Basically a condensed, mini Whole Foods which I love. Small enough to run in and out quickly, although at high-volume times there can be a long line at checkout. Every time I come here they have what I need and the staff is friendly and helpful. Prices are right. And they have plenty of organic products and great sales. Will keep coming back.

Good location but always busy no matter when you go. Always finding something new. Friendly & helpful staff.

I recently discovered this market, and honestlyI don’t know why I hadn’t stop by before. I love their organic and natural product selection from different vendors and places around the world. It stands out from other supermarket chains that pushes their own products to the costumer. Their staff was also very kind and helpful. A few times that I have stopped by to purchase alternative medicine products and I have always been graded and helped by knowledgeable sales people.In general, it offers a pleasant, personal and unique supermarket shopping experience.

This is my favorite grocery store by far. Fresh Thyme is great no matter where you go, but this specific location has the best staff. They are so personable and friendly. Normally I just want to get my groceries and go, but the staff her makes this place so welcoming. Since March 2020, Ive dreaded going grocery shopping, but this place always makes me feel safe and welcome.

Love this place!! Great food, good prices!!

This store reminded me of Whole Foods! I loved my 1at time experience and the staff was very helpful. I will definitely visit again!

Favorite grocery store! Also great for vitamins and natural based personal items

This place has quality produce and meat. Check out their weekly flyer to get the best deals. While smaller than other grocery stores you can get all your basics here as well as items for speciality dietary restrictions. Also as has a great beer and wine selection.

Everything is well organized and maintained very clean. People and cashiers are very courteous and hospitable. Easy to do marcandise. Keep it up.

I LOVE this store. Everything is fresh especially their veggies and meat. The food we buy here dont go bad so fast, which is amazing.Their STORE BRAND PRODUCTS ARE AWESOME. I really like their curry in bins especially their butter chicken. It is worth every penny. This place makes grocery shopping fun and happy. Also, they have free samples!!!!

Great natural foods supermarket. Good variety. Wish they had self checkout though, often times the lines are long

This is the first time that I have shopped at this grocer. I am so glad I did. Fresh Thyme will give Wholes Foods a run for its money. So, watch out Whole Foods! Really!!

Very nice market with fresh food, great prices, and good customer service. I definitely would recommend you pay them of visit.

Bugs in the BULK SECTION! IM absolutely disgusted. I’ve been eating bugs.

Every time I come here they have what i need and the staff is friendly and helpful. Prices are right. And they have plenty of organic products. Ive also tried their juices that actually made in store and they are good. Green juice or the beet juice.. They also have a kitchen where you can buy food that is ready to be eaten so feel free to grab some food and eat it right outside the cahiers area. Will keep coming back.plenty of parking and also carts for adults as well as for kids.

Clean public bathrooms (at least pre-pandemic, i try not to go into public bathrooms these days). This is important to me because bathrooms maintenance is usually last on managers task list for employees. It is a good indicator that the bigger things are getting done properly. Since this place seems food, cleanliness is very high on my list.The employees are friendly, knowledgeable and very helpful. It is almost reminiscent of the corner store of my youth.Pricing is good but if you got the right sale, can be unbeatable at times.Selection and variety for a large store is great. I get a bulk of my vitamins and supplements here.If you miss the feel, experience, quality, and pricing of the original Marianos supermarket when Bob owned it, then Fresh Thyme is your place.When I shop for the family, I never want to think what could have gone wrong for this food product to be in a bad state. I often get that at big chain supermarkets, but I am very thankful I have never got that at Fresh Thyme. I have never seen bad product on display. They do a great job at maintaining a standard.

