As others have said, this grocery store is slightly more expensive than places like Kroger or Giant Eagle. But they have have some better options as well. It’s smaller, probably 20% the size of one of those other grocery stores. The food they have already made is typically pretty good, I haven’t had anything that has been outstanding or terrible. Overall just pretty good.They have a little dining area if you want to catch lunch or something there, also a small area outside with tables and chairs if it’s a nice day.Pretty decent wine selection too!

A LITTLE PRICEY ESPECIALLY FOR CIGARETTES.. GREAT LOCATION.. THE STAFF ARE AMAZING.. ESPECIALLY THE TALL YOUNG LADY.. WITH BLACK HAIR.. THEY TYPICALLY DONT GIVE OUT THEIR NAMES FOR THE NEIGHBORHOOD.. BUT OUTSTANDING NONE THE LESS.. THANK YOU FOR THE SMILES.. THEY ARE FREE.. GREAT ASIAN RESTAURANT ON BOARD AND THE BAKERY IS COMPARABLE TO DUNKEN DONUTS..

They have many local foods etc., As someone who just moved here, it is nice to try different brands and such. It is expensive but it does say gourmet grocery store on Google so theres that. Prices are usually higher on/by college campuses anyway. Definitely should stop by for the local wine and cheesecake. Friendly workers. And wear your mask!

The staff are always friendly and the products follow popular trends or locally produced items. It is also conveniently located. However, you pay for the convenience and variety. Its definitely more expensive than any other place I can purchase the items. So, I only stop by when I cant spare the time to go off route.

Great grab-and-go selections! Public restroom. Fresh produce. Grab lunch and go to the park!

Great staff, a little pricey but it caters to those who can afford to live and work downtown. Very good beer and wine selection

My local go to market. Great wine selection and deli. Can’t go there for basic things like paper towels, shampoo, etc. really expensive in those areas. Meant to be a local market with nice ambiance. Always clean.

The Hills has a great selection of food! Its a little pricey sometimes but generally worth it. Definitely wear gloves if you grab soup if you dont want to get yelled at by kitchen staff (I didnt see the sign!)

Little no organic produce and I know I’m not alone in saying this, I do not go expensive markets to not have the best product available. The overall prices here are very over priced in comparison to some other markets I’ve been to in Columbus. The one part I enjoyed in my visit was the pleasant employees you have working at this market so that was a plus. Overall I feel the hills market had the looks, feels, just not the the right products.

Well nice for liquor but WOW expensive for food. Fruit kinda old so please give it to homeless. 7.99 for frozen entree or more 3.99 for can of soup really are you kidding l. I understand a lil more for convenience but when the average price of soup is a $1.50 thatd plain stupid.some hot food for take out but definitely not my choice

Nice to have a downtown grocery. Looking forward to them returning to pre covid hours

What a great place to have in downtown Columbus! A block away from CCAD and the Columbus Museum of Art. They have prepared foods right here, from fancy entrees to made to to order sandwiches. They have a salad bar and a hot food bar as well. I happen to be there on Tuesday for Taco Tuesday. Theres a great wine selection thats pretty decent. Not very big but what they do have is a quality offering. Fresh baked goods are also available and aisles of gourmet product offerings! Convenient for me as its only a 5 minute walk from the office and I can go there for lunch. They do have a small parking lot that fits about 12 cars though.

Furst time here. Great place. Gives off that home feeling. Prices are a bit high. 100% will come back again though. Bakery is amazing.

Always a great place to shop! Smiling, Happy, Friendly faces... and you do not have to go to Cheers for everybody to know your name! Go to The Hills Market!

Prior to Hills... downtown was a complete food desert. Yeah the prices are higher, and the options for produce are thin, but they sell what people will buy. The fact is, Hills is trying to please lunchtime workers, downtown residents, and college students at CCAD and CSCC. In other words, you arent going please everyone all the time. Like Trader Joes, Hills is a friendly and pleasant environment, and thats not easy in a downtown area. Also... Ive been to Hills 100s of times over the years, and I have never seen a staff person treat anyone poorly, in spite of the fact that it can a challenging job. Oh, and by the way... the wine selection is GREAT.

