Stew Leonard’s Farm Fresh Food

The customer service is awful I had to wait over an hour for a catering order. No explanation or apology for the delay. Very dissatisfied the food wasn’t very good either. Will never use again.

All the stews locations are great but this one has an outside grill area where you can have lunch. From corn to lobster what ever you want stew will make it for you

Visited this place for the first time… oh my word! I love grocery stores and so far Stews tops the list! My kids loved it and I felt like a kid again. This is the Disneyland for grocery shopping. There’s also a small animal feeding farm near the parking lot. Impressive bakery and prepared food section. Anytime family and friends come visit, we will be taking them there.
*update*
Visited this evening and the grocery band time clock «3:00» did not mean they would play at «3pm» lol. Silly me! Good to know!

This is the second time I’ve been to this store and i love it! I wish I lived somewhere near a branch. The kitschy displays above the food shelves where you press a button and a parrot or even Chiquita Banana sing and dance are funny. Really good looking meat ! I’d have bought some lamb loin if it hadn’t been so hot. Good selection of cheese. I think they make their own mozzarella. Of course there are a wide range of other consumibles.

Love everything about Stews!
Best baked goods, fresh produce!
Such a fun & Cute atmosphere.
So grateful to live close by and go here often.

I’ve been coming here from years from the days of just visiting my best friend to college days to my most recent visit. Stews has so much to offer and full of entertainment for the kids and adult kids too!
This maze like market has everything you want and tons of variations. A bit pricey but so great. You have tons of food options to pick from and they tend to have so many selections on practically every item in the store.
They have a salad bar and hot food bar. Staff is very friendly and helpful. With a big parking lot this store is really convenient.

Coolest grocery store EVER. Has a good combination of goods that would be carried at your nearest Trader Joe’s and Stop and Shop.
Among the many aisles of deliciousness, there are random circus-​styled decorations adorning the store. It’s also cool to see the employees make certain products (bagels, donuts) on-​site, which is rare nowadays in the day of mass-​produced goods.
It is a bit more expensive than normal prices, so I’d just come here to walk around. They also have a hot food/​cold food bar, so check that out too. I bought some quinoa salad with avocado, and everything was very fresh.

I absolutely LOVE this place!!! It’s one of the most awesome markets I’ve ever been to and keep begging them to stand one up in San Diego CA. They have EVERYTHING here it’s like a Whole Foods and Sprouts had a baby and it was raised by professional chefs, butchers, cheesemongers, and a sommelier!

I remember back in the day when there was only one Stew’s — in Norwalk. And his milk really tasted like fresh milk, his ice cream stand was really good, bakery products were great and his hot bar was delicious.
Fast forward 23 years (boy, I feel old) when nothing is really as good as it used to be.
Milk does not taste good. Bakery products are bad. Hot bar is a hit or miss, usually miss.
Sure it’s a fun visit, especially if you have kids and if you like sampling. But please Stew, spend the 50 cents and put a spoon in those sample baskets– all those people digging their hands in to the chips and cookies!
My only advice is: watch your back in the parking lot — people back out way too distracted by their kids, stuffing the hot bar items down their face or inhaling their ice cream cone.
Store is great for meats, fish and chicken. Though I don’t know why he advertises his salmon to be ‘fresh from Maine’ but when you get to the seafood counter, it says ‘farm raised’ — not good.
And whatever you do, stay away from the pumpkin frozen yogurt at the stand –it smelled and tasted like a really bad Yankee candle.

Oh Stew Leonards… I LOVE YOU
I’ve loved you since I was a wee one.
I wish they threw adult birthday parties here bc for some reason, I would have one at this small bit of food-​like pseudo-​Disney.
In spring, I can see the animals outside (I just hope they are cared for well and I’m sure they are BUT I do not like the fact that they are so close to the road and therefore left to inhale the exhaust fumes and are at such close range to bad drivers.)
They have so many dope samples and cool animatronics. Although, Stew. what happened to you within the past 5 years? Where’s the barnyard singers that used to be above the meat department? Or the drink samples near Chiquita banana? The moo cow in the dairy section needs a hairstyle and reupholster so very badly. and OMG I don’t think I saw Twinky the Kid last time I was there a few weeks ago??? OR the egg laying hen! Don’t make me sad Stew!
I think you should sincerely do some upkeep in the cool Stew buddy and friends area and get it back to its once lively state.
Prices have gone up unfortunately but I suppose that’s just the times we live in now. Workers are still very friendly and selections are still ample. I only wish I could afford those Rosemary kettle chips bc $ 5.99 a bag is killing my wallet.
But I still love this place. And I hope I always do

When I’m in the area and don’t know what to have for dinner I will occasionally stop at the Danbury store. Unfortunately, they’ve taken my favorite choice of vegetable lasagna off the menu and other selections have not been successful. I was happy to see a dim sum bar, but once I got them home I was extremely disappointed because they were not very good. I rated this store 3 stars only because my husband likes the meat department. I don’t care for the selection and I get better prices at ShopRite up the road.

