Graul’s Market Mays Chapel

Great, personal service. Great cakes for birthdays.

What a great old-​time family market! Someone helps with the basket, asks what you’re looking for. At every turn someone to assist you is friendly and helpful. What happened to the rest of the world’s markets? Amazing quality meats and bakery items. Easily the best $ 12 Apple pie ever. Must have weighed 5 pounds! Great NY Strip steaks, beautifully trimmed and on sale. Grilled to perfection later, they were top notch quality.
Hats off to some very nice people and a definite «Supermarket» alternative, giving your money to people who care — felt great!
A++++

I used to go the café for breakfast often but recently 2x in a row, my breakfast sandwich has been ice cold in the middle. The 2^nd time this happened, I complained and they apologized and said they would resolve the issue. The fix was to pop the sandwich in the microwave… my bacon came out more soggy than it was already and the sandwich had hot and cold spots in it. I don’t think I’ll be visiting the restaurant again which is a shame because the employees are so darn nice!!!

We live close by and I go to Graul’s sometimes. Yesterday I got a piece of watermelon (not a whole one) for Four some dollars. This morning I went to another good supermarket in the area, almost the same size and weight watermelon, even fresher and sweeter, HALF PRICE. Guys why are you doing this to people. Why are you taking advantage of being the only market in Mays chapel? High price for produce does not make sense. No wonder why these people are millionaires. you are over price everything. Everything there. It is ridiculous. In this economy and all the problems people are dealing with you fill up your pockets as fast as you can. Shame.

Grauls has the absolute best bakery! They can do anything specialty bakers do for half to a third of the price. Salad bar and deli options are good too!
Would have given a full 5 stars, but for regular groceries, the selection is a little small and the prices a smidge higher than other stores. But since they’re pretty much the only store right in Mays Chapel… it is often more convenient than others.

I am a faithful Grauls’s girl. May’s Chapel location specifically. Great produce, deli, seafood and meat department. The cheese counter is decent. The bakery is amazing though I try to not indulge in the confections too often. (Lie) Chicken salad is bomb. Obvi. The Grauls’s café next door is a plus serving breakfast and lunch. Graul’s staff is consistently kind and helpful. Especially the store managers. That said, I wish that they were open at 7 o’clock.

Handy to have around but DON’T expect great service, friendly staff or fair pricing. Most act like they are doing you a favor, especially at deli counter. Manager walks around with a scowl on his face. Great for a gallon of milk but otherwise move along.

The produce and meat is the very best in quality and freshness. Much better compared to other area supermarkets. Prices may be a bit higher than some area supermarkets but not as high as expected. We don’t mind paying a little extra for the best quality. We purchase many of our basic pantry items from other major supermarkets. However, Graul’s Market is great for fresh produce and meat. We have found that the staff is exceptionally friendly and helpful. They always help you find exactly what you need.

Graul’s market claims to be a outstanding family owned and operated market that take care of the hardworking, dedicated employees. However, outstanding would be the that last adjective to describe them. Dedicated employees are tossed to the side when they find themselves healing from life threatening conditions. Shame on you for your lack of sympathy and understanding.

They almost killed us last night. Bought their sweet italian sausage, cooked it all day in the crockpot and it gave the whole family food poisoning. We’re all still sick. Ridiculous!!!

Graul’s bakery is not a full service bakery — they took an order for customized cupcakes for my daughters birthday and called 8 hours before I was to pickup the order telling be that they couldn’t do the order. I had called and placed the order by phone and then went in person to meet with a decorator to make sure that they could «handle» the order. The decorator told me no problem decorating the cupcakes, but the rude, unprofessional bakery manager whom I spoke with told me that for what I was paying for the cupcakes it wasn’t possible. When I told him that I usually go to Sugarbakers for my cakes and cupcakes but since everyone supposedly loves Graul’s I would give the bakery a try, he said «well I’m sure they charge more than we charge». All I wanted was 18 cupcakes, price didn’t matter — he was horrible and I cancelled my order. If they can’t handle a simple cutout for the top of a cupcake, are they really capable of doing wedding cakes and «real» pastry orders??? Frightening. Graul’s bakery is fine for a food store like Giant to pickup a cookie or rolls, but DON’T order anything from them that actually matters or they’ll leave you high and dry less than a day before your event.