Whats my local store for almost 3 years what every minute of it places a little expensive but you get what you pay for and they do wine tastings Smash Burgers and other neat things

I enjoy walking in smelling the buffet the food taste great and friendly helpful staff

Way OVER PRICED sad to see them taking advantage of people just because of the convenience of being close to downtown living

Excellent selection of items, friendly staff helped make the experience wonderful

Love how organized it is and the selection of fresh well prepared items. I dont like how I am not greeted at the register or asked if I found everything ok. Ha only reason I say that is coming from seeing the cashier greet and chat with a couple white shoppers ahead of me but as soon as I approach all I get is the total of my groceries...this has happened multiple times with 2 different associates..I always have to start the greet and have a good day farewell smh!!!!

Extraordinarily expensive. I bought a tomato, a green pepper, and an onion. It cost five dollars.

Diverse selection if groceries in a very convenient downtown location - love this place!!!

Go there for the wine selection alone! I love this cute little downtown market. They go out of their way to stock local goodies like Willowbees Soul Veg foods, Johnsons ice cream sandwiches. Original, delightful, maybe expensive, but WORTH IT!

Awesome selection but the prices are really high.Love that they have everything local and from Ohio.

The Food is the atmosphere! Love it!

I ate a wonderful noontime meal recently [9-26-2019] at The Hills Market Downtown.A nearby restaurant in that neighborhood [where I had been intending to eat] had been extremely crowded and there had been a long wait. Moments after I had decided to leave and eat elsewhere, it just happened that a friend who had already been eating there saw me leaving and recommended that I eat instead at The Hills Market Downtown [just around the corner].So I walked to The Hills Market Downtown and wandered around, for the next several minutes, a business that clearly is a grocery store [and not a restaurant]. I eventually found wrapped-up submarine sandwiches [that I briefly examined] and then, moments later, a salad bar and a hot bar.I filled up my cardboard box with several different types of hot and cold food, stood for several minutes in a twenty-person-long line [that actually moved quickly because there had been three cashiers] and then sat down and ate my food.I am very glad that the combination of events that day had caused me to eat at The Hills Market Downtown.The food had been home-cooked in quality and therefore had been extremely delicious. Particularly delicious [their food changes each day] had been the meatloaf, the au gratin potatoes, and the macaroni salad [there had been five different flavors of macaroni salad].I had been eating at The Hills Market Downtown during the traditional lunch hour [12:00 noon - 1:00 p.m.]. Many of the customers there had been wearing employee ID badges from nearby businesses and-or hospital scrubs clothing from nearby hospitals that had informed me that they work in the nearby area.I now know that The Hills Market Downtown is an extremely popular place that serves delicious food.

Great place to grab lunch. I love taco Tuesday! The sandwich area is also delicious. I love how fresh everything tastes. They have such a wide variety. They even carry Mackinac fudge! I wish it wasnt so expensive, though. It made it difficult for some of my co-workers and students. The seating is great and it isnt super loud to have a lunch meeting or to work while eating.

Small, clean store that is easy to navigate with convenient parking. Friendly staff.

I LOVE shopping here. The staff are great, and they wear their masks! I really like the selections and varieties of products at the store.

I love this place! I visit often on lunch breaks! I love the Vegan Soul Food pop up days and also enjoy their veggie subs! They have great wine options and I love their dessert. The atmosphere is nice and I often run into many community members I know and respect here! Always a pleasant visit.

Awesome and quick place to grab a bite for lunch. Their hot bar and salad bar always have fantastic options. The bakery area is to die for, however, the actual grocery part seems very over priced. Great for lunch, not so much for grocery.

They have a racist employee who followed my boyfriend and I around the store today. Its really sad when you go into an establishment to simply purchase items to complete your dinner, and because of the color of your skin someone feels the need to harass you. No one else in the store was being followed by the way. Shes an older overweight caucasian woman with long dusty brown hair. So if youre a person of color, just be mindful. I wont be returning to the store.

