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Fantastic Hot Bar/Grocery store

4 Posted on 03 / 24 / 2013

New Leaf Market is a wonderful little co-op with many vegan and vegetarian specialty items. They sell local fresh produce and have a nice variety of bulk bin items such as wheat berries, dried beans and nutritional yeast. The hot bar always has a vegan selection, many vegetables and a veggie soup. Of course the salad bar is always available too. On Sunday they have a wonderful brunch that also has vegan options. The employees are always friendly and helpful.

Pros: local produce, friendly staff
Cons: bad location

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new leaf

4 Posted on 07 / 29 / 2012

This is the place for organic produce and bulk bin items. Try the bulk curry cashews, you'll like 'em! The lunch bar is way overpriced and the little tubs of food are NOT as good as my own homemade veg. foods. But if in a pinch it's o.k. I like New Leaf because it's locally owned and a co-op.
Updated from previous review on Friday January 15, 2010

Pros: veg. items available, clean, friendly staff
Cons: parking, overpriced

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I do like it

4 Posted on 05 / 20 / 2011

Even though the prices are to high, sometimes you can find some good deals. I wish they didnt sell that much meat but besides that the food bar and the sandwiches are delicious. I do some of my grocery shopping here (stuff I cant find at a regular grocery store)

Pros: Good food, good deals
Cons: High prices

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Feeling a little cheated

3 Posted on 03 / 31 / 2011

I'd like to like this place, but I just can't. They sold "lifetime" memberships that have now been discontinued and won't give a credit on their new membership fee. Feels like a place that wants to have a Whole Foods ambience without the quality or rigor. They do have helpful staff, but some of them exude a superior attitude if you ask a basic question.

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Just like home

4 Posted on 07 / 15 / 2010

New Leaf is a typical 'Whole Foods' style store, although a bit smaller than similar markets. Smoothies, sandwiches, salad and hot food bar. Too much meat on the 'menu' for my preferences, but I was able to at least find vegan options. I ate there 3-4 times on a recent trip to Tally. A good option for a quick veg meal.

Pros: convenient, very friendly staff
Cons: meat on the menu, limited choices

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Pretty good baked goods

3 Posted on 12 / 31 / 2009

We were in town on vacation, trying to find a market to get some vegan goods, and we found New Leaf. We liked the vegan baked good options, and chose a cookie and a chocolate chip muffin. Both were okay, nothing spectacular, and at $2 a piece, I'm a little unimpressed. I do like how well they were marked "vegan." The hot bar looked good, but we had already eaten dinner.

It was also a little expensive in a few other places, too, including the bulk bin (but I'm comparing this to the bulk bins at natural food stores in Indiana, where we're from). Also, we bought sprouted seed bagels, which should have been refrigerated and weren't, and they were molded. That's a lot of money to throw out.

Pros: Wide selection of baked goods, Vegan options appeared well marked, a lush oasis in a land of meat eating
Cons: Molded bagels, Bake goods so so, expensive

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GO HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

5 Posted on 06 / 27 / 2009

This is the best deli i've ever been to. I had the best vegan grilled cheese i've ever had. They have a seperate sandwich press for vegans, vegetarians, non vegetarians. The grilled cheese was ooey gooey, cheesey, and crispy. SO DELICIOUS! I also had the portabella mushroom sandwich that was really yummy! GO HERE! If you don't, you'll miss this amazing place and amazing sandwiches!

Pros: Awesome food!!!, friendly staff, good smoothies!
Cons: Kind of slow

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Vegans, beware!

2 Posted on 03 / 26 / 2009

While some of their vegan food may taste good, the hot bar is a nightmare. Many customers carelessly use egg covered utensils to spoon out their vegan labeled sides and the employees have no way to regulate this. Few if any of their deli workers are vegan and often times, I've eaten something not vegan because of their misunderstanding of what "vegan" means. The insane pricing doesn't make it any better....

Pros: Some organic
Cons: Few vegan options, Uneducated workers, Vegan food served next to not vegan food

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Great

5 Posted on 11 / 04 / 2008

When I moved to Tallahassee from Ft. Lauderdale I was sad that I left the Whole Foods store in the dust of my travels. New Leaf Market has done a great job at making their store anew with their deli and its fantastic sandwiches as well as the hot bar. I really enjoy their vegan carrot cake as well and their sunday brunch. It is a good place for vegans. It is a little expensive but so is everywhere nowadays (especially for vegans!) I like it and is a good and sometimes even better substitute than the whole foods store.

Pros: vegan options, cake, sandwiches
Cons: no potatoe dishes, lack of tofu

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GO TO THE DELI

5 Posted on 01 / 23 / 2008

excellent sunday brunch - many selections almost all vegan. They also offer sammies and smoothies.

great little health food store too! has everything you could ever want or need.

offers membership with discounts and other benefits.

fresh coffee beans delivered on tuesday

Pros: cheap
Cons: limited seating

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a tallahassee gem

4 Posted on 10 / 31 / 2007

Two words: SUNDAY BRUNCH!!! New Leaf is a well-stocked health food store. However, sometimes I feel like they are catering more and more to the yuppie organic meat-eater market. Blech. Also, non-vegan desserts are stupid. If you're going to make a dessert, make it vegan. You can get plenty of non-vegan desserts at Publix.

Pros: sunday brunch, vegan desserts, well-stocked grocery
Cons: meat, expensive, getting less veggie-friendly

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New Leaf Market is #1 for vegans in Tallahassee

5 Posted on 10 / 28 / 2006

New Leaf Market is the #1 place to shop for organic produce in Tallahassee. Anything they don't have, they can special order for you. I am a raw vegan and I take my produce seriously. If there was a better place to shop, I would know about it. Communicate with other vegetarians, vegans and raw foodist right here in Tallahassee. Go to TalVeg.com (Tallahassee's Vegetarian Community)

Pros: freshest produce, organic, variety