The Grocery

There are some places that just give you instant happiness and The Grocery is one of them. Smaller than Whole Foods, but offering a surprising big selection of organic goodies from healthy snacks, to beautiful veggies, tasty cheeses, and amazing tea brands this shop is the perfect spot for health conscious freaks (fYI note that not all the products are organic or healthy). The staff is lovely and kindly offered the option to order specific products if needed). Oh yeah and there is a cat hanging around.

If you’re looking for any type of health food, they have a brilliant selection. However the prices are ridiculous! So expensive, even for branded goods which you know you can get cheaper elsewhere. Staff are very snooty and rude. They would not accept a scottish bank note and were very rude about it. Won’t be back.

Great selection of products but big minus for the heavy plastic bags! Go green = go paper!

The Grocery is like the Shoreditch baby sister of Whole Foods. I really did try to resist this place. But given repeated exposure (I get massages downstairs at My Treatment Rooms) — it was just too hot to handle. I admit it, I like this place. A lot.
It’s just so damn appealing. And expensive. And… LOOK at this selection of tea. All the tea! And organic things. Many organic things. Homemade things! The soups in particular have very limited ingredients (read — no crap) and are really great. Try the butternut squash/​almond and split pea/​ham.
I’ll be honest — I can only take the bright lights of Tesco/​Food Co-​OP/​Sainsburys for about 30 seconds before I want to expire along with all the fruit and veg that are hanging on to their last dying breath before some sucker takes them home. I might as well be on «Supermarket Sweep» — sometimes I’m in and out so fast I barely know what I got. I just loathe the experience so much I want to be just as short as possible.
This is the only grocery shop in London that I actually ENJOY. It’s a nice, manageable size. The aisles are wide enough for 2 people to be in them at once. I enjoy looking at different products.
The Grocery may be expensive, but as Steve B says — «it sells nice things.» And sometimes you’ve just had enough shrink wrap/​pre-​fab food from all those other crap supermarkets and you want some nice things and its worth the investment. Nice wholesome, diverse food. It’s novel and it’s nice. There, I said it! I tried to resist but sometimes (usually?) the hipsters are spot on when it comes to topics such as these. The Grocery is a winner.
*takes cards.
*there’s a little takeaway coffee place right near the registers.
*cash machines outside.
Parent Fact:
*this is one of the only places I’ve found that carries Nanny Care Goat’s Milk Infant formula. Totally random, but I was quite happy to find this out! (I usually order from Amazon, but nice to know there is a local place to pick it up). Otherwise their baby food stuff is crazily overpriced, for the record!

I do love The Grocery — it provides me with most of my office snacks, as well as my growing herbal tea collection. If you’re looking for anything organic or health food related, the chances are they stock it. They sell lots of fresh fruit and veg, including an impressive variety of squashes. When I’m there, I usually stock up on seeds, nuts, kale chips, and other things that will stop me snacking on potato crisps and chocolate in the office. They also offer a variety of lunch items like quinoa salad and vegetable frittata, and a few good wines and craft beers.
It loses one star as it’s just a little bit overpriced, especially the bread and some of the veg.

A great convenience store for the healthy conscious types, the prosecco wines, cheese, deli foods and bakery are a welcomed find when seeking out quality produce.

Good selections, good range well recommended.

Friendly service and good products

There you can find a good variety of products. The last time I needed some specific ingredients for the dish I saw on one TV show. I think they are not very welcoming sometimes, but still the service is good. The prices are reasonable too, but keep in mind that if you are searching for something unusual and not so common you will pay more for it.

Often shopping there. Really great and fresh food. Recommended!

Shopped here more when I lived on The Boundary but still pop in now and then. Great prices and a nice selection. people are very friendly who work there. One drawback is that the place is kind of hidden and after being away from area for a few years I walked by and thought they’d gone under because of the dark lightingeither that or I over shot the short cut off of Hackney Road.

overpriced organic food store that sells a few American products.
the wide range of healthy-​esque products (not only food y’all) make you feel like you’ve entered a forest.
their hummus and babaganosh/​mediterranean are fairly good, and so is their falafels.
but coming from New York, seeing these price tags just made me step back and wish that I were back in good ol America

Not somewhere I regularly shop but handy to have on our doorstep. It is pricey but then again it sells nice things. It has that classic Shoreditch vibe bare brickwork and a cool clientele. Veg can be a bit iffy but lots of interesting things for the store cupboard. Good café and they do massage downstairs. I must admit I use the free cashpoint on their outside wall more often than I venture in. However if I just have to have an organic miso stock cube then this is the place I go.