Delicious hand made carmels, great wine department, friendly staff.

Great for grabbing something quick. Lots of choices, but very expensive. Great selection of wine. Great neighborhood location. Wish they had Apple Pay

As dissatisfied as I always am while leaving this store- the last interaction I had with a cashier was enough to get me to right this review. While checking out I asked the cashier if they had any student discounts, and was told yes to which I replied that I didnt have my ID with me. Normally, I would be fine with waiting the get the discount until the next time I was carrying my ID, but before I even had the chance to express that the cashier informed me rudely that he wouldnt be giving me the discount because the manager says it is store policy to not trust young people. ....As a young professional, Ive got a couple of feelings on that. This grocery store is nothing more than a glorified convenience store and the only reason they customers come here, despite their puny and overpriced selection, is because they are located next to an art school and the only shop within walking distance. So if youre going to insult and deem untrustworthy the same young people who are keeping you in business you better be able to back that up with good product.The same liter of soda you can get here for $3, you can purchase at Kroger for $1. A box of cereal is going to be about 60% more. They have like 3 different types of vegetables here, which is honestly just gross. It is a nightmare.Here are some recommendations if you would like to spend your hard earned money at a place that would appreciate your business.Grocery stores nearby:Kroger (1.7 miles from the Hills)150 W Sycamore St, Columbus, OH 43215Wine and Beer nearby:Corner Stone Craft Beer & Wine (0.7 miles from the Hills)61 Parsons Ave, Columbus, OH 43215

I have been to this establishment three times and I just love it!! The staff are friendly and helpful. They are very welcoming to us each time. I purchased some fruit for myself and pizza for my son. We enjoyed our special finds. There was a deli, a fresh salad bar with another food bar across from it, and a wine area where a person could sit and enjoy a glass of wine at their cute little bar. They had a section where you could purchase prepared foods and drinks, and then, of course there was the regular part of a grocery store. This place also had a bakery section with the most divine treats to eat!! I was hopelessly in love with this store. So whenever I am in the area, I must stop in!!

Its a little pricey, but the convenience makes it worth the price

The deli dept makes a killer mexican dip, and the women who work the deli counter are always friendly

This is the best place in town to buy wine. Amanda is very friendly and knowledgeable and has convinced me to go outside of my comfort zone several times to try new wines that I never thought I would have liked.

I have visited this place a few times in the last week. Overall as others have said it is a good option to have especially if you live in downtown.Their prices can be higher for certain items but that is in accord with the location and convenience afford it of having such establishment in the area.They have a good selection of quality items, especially beer and wine, a lot of local products.I will recommend that you inspect your receipt to ensure the charges match the price listed on the shelves, as I experience this issue a couple of times.Overall Id recommend this place just know that you will pay a premium for certain items, and the customer service is still in the developing stages.Im a big fan of their direct competitor in upper Arlington where the customer service is top notch, I hope the management at the Hill is paying attention and adjusting accordingly.

I used to go there 4 out of 5 days of the week for breakfast but since June 2019 the scrambled eggs in the breakfast bar are sitting in moldy algae bloom water. Grossest taste I have ever experienced in my life. Before this date, the eggs were scrambled well and not sitting in an inch of water. So, now I go elsewhere. Weird since the eggs come in a huge bag precooked and all they have to do is pour the eggs into a pan after being in boiling water for ten minutes for heat up. Makes me think they dont dry the bag before opening and pouring. Very gross.

Lots of local items and interesting items. They serve a nitro infused coffee which is great. They serve hot food items as well as prepared and need heated food items. Good wine and beer selection from local producers. Excellent beef and seafood selection also. Great place to visit for Ohio providers.

Excellent beef and seafood selection also. Great place to visit for Ohio providers.

You pay a premium for their selection and convenience, but I still think theyre good to have around. They have a really interesting selection of craft beers and glass bottle sodas here. Our nearby office also regularly orders fruit from here and they deliver it, never had any issues.

