company. I let them know via Twitter but if I never hear anything back in the next few days an email is going out too.

BEST. POPCORN. EVER.
Zomg…best popcorn ever. Firm but fluffy. Perfect balances of salt and sweet. Garrett Chicago Mix and Cashew Caramel Corn are my favorites. Cashew corn has some of the highest quality cashews I have ever had in my life.
Worth the price tag. Makes a great gift.
Made a special trip to this mall just for Garrett’s during my business trip.
Is it better than the original store? I’m not sure, but anyway I can get Garretts is a good way to get Garretts to me.
BEST. POPCORN. EVER.
*gets really fat…*