This place is the best kept secret. Has plenty of organic foods for my liking. 🤫

Fresh Thyme has wronged me—along with the rest of the Peanut Butter Community—deeply. I have told friends, family, acquaintances, and even complete strangers about Fresh Thymes freshly-ground, house-made peanut butter. It is quite literally the perfect peanut butter. I, at this point in my life, havent had better peanut butter. The peanut butters consistency lies somewhere in between creamy and crunchy. The peanut butter is fluffy, airy—yet substantial. A substantial aspect of my admiration for this peanut butter is that PEANUTS are the sole ingredient found in this peanut butter—no palm oil, no sugar, no junk,—JUST PEANUTS. This peanut butter is so fresh that the expected oil separation quite often associated with natural peanut butters is a non-issue. No stirring necessary! Chicagos best peanut butter could be purchased for $1.99 a pound (the best peanut butter in the city for the best price in the city). But that all changed today.Fresh Thyme, drunk from the chalice of free market capitalism, struck a fatal blow to the Peanut Butter Community (PBC) today. They changed the price of their peanut butter from $1.99 to a devastating $3.99. For those of you wondering, this is a 200% price increase. There is no indication of any new ingredients, no organic peanuts, none of that—just relentless, unbridled capitalism. I dont know which C-Suite fiend(s) enacted this maniacal decision, but I wish nothing but the worst for them. They have crossed a line that PBC will NOT tolerate, and my lifes work will be to return Fresh Thymes Freshly Ground Peanut Butter back to its $1.99 per pound price (or whatever the price will be accounting for inflation).I sang the praises of Fresh Thymes peanut butter. I proselytized from the rooftops. I expected nothing in return—just knowing that I could get a pound of perfect peanut butter for two dollars was all I needed. Those days are long gone. I have nothing.My deepest, darkest nightmares have become my own living hell.

Nice selection, easy to navigate the store. Great bulk department. Helpful meat counter. good produce selection. Staff all very friendly and helpful Good ad specials every week

A lovely store with all kinds of weird smelling natural products.. small enough to find items on my Shipt list without too much trouble, but big enough to carry most products found in Target.. good deal

Great selection of items. The prices are a little on the high side but for the area its decent. The staff is super friendly and very helpful. Lots of great frozen choices.

Fresh Thyme is a mini Whole Foods. Youll find organic, healthy things. This is my Zevia stock up store - they have so many flavors, its great! Check out the self pour coffee section.

Good, healthy selection here. Never too crowded either for the most part.

Everything so clean and organize .

Great selection of specialty foods. Some stuff is a bit pricey, but in general cheaper than a whole foods.

I really like that my products are easy to find for me specially being a vegan. Only thing yall can do better is fix that produce section guys it is messy. If you gonto Tonys or Petes or Marianos the Produce is 1st as soon as you walk in. Not in the back of the store and then spread out all over mixed w other products.

A nice place to buy goods.

This is a great place to visit and experience a wide range of foods. We especially like Saritas Pupuseria. Their pupusas are wonderful and you get to watch them make them.

You can tell the employees dont want to be here. I had one cashier, barely acknowledged our existence, got super mad because we put our bags on the conveyer belt, and then swiped my credit card wrong, said it was declined. I gave him a second, one, and called my credit card company who said that he never swiped it. Hard pass in the future.

I love this store! Great organic options and can find most quality supplements I need along with unique fun items! Great helpful staff always makes sure to help me find what Im looking for! Great job guys!

This is probably my favorite grocery store in Illinois! It has a great family feel and you dont get lost like in other grocery stores. Friendly staff and a large selection of non gmo products along with amazing sales every Wednesday!

Fresh Thyme is my primary grocery store. The staff are friendly and helpful. Great selection of goods.

My fav grocery store in chicago. They have a great selection of food. Their beauty and wellness section is great too.

Love stopping here after Midtown for a healthy post workout meal

Love this store. Everyone is super friendly and knowledgeable about the inventory. The deli and meat counters are excellent.

The store needs to make sure to be stocked up on basic items like water. A lot of items are always missing on my list which is very disappointing. I hope that with reviews like this one management can do something about inventory being stocked up.

My favorite grocery store! A little pricey but worth it!