I work for grubhub.. I went inside and they said I never got a grubhub order, plus we close in 1 hour okay, make my food because your still open for 1 hour.. he had everything shut down and you can tell he doesnt care.

I was quite surprised by the negative reviews here. The Hills has recently become one of my favorite stores to shop at. I learned about them through a wine tasting that Facebook/Eventbrite recommended to me and have been back several times since. I will say that yes, if you’re trying to use them as your everyday grocery store you may find yourself disappointed by the prices and selection. I personally only go there when I want something I know my local Kroger doesn’t carry... Polar seltzer, a wonderful wine selection, prepared foods, local cheeses, an amazing bakery... they even have a dispense-your-own Crimson Cup tea section which I’ve never seen anything like before. I have too much tea right now but I’ll definitely be trying it out once that changes! Staff has always been friendly to me, so the reviews saying they are rude and don’t trust young people really don’t line up with my experience there - despite being a “young person” myself. And the one saying they were ignored at the deli counter... there have been times where I feel bad because an employee comes over to see how they can help me when I’m just wandering around looking at their selection while sipping my wine during a tasting. So please don’t think that reviewer’s experience is what happens all the time. Not sure if they just have issues with consistency or if things have improved over the past year or two, but regardless my experiences at the Hills over the past couple months have always been 5-star worthy. Bottom line is, you may not want this to be your go-to store for all your daily needs. But definitely stop in to check out the other things they offer (especially if you like craft beers/ciders, a great wine selection, local products, or an excellent bakery), because you might be very pleasantly surprised.

One of the only places in downtown proper to buy groceries. Pricey as hell, probably because of proximity to CCAD. They do have some good foods. They also have some really delicious local baked goods.

Has so much potential! Great selection but check the expiration date on items before you buy!! We come for desert donuts after dinner to find they have tossed them before theyve closed :(. Frequently normal items are not in stock. Rarely do they have more than one register open. Dont be in a hurry. Staff seems very unmotivated. Solid beer selection

I mean. If you dont go there looking for anything in particular you might find something that looks good. Maybe. I live a few blocks away and four times have gone and left empty handed. Usually its because I want something totally reasonable (like shredded cheese other than mozzarella) and they just dont have it. Whoever stocks this store doesnt stock in such a way that you could actually treat it as your go-to grocery. Which is stupid because more and more people are moving to the area. Instead of going to Hills I have to go to the (slightly farther away) Kroger. Not because of price (because Id pay for quality/convenience), but because they simply never have what I need. But the bathrooms are great. So they have that going for them.

Good market with all daily essentials stocked up. Good place to buy wines and crafted beer. Sea food is expensive. Overall, good place to buy groceries.

It has good drinks

Expensive but good

Very nice grocery store downtown. Smaller version of the Giant Eagle Marketplace store. A lot of local goods and good craft beer to choose from.

This is the only place within walking distance for downtown folks to shop for fresh, or any kind of food. Id be ok with their ridiculous prices if quality and service was outstanding, but sadly neither is true. Instance after instance Ive gotten produce that turned out to be rotten or molded, hot food from the bar that was actually barely luke warm - and way over priced, or today, when I stood at the deli counter waiting for someone to even say hi or notice me - they had 6 people behind the counter, with 1 waiting on a customer. Time and again Ive been disappointed. I pray someone opens a nice co-op in the downtown area!

Greetings reader,I’m a college student, I used to go to this store all the time for my everyday needs on campus. I noticed that security and some of the employees of the store would follow me around for being black and assuming I would steal on numerous occasions. I no longer spend my money at this tawdry establishment.

Some random employee followed me down the alley way and accused me of stealing. It was completely inappropriate and unprofessional. Although I shouldnt have, I actually went back to the store to check with the person working the cash register. To the employee who accused me: I probably make 4 times as much as you (hence my business professional attire) and dont need to steal from your shity store. To the store owner/manager: I can take down this review if you refund me.

Prices are to high sometimes twice as much or more

Fantastic selection.

