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| - Let me just start off by saying this; this place deserves a five star review. The only reason I am giving it four was because I was so frustrated trying to find this place I got extremely angry at one point.
Here is my story: This year for mothers day my sister and I decided that it would be a good idea to clean out my mother's spice collection. Pretty much 90% of my moms spices have been in her house since before she married my step dad--which was 12 years ago. And she still uses them!! Every time I go over to her house I give her grief about the 13 year old bottle of oregano or the 15 year old bottle of cloves. How she thinks these will evoke any kind of flavor into food, I have no idea. So when I found Penzey's Spices one day while searching through yelp, I got super excited! We decided that one weekend we would go down and totally start our mom from scratch. So this weekend, we planned our entire Saturday around Penzey's. So after breakfast we drive down Hayden and start searching for the store. We do this for at least 10 minutes. Circling back and forth, up and down the street. I probably used half a gallon of gas just looking for the store. My sister even put the address into GPS and it took us to the same location. Having no idea why we couldn't find this place, my sister called only to find out that they were now located in Tempe Marketplace. On none of the websites I looked at Saturday morning did they bother to update their address. Being in such a digital age you think that would be the first thing you change. So both of us were so annoyed we decided that we weren't going to drive down to Tempe Marketplace and that we would just do something else for our mom.
Later that day though after my sister had gone home, my husband and I decided to drive down to TM since its on our way home to check out the store. When we got there, we had no idea where in TM it was, so we drove in circles around the entire place again. We finally decided to get out of the car and just walk around to find it. We located a directory, where it said it was located in one place. When we got there it wasn't there. Pissed off again, we went back to the directory and found a different location where we finally found it. Let me just tell you, all of the running around trying to find this place, totally killed any joy I had once I got in there. If we had found this place on the first shot I would have been extremely thrilled to be in here. But here we were, hot, tired, at the end of the day, and we just wanted to get in and out. The entire time we were in this store my husband just wanted to leave because of how tired he was at that point. But I managed to salvage enough time to get my mother her present.
The store itself though, is amazing. Every spice you can imagine, or didn't even know existed, is most likely in this store. There are hundreds of kinds of spices and herbs, and all of them are available for you to smell in jars places by each one. I probably smelled almost half of them. They come in all forms as well. Whole, ground, diced, powdered, mixed.... it just goes on forever. I definitely will be coming back to this store now that I know where it is. And hopefully next time I will be in a better mood and have more time to kill to be able to check out every single spice in here. I can tell my spice collection might just be getter a bit bigger soon.
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