Seven Palms Food Center

Great place, friendly owner! People in previous comment have complained about the prices but it's literally a corner store, most of the things one gets from here are things you forget to get at a department store and I'm thankful for this one in particular since they have a wide variety of inventory!

What would I do without Seven Palms? Well, I'd probably spend a little more time on my food runs and head to Safeway, but then that means that I would have to climb the hill on Cedar Street up to my house at the top of the hill. At Seven Palms, I can stop by on my way home from school and work. Nonetheless, after eating my heart out at La Val and stuffing my mouth with mouth-watering pizza, I typically head to Seven Palms for dessert. They have an amazing chocolate selection. They have Ritter Sport! They offer several varieties of Ritter Sport, including milk chocolate (30%) and dark chocolate (50%). Their Ritter Sport costs $2.94. They offer Hershey's and Reeses and the like for $1.25 for the regular-sized versions, and the king-sized selections are $1.85.On a side note, don't buy any of the ice cream sandwiches here because they taste very bad. They taste like they've been sitting beneath the child seat in my Ford Focus for a few months.The prices here are a little on the high side, but that is what happens when you go to school in a well-to-do area. Seven Palms pays a premium rent for its premium location next to La Val. Anyone who opens up shop next to La Val pays a premium because everyone wants to be next to La Val. That way, after you eat La Val, you can stop for more food.My roommate tried taking 20 cents out of the "take a penny, leave a penny" jar at the cashier's desk at Seven Palms, but the cashier got pretty upset at him, so don't do that. Similarly to my boy Drizzy Drake, Seven Palms prefers straight up cash money (dolla dolla billz) over credit cards, so be sure to tip them on your way out. At the front of the store, they offer smaller chocolates (Ghirardelli anyone?) for 50 cents a pop.One more thing: this store has everything!! From peanuts to Honey Dijon kettle chips to sparkling water to eggs to Hennessy to bananas to lottery ticketz to aluminum foil, the Seven Palms "Seven Penintential Psalms" store has you covered for life. They are open late and open early. They offer a bucket for your wet umbrellas. Their muffins taste OK.The same two men run the store. They are quite friendly and helpful! I give them big tip. I wish that Seven Palms sold hoisin sauce so I can put some of dat jaunt into my homemade phò.

Seven Palms isn't a destination unless u live less than a few blocks away and u need something but won't/can't wheel to whole foods/safeway/ ? . then seven palms definitely deserves 4 stars. .everything's here that a minigrocery would have. microbrews limited to 6 packs. seem pricey (10.99). good selection of 24/25 oucers. not all beers priced. buys: tecate beer, 24 oz. (2.19)-my fave mex brew, just add salt and lime drips:-friendly, cordial checkout-pricing a bit high? blame the rent?

This is a cute little store at the corner of Euclid. The owners are super friendly and always greet you with a smile.The store is pretty well stocked in terms of food and is open till about 10 pm on weekdays. However, it is on the pricey side but the timings and the large variety of delicious chocolate make it worth while to visit!!!

I liked Kathleen M's review in which she called Seven Palms the "Seven THIEVES". I am inclined to agree, but there are some times when I still find them absolutely necessary. Usually, that's around 10pm.When you just need that $5 pint of Haagen Daaz ice cream. When you just need that bottle of Whiskey because you need to get that drunk that quickly. Or like this morning, when you are in bed with potential swine flu that's been going around UC Berkeley and you need a combination of advil, cough syrup, and extremely overpriced odwalla orange juice but don't have the energy to walk more than half a block from your house.Then it's Seven Palms to the rescue. And in cases like this, I'm more than happy to pay their prices.(on the plus side, I feel much better than I did last night. Not to worry. I shall be just fine!)

Seven Palms is the neighbourhood grocery store for the Northside. You're darn right that they serve a captive market and that things are priced accordingly. However, a cost-benefit analysis may yet result in a positive net present value, depending how far you want to walk to say Andronicos or Safeway on Shattuck. And as long as I limit my shopping to "onesy, twosy" stuff that I need in a pinch (or a stomach growl), this place is A-OK.

Two words - NEW OWNERSHIP. In the space of a couple of months, the new owner Peter has managed to take what was once the crappiest corner store in Berkeley and remake it into a clean, well-stocked, well-lit grocery store. It's literally night and day, and this is coming from someone who's been going there for a decade.Where there used to be grubby shelves and dusty produce, there is now clean and fresh shelves and items. The new lighting (bright, like a supermarket should be!) not only allows you to feel clean, it also allows you to see how clean everything is!Talk about liquor? The wine selection, which used to be a real miss and miss, now has Andronico's style paper recommendations to help you pick. An entire wall of the store is now stocked with a huge variety of liquors, from the shittiest bottled vodka (don't ask me brands, man, I ain't no bum) to the sweetest Scotch, it's got something for everyone. I bought a bottle of Belvedere's in there. Unbelievable.As a big Boddington's Ale fan, I asked Peter if he could stock it - and he whipped out an order list from his distributor and took a look. When he couldn't find it, I asked to see the list and found it post-haste. He said he'd have it next week - and next week it was there! But wait, there's more! He even asked me about it the following week, wondering what the "little thing inside is." Well, as a nitro brew, like Guiness, it's got a nitro container that busts open when you open the can - so that can make a fella wonder what's up when it's rattling around in there. I explained what it was, but what struck me was that he had -tried it himself-. Now THAT, my friends, is a vendor who cares.In the last couple weeks he's had a freezer wall installed, for frozen foods. 10 years of suggesting this to the previous owner, getting nothing, and it took Peter 2 months to get that sucker in there. Frozen meals, burritos, pizzas, and sandwiches await! I have Fried Chicken cooking in my oven RIGHT NOW.The rest of the family are just as friendly and helpful, getting things from the back if they don't have them up front, or helping you find whatever you need.The regular shelves no longer have grade-z leftovers from whatever crypt the previous owner got his stock. No more Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles raviolios in a can made when Bush, Sr. was president, no sir! Now we have Amy's organic soups, a wide selection of Progresso soups, organic noodle mixes and soup bowls, all kinds of cookies and juices and constantly restocked chips!I'm telling you - if you've ever been in here before, visit it again and you simply won't believe your eyes. Everyone I've gone in there with who hadn't seen the new situation reacted with the same astonishment - followed by smiles as they found things they actually wanted to buy. It's a real treat to finally have a good grocery store in North Berkeley, for those of us who don't want to hike down to Andronico's or Safeway.Take a page from my book and ask for what you want, if they don't have it already. You might just be as surprised as I was to see it in stock next time you go.One caveat: The prices have not significantly changed, so be prepared to pay slightly more than you would anywhere else.What once was a ZERO star "Seven Thieves" is now a delightful FIVE star "Seven Palms." Finally!

IF......I have people over and conversation gets a little slow:I run to Seven Palms for some alcohol....I cook dinner but it tastes a little uninspired:I run to Seven Palms for some bacon....I'm walking home and need to blow my nose urgently:I stop at Seven Palms for some tissues....I run out of Ambien:I crawl to Seven Palms for some Benadryl (it really works!)...I am hungry and on Euclid and tired of Asian food:I get a turkey bacon chipotle sandwich from Seven Palms' deli counter....I face any of the above situations and am not too lazy to walk down to Shattuck:I go to Safeway instead and save around 25% of my money.

They call this place the seven thieves because it is ridiculously over priced. However, it is great to pick stuff up on the way home from school (milk, eggs, diet Pepsi, etc.)Plus if you are desperate for something like, tampons, twine, toilet paper, or Ben and Jerry's, they have it.Open till 9PM.

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