Mariano’s Fresh Market

Good selection, good store, fair prices. Only constructive point is that 3 out of the last 3 times I have shopped here I have had to deal with items damaged during bagging/​items damaged during stocking and items with damaged safety seals. I love that they have fresh assorted juices (celery juice, carrot, orange, lemon juice, etc), and its reasonably priced. I’m a fan!

I didn’t expect to like this store based on what I had heard about them. But, I was pleasanly surprised. Nice fresh produce, decent meat selection. They even had some of the Belgian beers I like! And the prices were better than I expected. They had a great sale price on wild, USA shelled raw shrimp this week. I don’t live nearby, I had a doc visit at the same plaza so I just walked thru. But they are building one near me, and now I can’t wait for it to open!
The salad bar, olive bar and other deli areas looked clean and smelled fantastic.

Great customer service and staff. This is my go to store now.

What the hell happened here? Bad management? Employees look haggard, over worked and their smiles seem like they are not genuine anymore!
There seems to be less employees, shelves are bare. Produce looks worse than wall marts ever did. Bananas bruised, looks like the apples and broccoli were dumped on the shelves. Poor employee moral or maybe less employees. Looks like management has changed. Or maybe Bobbi Mariano decided to bring his Dominick’s culture to the Western Springs store. Crappie management dissolves employee moral. Cutting hours treating employees like third class citizens brings about poor customer service. Points to puss poor management. Starts at the top Mariano. Bobbi take your franchise back to Wisconsin. Leave dodge buddy. Word on street is Mariano’s is worse than the old time sweat factory.
Highly recommend to stay away from the so called fresh market.
A lot has changed for the worse in the last nine months!

There may be a flaw or two in the customer service dept., but they make up for it in food samples and a wine-​serving oyster bar, with REALLY great oysters.
Pricing is fair, and the organics section is decent. Overall, I love this store, and I think all grocery stores should be like this. They only need a better coffee bar:)

I found a real Super Hero for my mother, Eunice I hope I’m spelling her name right, but she’s an employee who works in the bakery dept
I’ve looking for Lemon murange pie and there wasn’t any in the frig and I asked her if they can order one for use because of my mothers wishes which my dear mother Julia is dying slowly in her last few days and when Eunice hear this I believe she jumped into action, cause when we were walking around me and my aunts and uncles who all came from California she found us and told us she looked in the back and found us my mothers favorite pie, to me, she became my mothers hero and I love Mariano’s now from this day forward, I’m a senior advisor for
and Unilocal and I’m also in media relations as a paparazzi for TmZ TV and you guys have 10 stars if I could give it.
Thank you for having such a nice and motivated employee such as Eunice for your company.
My mother also loves your Italian ice cream peach flavor Gelato
God bless your stores and employees
Ryan G

2 stars for the ‘bang for the buck’ and 0 for customer service. The selection is good and price is fair. The employees are clueless of where everything is. My advice is not to bother them because they all looked like they are being held against their will. There is no difference between them and wal-​mart employes. Both are walking zombies dressed in uniforms.
The ‘baggers’ definitely need some training. Mixing raw and cooked products is a no-​no. Most of ‘baggers’ are high school kids from LT and they are «doing their time» there during summer holidays.
I have shopped at Mitsuwa. Their products are expensive but their service is top notch. They gave you the receipt with both hands and said ‘thank you’. It is about the experience and making the customers happy.

I could spend my whole day there! The deli, the salad bar, the bakery, the café, the smoothies… not to mention filling up my grocery bag. It really is an indoor market! Plus, you can grab all of your toiletries and kitchenware while you are at it! Perfect for a one stop shop when you need a little something to eat and you would like to conquer your grocery list! :)

GREAT place! Wide variety, easy to navigate. But seriously, my wife and I love shopping here because their prices are great and it’s clean and not cluttered like some other stores are. If you are in this area, do yourself the favor and check it out.

Love the staff they are professional courteous and just great people so helpful. Great salad bar, deli hot bar, and even fresh smoothies just such a great experience which is saying a lot as I live in another state with ample grocers with tremendous staff and great option so that being said This place is the cream of the crop !!! Quality ingredients fabulous staff and great selection !! Enjoy I sure did !

This was my first Mariano’s visit. I was thrilled at the great produce selection. It was all beautiful, great organic selection, etc., but the prices were nice and low! Produce was the strength of this store from what I gleaned from the one visit. The regular grocery selection was also very good. The prices seemed a little higher for things like bread and cereal, but not horribly so.
I did sample the wine. It was after work hours.

