I highly recommend the Kombucha on tap here. I tried the brand in Chicago and was able to trace it…read moreto this store in Berkeley. Too bad I don't go to school here or I'd drink it all the time. It's the Marin Kombucha in Pinot Sage! Also, give the Way to Life granola a try. I've never had such lightly crisp or fragrant granola before. I first had it at a Farmer's Market in SF so I was so grateful they had it here! I think Vanilla Almond is the best flavor. It definitely is a small store with select items. But the items they have are the ones the larger chains don't carry! I like the dedication to natural and wholistic foods.

Great values, nice people, very expensive, limited selection, potentially old/not-as-fresh produce…read more I've been coming here on and off for the past few years (lockdown excluded) on my way home after RSF visits. Convenient place to grab something like a spice, frozen meal, or miscellaneous kitchen item. But you'll pay for that convenience. I find items are marked up ~20% compared to TJ's or Safeway. That said, I recognize this place isn't a massive chain and goes out of its way to maintain certain standards/values that regular grocers don't. I recently bought some cookies (pictured below) and a pound of pinto beans which came out to $8 after a 10% discount (tip at time of writing: get discount by filling out survey). Cookies actually tasted fantastic. The dried pinto beans seem to be a bit old based on how long it took to prepare them, still okay though. I decided not to go for the fresh fruit because they looked battered. Overall, nice place that's conveniently located, but on the pricier side and doesn't have enough to cover all your grocery needs.

This store is so clean and pathetic. I walk in to hear calming jazz and a beautiful woman behind…read morethe counter greets me. It's completely spotless and organized as well as chock full of all kinds of products. Has snacks, groceries etc.

This place is super expensive and small and the food sucks so I wouldn't recommend going here.read more

Great mini mart next to my daughter's apartment. I park on the side street but have gone in many…read moretimes. Nice people, have most items you might need, clean and a pleasure to shop there.

Great service and helpful owner. This is the best shop in the area. Prices are a tad high but seen…read morecomparable to the area.

The shop is kinda funky on first impression, but cool. I was warmly greeted and served immediately…read more We got 2 sandwiches, that were generously sized and filled, with nice fresh ingredients, and were delicious. The convenience store part had a nice selection of snacks, with ice cold drinks in the fridge. We'll go again today when we return to our hotel. They're nice folks, doing great sandwiches.

I love E-Z Stop I have been coming to this deli for ages…read moreand when I say ages I mean since I was a little girl back in the early 90's when my parents would come to the deli. In the early 2000's I would come here often for lunch when I was in high school and till this day I still come by here to get a great sandwich for the best price. All the fresh veggies that you can get from other well known sandwich shops. All the options of bread that love all with that home like feeling from a NY family run sandwich shop.

That's the best store in Berkeley And they have everything…read moreand they are good customer service and clean store that's amazing

PROS: -So much selection and specialty foods…read more -FREE Parking lot across the street -Clean Bathrooms- not in the store, but on the premises. -Friendly and knowledgeable staff. -Fresh produce and flowers- locally grown! KEEP IN MIND -It can get BUSY- depending on the time of day and week -with that said, even with the parking lot, it may be full and you'll have to find street parking. -Considering how crowded it can get, navigating around the store can be a little tricky, esp. with a cart. -It can a little overwhelming especially if it's your first time there AND it's busy. I always love coming here! But I go when it's not peak hours bc when it's busy, it's like Costco, so be mentally prepared AND patient- with other customers and the staff.

I never knew about Berkeley Bowl Marketplace until my wife told me about it years ago. We recently…read moretook a friend to BBM, and she was very impressed with their produce and variety. I mean you can find so many different variety of apples, oranges, mushrooms, etc. [From the internet] "Unmatched Variety: The store is celebrated for carrying dozens of varieties of single items--such as 15 different kinds of apples or half a dozen types of artichokes." For example, Chocolate Navel Oranges: a rare citrus tree variety featuring a unique deep bronze-brown rind and sweet, low-acid, bright orange flesh. The taste of a Chocolate Navel Orange is exceptionally sweet, rich, and mellow, often described as a "gourmet" upgrade to a standard orange. Starkrimson Pears: a striking, sweet, and juicy late-summer variety distinguished by its vibrant crimson-red skin and thick, stocky stem. Pink Pearl Apples: a rare heirloom variety featuring translucent, yellow-green skin and a striking, vibrant bright-pink flesh. Crisp and juicy with a tart to sweet-tart taste, offering tangy berry and subtle grapefruit notes. Come check out this local gem! Support your local businesses.