My wife (fiancée at the time) and I chose Graul’s simply because they offered a great selection of wedding cake options for a great price. First you’ll want to call and make an appointment to visit the bakery and taste the different cake flavors they have, an austere process. After you’ve decided on a flavor (we chose plain — tasted great), you’ll want to choose your size. Our cake was a Tier 3 cake that could feed 130 – 160 guests. Let me just point something out to everyone — we had 153 guests at our wedding — basically a third to a half of the cake was left over by the end of the evening. Not everyone is going to eat the cake; some people don’t even like cake to begin with (I know, they’re weird). Also keep in mind there are no gluten free options available at this vendor, only delicious gluten filled cake. I bring this up because my wife is gluten free and subsequently, we ended up baking a small gluten free cake for her and the others who couldn’t enjoy the bakery’s cake. The cake was delivered on time and looked lovely. We ended up adding flowers day of at the venue. Overall, I highly recommend Grauls; you won’t be disappointed.
P. S. — Like others have stated, you’ll want to bring a photo of how you want your cake decorated. They matched the photo we gave them to the T.

Eh. The staff is somewhat snotty, and the deli is hard to get waited on. I will say their shrimp dip is outstanding, as well as their bakery. I feel as though it is not as good as it once was, and I feel a bit intimidated when standing in line waiting to pay by cashiers.
Love Wegmans better for so many reasons more then I can list.

Reading about wedding cakes was making me crazy. Most of the lousy things I’d been steeling myself to expect were basically eliminated by Graul’s.
We used the Mays Chapel store’s bakery, and the folks in this bakery love a challenge — you bring them a picture, they’ll see what they can do. They do tastings — and just use different types of (delicious!) pound cake for all their wedding cakes. And the people there are refreshingly down to earth, excited about helping you figure things out, and NOT trying to upsell you left, right, and center. The lady who did our tasting suggested things and drew a nifty picture of what it should all look like.
Delivery to our venue went off without a hitch, and a friend from college — the friend who taught us all it isn’t worth drinking cheap stuff who has the highest standards in decadent food I know — complimented us because he had never had a good wedding cake before. And we paid half what we would have for a similar cake at another place.
I would give this place ten stars if it went that high. Thanks, Graul’s!

Specialty foods and cheeses, plus fresh fruit and vegetable selection separate this from other grocery stores. We get our steaks here — they are thick and good cuts of meat!
People swear by their cakes — they are really good!

When this one opened up, I was excited. Mind you I was in middle school when they opened, but I love the Ruxton location (since I always got my birthday cakes from them) and since my family was in this area more… well you get the idea.
The prepared foods here and not as good, but they are still delicious. It is a bigger location than Ruxton, so they do indeed have more. However, the food they make is simply not as delicious. But if you’re here, why not.

I give it a 4. Grocery area is a three– very cramped and prices are high. But the cakes are the best in town. My neighbor got me hooked on their cakes for kids birthdays. They do a great job with custom decoration requests and cake is moist and flavorful. Very reasonable prices, much better than the usual grocery store cake.

Cute, tiny little market off Padonia Road in Mays Chapel. Very similar to Eddie’s. We stopped in today to get a cake for a work birthday party and also picked up some lunch. There’s a deli with many choices for to-​go food, as well as made-​to-​order sandwiches. I tried the Ruxton Club on a croissant (good) and the three potato salad (not good), and some mini brownies (awesome). I didn’t try any but the crab cakes looked amazing.
We couldn’t decide on just one cake so we picked out a kahlua crème cake and a cheesecake. I didn’t try the cheesecake but the kahlua crème was the perfect amount of chocolate cake, lots of kahlua, and crème.
I would’ve rated higher but it’s very small, pretty overpriced, and the deli was incredibly slow. A nice change from most of the regular grocery stores in the area, but can’t really compete with Wegman’s for quality, selection, price, and overall delicious-​ness.