Cub Foods

This location is convenient to work, so I stop in before getting into the office.
I purchase the same things here each time, as Cub is NOT my preferred place to get food. Their prices on organic are outrageous, so I get this elsewhere.

This cub foods is in St Louis park near the Homewood Suites and Doubletree hotels. It has a liquor store attached — cub liquor.
They sell locals here and have a pick 6 rack area. You can also buy 4 packs of surly here — even the seasonals!
I was just impressed to get my husband craft beer by the bottle. Four Firkins closed so I had to find somewhere else.
The grocery part is clean and amazing too.

One star for losing my cake order. I showed them the confirmation email with order number and they sort of shrugged their shoulders. BC I am really lucky, they had the cake we had ordered in the display case bc have you ever served a chocolate cake with generic flowers to a girl expecting a marble cake and a specific design? Thankfully I have not, but it isn’t a risk I’d take again with Cub.
Also, why did they have to get rid of all of Rainbow’s best things? How did this location turn so quickly from the best Rainbow ever to a substandard Cub? (Yes I’ve been to other Cubs, and other Cub-​bows including Uptown) This Cub sucks. I’ll probably go back to other Cubs, but never this one.

Some wonder why I’d bother reviewing this normal olé grocery store. Well, they have a salad bar. And if you know anything about me, I love a salad bar (and I’ll murder kittens for pancakes, but, no pancakes in this review).
Truth be told, it’s not as good as it was when it was a Rainbow, but, all good things must come to an end I suppose.
5 types of lettuce — iceberg, spring mix, spinach, kale and romaine — and all pretty fresh when I got there at 11am today.
They have the normal salad fixings, eggs, olives, carrots, peppers, broccoli, cauliflower, and cheese. Also included are some deli meats, turkey, chicken and ham.
Some random lovely items, crumbled blue cheese. F’ing love some blue cheese crumbles on a salad. Dried cranberries and berries in general. Again, this is one of those strange things where even with all the veggies, some tartness from berries works well to me and I appreciate some berry action in my salad. Lastly, some guac… which doesn’t cost extra haha ;)
I don’t care for the lack of dressings. They’ve got the basics, and a vinaigrette or two, and that’s about it. Nothing too fancy or special, although the balsamic works enough. I really miss the seafood options they used to have as a Rainbow.
So, if you’re in the area, hard pressed for time and don’t care to spend $ 12-​$ 15 on a salad at some sit down place in the West End shopping mess, you can pop into Cub, load up a plastic bin and mow through your own custom made roughage.
I’ll try and get some pics next time I’m not hard pressed for time to show off some of the freshness.

I’ve been to this Cub (even when it was Rainbow) and love the store! Love the bakery and meat department! Glad they kept the store the same and love the new CUB signs and colors!

I went to rainbow and ended up at Cub. I was a sad panda.
This used to be the best rainbow in the state of MN. Now it is an okay Cub.
At least they kept the design of the building, and just changed the signs. It is still somewhat clean, but the bathrooms already resemble other dirty cub foods. Its no rainbow. The produce is not what it used to be, the bakery is smaller and selection is questionable.
The meat/​fish still looked good and most aisles were organized. Lets see what will happen.

The store is nice cause it used to be a rainbow but the product sucks. There produce is horrible, was looking for some ripe avocados and tomatoes couldn’t find any thing. The produce manager offered to look in back as I commented on how bad the tomatoes are he agreed and admitted most the produce was sub par. Also what’s up with the not bagging your groceries, at these prices they should carry them out for you. I get away spending much less for the same things at Byerlys. I’ll never go back I now remember why Cub sucks.

I call this Cub location Cub-​bow, because it used to be a Rainbow before Roundy’s got out of the MN grocery biz. It was one of the best Rainbow locations around anywhere. Now that Cub has taken over it is Cub’s store to screw up. Hopefully that won’t happen, but I have my eye on you new store management — don’t mess up a good thing.
So far the produce section is still looking good but the bakery is pretty much lost to me. Cub baked goods all tend to be way too sweet. I don’t want my wheat hamburger bun to be sweet. I don’t want a loaf of french bread to be sweet. But that is how Cub makes their baked goods. Rainbow had a really good wheat bun recipe. Cub does not. I don’t eat at McD’s or Subway because their bread/​buns are too sweet, so I won’t be buying anything from Cub’s bakery for the same reason.
I don’t buy meat/​poultry from Cub or Rainbow so I can’t make any observations there. I did grab some cat food today and the dude’s favorite brand/​flavors were on sale so that was a score.
So far so good Cub-​bow, but I am watching (and get a better bread recipe).