Planet Organic

Don’t come here looking for protein.
Not protein powder, I mean any kind of food substance containing protein. My wife and I had picked up some delicious-​looking salads from Ottolenghi and were hoping to get some roast chicken, charcuterie, and olives to complement them (I know, hyper-​bourgeois, but remember that this is an organic grocery store review). Stopped in here as a Whole Foods stand-​in, and found nothing we wanted. Super expensive fruit, smoked salmon, and lots of strange supplements, but no chicken, no charcuterie, the hot bar was closed, and no olives. Literally nothing we wanted.
Overall, a strange product mix for a «grocery store,» and definitely not what we were looking for.

Really like to go there to buy my Puka tea and complementary food.
if I can’t find a special ingredient in usual supermarkets for more complex recipes I always go to this shop!
It’s pleasant to walk around and look for a new way of taking care of yourself :-)
Good coffee to take away /​food but cashiers have never been smiling at me, looks like they don’t really enjoy their job!

Any organic shops in the neighbourhood is always welcome so it’s great to have Planet Organic right around the corner. It’s a nice little neighbourhood-​y organic market with the usual organic stuff that you’d expect. They have a full service coffee bar as well as a deli for those lunch time meal orders. They also have fresh organic veg as well as a well stocked organic pantry for all the various non-​refrigerated organic items you need.
They have seating outdoor for those who want to eat their lunch or enjoy a coffee outside — there are no heatlamps during the winter so bundle up if you’ll be out there.
I’m giving Planet Organic only 3 stars because they’re very expensive and there isn’t anything particularly unique about this place. They carry almost the same items as any other organic shop and they’re on the more expensive side. Great for the odd thing here and there but definitely wouldn’t do my weekly shop here.

I really miss my old local Whole Foods in Houston and this is the best substitute I could have asked for locally having moved to London this summer. They have healthy ready meals, fresh veg and lots of free from type stock. The hot food counter at the back looks really good, lots of exciting meat free dishes, huzzah! As with WFM this place charges top dollar but lots of organic options and variety make this place worth a small shop every now and again.

Hello juices and fruits and hippy foods oh my!
My pal Jenka seriously has an addiction to this place which an intervention might be called for soon. I had to try the junk for myself to see what all the fuss was about. Its great! The juice bar in the back is great, the people are nice and it meets your organic beauty needs in a pinch. If i lived near by i’d be all over this place.
Happy shopping!

Dear LORD — thank you for the organic food store that is Planet Organic.
It can be so hard to find good organic food in London, so when I stumbled upon this little gem on a work trip, I had to run inside to see what was going on.
It was heavenly. I walked in and sampled some amazing tea before heading to the back juice bar. They made me an amazing green juice drink with an apple base and extra ginger.
They had some of the typical healthy snacks — Pop Chips, etc — and some other ones that I haven’t seen before. Everything was delicious.
Clean store, great location.

My local LOVE, LOVE, LOVE!
Great range, friendly & knowledgable staff, including convenient healthy options and treats. I cannot resist!
Although, it took me a little while to get used to the different price point, I am deeply in love with this place!

«earth!» «fire!» «wind!» «water!» «heart!»
“go planet organic!”
«by your powers combined, I am captain planet organic!»
Captain planet organic, he’s a hero
Gonna take pollution down to zero
He’s our powers magnified
and he’s fighting on the planet’s side!
Captain planet organic, he’s a hero
Gonna take pollution down to zero
Gonna help him put asunder
Bad guys who like to loot and plunder
«you’ll pay for this captain planet organic!»
«we’re the planeteers, you can be one too!»
«cuz saving our planet is the thing to do!»
«looting and polluting is not the way!»
«hear what captain planet organic has to say!»
«the power is yours!»
(they always have some sort of chocolate 2−4−1 on sale here…)

Super nice to find this place on a random walk. Always on the look out for organic super markets. They carried a nice selection of items, i picked up some stuff i was missing which was great. They had a deli, which seemed to be busy, and a nice seating area outside to enjoy your treats.

Ooh, I do like Planet Organic! For some reason, I think it’s a bit cheaper than Whole foods, I could be wrong but I don’t have the mini heart attacks when paying for stuff here that I usually get at Whole Foods.
They stock a good range of fresh fruit, veg, good vegan lunch snacks, hot counter with fresh meals ets.
Lots of the usual Jams, honeys, Tahini’s, condiments in general. Frozen food, cereals, bread, biscuits etc…
Also toiletries and cosmetics.
Oooh, they also stock Franks Hot Sauce! Yummo for chicken wings!
Oooh, they sell Mushroom & French Onion stock cubes in the KALLO organic stock range! Delish!

Hmmm

Typical health food store with some over priced items that I can get elsewhere. Very pretty, very tasty looking but too rich for my blood.
But the one saving grace for me is that they sell trays of wheatgrass!
I bought a juicer a few weeks ago and have been on the search for fresh wheat grass ever since. Yes that’s right, Im a hippie from california and I only just now own a juicer.
Anywho, the manager with the dreadlocks was very friendly the day I came in and stopped whatever it was that he was busily doing to find me a tray from the back. And he was very nice and suggested next time I should call ahead to reserve a tray as this one was just an extra one by chance.
When I tried the grass at home it was a lot sweeter than I remember it tasting like (as opposed to the memory of it tasting like I was sucking on a lawnmower) but I think the grass was a little older than it should have been for the optimum quality per blade but oh well.
Next time I might get a tray and sneak in a few ready to go treats. Just to be naughty.