A bit pricey but has a homely type of atmosphere...and free wifi...and so cheapest coffee if downtown if you bring your cup...$1.29 for a refill at the time of this review.

Great bakery and deli selections, rotating pop-up lunch options, decent beer and wine selection, lots of local Ohio stuff.

Very pleasant. Friendly staff. A little pricey, so be ready to splurge a bit!

Excellent service like the location

Really cute store, super high prices. They have unique beverages, beer and other non-alcoholic drinks.

They have a thing going on where they have lobster rolls every Saturday this month from 11am-2pm, my sister (~an hour drive away from me) and I (~25min drive from here) arrived around 1pm and they were out of lobster for the rolls but we could come back next week; something they were only serving for 3 hours and they ran out. Besides that, the area where they were serving them was tricky to locate as it was past the registers, you have to walk in and deliberately go behind the registers (unlike most mega marts where behind the register is where you walk in so having stuff there makes more sense).Besides all that, their prices are sky high! Yes yes, I know its right in the middle of downtown but the prices are about 3x what you would pay at a store like Kroger for the same stuff, and those arent far away. Id only go there for local things I wouldnt mind paying a small fortune for.

Hadnt been here in years coffee still great beautiful place so relaxing

The bad news: the staff can be snooty. As the bakery lady was with me.The good news: the manager wrote me to apologize, which was nice.On top of that, they have hard to find brand name goods here, like Cheerwine, which is almost impossible to get anywhere else in central Ohio. On top of that, they have a killer deli and hot foods section.

Salad bar is small and limited. The meat you could purchase pre cooked behind the counter was heavily marinated or covered in a sauce base glaze. The meat was not fresh. It is very over priced and cannot compete with Market 65 or Whole foods. I would not go back.

They carry Destination Donuts and Patty Cake Bakery items as well as Crimson Cup Coffee. Good stuff! Saturday hours are 8am not 7am like it says on Google maps

Simply awful. Ive been forcing myself to come here because its walkable from my apartment, but now Ill drive elsewhere. The markup on their items is ridiculous. A Del Monte can of corn is around $2.30 - I could get that for a dollar cheaper at any other store. Same for, say, cereal, which here will cost you 5, 6, 7 dollars instead of the usual 3 or 4. Their cashiers are apathetic and need some serious coaching in customer service. I once asked to have my items double bagged. The cashiers response? I was going to do that. Oh, well, excuse my impertinence. Ive repeatedly asked them to consider adding various staples to the store (like any type of potato that isnt russet), and they never do, and look somewhat confused or offended that I would ask. Finally, today I was asked if I were student or faculty, because then I could get a discount. Why, yes, at OSU! Heres my ID! Oh... awkward pause... we dont do discounts for OSU students. Seriously?!

Awesome gourmet selection in this rustic warehouse setting. Salad bar and hot bar are delicious.

Im a student over at ccad next to the hills and everytime I go in here I am followed around by the security guard as if he thinks Im stealing something. Not only this but none of the cashiers use common sense when bagging items. Multiple times Ive had them bag my purchase and they place the food or sushi on the bottom and it all gets squished and ruined by the weight of the other stuff. I just spent $20 on crap at the hot food bar and I get back to my dorm to realize she had put my Gatorade on top of the mashed potatoes and dinner I had gotten. Its all over the place and Im going back over to get my money back

A curated market for residents of Columbus Uptown and Discovery District neighborhoods. You pay for the convenience, but the beer selection is great for a store this size. The prepared food tends to be a letdown, though. Expensive and underseasoned.

Cheese prices were a little high.

Great store with lots of locally sourced items, small parking lot, outdoor cafe tables

Been shopping here ever since I was a freshmen at CCAD and I got racially profiled because Im black. Without any evidence proving that I was the person that they had trouble with a month ago assumed because of my skin color and my voice that I was this person that they didnt even have a picture of. Publicly humiliated me in front of other shoppers and didnt even pull me off to the side in a professional manner to converse with me about the matter.

