Blue Star Provisions

Love this place! They have a large selection of locally made, fresh and healthy foods. Always happy with my selections and I try something new every time. Their smoothies are the best too!

A little grocery store next to Halcyon. Sounds like a good idea until you get inside. This place is definitely on the pricey side. A pint of ice cream for $ 8?! Yikes! Yes some of it is organic and following the same standards of its namesake Blue Star, but wow! I like the concept and am a big supporter of eating as healthy as possible. But will need to get over the sticker shock! I don’t frequent this area as much as I used to, so going out of my way to shop here isn’t realistic for me. For me I think I could find just as good for less of the price at Central Market, or Sprout’s. However if you do live in the area by all means eat as clean as possible, and I’m sure this store can give you just that. I like that there is a sitting area, did forget to ask if they had wifi available. If I’m in the area I’ll definitely pop back in and take a look around again.

As mentioned by two other reviewers, the most unfortunate part of this store are that many of the products aren’t unique and can be found at Whole Foods. I don’t mind paying more for specialty items, but Blue Star Provisions isn’t particularly carrying much special. Or rather, if they are it does get shadowed by the Tazo Tea you could buy at Target, HEB, Walmart etc. That tea could instead be either a local tea from Austin or San Antonio, or another unique blend that we can’t get elsewhere in the city from the west coast (looking at Red Blossom Tea Company).
In Fayetteville, Arkansas there is a store like this called, Blackboard. I really hope the owner looks that business up to see what they carry and how they are doing it right. The owner is an Austin native that stocks her store with local Arkansas products, cheeses from New York City that you can’t get anywhere else in town, really unique products like spicy honey, and lots of «treat yoself «goods like beautifully packaged fair trade chocolates. If I needed to buy a gift, that is where I went, and their square footage was way tinier than Blue Star Provisions.
I do shop at Provisions about once a week. I want it to stay because I don’t use cars and live in this part of town because it has a better walkscore than most of San Antonio. Until they stopped having it on tap, we would fill up our gallon jug with delicious 99 cents mineral water made in store. Later we still came back for still water until we bought a water filter. We also filled our growler with a few things. The Austin based Basil kombucha was awesome, fhe raspberry beer was sour and seemingly not brewed right, and the cold brew coffee was good but fizzy (is on tap coffee supposed to be fizzy?)
They carry just one brand of milk and while I’m not sure whether it’s available in town elsewhere or not, the whole milk Milk King Milk is decadent. Definitely so rich it should be enjoyed alone or with your coffee and tea, not your breakfast cereal.
Over all I want this place to succeed but I wish it’d be better. I get the impression that «current/​with the times» businesses in San Antonio catering to the millennial influx or locals eager for businesses that make the Austin commute unnecessary are getting by with doing good enough because they have no competition. Unfortunately they are charging prices that reflect the monopoly but not awesome quality.

Great spot. Very cool setup. This place is great for grabbing some high end grocery items. They also have a great selection of craft beer on tap with growler fills. That includes cold brewed nitro coffee and kombucha. The pineapple green kombucha from Buddhas brew in Austin was the best I’ve ever had.

I never like to shop at boutique grocery joints because I normally leave feeling depressed about how much I spent on only a few things, but that’s not the case with Blue Star Provisions. Just this afternoon I paid only $ 7 for the following:
two bean and cheese tacos (so good)
a container of their homemade creamy jalapeño salsa (THE BEST, please buy it so they will hopefully make even bigger containers to feed my addition)
and a gallon of seltzer on tap (yes, in addition to their beer on tap they also have kombucha, seltzer water, and reverse osmosis water, what??).
My favorite part of this place is that when you look through the shop you can really tell there’s a huge sense of pride that goes into their selections with tons of locally sourced items that normally you would have to grab at the farmer’s market (mother culture yogurt! Pawsitively Sweet Bakery! and more, more, more!). I love the items they pick, and I’m so glad they’re here!

We went on the last day of their Grand Opening weekend. I had been following the progress of this place on Facebook for a while, and I was really excited to go check it out. We don’t live in Southtown, but we really love the area and are there quite often to eat at our favorite pizza spot, Stella Public House. Overall, I was really disappointed with this little shop. Almost everything there, besides a few items unique to blue Star, you can find cheaper at Whole Foods! I don’t know how they raised prices higher than Whole Foods, but they did it. I bought some laundry dryer balls there that I had seen on Facebook, and a small bag of anise seeds. I tried to make conversation with the cashier and ask a few things about the place, but it seemed like they didn’t have any desire to talk to us, even though nobody else was in the shop. It seemed very unfriendly and awkward. While getting pizza after, our waiter let us try the cookies from Blue Star Provisions, and they were awesome! So we had to go back for those. But they’re literally the only thing I would go back for.

It’s a great downtown-​locals-​community-​grocery for those who choose to live there, cut off from the convenience (and pricing) of real grocery stores. I love that there are fresh-​baked goods (available while they last) and a cold-​pressed juice counter (try the Horchata drink!), not to mention the beer taps in the refrigerator.
The produce section is limited and pricey, and if you come by after about noon the baked goods tend to be sold out– they just opened a couple of months ago, so maybe it’s just a matter of figuring out how much to make on any given day.
Boosting my rating by a star because of the massive SUGGESTIONS banner up front– owners seem genuinely invested in the community and making their business fit what their core customers want.

Open about 6 weeks, Blue Star Provisions looks set to corner the local market in imported eclectic food items in an equally eclectic neighborhood.
This shop is located adjacent to Halcyon in the Blue Star complex. It’s actually attached, both architecturally and entrepreneurially to the Blue Star Brewery next door — hence the name. The owner was very outgoing describing the various products, where they’re from, and his culinary creations both for this shop and for the brewery next door.
Most of the items are fairly common import items you can find in bigger grocery chains. Amongst those items are some more interesting things like Honey & Sunflower Seed Spread. They even have some bread made fresh locally and some meat from farms not too far from San Antonio. They have bulk items as well e.g. jelly beans, gummy worms etc., as well as some spices.
A few standouts worth mentioning are the «growler» station in their cooler, the cold-​pressed juice bar, and their home made kolaches. The «growler» station has around a dozen items on tap, literally, but not just brews. Evidentially, they were sold out of their on-​tap kombucha… They also have, for example, sparkling water available in growler form. Prices vary based on product and size. And yes, they do sell the growlers in store.
Additionally, Blue Star Provisions has a cold-​pressed juice bar. While juice bars are becoming more and more common, cold-​pressed juice bars seem harder to find in River City. Well, this place will sort you out.
Lastly, the shop proprietor, or one of them, is also a chef or sorts. He prepares kolaches fresh daily and in some quite interesting varieties like Peaches & Cream w/​toasted pecan. The didn’t look like the kolaches we’re used to getting at most places here but I’d certainly give them a go. Oh, they also have a seating area behind their shop just in case you can’t wait to down your kolache and fresh from the tap kombucha.
Next time I’m in the neighborhood, I will be trying a kolache — that’s a given.