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Love this store

3 Posted on 10 / 24 / 2012

Some vegan food options and a some vegan desserts options.

Pros: vegan chocolate bars, good salad bar, vegan soup

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My favorite grocery store in Chattanooga

5 Posted on 02 / 03 / 2012

Greenlife is an awesome grocery store with a huge selection of vegetarian and vegan options. They always have top-notch produce and a great variety of baked goods including artisan breads, fancy desserts, cookies, bagels and muffins. Their vegan in-house cookies are a little greasy for my taste but the vegan blueberry muffin was fluffy and delicious. They also have a newly expanded hot bar complete with vegetarian and vegan options, a salad bar, and a deli counter where you can order sandwiches or pizza. Across from the sandwich counter is a cooler with pre-made salads, hummus, wraps, soups and other "to-go" meals and snacks. Greenlife is also located in the North Shore shopping district so it's a great place to stop for lunch if you want vegan or vegetarian options. The hot bar and salad bar are weighed so sometimes meals can get a little pricey but in my experience the food has always been delicious and worth it!

Pros: selection, location, excellent food
Cons: price (weighed salad and hot bars)

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Greenlife Grocery

5 Posted on 09 / 13 / 2011

I was travelling through Chattanooga on a Sunday, when (sadly) Sluggo's North Vegetarian Cafe was not open, so I was glad that Happy Cow recommended this. It has everything a vegan would expect in a Whole Foods, but the service was particularly nice (they were happy to run a stiff artisanal bread through the auto-slicer), and the location was great too (withing walking distance to a park along the Tennessee river).

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Awesome "Green" area!

5 Posted on 05 / 02 / 2011

I love this place! It's like your normal Whole Foods...with the exception of the liquor license, and the convenience of drinking a beer outside on a beautiful day, with a plate of veggie food from the hot bar. Sounds perfect to me! My sister and I got made-to-order vegan sandwiches at the deli, and we were both very happy. The building is all eco-friendly/Green building standards. Lots of cool shops nearby. I would recommend this to anyone!

Pros: Awesome food, Great area, Like-minded people
Cons: you get what you pay for!

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Mostly Organic Healthful Groceries

5 Posted on 02 / 26 / 2010

This store is amazing, especially for Chattanooga. We are so lucky to have it! Even the atmosphere is healing. Their description should include that most of the food is organic and most of it local. This store also has all-natural organic cosmetics and household items, in-house sushi and veggie wraps and an open buffet made with organic foods.

Pros: Organic, Vegan Options, Cruelty-free meat
Cons: There's only 1 here!, Overwhelming, Parking is tight

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a fine place

4 Posted on 09 / 26 / 2009

i'm vegan and i work at greenlife, so i eat there almost every day, usually from the hot bar. there is almost always something nutritious and warm to eat there, but sometimes it's dreadfully disappointing and i wonder who on earth thought it was a good idea to pour an entire bottle of tamari in the kale, or dump a pound of salt into the tofu scramble. i'd recommend taking advantage of the sample cups before committing to any one dish unless you want to get your recommended amount of sodium for the week.

they offer two kinds of vegan muffins and usually one kind of vegan cookie. the vegan raspberry muffins rarely have more than 1 raspberry (travesty!) and the blueberry taste healthy, which may or not be your thing. the cookies aren't out-of-this world, but they are fresh-baked and vegan, which is more than the rest of chattanooga can offer.

there's also a deli, which sometimes has cool stuff. "the golden bowl," which is a tofu dish, i've heard is very good.

other notes:
*they also make fresh smoothies and coffee drinks, with soy milk available.
*there's a sushi bar, which caters better to meat-eaters, but they do offer veg sushi.
*the whole store also offers lots of allergy-friendly items.
*you can call before you go to check the menu, which i'd recommend because sometimes there are very few vegan items on the menu of the day.
*the fresh fruit at the salad bar is often very good
*you can order your own personal sandwich, which is a bit pricey, but also they aren't stingy with the good ingredients.
*they have a liquor license, so you can buy beer or wine and drink it inside or outside.

Pros: vegan-friendly, pleasant atmosphere, alcohol served
Cons: expensive, cafeteria-style, sadly average vegan baked goods

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Awesome

5 Posted on 09 / 18 / 2009

Thanks to Happy Cow for being here to help me find this fantastic place - I had a great dinner and wish I had been here during the day to visit the shops that are around this buisness. Great Buffet, Great Pizza - SORBET made fresh daily was awesome - I wish jackson, ms could be as fortunate!

Pros: excellent food, healthy cuisine, friendly staff
Cons: Not in my home town!

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GreenLife

4 Posted on 09 / 14 / 2008

Great place to shop the prices are a little steep but If you want quality you gotta pay for it

Pros: Great Wine selection, great coffee, Great organic snaks
Cons: Parking can be tight, Pricy

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Very Nice

5 Posted on 08 / 25 / 2008

I stopped here during a road trip [my friend said this is the best place in Chattanooga] to get a sandwich. I ordered a custom [Vegan] sandwich and a soy latte; both were very good. Overall, this store looked like a Whole Foods and carried almost everything Whole Foods does. Not only was this store nice, but Chattanooga is beautiful! If you're driving through here, stop for an hour or two and eat your lunch by the river.