Keil’s Food Store

Keil’s is the best supermarket ever! Great selection of products and amazing customer service! I feel like they are my second family (as I am frequently visiting their establishment more than 3 times a week)! Ed (the store manager) is awesome and runs that store excellently! Love the employees so much!!! Thank you Keil’s for being the best in customer service and for having an amazing selection of items! Will never go anywhere else!

Minus the one star for prices (they are a bit high) but one thing I really appreciate here is all the craft beer/​alcohol selections and convenient location.
A lot of prices for other goods are a bit steep but I choose to go here for the location more than anything else.

Your friendly neighborhood supermarket!
After living in the area for a year this is now my main grocery store for meats and eggs. Fresh chicken, fresh fish, good deli. Never any lines, always open to midnight (even new years eve and new years day) and good service. Really solid all around. Oh and their rotisserie chickens come in flavors the other grocery stores don’t have (lemon pepper or garlic, yum!)
The people behind the counters have always been pleasant to work with. I don’t usually engage them in long conversations but when I’m in line behind a regular it seems like they are really personable.

I am very happy this is my local neighborhood grocery store. All the employees are cheerful, willing and able to help. The lines are ways short. The place is always super clean. The bakery section is great. The deli meat counter has high quality choices and they make a suburb sandwich at a super fair price. The prices here in general are very fair but the service and politeness is what I love about this place. Old school customer service with happy people all around. It actually wears off on all the customers. Everyone says hello to each other. I feel like I go into a time warp back when people were nicer to each other every time I go in. Bravo!

What’s not to love! Great customer service, clean store and great prices. I feel at home when shopping and enjoy stopping in weekly. Keep it up!

Just wanted to let Ed and Rick (managers/​owner) how much I appreciate Maria
on your staff… she is always so warm and pleasant and makes your visit even
more special. Your whole team is awesome and with all the Haggen’s shutting down
just good to know that we still have you in our neighborhood… you are part of our
community and we love and respect you for that…

Amazing selection and quality! Very clean and staff is very friendly, welcoming, and helpful. Huge parking lot. The store feels small yet they have a great selection of beer, produce, baked goods, condiments, and I don’t even remember what else. We walked every aisle and I was just impressed again and again. The one thing lacking that I noticed was the number of meats available at the deli. Service was prompt and fast though, which is better than most places.
Out of the way a bit but a fantastic grocery store.

Great for those late night runs! The staff is incredibly helpful and friendly as well.

Great supermarket! A little pricier than your everyday store, but much more interesting variety. I first learned about Keil’s during the grocery strike a few years ago. It was nice enough that I often stopped when visiting a friend who lived nearby or on the way home from Mission Trails Regional Park. I don’t go often these days but wanted to get a good review up there for those of you wondering about this store. It’s a keeper!

Love Keils. I think their deli sammies have moved up to my #1. Very consistent and you can choose from any of their meats and cheeses and they are sliced to order. $ 6 – 7. Don’t forget to ask for a sandwich card. Buy 10, get one free! Deli salads are also solid — especially the Festive Feta. Rotisserie chickens come in a variety of flavors and seem to have less filler/​water weight than other grocery store chickens. $ 7 all the time. Produce is a little pricier and prices can be difficult to locate on the displays. They do have a good selection and everything seems pretty fresh. Keils is great because they have a lot of the big name brands in addition to some smaller/​local/​harder to find items… Chicago Mix popcorn, Chimes mango ginger chews, Funky Fusion Dirty chips, to name a few preferred items.
Today the customer service was above and beyond. I realized I had forgotten a red onion and instead of just allowing me to go get one and ring out again, she asked a co-​worker to grab one for me and told me she’d just charge me .50 cents. The boyfriend and I looked for two quarters but we each only had a collection or random coins. She just took a few (less than .50 cents) and gave us back to rest. How sweet!
Keils, don’t you ever change.

Store Manager, Ed Yankovich is the Gluten Free guru of grocery stores in San Diego. He’s committed to making the Keil’s San Carlos location «The Friendliest Gluten Free Store in Town.» Usually when I go grocery shopping, most stores only have one gluten free aisle or some small area labeled gluten free. Keil’s is the first grocery store I have ever been to that has multiple aisles of gluten free dry goods and over ten designated gluten free freezers. This is the grocery store you need to go to if you are looking for anything gluten free! The attention to detail and variety is evident when you walk into Keil’s, they have more gluten free brands than I have ever seen all at once!

Super friendly neighborhood market. I would highly recommend buying your fish here. The salmon is always fresh. Not a big selection, but the polite staff makes up for all of that. Wish there were more organic produce.