This is a condensed Bear Market that also accepts meal points. Luckily you can pay here for…read morewhatever you order from Foothill dining room to avoid the line(s). The back wall is fridge heaven with lines and lines of soda, juices, milk, water, etc. Also, a devoted freezer for desserts like the Nestle chocolate chip cookie sandwiches, mint ice cream sandwiches, Haagen Dazs pints and ice cream bars, and that sort. For a quick grab, there are the yogurt parfaits, pre-packed Asian rice bowls (cold), paninis, sandwiches, salads, and much more. There's also the standard candy and gum selection of course. Toward the register, you see Pocky and Japanese gummy candies. The stainless steel Klean Kanteen bottles are sold here as well. Lotions, scantrons, blue books, ramen, cookies, just go check it out yourself already if you're in the area!

Alright grocery store for meal points. Mainly a lot of junk food and processed foods, overpriced…read morefruit and yogurt. But they take meal points! So if you need to spend them, come on over.

First time in Berkeley Bowl. And it didn't disappoint. It was so many exciting items. My favorite…read moredrinks at a great price as well! Hawaiian Suns the tea flavor omg! $1.29 yes please! Then they have the cutest bags! Like so cute! I can't wait to buy more and send some to my cousin in Kansas. They have pink,purple,green and blue! Please see pictures thank you. Everyone was so nice. Then I left and saw someone with warm food! I went right back in delicious! Special only $10.99 wow! She put so much food in there she was nice enough to put a rubber band on it! She was very nice. The cashiers very pleasant. The lady that was stocking shelves very helpful. I can't wait to come back!

All grocery stores are (somewhat literally) a mixed bag, and Berkeley Bowl West is a grocery store…read more It is one of two Berkeley Bowl stores, and is the one of the two I have the most experience with. Berkeley Bowl West is celebrated for the vast variety of its produce. I like to shop as much as possible for organic items, and they definitely have fewer organic produce choices than non-organic; but there is still a reasonably large variety, of good quality. They have a nice variety of other kinds of items as well. Some prices are high, some are reasonable. I've been requesting delivery orders since 2020, so my in-store experience is dated; but in early 2020 and previously, the parking lot was impossibly crowded every time we brought a car, and the store aisles were relatively narrow, making the store also feel crowded at pretty much all times, especially in the produce section. Berkeley Bowl deliveries come from the Berkeley Bowl West store. Up until this month, they were a tolerable delivery option. I could order without creating an account, the orders would always arrive on time or early, they usually followed delivery instructions, and they were comparable to other delivery services in that I mostly got fresh produce and the items I ordered. Their team was responsive and nice if I got a wrong or defective item. This month, they changed their website. It's possible that some people love the changes. In my opinion, it is a vastly inferior experience. It's now mandatory to create an account in order to request a delivery, and they saved all of my data without permission! They used to tell you whether you were requesting produce by the pound or individual items; now you have to infer from the total cost of the item. The navigation system does not show all of the items in a category, at least when it comes to meat alternatives. The search for individual items isn't good either, but online store searches are often not great. It's unclear whether the system saves substitution preferences when you place an order. The system only recognizes certain types of addresses; if your address isn't in their system, for delivery or billing, then oh well. There doesn't seem to be any option to cancel an order. They have some unclickable edit buttons on your order page; why are they there if you can't actually edit that category? On top of all of that, they added a five percent service fee, in addition to their delivery fee and driver tip. Depending on the size of your order, that is a significant increase in fees, and was a big shock when it appeared on the final page during checkout. With this new fee added, the total delivery cost for my order today (and my last order for a long, long time) was about forty dollars for four bags of normal groceries; no extravagant items. That's ten dollars per bag! That's a crazy high amount; definitely a splurge, not a normal way to buy groceries, in my opinion. (People with a much higher grocery budget may disagree.) For comparison, if I was to rate other local stores, I would rate Safeway two stars, Whole Foods, El Cerrito Natural Grocery, and Good Eggs three stars, and Trader Joe's and Costco four stars. That's taking prices, delivery options, general staff morale, and item variety into account. Trader Joe's doesn't have delivery options (as far as I know), but everything else about their stores still averages out to a four, for me. I will still shop at Berkeley Bowl West, but sparingly. I would be sad if they didn't exist. I really appreciate the variety, and the general professionalism of their small local chain. I really wish they would roll back their online shopping experience to how it was before they changed it in July. As it was, because of prices, I would request a delivery from Berkeley Bowl West once a month at most; it will now likely be once every four to six months. At some point I will probably go back to occasionally braving the crowds in the parking lot and in-store, and bypass the convenience of delivery altogether.