Guido’s Fresh Marketplace

If you like to pay at least double for almost everything shop here
The staff are RUDE and act as if they are doing you a favor if asked anything
Although most items are of good quality and usually fresh
I just can’t see paying so much for yuppie food and poor customer service
Will never return!!!

Great prices, great produce, fish, meats, e-​v-​e-​r-​y-​t-​h-​i-​n-​g !
Just bring your shopping bags or a box — no plastic bags in town.

Talk about this place having everything, they really do, from the famous pecan encrusted chicken breast to a full liquor store that had a pretty nice blanc de blanc. They have everything you could ever want from a small meal to a full size dinner party. this is the only place to go if you want all the good things in life.

Pricey, but the quality and service almost justify it. Used to go here every morning for my sushi lunch and iced tea. Sushi under $ 5, yes please! And it’s tasty. Friendly and brilliant service at the bread/​dessert counter. Actually all counters are friendly and brilliant. The deli, meat and fish guys are great.
Am definitely not someone with a lot of money so I usually hate walking into these stores as I feel so out of place, but Guido’s definitely makes you feel welcome. Always say hello when you walk in and always offering help as you walk along the aisles. And free samples most days, always a plus!
Love it here and definitely recommend.

Yes, it may be on the pricey side, but many of their offerings (most notably, the meat, seafood and produce) are so fresh that I don’t mind paying a bit extra.
This outpost is located in Great Barrington, and conveniently situated next to the Big Y Supermarket. I often go to the Big Y first to obtain packaged goods, which are invariably cheaper than their counterparts at Guido’s. The parking lot is large, and I’ve never had trouble finding a spot, no matter how crowded it is.
The produce selection is extensive, with many items originating from local Bershire farms. The seafood has never disappointed me, and you would do yourself a favor to take home a container if the house made cocktail sauce (medium spicy is best). The meat counter is usually crowded, but the wait is rarely more than 5 to 7 minutes. I love that they have multiple varieties of ground meat; 75% chuck, 85% sirloin, and my personal fave, brisket burgers. Prepared foods (curried chicken salad is amazing) and cheese counters are also worth a visit.

This specialty market is just too overpriced!
$ 14.99 Lb for coffee
$ 7.99 and up for granola
The natural grinded almond butter was standard at $ 7.99 Lb but they charge you an additional fee for the plastic box. Just shows they are trying to pinch every penny out of you since there is limited competition for fine markets in the area.

Guidos GB is making all the right moves! Yes they are a higher end market and the prices do reflect that with that being said YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR PEOPLE! The selection is great. The staff are VERY friendly helpful and definitely willing to go the extra mile. Ive been going into guidos at least 3 times a week for years now and I’ve yet to have a bad experience. I strongly suggest stopping by the prepared foods dept. SO MANY delicious items on their menu. Thai basil chicken, curry chicken salad and rustic baked potatoes to name a few. Also the bakery is amazing. Try the caramel chocolate tartan. WOW! big thumbs up to guides GB I hope they are around for many more years to come!

Hmmm, Usually an amazing place with a great selection of high-​end products. Tonight we spent $ 30.15 on 8 Scallops and they tasted horrible. The ammonia taste rose into my sinuses. That’s how bad they were. I have yet to call them tomorrow and ask them for a refund. Let’s see how they treat the situation. Will keep you posted with an update.
⁴⁄₃ update: Fish market which is leased out to Guido’s returned my call and said there is nothing wrong with their scallops, refused to cooperate and actually had the nerve to ask me to bring them back! It took every ounce of constraint to ask him how he wanted them packaged. I called the store and am having a manager call me back, since the fish department is so delusional and devoid of the importance of the customer experience. Maybe their manager will teach them a lesson about how to treat customers who go in and can’t even spend less than $ 100 for bread, olive oil and some beets.
⁴⁄₃ update: Matthew owner/​manager sounded concerned and genuinely apologized, and offered a $ 30 gift certificate, but I asked for a refund and he’s willing to work it out. Apparently it’s not something they do. But they did it.
He understood the importance of the customer experience and how that translates to positive revenue for his store. That’s why he’s a manager, and the other guy isn’t.
I have bumped up the stars from two to three. In this day and age, my money is hard-​earned and if you charge me $ 6.00 for a small bunch of asparagus it better be fresh. Same goes for fish. Guidos is part of my foodie experience. It’s unfortunate I had to make three calls. They should have offered me a gift card on top of my refund, not make me call three times. They will only earn another star from me when they exceed my expectations. Being a status quo market? We have plenty of those.

Guido’s is pricey but it has an amazing selection of produce and gluten free options. Whenever I am in Great Barrington I make sure I stop by.

Great place to look at beautiful fresh produce, fish, meat etc. etc.