Great selection of lovely quality food and a brilliant selection of wheat-​free foods.
I find it expensive but I’d rather support this shop than one of the supermarkets.

Overall it’s a great place and is open later than post other shops like it. I often pop over for lunch — there are options off the shelf or made to order. In the made to order department, the steak sandwich should not be missed. If you just need to grab something and go, the salads, Japanese boxes and the yogurt tubs are amazing.
They also have a fab assortment of coconut waters and interesting juices.
The tofu selection is okay, but coming from California, I expect breath of offerings. While the Grocery certainly offers more than most, I want more!
Staff are friendly and helpful too.
The one downside… As with most health food shops the prices are pretty high.

This is the closest thing I’ve found in London to a local, California-​style grocery store. In addition to all the health products (including green cleaning products like Method and Seventh Generation), they have a surprisingly good little Asian foods sections where you can get Japanese curry, miso, etc. If you are gluten-​free, this is the store for you (any dietary issue, really). It is a destination worth coming to for me (I live a 20 min walk away, and have a Tescos in my building). Oh! Americans, they also have some of «our» stuff, like a variety of peanut and other nut butters, and stuff you’d find in Trader Joe’s or Whole Foods.
It took me back to my favorite organic (and yes, usually a little pricey… but totally worth it!) California grocery stores.

This is a useful stop for people looking for all sorts of organic/​vegan products. The selection is pretty good for the size, it’s a nice space and overall makes for a pleasant shopping experience — until you see that price tag, that is. It’s just a little too expensive to shop here regularly, but for an occasional stop and if you’re looking for something in particular, this is a good bet.

M’eh I think reviewing this place suddenly removes my cool. I didn’t think much of this place when I first walked in \ looking for liquid henna. The helpful and friendly staff, after being a little baffled by the request pointed me in the right direction. I felt after that experience I didn’t really know The Grocery well enough to review it fairly so I decided to pop back again.
This time I used their little café at the back. Serving my favourite tea and with free WiFi this café has become a favourite. It does get a little crowed at lunch but that is just a sign of it’s success. Really cute place.

Although it has a thin cloud of smug in the air, it’s still one of my favorites organic stores in London. Don’t go there for fruits and vegs though, it is overpriced and nothing special, but the cheese selection (help yourself, you can taste a bunch!), the awesome variety of soups and the hard to find products make it worth it. Also try the café in the back (but I think they’re two independent business, not sure)
Yesterday I finally found my Kombucha drink, the «I-don’t-know-why-but-I-love-it» weird drink that I use to have every morning when I was in San Francisco. It was a rip off but I bought it anyways ’cause I think The Grocery is the place for little luxuries.
About the staff: it’s hard to say ’cause they seem to have like twenty five people working there as it changes a lot, but there are like five cool and extremely nice people and other five straight faced ones that aren’t able to smile and keep checking the signature behind your credit card for about seven minutes even if you go there almost everyday. You just have to be lucky. And don’t take it personal, ever, not to ruin your day.

As I discussed in my review of ‘Planet Organic’ I have mixed feelings towards Organic boutique shops. Most often they are overpriced and a bit too sterile for their own good. Though The Grocery has elements of this, it seems a bit more down to earth and I would probably say it was my favourite of all the bigger organic stores.
The best thing about The Grocery is its very well labelled ready meals. I have a lot of friends that I find it quite difficult to cook for because of gluten/​wheat intolerance’s or vegetarian/​vegan diets. The main course can always be figured out but when it comes to dessert I’m at a bit of a loss. The Grocery has cleverly cottoned on to this and labels all its meals ‘Vegan Friendly’ or ‘Wheat Free’. I bought a gluten-​free-​vegan-​friendly-​cheesecake from here once (which was better than it sounds) and my friends were very touched to be able to tuck in with everyone else.
However, for my budget The Grocery is still too expensive and personally I don’t think its stock is as good as in my local fruit and veg shop (The Newington Green).

My housemate being a wheat intolerant vegetarian finds this place perfect for her! Having a huge selection of wheat free products — cereals, breads, pastas, crackers and a great selection of tofu, quorn sausages, and healthy looking vegetables. You never feel rushed to shop quickly and the staff are very relaxed. The thing I especially love is the selection of liquorice and other sweets!
Also within this fantastic store is a delicious Café with yummy homemade biscuits and cakes and real coffee. You can sit at big farm kitchen tables, read the papers, have breakfast relax and chill out any day of the week — a real treat!