From sushi to sandwiches to pizza, this place has it all! Great food at a convenient location, makes for a great lunch spot.

Love the lunch menu here. Plenty of options for people with all sorts of diets. Only gripe is that its a little pricey

Excellent little grocery store. Love the salad bar

What is going on here?! They dont carry ground beef. Hope they fix whatever meat product issues theyve been having 😪

Nice place to pickup a few things. There isnt a close grocery store in Olde Towne East so this helps.

Has a good variety of food but it is very very pricy. Even goods that you can buy in a Kroger for a dollar or two are twice the price

Great salad bar and good sandwiches. Great spot for lunch.

Super expensive for no reason..

Very expensive, good selection. Be wary of what you buy though, as it could be had for half the price at other markets.

Expensive asf but only store within walking distance.

So many awesome local choices, and their Market Own selection always looks delicious!

Great food. Just wish more seating was available.

TERRIBLE! I will never shop there again! I stopped a year ago. Their prices are way too high and the customer serice from some of the employees is kind of rude. Particulary this white male security guard, older guy who follows my black boyfriend around the store everytime he comes in. My boyfriend almost wanted to ask him if he wants to shop with him because he literally follows him like highly noticable! My boyfriend and I live downtown and we use to love to shop there when we 1st moved downtown overlooking the prices because we make good money and its close by. Im sure being a owner of a night club my boyfriend makes way more than that rental cop who makes 10 bucks an hour probably and Im an RN so we have no reason to steal. Just terrible. I thumbs down this place.

This isnt in the greatest section of town, and its small, so selection is limited. But the store was very clean, and the cashier was nice.

I didnt know a review was possible but I just moved to Ohio and I fell in love with this place! I know the prices are high but I loved it being close to my apartment. Ive been in Columbus for about 2 months now doing construction and I just about shop there everyday up until today. After a long bi week of work, I needed a ton of food and lots of wine for the holiday. At least a 100 bucks worth of goods but I was stopped. The security asked me to leave claiming that I harassed and hit an employee. I was shocked! It was complete BS! He said the management wanted me to leave. The security guard of course refused to let me speak with management because Im thinking this has to be some kind of misunderstanding. I called the market on the way home and they said it was because I asked one of their female employees on a date. I did in fact ask one of the female workers on a date because she was always nice to me and I was a 5 cents short on a purchase in which she covered. I thought it was sweet of her so I asked her out. She said she had a boyfriend so, the end. I never asked her again or even bothered to mention dating her. If that makes a person feel harassed I do apologize but me personally Ill never shop there again. Not to mention the management went on to say other ladies were made uncomfortable with me saying hello beautiful or you have a nice smile As if it were every woman who worked there. It was only two of them I ever spoke to. Thats just the way I talk. I call all women beautiful. I complement every woman. I was told thats being a gentleman. Guess no one told them thats what comes with customer service. Overall I never disrespected anyone, hounded any of them for a date or spoke nasty explicit things to them to have me escorted out. I was thinking maybe its because they think Im black, who knows but Im really Cherokee Indian. None of the girls bothered to tell me to not compliment them or explain concern with a compliment which was preposterous!. I know for sure I did not do that ever time anyway. Most days were casual conversation like how is your day going how are you today kind of talk. It was totally not that serious. I was told I could never come back. Wow! Ill miss the convenience of the shop.

Nice place with a wide range of food and drinks.

Very expensive, none of their deli or bakery items (aside from the red velvet cake) are particularly good, and all the prices for things you find in a normal store are high enough I still drive to Kroger even though I only live a block away, they also close too early to be convenient

Great FoodGreat PeopleGreat Place

Very rude, condescending and nasty customer service at the salad bar the morning of 6/25. It is not the first time this has happened. I’m a local residence - that will now go out of my way to not shop at this place because of this.

Amazing food and the cooks are really friendly!

Love the out door sitting area!

Check their expiration dates, on several occasions I’ve almost accidentally purchased expired product.

Pricey but good food.

A little bit small and pricy but sometimes its worth it.

Love this place, great food, coffee and desserts!