East Village Organic

"The best organic food store I’ve been to since the 1980’s original Whole Foods on Lamar in Austin."

"The staff is friendly and helpful. The selection is great and the produce is always fresh and tasty. Not sure why they have been getting negative reviews recently. I suspect it's newcomers to the neighborhood. This place has always been quality and the staff authentically courteous. The East Village is a tough place to run a business but they do it with grace and kindness. I hope they hang in there! We need to preserve and support our small businesses here!! They make the East Village the oasis that it is."

"This place has gone so far downhill over the past year is crazy. They call themselves 'organic', but now it's only the produce. There are many, many non organic items on the shelves now. Panera bread bagels? Milk Bar ice cream? Give me a break. Stop calling yourself 'organic', you are just a supermarket now. The prices have gotten so high it's laughable. I don't know what planet they live on where people are going to deal with being gouged so badly. For what they charge you think they would be at least friendly or polite, but no, they are the most sullen bunch of workers you will ever encounter. When you ask one of them to ring you out, they sigh and roll their eyes, give me a break. On top of that there are always homeless people outside panhandling and they do nothing to remove them. Getting harassed to go in and out is not a good look. Today I was trying to leave and they had the doors locked because 2 employees were holding down a shoplifter, and taking produce out of his underwear and putting it back on the shelf. That was the last straw for me, I'm done with this place."

"EXCELLENT juice bar! Delicious! However the older guy there was very rude and insensitive. I brought my neighbors here who are 92 and 93 yrs old. They asked where they should order and this guy says “read the sign”. But for the elderly their site is very limited. They could not see the sign. He could have EASILY just said “order at the register”. But his snarky tone was unnecessary. As I said the juice was great. And our neighborhoods could use more places like this. I will for sure go back. But the guy really needs to have a better understanding of how to treat his customers. This shop could have easily gotten a 5 star review if not for the rude guy"

"Yes, the smoothies and fresh juice blends are super yummy (We especially loved the "blood builder".) Yes, the produce is fresh. Yes, the prices are very fair. But it's the people that make this place! Ali has done a great job of putting together a crew of genuinely NICE people. Our go-to when we come to visit LES."