I really enjoy Fresh Thyme. They have a wide variety of items that are curated enough so as not to be overwhelming. The prices are great compared to similar stores in the area. I also enjoy the wide bulk selection so you can reduce your single use packaging consumption. The folks who work here are friendly and knowledgeable without being pushy. I also appreciate how diligent they are about spanking and masks relative to Coronavirus safety. I went at a typically slow time, so it might be more overwhelming at a peak time.

This is my goto grocery store since they’ve opened. Love their selection and more importantly, their staff are amazing! A kind, great group of employees. My kids love their free kid selection shelf that has healthy options of fruit or crayons and a coloring sheet. The staff are always so kind to give them stickers and greet the kids as well. Highly recommend this store.

Like others, I compare this to a smaller, cheaper, less-crowded Whole Foods. Selection of produce, meats, and dry goods is great!

It may be abnormal how much I love Fresh Thyme. Store is always spotless, really nice employees, produce is always the best I can find around, love the variety in their bulk section, vegan items galore, I just love this store.

Great selection of products, good mix of niche items and more everyday staples. also the workers are very helpful and friendly.

I love Fresh Thyme Farmers Market! They have really great produce and great deals. Their bulk section rivals whole foods and their prices. The people are super helpful and its my new go-to market. They have good parking in the right next to a craft store and theres a bunch of stuff up the street that whole strip on Elston is rocking nowadays. Fresh Thyme--the Thyme is Now!

Always friendly faces and always well stocked. Not the place to find some of the main stream brands but great alternatives

My new favorite place to shop!#wholefoodswho ?? Amazing prices and quality.

Friendly service, exceptional meat and produce. Not Whole Foods prices

Great selection, great prices and fresh produce. Love this place.

Best grocery store around even better than whole foods 💯 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Great for natural and organic foods, produce, and sparkling water!

Super friendly staff. Great selection of organic food. Great produce. Huge natural cosmetics/bath/wellness section. Bulk quality items.

Very nice and clean place. The employees are very nice and welcoming. Lots of staff are on site so help with finding items when asked for help is a great plus. The range of organic needs are great from food, veggies, fruits and household and personal needs are gteat. Good choice of bulk items like nuts, seeds, grains and candy available.

Since we walked in, I felt such a target on my back and sticked out like a sore thumb. My family and I speak Spanish and because of that the workers were extra paying attention to us and what we picked up to make sure we put it back. I went to check out some blackberries And one of the workers completely turned around from stacking his produce to watch me. It felt terrible being targeted throughout the store and incredibly discriminatory. Never coming back here again.I would like to appreciate the Spanish speaking worker that had no problem helping my dad find his shrimp. Everyone else shame on you.

Absolutely THE BEST seafood, produce and customer service. Its a liitle out of my way but it IS my favorite grocery. Thank you, Fresh Thyme Crew!

I love this place with a passion... The customer service sucks sometimes I be asking for help and no one wants to help me in the floor so I took the opportunity to walk thru all the store to memorize where are the products are located for my easy access and sometimes I be helping other people to find what theyre looking for! To bad some people are hired but is sad how they represent the company... I would love to work there 😊

Great customer service plus more.

I have now on two separate occasions (over three months apart) found indianmeal worms in the trail mix I have purchased from this Fresh Thyme location. Fresh Thyme has the bulk mix bins and has a particular mix that I really do love (hence the return to the store a few months after the first incident). However, I would now consider this to be a reoccurring issue they can not get under control. Its disgusting and disappointing.

Such a Clean store! This place really gives off the vibes of a Traders joe so if you like them, youll love these guys. I love their food, vibe and atmosphere.

Ive patronized this location several times however today was such a disappointment. I went to the meat counter and was ignored by one worker and the other worker was rude, both were older white males. I reported the matter to Paul the Manger who appeared to be concerned, but I explained to the manager that being ignored or rude too is never acceptable where Im spending my money.

