Green Zebra Grocery

Love my neighborhood GZA. Prepared foods are good, adequate beer selection, all the neccessities, good hours, nice people working here, good accommodations for the dogs or bikes, priced ok, content dense, and an overall good feel.

The Green Zebra Grocery store is a great place to dig in. There is a wide selection in their medium amount of space. It is a bit out of the way, but it is somewhat close to light rail. Meat, seafood, snacks, produce, deserts, coffee and so on dominate this place. Prices vary, but they can be good given the right item.
I had heard about this in the local paper. Their kombucha section was great, and there’s some tart cherry flavored kombucha. Also, they have some quality cheddar cheese for two dollars. Seating is to be found outside. One could do their weekly shopping here, though there is limits to what is in here of course.
New locations are a welcome addition.

Popped in for a snack since I was starving! I was excited to find they had so many healthy options! The deli was awesome! Lots of local options for food. The produce looked super fresh! I felt the prices were reasonable. Also very clean and I noticed they had a good beer selection.

I want to like this place, and the concept is cool on paper, but there is nothing convenient about ridiculously overpriced items.

This was s nice find on a suburban road as we were driving through Portland. They offer produce, craft beer, prepared food, as well as many packaged items. We returned on the return route from our trip as well. Decent vegetarian selection as well.

This store is great but the tiny space is a drawback. They clearly have good buyers as they offer things like Tails and Trotters ham in the deli case and other various Portland gems. However the selection, particularly in grocery and produce is extremely limited. Some great things about Green Zebra include a great deli selection, they sell Sunshine milk (surprisingly hard to find), and offer really nice discounts including 10% student discount on Wednesdays and 10% discount when you use EBT, and have a coffee window.

It started two years ago.
I would pop in to Green Zebra for a bunch of kale and bottle of vino — intentionally saving larger shopping for bigger stores in my state of financial responsibility.
The Zebra grew on me; the produce, deli and meat department sparkling with exemplary qualities. In fact, it wasn’t actually as expensive as I had built up in my head — especially for the quality, which I find superior to New Seasons and Whole Foods (read, there is something to be said about making things in small batches).
I recently dabbled in their seafood cakes (meat department), and was very satisfied with the gourmet Thursday crab and shrimp cake dinner I could make at home.
The wine and beer department is banging, with growler refills and kombucha on tap. You can always find something interesting and always find some hazelnut brown nectar.
The bakery heavily represents Posie’s (BTW HAVE YOU TRIED THEIR CARROT CAKE), so local hood is represented — as well as roasted coffee.
Service is stellar! The friendliest most helpful staff! Also, I love their eblasts that just feature a few items (appreciate the simplicity!).
Cheers to Green Zebra!

I love this grocery store. The staff is super friendly and helpful.
I only buy my meat here, as it’s humanly raised with good food, and care. The butchers are all helpful when I asked even the most basic questions.
The bakery sells Posies (and I’m sure other bakery’s) yummy cakes and cookies, supporting other local businesses.
My only complaint is it’s a bit expensive, otherwise it would be 5 stars.

I don’t shop here often or as often as I would like, but one of the things I do like to do is get coffee while out walking my dog. My dog and I walk to Green Zebra order a coffee from the window and if were not in a hurry sit in the sun. Perfect! The staff are always nice, they have cookies for my dog (which makes him happy) and hot or cold the coffee is wonderful and the price fair,

My last review was not exactly doling out huge complements. What can I say? I believe in second chances. The prices are still obscene (coming from someone that loves grocery outlet) but it’s worth it. You know none of it is treated with ammonia, hormones or antibiotics. There’s a plethora of organic, vegan and vegetarian options. They deliver food now, also on the side closest to the parking, they have a walk up window for their coffee. (Try the Mexican mocha) you can count on them to have soy milk, almond milk and skim milk for your coffee or tea. As for the less than exceptional customer service I received last time, things have drastically improved. They seem to have replaced them completely with those that genuinely enjoy their job and thusly appreciate the paying customers that keep them employed. I recommend the Indian style self serve (pay by weight) deli. Or check out the deli for sandwich meats cut as per your request, samosas and tamales. There’s too much there to list it all. And if you’re no health nut, but are looking to dabble, try the health bars, placed right next to the baristas area, or just self serve you a 2lb salad lol. Eat well Unilocalers ;)

Small little grocer off Lombard. It was a bit cramped in there — but I was impressed with their offerings. I didn’t purchase food or groceries — I was in search of a new water bottle.
I bought a couple of greeting cards and a cute, fashionable water bottle.
Great beer and wine selection. High ceilings — some fruit flies or gnats flying about (eek).
Friendly service — prices fair. I’d return for a snack or try a new coffee roaster.

Its fun to try all the new products. But… I wonder why there is such a high turn over rate? Always new employees. Makes me wonder about management. Quality of food in hot food bar is going down. Everyone is always very nice and helpful here.

Convenient, yet smaller and more expensive than New Seasons, it has it’s place in this neighborhood that lacks healthy food market options. I do like that their ready to go section was pretty unique and has more variation than Whole Foods or New Seasons. I especially like that they carry the most amazing Florentine cookies and Sugar Cube bakery treats – definitely try the ultimate brownie with the caramel center. A bit pricey but really satiated my sweet tooth.

