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| - If you've never shopped Sunflower before, you are in for a treat. It is very much like a Sprouts Market, but with a few different products.
The produce is usually high-quality, although as some have mentioned there is an occasional fruit fly outbreak. That happens with fresh, ripe fruit. Get over it. They get the problem under control quickly - it's not a huge deal.
The bulk section is newly remodeled with cool press-to-dispense containers. Cool. They have a LOT of cool things here, including Semolina flour and Forbidden Rice. Wasabi peas too!
Boar's Head Deli. 'Nuff said.
Craft beer selection is nice, with quite a few local beers (although they never seem to have anything from Old World Brewery, dammit!) Wine selection is excellent if you are bargain shopping and they do carry a few mid-higher grade wines. No Top Shelf stuff is available...it's not that kinda store, people. You can get decent value wines much like you would at Trader Joe's, with a good selection of countries available and they often have an impressive selection of organic/biodynamic wines if that's your thing. We like to buy a brand called "Herding Cats" as they have a nice merlot/pinotage (?If I recall) blend that we like with pasta - which is also a good deal at Sunflower.
Pasta selection varies by what they can get I think. Usually, they have something domestic and something Italian. Check the labels - if it is "imported" I have found that occasionally it is from Mexico. Don't get that crap. I just don't think that region grows very good Durum Semolina, so the pasta doesn't cook "quite right". (Trust me - I'm Italian, I cook a lot of pasta..) Which leads me to Olive Oil...great selection here, especially if you want to buy a gallon. Again, CHECK THE LABELS. We LOVE a brand called GENCO (yes like the famous...oh never mind..) that is a blend of EVOOs from different countries. BUT PAY ATTENTION...don't get the Genco BLENDED (Blended is in different font on the front of the container - the ingredients list tells you it is canola and EVOO.
Sausage - good stuff here. The chicken varieties are kinda plain as you would imagine chicken sausage is - but the pork varieties are all pretty good and they sell them at $2/lb quite often. Deal.
Veal/buffalo - yep. Usually in the freezer section.
Amy's? Check.
Yogurts/dairy - nice, organic selection but if I REALLY need great cream for something I head to Trader Joe's...always. Most butterfat of any cream I have found available to the public. They have good eggs too. Local and organic/free-range...look around and they might be doing a blowout special on them. Those are awesome as they are almost "expired " and PERFECT for deviling as they peel nicely.
Cashiers are friendly and knowledgeable.
This place has the BEST reusable burlap bags that sit flat with awesome heavy-stitched handles with some kinda waterproof(?) liner. Other stores always comment how cool they are...
Vitamins/herbs/fresh spices - yeah they have all that stuff. You can buy fresh nutmeg and grind it way cheaper than you can buy bottled stuff at the supermarket, so why not?
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