Hy-Vee Food Stores

Terrific breakfast of eggs, hashbrowns, toast, and coffee. I always order my eggs «over medium» and they were cooked perfectly! The hashbrowns were abundant and perfectly done. Service was top-​notch and price was good. I had virtually the same meal the day before at Perkins and it was twice as expensive and half as delicious.

Once you get past the idea of a good restaurant in a grocery store, you’re in for a treat. The food is tremendous. Everything from Blackened Shrimp to a Teriyaki Burger. The atmosphere is excellent. They have an excellent beer and wine selection and the manager Kumail will go out of his way to accommodate you. All pasta selections are offered with gluten free pasta and are absolutely delicious. They also have Wine and Food matching nights with 6 different Wine/​Food courses. Do yourself a favor and try eating at a first-​class restaurant in a grocery store.

We have frequented this breakfast many times since it opened… unfortunately, the quality of food has gone down. The service is still strong, and it’s not a bad price, but more and more we are returning to pescara as our standard for breakfast.

Need more check-​out and baggers from 7:00am-8:00am on the weekends. Otherwise very friendly staff

This review is for Barlow’s Hyvee supermarket and does not encompass any other store in the Hyvee chain.
Barlow’s is frickin’ awesome! Probably hands down the best supermarket/​grocery store I have ever been in. When I lived in Rochester from 1998 – 2002, I shopped here exclusively after learning of its existence. The produce is fresh and there is a huge variety. They have a fairly large World Foods section, which is the main reason I go there. Granted in the 11 years I have been gone, a lot of ethnic grocery stores have popped up around Rochester and I plan to check them all out real soon. But when you are cooking up a green curry or pollo en mole, Barlow’s has the one ingredient that you ran out of last time but forgot to pickup during your last 13 stops at the grocery store.
Their meat dept is clean and well stocked. Their butchers are friendly and knowledgeable about the types of meat and cuts they offer. This is the kind of place where you can order several pounds of beef brisket with an inch of fat on one side, and they won’t look at you like you are from Mars then ask if you wanted a Corned Beef Brisket as has happened to me everywhere I tried this in Northern Minnesota.
Prices here are reasonable, but not so low it screams employee wage abuse like it does at Walmart.
Overall, I am excited to be living so close to this establishment once again!

Conveniently located close to home. Good selection, decent prices, friendly staff. Love the fuel savers card! That in itself adds the 4^th star, otherwise I’d give them 3.

Very large full service grocery store. This is where you go if your not looking for the cheapest price in town, but want the best service. They go out of their way to get you what you want. The bakery made a fantastic shower cake for me and their meat dept. is outstanding. I would give them five stars except for the prices are a bit higher than what I like to spend since I’m so frugal!

I have been away from the local grocery store Hy-​Vee for a few years now and it was fun to swing in again today to grab some stuff to make a meal. I always enjoy seeing basil plants for 5.00-Got stuff to make strawberry shortcakes… and the berries were two for 5.00 and we got some pound cake from the Hy-​Vee bakery that was fresh and buttery and worked well. The meat case looked clean and appetizing — they had some huge jumbo king crab legs for 27.00 a lb. Had to purchase some Arborio rice and they actually had a few different brands… also a big selection of chicken stock brands… This is a very large store and they carry a great selection.

I agree with the review on produce that was written in 2009! Now in 2012, the produce is still unappealing. I realize I’m spoiled having grown up in the other Rochester NY — home of Danny Wegman and Wegmans supermarkets, but this store seemed stuck about 30 years in the past. I’ll have to find this «Barlow plaza» someone spoke of, before I give up on hyvee altogether.

I had their deli-​made lasagne at a local event, and it was quite good, better than any frozen lasagne I’ve ever had. The cheese was in copious amounts, chewy, and tasty. I was genuinely impressed. Bravo grocery store!

Upping the stars by 1.
Hy-​Vee is very consistent. The food selection is still just ok (seems to be getting a little better), but they really do shine in customer service. The people checking my groceries are always nice and competent, and so are the people roving the aisles. It could be worse!

Prices are decent, and can be dirt cheap on sale items. The store is clean, the staff helpful, and the selection ample (although not impressively so).
Why only 3 stars? The produce. I know Hy-​Vee can do produce with a reasonable degree of quality — the Barlow Plaza store shows that. So why does this store regularly display lettuce that is going soggy in the bag, and mushrooms in the middle stages of decomposition, or cilantro that is wilted within 2 days of coming home with you? And the selection of hot peppers… It’s just sad.