Aj’s Purveyor of Fine Foods

AJs is a true example of AWESOME! Best place to shop and I am truly addicted to AJ’s ice tea!
I buy all of my seafood here!

Best neighborhood grocery store. AJ’s has a cute patio out front where they grill and serve hot and fresh food for lunch. The bakery and all of their tea’s are delicious! The soup and salad bar is always filled with great options. 5 stars!

I’ve been a customer of Aj’s for over 25 years, and have been coming back to this location every time I’m in the area. Simply put, there is NOTHING like this place. The quality and customer service is PERFECTION.
Amazing deli, bakery and butcher shop and easily the best quality fruits and veggies anywhere.
I’d give them 50 STARS if I could.

I walked was helped Great Service Great FRESH Food Great PEOPLE.

Out of all the AJs locations around Phoenix/​Scottsdale, I think this one is probably my favorite. Their carving/​entrée station is very good and the staff is friendly. I also like the layout of the store. If you get their early on the weekends, check out the hot breakfast items they have.

Excellent place to shop for food! What’s even more impressive is their dinner salad bar and sushi bar!
I got the spicy salmon bowl and boy, it was delicious. The Salmon was prepared right in front of me and the avocado was cut fresh.

I shop at the Lincoln store at least once a week. Great pizza, sushi, and salad bar. The meat is superb, the fish always fresh, and the produce is excellent. The staff couldn’t be friendlier and more efficient. Clearly, a bit pricier than other grocery stores, but AJ’s value and exceptional quality can’t be beat!

Aj’s fine foods maybe, but poor customer service.
I haven’t made salmon in years and asked the clerk behind the fish counter for a little education about the two (not five or 10 which I could understand might confuse somebody) different types of salmon that was available. It was like pulling teeth to get basic information about it.
Well, I finally got the info I needed and he wrapped my salmon up and gave it to me and right when he gave it to me another clerk was helping another lady and he asked her if she would like the skin off the salmon. Good thing I heard it before I left because, yeah I want the skin off my salmon too, would’ve been nice if he would’ve asked me.
O.k. got it taken care of and made my way around the store for a few other items. Found a line that appeared to be short and went up to it and a lady left before I got there. I figured she got out of line to go buy some more stuff and thought to myself, great I’ll be next. Gave him my 5 items and he started taking stuff out of a cart. No greeting of «hello» or «how are you?’ No eye contact… Now wait a minute — there was nobody in front of me, that lady left.
I said «what’s going on I’ve got my items here.» And a nosy customer that had just ended her transaction said «she just popped around the corner for a moment.» As I’m looking into the cart and can clearly see there’s over 20 items in the cart I say to the cashier, «can you please take my five items and get me done quickly?» He didn’t answer me at all and I figured he didn’t hear me. OR he was ignoring me. Ignoring me would’ve been really rude, right?
The clerk is more than halfway done with scanning the items and he’s taking his sweet time because after 3 minutes the woman customer is nowhere in sight. It is unreal to me that not only myself but the 3 customers behind me are waiting for someone who is not even there. I’m not the only one getting irritated, the people behind me are staring him down as well. I finally say to him and his bagger, «couldn’t you have just taken my items and run me up quickly, you did not have to make me wait.»
Mmmmm, nothing. Crickets chirping. I look the bagger in the eyes because the cashier has his head down with a scowl on his face and he is ignoring me, yes, he is, and I say «what’s up?» The bagger says «ROB» she’s talking to you and Rob says nothing… no wait a minute, he’s talking under his breath, «I’m not going to engage in this.» Really. So, at this point I’m thinking the woman must be a regular customer. What an awful way to treat someone new to your store. The cashier exuded such a cavalier attitude.
Not right to make people wait so that a woman can continue to shop and hold up the line. By the time she came back, she knew she had been gone for awhile cause people were staring her down. Poor customer service.

I LOVE AJs. This was my first time at Scottsdale/​PHX based AJs, so I was surprised to find that the layout at this location is exactly the same as the AJs in Tucson. Awesome! We stopped in to pick up a bottle of wine and some flowers. It took no time at all, since the layout was exactly the same. Their flower department was equally stellar, maybe a little better than ours in Tucson, I was especially impressed by the floral arrangements in the mason jars… I can’t believe I didn’t take a picture, they’re adorable! And make for a perfect gift. Given that they come in a pretty jar, I think the price point was pretty fair at 24+ dollars. When in need for a sweet gift, a bottle of wine, or speciality items, AJs has plenty good finds from their floral department to the cards.