I finding myself buying more and more of my groceries from Fresh Thyme. It is awesome that they do bulk well and that I can shop with the least amount of plastic consumed by coming to this grocery store. It I really appreciate their selection of vegetarian/vegan products and organic produce. They have a good selection of wine but it would be nice to have more organic and no sulfite/sulfate red wines. Their fresh baked bread is rather limited so I usually buy bread elsewhere.

Choices can be limited. Produce and meat typically fresh although have had things spoil faster than expected. If you want to pop in and out and get something fadt, a place to consider vs Marianos.

Amazing fresh produce and meats. A lot of heathy healthy options to choose from

Great selection of supplements at unbeatable prices.

I love this store but it is not pandemic friendly. Door opens and the carts are in a corridor with no staff enforcing social distancing. With the trend set its everyone for themselves and nothing to do about it other than hope none of the herd milling about the tight aisles are infected. They had plenty of stock as most stores do, just unfortunately not as proactive as some in assisting safety.

Great store, loved the savings, did took advantage of their coupons :)

Good source of health foods but low selection and restocking could be better. Spice racks were nearly half empty on a Tuesday.

Convenient but pricey. They do have some good sales on fresh produce but everything else is overpriced.

I really want to like this place. It’s well lit, the shelves and displays look good, they have a great variety and the staff are always wonderful. Many of the brands they carry are of higher quality, and the meat/seafood counter is superb.Here’s the rub: every time I have purchased produce here it has either gone bad very quickly (within 3-4 days) or it has looked good on the shelf only to be crawling with worms and bugs a day later.It’s not my fridge. I have a clean fridge.For four weeks it’s been like this and I’ve thrown out 2 lbs of strawberries, 1 pack of celery, and a few pears because they’re worm ridden. The celery actually had slugs, if we’re splitting hairs.I don’t want to go to Whole(Paycheck) Foods for a good shopping experience, and every Jewel Osco I’ve been to is depressing and lacking in quality.But also my Jewel Osco celery is slug-free.

Great healthy food grocery store

A cross between Whole Foods and Trader Joes; moderately priced with a nice selection of ready-made, frozen, prep and fresh food! Most of the staff is friendly, the ladies at check-out make waiting in line at ease.Very healthy variety from organic to plant-based to limited processed food. Many alternative foods to choose from. The store brand is a decent quality as well.

One of my favorite grocery stores. Well maintained and good selection

Love Fresh Thyme 😍 the 1st day of the grand opening! great customer service! and food!

Shopped here for the first tome for my Thanksgiving dinner. I visited every section and was very pleased with the prices, selection and service.This store is not convenient to where we live. However, I will definitely return whenever I am in the area.

I love this place so many things to explore and find great mix of healthy products and normal.Not 100 different brands and really good quality of what they carry

I love fresh thyme. Clean, great selection, and the employees are really kind- especially Fred!

I love the mix of great quality food in not such a large space. My new favorite place to shop!

I shopped at Fresh Thyme for the first time this past weekend. The produce was very fresh, the prices were great and the staff was very friendly and helpful. This store reminds me of Whole Foods but much better prices. I look forward to my weekly shopping at Fresh Thyme!

Beautiful store with a very nice and friendly staff!

I like, fresh vegetables and friendly people

Good prepared foods at a reasonable price; great produce. Bulk items are superb. Fresh Thyme branded foods are a good value, particularly peanut butter. This is not by any means a full grocery store, and most of the products are prepared foods in lieu of ingredients. For example, you will not find all of the ingredients for a cake, but you will find an enormous choice of processed ice cream and non dairy alternatives.

Awesome hidden gem! Great space, selection and super service! Some items are a bit more expensive than at the larger stores but there are some great sale item deals too. Glad I found this place by accident!!

This is a great store. I hope more are founded in Chicago. Better than Whole Foods and cheaper. Awesome deals like 2.99 granola and bulk almonds. Expansive selection and good store brands. Recommend it!

