Garden of Eden Marketplace
“While my entire office building fights the mobs at the Chelsea Whole Foods, I head one block further down to the quieter Garden of Eden for some of the best ready-made sushi in the city!”
“In tight quarters, they manage to pack a lot of fresh produce, baker, butcher, cheese monger, hot food buffet plus lots of dry goods.”
“They had a really great salad bar, a nice selection of cheeses, and yummy looking baked goods.”
Garden of Eden Marketplace
Take-out: Yes
Accepts Credit Cards: Yes
Accepts Apple Pay: Yes
Bike Parking: Yes
Wheelchair Accessible: Yes
Price range.
$$ Price range Moderate
8 reviews
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I love coming here after 8pm for the 1/2 price buffet, because I can eat a nice dinner for like $5. It's not the best food I've had in my life, but probably the best food I have had for $5 :). There are hot and cold sections, and also a variety of soups available.
Shuffling through the Chelsea area the next morning after a night out dancing and drinking I decided to go to the nearby gun range to fire off a hundred rounds to clear my head. At this point I was a bit hungry and needed some caffeine in me – STAT!
Saw this Garden of Eden and decided to give it a look. The actual space is not too large but every corner is packed to the gills with food stuffs. Kind of like a mini Whole Foods and has a gourmet flair to it. Deli area, charcuterie, cheese dept, desserts, coffee and tea, breads, meats/seafood/poultry, prepared foods, produce, organics, dairy, etc. As it is styled to be a gourmet market certain items also carry the prices reflective of that, and yet some bargains are to be found too. Seems like good overall quality products here. They also have a salad bar and hot/cold buffet.
Strange setup with cashiers in the middle of the store which is a bit confusing. Fresh multigrain bagel with butter was only $1. Coffee was decent tasting. Ready to put a gun in my hands and shoot things now! Booya!
Awesome grocery! They got chive, which is rare in NY/Jersey City. Except vegetables and fruits you can buy it much more such as chocolates, cakes, olive, already prepared dishes and much more.
I highly recommend this place for small shopping and rare products!
This place is a great grocery store.. the produce is super fresh.
Nice selection of gourmet foods and groceries with shorter lines than the nearby Whole Foods. Garden of Eden has their own brand of hummus and dips; they are good! In the front of the store are the fruits and vegetables, with sales on seasonal fruits. I've never tried the baked goods here except for the wonderful Blackout Cake from Zabar's that they sell–sometimes the other items just look old. The fresh ravioli they have here is also quite good and fresh. I like the fact that they carry more unusual fruits, like cherimoya and the horned melon. The prepared hot foods pack your own always looks too chaotic and messy to me but we have bought the prepared deli foods before and they were quite good. Garden of Eden does do seasonal prepared foods,so around the Jewish holidays you will find things like noodle kugen. The breads here have been hit and miss for me; some days and depending on the hour they look fresh or stale. A fun and lively place to browse for gourmet foods that sometimes gives you a break on pricey items.
For a local grocery, boy am I glad to have Garden of Eden. While I love Whole Foods on 24th and 7th avenue, it is just too much of production to go to Whole Foods often (between the lines and the crowds).
Garden of Eden has an amazing selection of produce, prepared foods, and some dry goods staples. The cheese selection is to die for and arguably way better than Whole Foods. The place is truly grab and go, so you can get in and out in a hurry. Pricing wise, well you get what you pay for. The quality is super high… so its not cheap.
Here's a special tip, the buffet bar is 1/2 price after 8pm, so if you want a late din din, the buffet bar can't be beat.
Cute little gourmet food store that offers an abundance of quality fresh produce and an awesome selection of seafood, charcuterie and cheeses. The only downside is that the checkout process can be long and a bit disorganized, though once you make it to the cashiers, they are quick and efficient.
Breakfast and lunch on two respective visits brought doubt to return.
Breakfast
One Liege Sugar Belgian Waffles at $1.49 was enough to be high on a sugar rush throughout the day. Pre-package without the aid of syrup or condiments as the sugar was suffice for natural flavors induced. The 23rd Street's Garden of Eden bakery does have the hard to find Bialy bagels and my favorite Tate's Bake Shop chocolate chip cookies at the usual $5.99.
Lunch
One Curry chicken sandwich with an unorthodox usage of half cashew peanuts at $6.99 later induced me to a violate stomach ache which spawned hours later into the wee hours of the night. Gourmet quality should not induce into sickness, but I succumb to be vile throughout the night.
This Garden of Eden is much smaller than its 14th Street Union Square sister where the aisles are compact and the checkout cashiers are very cramped in the center. There is only one exit/entrance which shopping carts, baskets and objects always obstruct Garden of Eden's only method of egress as per (OSHA) Occupational Safety & Health Administration. Tsk, tsk!!