Still a solid location for meals from the deli area. There is usually alot of food that I don’t like here, but at about 8pm recently there was a lonely piece of baked chicken waiting for me. It was crispy skin and dry as I prefer. The side dishes on this night were both good as well which were scalloped potatoes and green beans and mushrooms. At 10.99 it might be a tad much, but this is AJ’s and the food is better quality here than most markets. You can also buy the chicken at per piece at $ 8.99 per pound.

After eating at AJ’s several times I thought I had trusted the food. I was up all night getting sick after eating fish from AJ’s. Last time I eat good from AJ’s especially after the pharmacy issue.

Jesse — Best Butcher!

favorite place to go grocery shopping. I also love their sushi bar and coffee bar. The staff is always really nice.

Unbelievable service! I called the catering area this morning and spoke with Chef Marco. My boss is having 20 international guests to her home today, and I needed to order several meat, cheese, fruit and vegetable trays fast. He assured me that they could take care of this for me, and I could pick it up at 4pm. I am totally impressed with their service here. I had called around and been told that for what I needed, it would need 24 hours notice. Thank you Chef Marco and AJ’s for coming through for me. You saved me a lot of sweat and tears today!

Big Fan — that’s why I’m a regular… Happy Hour at the Sushi bar is the best kept secret !!
Miso Happy

This little upscale grocery in a fancy suburban neighborhood turned out to be just the place to pick up a quick ready-​made cold deli meal to heat up in the microsave. They had quite fine lamb shanks, and delicious melon salad — in January!

This is truly a gourmet market. Much more so than Whole Foods or even Trader Joe’s around the corner.
The food is always fresh, the wine selection expansive and the service impeccable.
The only reason I don’t shop here regularly is the prices (Scottsdale you know?)
If you have the money — indulge. If you don’t — it’s worth treating yourself!

Such stellar service every time I go especially from the Butcher and Seafood counter and it’s a locally owned operation!
Sure, its pricier than other supermarkets, but I think everyone knows that going in, after all, «Fine Foods» is in the title and plastered on the building. This same theory can be used for those people complaining of the smaller selection, again, read the title, «purveyor of fine foods», this should tell you that the selection will be limited to the finer food brands and thus your (okay, mine) Brach’s Mellowcreme Pumpkin candy corn will not be available here, but you (okay, I) continue to look anyway. Quality is expensive.
Anyhoo, this is not my regular grocery store, due to the prices, but when I want something a little bit special or more exotic, I come here. From their bakery selection (their cannoli are one of favorites) to their deli counter you’ll find different items than you would at your routine grocery store. While now it seems there is a sushi station in every grocery store — the one at AJ’s is far superior in both taste and selection. They also have a sushi bar where you can sit and enjoy a delectable bite in-​between shopping or just as a meal of the day. I really love their Meat counter because there is always something mouthwatering that is semi-​prepared that I can pick up on my way home from work, throw in the oven, and my husband thinks I made it from scratch — boyah! Why yes, I am an amazing chef. I love that when I get Salmon they ask if I like bones (no, I don’t) and then proceed to cut me a portion that doesn’t have them ALONG WITH asking me if I want them to cut the skin off (yes, yes I do). I always forget about these things when I’m elsewhere because I hate grocery shopping and just want to get out as fast as I can — except when I am here at AJ’s, I don’t mind taking my sweet time.
Aj’s also has a wine section, pharmacy, flower selection (like really pretty selection), produce, already prepared and packaged food, and a great salad bar/​olive bar selection. There is also a fun knickknack section with stuff I totally want to buy, but would never use — like an over-​the-​top tricked out apron or a bedazzaled doodad of some nature which usually change with the Seasons. The parking lot is nice with covered parking, but it does get hectic at times from people cutting through to other stores
Despite me always trying to go out the wrong door, I’ll continue coming back here. Support local!

Sushi Happy hour is the hidden secret. 6 $ 5 piece Salmon (sake) and Tuna, plus others. Make sure you get a drink from store before sitting down. They only serve hot tea but will charge you for whatever you bring.

This AJ’s is a great example of the brand with a great selection, cheap and terrific China Mist iced tea and awesome floral department.