Festival Foods

Friendliest employees around. Always willing to help, answer a question
also like $ 1 aisle, at least they were wise not to remove it like Cub did.

Love how fresh their produce is! Tomatoes are from a local company and they have be awarded mn grocer of the year several years running! Meat is hands down the best drive over 30 minutes past numerous other grocery stores including one three blocks away for their meat! Prime cuts and excellent quality!

Unfortunately this is the closest grocery store to my house. I now only go to this store if I need something I forgot to get at whatever other store I went to.
The produce is quite poor. I just bought one of the last two portobello mushrooms, both of which were drying out. I have seen whole tubs of rotting moldy strawberries in the organic section.
We purchased a can of pumpkin pie filling that had gone bad in the can. Soda that was flat on the shelf. Moldy yogurt that had not expired yet. Freezer burnt ice cream.
Worst of all it is very over priced for what you get. This location must be an anomaly because I have known other people to compare other Festival locations to Byerlys. The only similarities I see with Byerlys is the price.
The only positives are the location and the deals they have on whole racks of ribs.

I agree with everyone — overpriced poor quality foods and nothing locally sourced or organic — I would rather see a whole foods or trader joes here — they charge nearly whole foods prices with gas station quality food

I debated writing this review, because it is my home grocery store. I go to this place at least twice a week, purely based on the location, which truly unfortunate for those of us living on the east side of 252.
Here are the pros:
–Friendly staff — Karissa is super nice, friendly, helpful, fast
–I won $ 2 on a lotto ticket I bought here once
Here are the cons:
–Produce absolutely sucks. Goes bad quickly (if not already bad while SITTING ON THE SHELF) and it is never, EVER locally sourced. The tomatoes in August are from Mexico. Sinful.
–Meat sucks. Mostly frozen, no prime cuts, NO organic meats,
–Everything is overpriced. There is an Asian Supermarket less than 400yds from Festival that has produce for at least $ 2 – 3 less than their items.
–They recently stopped stocking organic milk. What the hell?
–They have very few gluten-​free frozen items, and no gluten-​free desserts
I feel bad, because I know they probably don’t have a big enough market for organic, high-​end, gluten-​free, nice things, but c’mon! It’s 2014! I’d like to see them get better, because the whole strip mall seems to be improving. I would love to continue to go there, but as I expand my family, it’s getting harder and harder to rationalize patronizing this place when I can’t feed my family healthy options. Or locally sourced options. Please fix it!

I love going to the grocery store. It’s fun, it has food and I love to be surrounded by it. However, I only go here when need be.
Thumbs up:
–Location
–dollar bunkers deals (you can find stuff for $ 1)
Thumbs down:
–quality of food lacks
–not much veggie, vegan, organic options
–over priced most of time for what you get
If no other options will be back.

The price at Festival is definitely higher than places like Cub or Rainbow, but the quality of their produce is not cool man! If they are not in bad shape in the store, they will last only a few days at your fridge at home.
I only stop in there now for their dollar bunkers (secret carts that everything is $ 1) and frozen meats because they do cater to the BP area and you can find nice bones to make stocks. Other than that, it is only last minute shopping and and the flower isle when I piss off my wife.
Final word; go to cub off of 610 a few exits away. Festival if your reading this keep up on your produce, its kinda gross especially when your prices are higher then everyone else that’s doing a better job.

I’m not a big fan of many of the grocery stores in BP, but I like this one. Granted, I don’t buy produce, so I can’t speak to that, but I can always find what I’m looking for, get in and out quickly, and the employees are pretty darn nice.

I pass this place every day on my way to school. It’s convenient but I’m not too happy about the prices. Their produce were not fresh. Next time, I definitely have to think twice before I stop here again…

During the non-farmer’s market season, it is sometimes difficult to come by quality produce… or so Festival Foods would like to make you believe.
I stopped by here the other day on my way home from work, just because it was convenient. I wish I would’ve taken the time to go to one of my usual spots for produce instead. It took me forever to look through the vegetables and fruit to find ones I didn’t think would rot in a day or two. I was so unimpressed with the quality of the produce that I only got a couple items on my long list. After tasting the items I did get, I concluded that I should’ve passed on everything. The grapes were bitter, not sweet and the cucumbers were soft and had a weird after-​taste. I was also not impressed with the prices. Even if the produce was high quality, I’m still not sure it would be worth what they’re charging.