This place is the best. You will find more preprepared foods than any supermarket around. They have a whole section of the store dedicated to just Buffet items. Their Bakery makes some incredible breads and cakes. They take Custom Orders for Cakes and 3 – 6 foot sandwiches for parties. They have a great selection of meats and preprepared sandwiches. Every Holiday they feature seasonal specialties. If your headed to someones home for the holidays you can find something nice to bring here. They have a Sushi chef but I don’t care for their sushi.
In addition to the market there is a Petting Zoo thats open when the weathers suitable. Kids and parents love this and its just another reason this place is so special.
If you spend $ 100 (not hard to do) you can redeem your receipt for a free ice cream or coffee on your way out.
You can find seasonal items in the annex including fresh cut Christmas trees, Pumpkins, Firewood, Calcium Chloride, etc. Around Halloween time they do Hay Rides around the back of the store.
I have just 1 complaint. The Breakfast sandwiches here are the worst. The roll is thick and you taste nothing but bread. If you open it up you will see a dry egg in there. They dont put enough bacon & they use too much bread. The dry egg is probably a result of them leaving the premade sandwiches to dry out in a heated server. This needs fixing.
Plenty of parking. Plenty of animated characters throughout the store. Some people complained about the maze like way they have the store set up. If your familiar with the layout there are several places where you can exit and enter the maze. Its not really a big deal.
Stew Leonards is a wonderful addition to our area and a great alternative to your traditional supermarket.

I have to say I always hated this place when I was living in the Danbury area. The store is setup such that you need to walk through a maze of every single aisle to get in and out of the store, even if you are running in for one thing.
Sometimes you don’t know what you have until its gone.
When I moved to Florida, I realized there are simply no places like Stew’s down there. I really miss all the fresh produce, fruits, meats and cheeses. Not to mention all of the baked goods too. So now when I am visiting Danbury I am always sure to stop in to get some good food items.
For you people that think Trader Joe’s is a good place, you need to just go to Stew’s. Its the real deal. I can barely stomach the junk in Trader Joe’s as there is almost no comparison to Stew’s.
Sorry Stew’s for hating you some much. I miss you now.

My first visit to Stew’s in over a decade was much better than expected. It felt to me that it was less «Disney World» and more «serious» than ever. The prices seemed a lot more competitive in some departments (e.g., meat) than others (e.g., produce), with a good number of loss-​leaders and sales. (Then again, Trader Joe’s wasn’t in the area the last time I came here.) What pleased me the most was their food court area. The variety of hot and cold foods rivaled and exceeded what you’d find at similar food courts in places like Whole Foods and Wegman’s. I wish I had known about this before I went inside to shop. Instead I ate at the outdoor bbq area. I got a well prepared burger and fries. Others in my group got the pulled pork; very few people could finish theirs and everyone said it was a lot of meat and a great deal.
Ultimately, it’s hard for me to rationalize coming over here on more than an occasional basis to shop, because I have those wonderful Adams Fairacre Farms shops much closer to me. But next time I come here, I’m bringing a cooler!

When I am in Connecticut this is one of my first stops, to stock up for my stay. I love the charming robotic animals that entertain you as you wander through this maze like grocery store. The free samples, of in house produces goods, are penltiful and delicious.
Fresh roasted beans for coffee, locally grown vegetables, fresh and abundant meat and seafood departments. All this makes for a delightful shopping experience!

This grocery store chain is amazing. I love shopping at Stew Leonard and this location lived to its name. My favorite here is to go right to their bakery. At this location I saw cakes and cookie flavors I had not seen in any other Stew Leonard. Got mini m&m cookies and white chocolate macadamia nut to take home, they also had one with peanut butter chips but two packages of cookies is all I can really deal with eating at once. I love the charm of the olden days in these grocery stores, If they were to update anything in this store I would say their restrooms could use a face lift. But over all I love coming here and I will continue driving in a direction that some how I could pass one.