Coming from a place where there are no real «exceptional» markets or grocery stores I was astonished at Mariano’s Fresh Market.
I wish with all my heart someone who runs the New Orleans, and surrounding area grocery stores would take lessons from the people who operate and run Mariano’s! The produce is fresh and beautiful. The rest of the store is clean, well-​stocked, and the staff is very helpful. I even convinced my friend to let me cook her and her family some artichokes because they were so fresh and gorgeous. She never buys them because she does not know how to cook them, so I got to treat her and her family to a dish they don’t normally have. Thank you Mariano’s for being a great neighborhood market! I’ll be back next time I’m in town, and maybe I’ll get to treat my friend and her family again to a great meal purchased at Mariano’s!

Yaaaay !! :)
I can stop driving all the way to the North Side to go to my favorite store.
They have everything here, and at reasonable prices.
There’s been talk for years about opening one up in the area, so I was ecstatic when they finally did.
Employees aren’t as friendly as the employees at the one in Roscoe Village, minus 1 star.

I’m loving the grocery store war going on in the western ‘burbs of Chicago.
We’ve got 2 Trader Joe’s, 2 Whole Foods, Standard Market, a Marianos, a Caputo’s a bunch of little independents and the stale Jewel brand.
Mariano’s does a good job of staying current. The coffee shop, extensive salad bar, very tasty and reasonably-​priced ready-​to-​eat pizza, the front-​of –the-​store juice bar are all cool characteristics.
The buyers do a good job of knowing their mean demographic when predicting what to put on the shelves.
All in, this place is a home run. My only minor recommendation would be to label the items in the «bagel, donut, muffin» display. I cannot tell what’s inside a muffin just by looking at it.

Since, I am the duke here I guess I should write that review.
This review is mostly for my lunch time visits. I work in McCook and have been up and down La Grange road for lunches. I was getting tired of the burgers, beefs, and pizzas.
When this opened up, I was going to it by myself as my co-​workers had some fear of eating at a grocery store Deli. They must have been turned off by it from the Dominick’s deli in the past. That deli was very hit and miss. Not Mariano’s!
Nice hot items, from wings, cajun, chinese, etc. I aim for the salad bar. I load up on the mixed greens, spinnch, and kale. Add the chicken, veggies, fruit and raisins. Top if off with Raspberry Vingerette and BAM. Fresh ingredients.
The only thing that should be improved on the whole visit is the checkout. They have three registers and one cashier at them… at lunch time. Please bring over cashiers from the other side of the store. It’s a bottle neck too with the lines and people with carts.
For the grocery side of things, prices are reasonable and the selection is way better than what Dominicks or Jewel had. Service is great. They don’t look to be watching the clock, and are eager to assist or check you out.
Make sure to buy some fresh squeezed orange juice or the other juices they have.

An aisle marked, «vegan» shows how normal and mainstream healthy eating is. What a breath of fresh air.
Now, I may have been in a happy fog because I left the house by myself for the first time since my daughter was born 3 weeks ago. Nonetheless, I had the most magical experience at this store!
The place looked great, from carts to aisles. Everyone I encountered was friendly in a normal way, not creepy and fake. The pianist in front of store (wtf, awesome) went a long way for ambiance! I was impressed that they incentivize to bring your own bag.
Selection and quality are key here. Artisan, organic, tons of vegan options. It’s harder to find non-​organic produce than organic! Amazing selections for vegetarians.
Great salad, pizza, gelato and all that.
Giant bulk bags of quinoa.
I might get a sleeping bag and hide out in the wine dept!

