Metropolitan Market

First visit was on 9/3/23 - very brief. Fresh pasta and cookies. Second visit was 10/29/23 - finally able to wander each aisle leisurely.Really enjoyed the culinary gear and housewares section. Rishi teas, cheeses, and a cookie.Nice grocery store. A bit spendy. One can get an Italian moka pot, but not a brick of Velveeta to make game day queso, lol. I'll stick with the Town & Country Market, Safeway, and the Fil-Am shop in Shoreline. Worthy detour though if you want a guaranteed fresh baked Metropolitan Market signature Cookie.

It's a nice grocery store, they have everything you need. I love the fresh citrus drinks. However,every time I come here, there's macho security dudes with guns hanging out being intimidating. Tonight there was an extra bonus of a police officer being very demonstrative and showy. I feel less safe with dudes with guns hanging out at a relatively safe location. Be safe everyone.

High Hopes, missing food, and customer service failures. I've been so longing for what seems forever, for some organization to take the old QFC/Value Village location on Crown Hill, to new heights. Enter the rumor, then confirmation, and now launch of the newest location of Metropolitan Market. An upscale grocery, owned by the Korean Retailer: Emart. But you won't find their food standard here, per se... instead their California subsidiary Good Food Holdings run things. They have had locations of their "Met Market" around Seattle for decades, so it's not a surprise that when it was announced they were building this location, high hopes flourished across my community. So after a crazy rush of people during the first few weeks of operations, things have calmed down a bit for me to come back, and see if they are living up to the high quality food that I have come to expect. Truth be told, I have always enjoyed Met Market food, when I lived on Queen Anne, it was my go-to for many things. Unfortunately, this location isn't living up to those standards yet... in fact, during the first couple week, and even now, about a month into their operations, they are still missing lots of the staples in their Hot Prep foods area, that has left me leaving the store empty handed. No Hot Breakfast options, as of a couple weeks ago, and nothing in the "chill case" either. Their Cupcake options are lacking, tell me why it's okay to only sell the same vanilla cupcake, with three frosting colors, but all basically the same flavor? Also, why $5 dollars each, for something that resembles the size of your home made, from a box style cupcake? Why not bigger, more lovely, and something that makes the cost worth an experience? For $0.50 cents more, you can go to one of top cupcake places in the country, and get a massive cupcake there...Ignoring the store has no soul, or flavor, it's gentrified washed look tells me it was all planned to look this way, the service doesn't seem to hold up either. An upscale grocery should NOT have self-checkout machines... there is no human connection, no reason to have an experience that differs from the Fred Meyer or Safeway down the street. I don't blame the staff, I blame the poor signage, lack of identity, or store designers that are looking for efficacy, over memorable food experiences. Also, being someone who lives nearby, I received a lovely mailer, with a promo card, a week or so before Grand Opening, and signed up for emails/offers. I was excited... I signed up... and nothing. I don't like receiving spam, but I was literally giving my contact information away, with permission to receive your marketing content... and nothing. I'm literally the target audience, middle to higher income, leans or has an affinity toward buzz words like "ancient" or "natural", I love yelping, and from brith to today (40+ years), I have lived in this community. Customer Service Fail here. I even emailed MetMarket to ask to be placed on their mailing list.... and nope, not even an acknowledge they received my email. Look, the store may be clean, generally well-stocked, an while higher priced than competitors, I could look past that, when it comes to food quality. My hopes were dashed, missing essentials in the hot bar, and I have yet to hear back about all the promotions I missed from my neighborhood grocery. I'll probably go back again, like today, to get a cookie for my child, but the taste of corporate feel of customer service, and lack of grocery store soul, has left me lacking.

Super happy to have a brand new Met Market nearby! It's a beautiful store and a great addition to the neighborhood. The employees have been so friendly and helpful. Recommend coming either early or late in the evening, due to how chaotic the small parking lot can be during the day.

Hallelujah! Rejoice and be glad!Metropolitan Market has arrived on Crown Hill.Seattle's best grocery store, deli, bakery, café, and cookware shop all rolled into one has finally opened up.Some will remember when the building used to house a Value Village, but before that, it was QFC. So once again, we have two grocery stores at the intersection of NW 85th St. and 15th Ave NW.And the best department of all? The CHEESE Department, of course. See my pictures and video from Opening Day. You won't find a more comprehensive selection of cheese styles in any other grocery store. The cheesemongers are friendly and helpful. Who wouldn't be happy working around such a wonderful selection of stock?I was so impressed with the gorgeous display on their very first day, I just had to shoot a video of all that cheese. But Yelp edited my cheese video. You could say that Yelp cut the cheese (video). Anyway, go check out Met Market for yourself, and hang in out the cheese department. Take your time, talk to the cheesemongers on duty, ask questions, or request a sample. You'll brie happy you did.

When we moved to North Tacoma, from West Seattle, I insisted that our new house be within a mile of Met Market. We had one right around the corner in West Seattle, and it was important for me to continue to have ready access to this beautiful and welcoming market full of high-quality products - especially their produce, meat/seafood, and bakery. We regularly shop here for our weekly needs and it's always the first place we go for special occasions - parties, holidays, etc. We've had holiday meals catered here, and our guests always rave about the food. Our friends and family, when visiting, always insist on stopping at MM. It's really that good So happy I still have my favorite market so close by!

If you're Black, then stay away from the Crown Hill location at 8532 15TH AVE NW in the Ballard neighborhood because the hostile clerks pretend that you're invisible and refuse to provide service.When I went inside today, three store clerks made it obvious they followed me around to see if I were shoplifting. Strike one. I went over to the fishmonger for a half pound of halibut and salmon but the guy pretended that I was invisible and acted as if he were too busy to help out a customer. Strike two. I went to self serve check out land which automatically timed out to prevent me from scanning groceries without assistance from the clerk. When the clerk arrived, she condescended and chastised me. Strike three. I demanded to speak with the store manager about my less than satisfactory store experience, that clerk told me a bald face lie and claimed he was not available. I unpacked all the groceries for my bags and immediately left the store because I refuse to accept poor treatment from people who have zero respect for Black people. A few hours later that same day, I called back and a Black lady in customer service ran interference for the store manager to handle the "Black problem". Although she twice attempted to transfer my call, she disconnected the line sending the direct message my experience didn't matter. I called again and spoke with the nonplussed store manager who acknowledged nothing about my experience and brushed aside my comments with the flat statement that he'd look at the video, as if to insinuate some type of crime had occurred. Evidently, in Ballard there's a crime called shopping while Black especially in high end stores such as Metropolitan Market.

I got some guacamole from the deli or prepared food area and it was supper salty. Can't barely taste the avocado. I hope the chef would do random tasting on all his prepared food. Whoever made that was not paying attention.

I could come here for breakfast, lunch, and dinner every day! They have such a great selection of ready-to-eat and made-to-order food. It's a little on the expensive side, but they've obviously staked out a higher quality, higher price position.

Great selection of birthday gifts and party goods! This is the place to go for all your party gifts and extras. Plus, lots of kitchen gadgets, games,candles, and toys for the kids!