Not to be a jerk, but my standards have changed over the past four years. (Oh goodness… that sounded a bit horrible, yes? Ha! My apologies.) As a former resident of a small town in Northwestern CT, I used to get SO excited to go to Guido’s, because we could get all sorts of awesome items. Everything at my local Stop & Shop or Big Y was so… generic. I could get organic brands I had never heard of, pick my own baby spinach out of a basket, or get a small pint of micro-​batched ice cream for an exorbitant price… but who cared! It was local, organic, and had figs, cherries, bacon, and mint in it! (Well, not really, but you get the picture.)
Now…not only does my hometown’s Stop & Shop carry many of the once elusive items that only Guido’s carried, so does every place in NYC where I now live, and that includes the bodega across the street that carries six kinds of Cabot cheddar and organic chickpea flour. I don’t feel it’s necessary for me to get more unique items up there anymore when I am visiting home. It’s not necessarily worth the 20 minute drive north. Still, all that being said… I still like Guido’s. It’s a fun and quirky marketplace that still has lots to offer; if I wanted to get something from a local butcher, I’d still trust their selection (namely their seafood) over anything else. I especially enjoy their fresh-​made pastas. And who doesn’t love to sip on hot mulled apple cider while walking around their store, or picking up complimentary gouda and white wine samples?
This place used to be ahead of the game, but now local supermarket chains are catching up and offering many of the same products. It’s the nature of the consumer beast. Still, I consider this place to be quite the staple in Great Barrington. It ain’t going anywhere anytime soon.

I was disappointed in my visit to Guido‘s.
For those of you who might be purchasing fresh seafood or meat here, you will pay absurd prices, think $ 18/​pound for fish. And also pay crazy high prices for coffee, which now haven consumed, was certainly not worth it.
The beer selection is very small and while they had a couple decent selections, Guido‘s really needs to step up their offerings, as it will only benefit their bottom line. Oh well, I plan on going back to Great Barrington in the future, but unless a friend requests it, I do not anticipate stopping back into Guido‘s again.

**Let me warn you the one star is strictly based on the sandwich I ordered**
The market is great and has a wonderful selection of cheeses which is always a plus in my book. The problem is with the sandwich I ordered from the deli counter. I ordered one of their signature sandwiches with ham swiss sprouts onion and instead of the honey mustard I had spicy mustard. So I order the sandwich with the substitution request and it was not a problem at all. While ordering I also made sure to have them use boars head cold cuts. So while the sandwich waws being prepared I was browsing the cheese selection. I went back to the deli and saw him making the sandwich from afar. I called out to him asking if he was using boars head ham because it looked different (it was already sliced when i was talking to him) and he asked if i wanted boars head or something different and I responded with oh no definitely boars head. He told me it was and continued making the sandwich. I am off and on my way when I finally eat the sandwich and i was incredibly upset when I finally bit into it and it was most definitely NOT boars head!!! If I was closer and not in a rush I would have went back. SO disappointed.

Woah… the Guid… where do I start? I love this place man… It seems like every time I try something they made or they carry, I am continually impressed. The service is good and the selection is awesome. My favorite part? Type secret code: screen when I use my debit card at check out… haha The seafood salad is out of this world, the calamari salad is
and the dream bar in their snacks and desserts section is straight ridiculous. Really i could go on and on about everything I love about this place and their selection, but seriously… drive to Barrington… park in the lot, enter the store and set your wallet free… Hooray.

I am a market geek … every time I travel somewhere, one of the first things I do is hit local, non-​chain markets. This is one of the best! Great meats/​fresh seafood!
Made a memorable paella with 100% of ingredients from Guidos!

So helpful and I love their spice bulk counter. I came in looking for Alfalfa Seed for my mother and had been to every whole food and trader Joe I could think of with no luck. I came in and checked out the bulk spice counter where you can literally buy a pinch or a pound of whatever spice/​seed that you would like. And there it was! Alfalfa. The people who were working there were very helpful and efficient.

Gorgeous place. The small carts should be a clue that you should not go on a buying spree here, and our bill was indeed jaw-​dropping. That being said, the produce is glorious, the seafood is a joy to behold. Amazing selection of dry goods by the pound and tons of organic stuff. I spent a long time shopping and enjoyed every moment.
I won’t go shopping there every week, but certainly will to stock up on special items and when I want fantastic food.

Holy Expensive Batman!
This is a gourmet market and carries a wide variety of organic/​locally grown/​gluten free items. This is not really the place that you would come to do a regular shopping trip unless you’ve got money hanging out the anus, in which case– good for you.
The dessert counter has some pretty good desserts. The red velvet cupcakes were pretty good. A little dry but the icing was yummy.
I would come here to get specialized items and maybe some veggies/​fruits, but that’s pretty much about it.

I remember when this place opened way back when. People said it woundn’t last. But, it has. Where else would New Yorkers get their groceries? Big Y? Certainly you jest.
I consider myself a native of the Berkshires, though, and I have shopped here from time to time. Good store.

This is an amazing grocery store. It’s like God picked up the world’s greatest Whole Foods and dropped it in Great Barrington. God also decided to double Whole Foods prices.
That really is my only complaint about this place. The prices are astronomical.
I really dug the samples that they were giving away the day I was in there. I went back at least 5 times.