Stew Leonards in Norwalk is my favorite grocery store. Whenever I find myself in Connecticut I always check to see if there’s a stews nearby. I was in ridgefield yesterday so I had to go a little out of my way to check out the Danbury store.
The store is not as big as Norwalk but I really enjoyed it. As soon as you walk in you see the bakery which is my favorite thing about stew Leonards. There’s also a section for apple cider donuts and rice cakes by the door.
What I loved about this particular stews was the bakery. They had cookies I have not seen at any of their other stores including Mini m&ms cookies, white chocolate macadamia toffee, island chocolate chip and peanut butter. I forgot about my diet and bought two boxes of cookies. They also had the most delicious cheesecake samples out and I pigged out on 4. If I could afford the calories I would’ve loved to try their blueberry muffins.
Their produce seemed way overpriced to me. Spaghetti squash was way higher than what one would pay at whole foods. They did have some delicious fresh squeezed orange juice samples out.
The ice cream stand was disappointing. They had hardly any yogurt flavors except for chocolate, vanilla and pistachio. Boring. The cake batter soft serve sounded amazing but I tasted it and it was not worth the calories. The girl working at the ice cream did a very bad job of giving samples. This was the first time I did not buy ice cream at stews.
I have been to every stew Leonards location and this was my second favorite after the original Norwalk store. I would go there for just the bakery. The store did not stink like the newington store and it did not feel like a maze. I just wish they would keep refilling their samples until the store closes.

Stew Leonard’s, the mecca of dairy stores that usually has half the customer population of New York on weekends. I’ve been coming here ever since I can remember, due to the fact that I’m only about five minutes away, and I always seem to walk out with something when I’m here. I’ll have my chocolate chip cookie withdrawals occasionally, so Stew’s is the go-​to for that, period. And good thing they’re in the front or else I’d be walking around the store’s maze until I found them. Not that the maze setup is a bad thing, it’s actually a pretty great tourist trap because of all of the generous scenery the grocery store provides. With animated characters that sing about the store to Stew’s trendy take on advertising, it’s a great place for both kids and adults. Not to mention, everything they carry is locally grown or made in store. Just make sure you check the prices before you buy some of their items, sometimes you’ll pay much more than they’re worth.
The only downside I have with Stew’s is their parking. The lot is HUGE, but it’s always a nightmare trying to navigate to the right spot due to so many drivers and how narrow the lot is. Just be careful when you’re trying to pull into a spot or else you may start using some choice words for the guy trying to do the same. I also feel like the small petting zoo on the other end looks a little run down. We used to stop by that end with every trip to Stew’s to feed the animals when I was younger and we had such a fun time. Now it looks like it’s outdated and needs some love and elbow grease to bring it back to life.
If you’re in Danbury for a short time, this should be on your list of things to do, even if you don’t plan on buying anything. I love Stew’s for it’s originality and food, even though they can be a bit expensive at times. I’ll be back for my cookie withdrawals.

My friend and I were trying to figure out how to categorize big grocery chains like Stew Leonard’s. I settled on super regional destination stores, the kind of places that can serve as regular grocery stores for the people who live close to them, but are also interesting enough that they draw people from around the region for special occasion shopping. Stores like Wegman’s and Jungle Jims in Cincinnati fall into this category.
Stew Leonard’s is a worthy take on that tradition, though it doesn’t have as many specialty or national and international items as those stores. In fact, this extra large grocer has a pretty normal selection of food. It just has a big footprint and a unique brand.
Interestingly enough, I stopped at this location after seeing it in an episode of Jerry Seinfeld’s Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee (which often showcases various low-​key but pleasant spots in the Tri State. Lo and behold, when I stepped outside of the store, there was a giant cardboard cutout of JS himself. Excellent product placement, sir. You drew me to the store and got me to spend money here.

I haven’t been to Stews in about 15 years but decided to go today. Overall realty impressed.
Not impressed with the one way layout or the fact that the cream cheese I bought expired January 10, 2015 :(called customer service and they said when I come in next time, come to the desk and ask for a refund since I paid with a CC. Too bad I already spread it on my bagel before I noticed anything amiss!
Produce was fresh, all employees were friendly and helpful and I’ll make another trip back for some more shopping in the near future!

Okay — I’m over the new layout look. This store continues to please me overall.
Holy mother of god — they have the most AMAZING «incredible chewy chocolate pecan cookies».
Tried their hot food as a snack tonight around 8 pm. Corn and Broccoli nuggets were old and dried out as of they have been sitting there all day. I did notice other hot trays with some very dried out looking food. Not sure if it was the time of night or what but this section has never appealed to me.