So I came here looking for my favorite brand of cookies, Dancing Deer. Their website listed this store as carrying them. They didn’t have them. I did find a lot of other things here though, including Tastykakes, which I haven’t seen in San Diego before. The deli and bakery were probably the best part of this store for me. The employees there were all very friendly and helpful, the opposite of the one I encountered at the checkout. I would probably come back to try more of the salads from the deli, but a lot of the grocery items are overpriced to be honest.

Yay! I found Brewers Yeast (needed for a recipe I’m trying). I’ve gone to fresh & easy, walmart, albertsons, & trader joes in the La Mesa area. No luck & finally found Brewers Yeast. & they are open until midnight, this is great for me. Price is a little above «average» maybe by a dollar. Nice store for quicker picker uppers & open late! Some nice sales on a good day.

Throw back to a grocery store before huge chains took over. I don’t know if this is a chain or not but there was friendly employees everywhere, well stocked shelves, clean facilities, and charming décor. A kind employee offered balloons to my kids and they were pretty happy about that.
I don’t think we know what we’re missing…

I can walk to Kiel ’ s and it’s definitely a couple of notches above von’s & similar groceries.
Wine selection is great and it’s open till midnight !

I’m the primary cook for our household, and so the chief grocery shopper, and I’m not averse to visiting multiple stores in the process of stocking up. I buy most staple goods at whatever store has the week’s best prices; Westbean roasts my coffee; I’m constantly looking for good bread; Venissimo tempts me with stinky cheese and Whole Foods with quirky vegetables; and I buy seafood at World Foods, or I catch it myself.
For more than 15 years, Keil’s has been my preferred choice for meats, most produce, and deli items. I also bought lots of seafood at Keil’s until they replaced their seafood counter with a refrigerated rack holding portioned seafood packages.
Keil’s employs actual meat-​cutters, not just guys who can open a box of steaks and wrap them in plastic. Also, over the years, Keil’s produce has been managed by a series of very competent fellows who have always been willing to provide recommendations, cautions and samples of the day’s best choices. And the deli sells Boar’s Head meats and cheeses, which are probably the best alternatives to making such things oneself, and Keil’s tuna salad (the deli’s best-​seller) has dissuaded me from ever opening another can of tuna myself.
I see my neighbors at Keil’s and the clerks know my name; neither thing is true of Von’s, Albertson’s or the other large stores I’ve patronized for the same 15 years. I’m happy to have Keil’s so close to my home.
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The Westbean Coffee Roasters:
Venissimo Cheese:
World Foods Supermarket:
Vons:

We’ve been going Keil’s for nearing twenty years. It’s convenient because it’s close, parking is easy, they have a good selection and fair prices. We have gotten to know a number of the employees and it is a friendly place to shop. I must say over the last two or three years it has improved. They have even special ordered some items for me. It is worth looking in their flyer for sale items. Items to by there are eggs, dairy products, canned and boxed goods, condiments, frozen food, some meats and some produce.
Unfortunately their produce if sometimes hit or miss in terms of freshness and sometimes not priced too well. I am careful with the meat, but recently bought some very good tritip roast on sale which was priced cheaper than Costco. We used to get their rotisserie chicken, but this has gone down in quality. All these negtatives are easy fixes.
The staff are almost all very friendly and helpful. It’s a good place to shop and definitely better than Vons, Albetson’s or Ralph’s

Five stars for having items I cannot find at much-​bigger Albertson’s, but minus a star for slow check out and rarely having enough checkouts open to accommodate all the elderly who wait until all of their groceries have been checked and bagged before they drag out the checkbook … and the pen… and write their check out… and then have to search for ID… Oh My!
Oh and minus a star for checker Chrystal who was there on Mother’s Day 2014. Chrystal, who died sister? I don’t think anyone could have pried a smile out of her for love or money. She managed to make «HAVE A NICE DAY» into an insult…
A little customer service goes a long way.

Decent selection, nice layout, the store is clean and has a decent beer selection. The pricing is hit or miss. Competitive pricing on a lot of items but the local competition seems to have an upper-​hand on the pricing in a few categories. For example, a lot of the beer is cheaper elsewhere, some of their frozen desserts are pricier (over $ 1) here and there.
Overall it’s a nice grocery store to have in the little San Carlos shopping center but keep an eye on the prices of some of the food items, they can be found cheaper at a couple of their competitors (Windmill Farms, Fresh and Easy, Albertsons, Trader Joe’s, etc.)