I know there a lot of «Meh. I am not sure how I feel about these Dominick’s turned Mariano’s» feelings out there. Are these vibes coming from the Dominick’s — dedicated?
It is Easter morn. We had all of our holiday celebrations the day before but we don’t have food for the week. Target is closed. Aldi is closed. Wal-​Mart is a madhouse — wait. Why are these people bringing their kids to wal-​mart on easter?
Boyfriend: «I guess we could get enough to get through tomorrow at Jewel»
Me:“It’s pretty nice out and they opened that new Mariano’s over on 47^th. Can we just drive by and see if they are open?“
And so began the conversion of BF from a Mariano’s hater to a Mariano’s lover.
We ate sandwiches and smoothies from the Smoothie Bar and hot sandwich bar before browsing through the store for lunch/​dinner needs for the week. As we ate, we saw employees all over the place putting carts back non-​stop. Three employees tried to take our cart from outside of the snack sitting area! They really work to keep the place looking neat.
Mariano’s has come a long way since they first broke into our market. The prices have dropped to get a competitive edge on Jewel and try to carve a niche in the Chicagoland area. I was pleased to find products that I would normally buy at Target (Tide, Tidy Cats) for a better price at Mariano’s.
I am unsure about the produce complaints. We haven’t had those kinds of issues at all. I bought a pineapple/​strawberry cut fruit mixed cup that tasted fantastic as well as a tomato that wasn’t cut for a week after purchase that was absolutely phenomenal.
My one issue with the place though — the layout is strange. If you are like ma and do not believe in grocery shopping on an empty stomach as it results in impulse shopping, then you are forced to eat and them walk passed the registers to start at the produce. My grocery shopping experience has always been to end at frozen foods unless you want a melted mess when you get home. This layout is equivalent to the frozen section being in the middle of the store. The hot bar is situated with the deli and bakery. This layout just doesn’t make sense.

Double 5 star review. Since my last review, I’ve hit up the salad and the hot bar. The salad bar was everything I hoped! Their chicken could be a little better, but all the other toppings were fresh and fantastic. Their guacamole was really good. I found the loophole in paying for salad dressing by just using guac as my salad topping. I put in everything I wanted and remained under one lb. Better price, size and quality than what I would get at Panera, so I’m pretty sold.
I also went back on a Friday night to hit up the hot bar for dinner. Being lent, I was abstaining from meat. I noticed right away their fried shrimp. The shrimps were large and the topping still looked crispy! I loaded up on those, took a piece of their fried cod, mashed potatoes and macaroni and cheese– clearly jumping from one end of the health spectrum to the other!
The fried shrimp were totally crispy and delicious. I think I took about 7 – 8 of them! Mmm… the fried cod was also crispy, a little plain though. I dipped it in sauce at home. The mashed potatoes were legit– not boxed. My favorite was the macaroni and cheese… it was a white smoky cheese sauce, and was seriously the best I’d ever had. I’m sold, for sure. Again, I got all of this for under a pound, so my whole dinner was about $ 6. Highly recommended!

I hate when I have to go grocery shopping right after I go grocery shopping. But after trying this place, I had to finish my shopping elsewhere.
Yuck. I really wanted to love you, Mariano’s. I did. I’m used to the fresh Elmhurst store, not this converted Dommies BS you’ve got going here in Western Springs.
We came here last weekend and were pretty turned off by the gross produce that was half-​rotten on a Sunday morning. We couldn’t find things in your aisles. Why are some of your products of one type in one aisle, but others are in another? Crackers should be with crackers. Just sayin’. Energy bars should be with energy bars, not granola bars. I don’t have time to play these games, Mariano’s.
Add to that your crazy Dominick’s-level prices and you left me wanting more. A lot more. Sorrynotsorry but this was one and done for me. Bye now.

I checked out the Western Springs Mariano’s on Thursday at lunchtime during their opening week and came back for a closer look on Saturday morning. The store layout seemed pretty similar to the Dominick’s it replaced, which would explain how they were able to open relatively quickly.
I was impressed at the choices available at the hot food bar ($ 6.50 per pound), and the salad bar ($ 5.50 per pound) looked at least as good. Both of these areas were plenty busy when I arrived at lunch, but then again, it had the opening week hype going for it.
Baked goods seemed to be of notably high quality. They offered a nice selection of both whole and half pies and a wide range of breads. I saw a gelato counter and a busy coffee stand. Lots of prepared food available for purchase. There was also a good-​sized popcorn making spot which was churning out fresh popped corn. The bag of cheese popcorn was good… perhaps a small step down from Nuts on Clark.
The cheese selection was notably smaller than what you’d find at Whole Foods or Standard Market, but seemed to be of good quality. The meat department was great. Lot of choices and of high quality.
Prices on packaged goods seemed to be a little bit higher than Jewel and lower than Whole Foods. They did seem to have a greater variety of brands than the typical Jewel or Dominick’s — particularly in the ethnic foods area. It’s also nice to have what appears to be a strong house brand in Roundy’s.
There are plenty of checkout lanes, and the staff seemed to be very helpful. This may be an artifact of the grand opening week, but I am optimistic that they seem to really value a positive customer experience. I wish I had one of these closer to home. I could happily do 90% of my grocery shopping here if it were more conveniently located to my home.