Gosh, as I started to write this review, I realized how conflicted I am about this store. On the one hand, it has lots of great stuff… I mean really delectable, high quality food, but the prices are absolutely insane, even for London standards. It makes me angry sometimes that most good, nutritious food is reserved for those with fat paychecks.
***gets down from soapbox***
Now that that’s over with, I have to say I’m glad this is around the corner. When I can’t find good quality, organic items anywhere else, I can find a lot of them here. Like cabbage or radishes or tortillas that aren’t loaded with preservatives. It’s missing a lot of staples though in my opinion and is really too heavy on other things. I mean, how many types of passata can there be??? But no pistachios, and no bulk food section? That’s like the signature of a natural food store!
I love you, I loath you. You’re way better than Fresh and Wild.

Planet Organic is to «the big» Whole Foods as Tesco Express is to «a big» Tesco. Yes, it may be tiny, but they’ve got what you need.
Nice range of some good basics and everyday items, and if you’re a organic shopper, I think it’s the only place in the area that will have this much selection under one roof.
It’s a liiiiiiittle out of the way since I’m not really on this end of Angel all too often, but if I’ve trekked up this far for something else I’ll make the extra few steps to stop in and get some healthy snacks.

I love popping in to Planet Organic for a few special things from time to time. It is such a beautiful and manageable experience after going to a conventional supermarket or a Tesco’s Express/Sainsbury’s local. There is never a line at the checkout and you don’t have to say «excuse me» 10 times to get through the aisle. I found the merchandising very pleasing.
The herbal tea selection, coffees, and chocoates are great as are all the yummy health bars. The toiletries section is quite impressive too! I like stopping by here and picking up all kinds of yummy bits for a picnic.
So many of the brands that they stock are the leaders in organic, Fairtrade, artisan-​produced, sustainably sourced. Even if it is a bit more expensive, I know that it is worth it and I am sure Planet Organic is a part of the same «do gooders» club.

I just can’t hold out any longer. As much as I was enjoying playing hard to get in my previous review, you’ve captured my heart and I’m completely yours. Sometimes twice a day.
Your fresh squeezed juices, your ready-​made meals infused with quinoa, soy beans and beet root, your fresh blueberry muffins, your charming staff…
You’re still a bit cheeky for your own good, which is *never* the case with me… erm, yeah.

To be honest, most of the big organic supermarkets all seem kind of the same to me. Same ‘wooden crates with fruit and vegetables’ window displays, same gourmet bread selection and over-​priced ready-​made meal selection.
I’m not saying I don’t love it, because I actually do. There’s something about these organic supermarkets that puts me at ease — ala Audrey Hepburn in Tiffany’s perhaps?
And Planet Organic is no exception. With a great range of frozen and fresh food, fruit, vegetable, soaps, breads, yoghurts, tofu and so forth, it has it all. just expect to pay for it.

Branding Planet Organic must not have been an easy job; for when you enter this food boutique store its a whole new world! The layout may follow similar retail store plans and sections. But its shelf produce and products are not an ordinary league. What I like most about any Planet Organic food store is their varied section of greens and vegetables including sprouts, and this store in Islington is no exception. Generously spread out on a large wooden table, it suggests an encouragement for the consumer to be eating more of healthy green diet.
Their butter range for example, other than the usual salted and unslated they also have one made from goats milk. So there is every possible consumer who has been thought of either for health or dietary reason. I have yet to try their ‘food to go’ section but I can promise you their juices are authentic and pure with it being churned in your sight. They also do a light snack, vegetarian menu which does not look appetising in appearence but might be different in taste.
The layout of the store is accessible with not much height space used; deliberately to make sure you can read their signs hanging from the ceiling. On my recent shopping visit I noticed that they wont be taking American Express cards from the new year onwards. Ask the manager!

‘Planet Organic’ sums up everything I find awkward about the growing breed of organic boutique food shops. While the entrance of the shop is littered with beautifully misshapen, British grown, mud-​strewn vegetables, stray much further and the whole environment becomes very clinical. Line after line of jars and boxes offering stir-​fry sauces, jam’s and sushi sets point eerily in the same direction. Even the deli counter at the back offering its selection of organic ‘ready meals’ displays its food on black charcoal slates in perfectly straight lines.
As a whole the food I’ve bought has been quite nice but not worth the prices that they charge. Maybe my ideas are too romantic but if I’m looking to buy British and Organic, I anticipate a bit of rustic charm. It’s this element that is severely lacking in Planet Organic. This is not a shop that invites you to spend any length of time, if you’re in for more than five minutes you’ll feel like you’re messing up the place!

When Planet Organic opened I was so excited, but every time I go into the store I leave feeling a bit disappointed. The produce is mouth watering, but lacking in selection. It has excellent vegetarian selections with several tofu choices. The rest of the store is lacklustre. It has all the things you’d expect from an organic store but nothing unique that would set it apart from other similar stores. The pre-​made food counter has several selections but none of it looks very appetising.
On a positive note, the store has an excellent vitamin section and the staff who works in that area really knows their stuff. They know exactly what to recommend if I want more energy or need more iron. I find myself going into the store to take advantage of the vitamin selection rather than the food. When I do buy food, I find I buy lots of fruits and vegetables because they are simply too beautiful to pass up.