It’s trying. I’ll give it that. A spinoff idea from one of the New Seasons’ people. Many items are exorbitantly costly. Random things will be cheap and cans of soup will be out of this world expensive. The produce is about the same as other places. Although it was touted as a «convenience store» at first, it’s not convenient if you dislike waiting in very, long lines with very, slow and unaffected cashiers. The food bar leaves much to be desired. Much. After picking a location like that, you’ve got to anticipate the overflow of consumers who don’t live closer to the New Seasons and don’t want to deal with Freddy’s. They need more cash registers, faster cashiers and less pretension. I think we’re all waiting for them to prove they aren’t a New Seasons clone.

The prices are just staggering and they mostly sell beer. Not a great grocery store as far as food goes.
High quality merchandise, but stil.
Staggeringly expensive. Staggering.

An oasis of fresh produce and great foods! Think New Seasons but bite size – although they still have everything you could ever want!
The people of Green Zebra are all super helpful and friendly, too!
Great selection of organic produce and unique harder to find healthy foods. They have a great selection of kombucha (including Happy Mountain Kombucha!)
Perfect spot to grab lunch or fill up your fridge!

First time at GZ, I quite liked it. Not too busy on a Saturday, not crowded, not rushed. Good selection of high quality goods. Staff were very friendly. Like a smaller version of Zupans.
We both had sandwiches at the deli, and I would say they were disappointing. The bread was not fresh and not good quality. I had to pitch my sandwich due to nuclear levels of horseradish. Hers was «just OK» but she didn’t eat much of it. The pickle was outstanding.

After many visits since my initial review, I feel another star is appropriate. Largely due to the fact that I’m now fairly obsessed with a coffee drink they once had on special, though you can still request it… a hazelnut orange zest latte. They actually take a fresh orange and grate it in the coffee. It’s quite heavenly and has been the primary reason I return. The deli has also really impressed me and I’m pleased to see that the selection varies frequently and always contains several vegetarian options.
I wouldn’t be writing another review if it wasn’t for a couple more points of critique. First off, like others have said, this place has jam packed aisles that are difficult to navigate and largely contain typical junk food products and names like you might just find at a gas station. And it’s way more expensive nonetheless.
My ideal reality would be to get rid of the aisles all together, forget the grocery items and focus on fresh deli, produce, and expand the juice bar. The other thing that sucks, though this place is supposed to be quick and convenient, people always seem to screw up the line and cut right in front of everyone. Let alone the «line» you’re supposed to stand in is blocking an aisle and can be kind of awkward if you’re shopping around there. That’s my two cents!

I really like the concept!
Quality food in an area that doesn’t have a lot of choices. Sure there is are freddies, safeways, new seasons all within easy driving distance. What if you don’t drive. Well there are a bunch of 7 – 11’s and plaid panties. all delivering high quality produce and such. Oh wait, that’s not quite right.
Well now there is Green Zebra, and though pricing can be high, the quality is decent to good. If you shop there judiciously you can get out with money left in your bank account. All the prepared items we’ve tried have been good, mac n cheese, mashed taters, pot pie, some asian inspired stuff, the salads etc. The choice of breads in of good quality and the produce is great and reasonably priced. Will I shop here all the time? Definitely not, but I will stop in regularly especially when I’m not driving or if I’m on the way home and want something quick.

Nice, small, spendy store. I could almost leave it at that. But I will expound and expand. This place is cute and fairly convenient on N Lombard close to kenton and interstate ave. I found the best parking spot in the house on the day before Thanksgiving which tickled me pink! But the lot seems a bit small and poorly laid out, could be trouble there.
The size of the store is a plus and a minus. I love how cute it is, and it has a nice feel — not too built up but clean and attractive. But small small small. Almost everyone you pass requires manuevering around. Waiting in line for the registers is odd, you block the aisle and the line gets really long, although the place didn’t seem terribly crowded. Plus, you are not likely to find everything on your list here.
I swear, this is the nicest grocery staff I’ve ever met. Every corner I turned, someone was saying hi or asking if they could help, offering me samples (yeah!). And it’s not obseqious (sp?) — they seem to foster and promote a friendly and attentive staff — which is awesome!
The products are mostly top line stuff — but it’s really expensive. I had a $ 10 coupon — but I still don’t wanna pay $ 5 for a box of crackers… and won’t. Some of these items can easily be purchased elsewhere cheaper. Some of the items were a good or comparable (martinson’s sparkling cider $ 2.99, can of cranberry sauce .99 (saved my thanksgiving ass).
Just for you guys at Unilocal,I bought some prepred foods to try and review. That and I was starving. I tried mac & cheese and some chicken from the hot bar — it was pretty good… in need of some more spices. But the chicken salad I got was awesome! Give me the recipe! The fresh sausage looks amazing — bought some for my stuffing and a pesto sausage for another day — can’t wait to try it. The nice man at the meat counter offered me suggestions for preperation!
So — I am wholly impressed by the customer service here. This is where these guys shine. I’m not a person who pays extra for the good, organic stuff — maybe if I could afford it… But this place is pretty cool