Langenstein's

An amazing small market in the heart of the Uptown neighborhood. It's a mainstay in this part of the city and folks have shopped here for many years.The variety of local and housemate product is simply amazing. Most of it looks delicious and they carry a wide variety of food.From coffee to prepared food, to bottled and even ice cream the local presence fits New Orleans perfectly. It was immediately decided that this would be tomorrows dinner spot! The aisles are great to perused and search for unique things. I wish I could take a shopping cart home with me, but, alas merely a pipedream.There's plenty of parking lot area, in front and across the street.

A small cute local grocery store tucked off in Uptown. The staff is great but this store is very small (about 1/5 the size of typical grocery store) so items you want may not be here. What they do have is fresh and good. Their ready-to-eat meals are excellent with a good selection.

had an affair with the milkman environmental friendly and fresh groceries, especially the berries

I have about 5 or 6 groceries in my monthly rotation and this is one of them. It is a small store but it has ALL the essentials. And I can find instant cream of wheat here which I don't see in other shops.What brings this to 5 stars? The seafood market. It is not inexpensive but they are careful with their refrigeration and I consistently find good quality fish, crab and shrimp here. The manager is super nice and I've talked to her about specialty orders but haven't pulled that trigger yet.The takeout food is good to great. And they usually have a variety of items. It can get pretty crazy just before a big holiday. Their produce is good and the store is always well stocked.There is plenty of parking too!

My daughter & I love the food from here! We ordered the steak plate that came with a baked potato & a dinner roll. The perfect dinner

I chose to move to my current house in part because of its proximity to this Langenstein's, and it's one of the best decisions I've ever made. You can find just about anything here, catch up a bit on the local news, and be in and out in about 10 minutes if you want. The people of Langenstein's feel like family, they could not be nicer or more congenial. They are folksy and just plain fun. You can be having a bad day, walk in, and after one of the employees asks you if they can "help you find something, my ladybug?" your heart just swells and you leave smiling.There's nothing like their crawfish monica or stuffed mirliton, and their produce is impeccably fresh, and they carry items you might not find even at bigger stores - leeks, and fennel, rainbow carrots, and heirloom varieties of grapes in season. Add in the super fresh seafood section, and a small but tasty selection of wines, and you are all set. This is a truly local institution and a jewel of the community.

THE UPTOWN VERSION OF ZARA'SAnd while I prefer Zara's slightly, there would be a huge sadness in my heart and void in my gut if either of those institutions closed. The butcher is pretty legendary, the best take-out shrimp remoulade in New Orleans is in their extensive prepared foods area (does anybody else remember "sugar busters?") and the classic logo on their handled brown paper bags is even better than when Melinda Schwegmann's face adorned her grocery chain's bags during her failed 1995 gubernatorial bid.

Rude employee. Only two customers in the entire store at 8:00AM and she was determined to stack her vegetables at the same time the only customers there were stepping around her to shop. She would not step aside to give us access to the shelf. She admonished me for setting my hand-held basket down and hurried me along trying to bag my vegetables. Just move out if the way and let us complete our shopping!!!!!!! There are too many grocery store choices to be hassled by the staff first thing in the morning!

Do not get prepared foods. I got food poisoning and all the manager said was that he was sorry that happened to me.

I live in New England but have visited New Orleans many times in the past and will do so in the future. The extreme scarcity of king cakes in my area led to calling Langensteins last year about having a king cake mailed to me. I initially was told that they typically only FedEx orders, but they agreed to mail this semi-perishable item to me. However, they ran out of that seasonal item. They agreed to mai,one this year.I looked forward to this all year and repeatedly praised Langensteins over the past few weeks. The store reiterated the promise to mail one this past Friday but asked that I call today,I called the same person to whom I had spoken all along only to be told that she would not mail it. Noneif the managers at the three stores would mail the cake. I know that the president and the chief operating officer received my repeated outreach, they chose to ignore it.Store and corporate leadership still refused to accommodate me after learning of the tangible ill impact on my health.as to this easily avoidable aggravation. This reflects the patterns of previously "folksy" businesses still presenting themselves as such but being very corporate and ofeach successive generation of leadership of a family business operating in an increasingly less customer-oriented manner.