Great place, well organized, wide variety of food

Great customer service even at a difficult time. Always great prices and selection. Thanks!

I went at 3:00 p.m. this afternoon. There wasnt even a line. They were well stocked. Thanks fresh thyme for your diligence during these trying times.

Love getting my pro-biotics

I don’t think I can go on enough about fresh thyme. I had never shopped there before, but took an order from Instacart to shop there and I was really impressed with what they had.

We came here for a protein powder called SUN WARRIOR. It was cheaper than buying it from The Vitamin Shoppe which was $3.00 more. And I found a Almond Peanut butter in powder form. I saw that this was an easier way to drink in smoothies. I use a Nutribullet to make my smoothies. And reading in this cookbook called ZERO BELLY FAT smoothies you should use these products that is where the SUN WARRIOR PROTEIN POWDER came into play I had never used it before plus there is no STEVIA in the Natural flavor. They have 4 more flavors but they all have STEVIA which Im allergic to. And they dont have WHEY in it also. This is a fun shop to buy groceries in they carry vitamins and healthy food similar to a smaller version of Whole Foods.

Been coming here for the past 3 years and I had never been to a shop that offers such great customer service,and amazing selection of supplements, have not needed to go to any other shop since I started coming to N101. Sam was extremely helpful and knowledgeable when it came down to supplements. He helped me pick out the perfect supplements to fit my personal needs.

Its so clean and fresh meats in and out process

The products in the store are awesome the employees are helpful, knowledgeable, very willing to help. Very intresting and exclusive products. The major downfall to this store is the parking-its nearly impossible. I dont even expect to park near the door it would be fine if I had to park far but u cant park at all here. They need an alternate lot or notices letting u know where there is more parking. U wouldnt mind walking if u knew where u could park

Has some of the freshest fruits and vegetables you can find without going to the Farmers market

We love this place and the staff, we have never had any issues. Everyone is always polite and helpful. However we encountered an employee named Curtis (I believe that is his name) whom demonstrated no courtesy towards my child. He was smelling the candy bins and even though he knows better he was not touching them and that employee had the disdain to yell at him. He scared my son stiff. I approached that employee and asked him why did he yell at my kid instead of approaching either me or his dad and bringing it to our attention like any adult with reason and logic would do.. his reply was very rude and dismissive of his action. Instead he told me that I should take it up with the manager.. which I did. I hope management takes this into consideration because apparently his dismissive action can only state he will not face any corrective action. Anyone who has small kids can relate to them being kids and as parents we make sure we teach our kids to be respectful of things in a store. Again nothing against the other staff members and the store itself, our only ask is this is a teachable moment on how to be respectful towards your customers and be an adult.. The manager was polite and understanding. We wont let this 1 employees action ruin the stores reputation and all the other employees who are actually friendly and polite. This review is for the store thats located on North Avenue, River Forest location, NOT Elston.

Great selection of organic and gluten free groceries. I do love that they offer a bulk bin so I can grab only as much as I need vs a prepackaged amt. Very clean and organized. Produce and fruit always looks great and immaculate (unbruised)

Always pretty fruits and veg. Bakery outstanding. Deli a great variety. Prices very fair.

Fresh Thyme is an amazing place to get affordable but fresh produce. I always find that their produce is much cheaper than Whole Foods and Trader Joes! So I basically try to go here when I am getting produce. Everything else however is a little meh and the pantry items are way more expensive than even Whole Foods.Basically come for your produce but get everything else somewhere else!

A welcoming place to shop. Good quality food to cook

Good products. Ok prices. Limited selection of meat.

A great selection and always clean

Amazing Place Keep Up The Great Work

Great produce selection. Awesome sales. Really tasty baked goods and deli meat and I am always impressed with the selection at the butcher counter. The staff is extremely friendly and helpful. No ridiculously long lines either!