Sorry Wholey's I really hate to do because I love your grocery store (4 stars in it own right) but your prepared food just wasn't that good. I have now been to Wholey's twice recently to have their food and eat upstairs. The most recent of those visits was this weekend at around 3:30 PM whenever I stopped in for a quick bite and the time before that was two Tuesdays prior for lunch with my father. What is weird is that I have been shopping in Wholey's for years and never knew that they had a cafeteria type line with prepared food. Somehow I always found myself turning to the right immediately upon entering and looking at all of the different types of fish. However, if you end up turning to the left then you are able to go through a prepared food line that probably resembles the one back in your old high school cafeteria.
The first time that I ended up eating here I went with the crab cakes lunch combo which consisted of two crab cakes, a large side of fries, a small tub of cole slaw and a drink all for right around $9. With that price I was not too surprised that the crab cakes were fairly small but at least they were tasty. The fries were also tasty as they had some type of seasoning on them that I really enjoyed but the bad part was that they were cold. Last but not least in the meal was the cole slaw which was decent and unremarkable. After this visit I probably would have given a solid 3 star review but I didn't get this review finished before I stopped by here again. The second time I ended up ordering the whiting sandwich on a mancinis wheat bun. What is nice is that you have a choice between 3 different buns, two mancinis (white or wheat) and another regular bun. They also really heap the fish onto your sandwich for the price. Whenever I started eating the fish I thought it was weird that some bites of the fish were super fishy while other bites were mild and more of what I was expecting. That I could have accepted but what really turned me off of the sandwich was the five or so pin bones that I found when biting into the one side of a piece of fish. Yes I understand that a pin bone of two happens every now and again but it seemed like this one piece of fish really hadn't been cleaned properly before it was breaded and fried.
The bottom line for me is that even with a not so great last experience I will still head back here again in the future. I really love shopping for fish, meat and produce here and feel like they have some of the best selections and prices around. Due to that I am sure that I will give their cafeteria another chance but I will most certainly be avoiding the fish sandwich.