Harmons Grocery - City Creek

Harmons at City Creek just couldn't be a better place to shop for groceries, drugstore items, pastries and bread, coffee and gelato, etc. It's well-run, well-stocked, and altogether a pleasant place to shop, conveniently located for those staying at hotels or other facilities in downtown Salt Lake The quality of the products Harmons carries is very high – lots of organic produce and meats, health-oriented products you may have to hunt for in other grocery stores like flours made from ancient grains, etc. The bakery produces very high-quality breads, including a 7-grain bread with seeds that contains no sugar, dense, rich, healthy, and tasty. The cafe makes good coffee and gelatos, and usually has excellent pastries, though a new manager of the cafe has been – disappointingly – cutting down on ordering and displaying things like croissants to promote packaged baked goods, something that seems to us a big mistake. When weather is nice, there's lots of pleasant seating outside for those drinking coffee or eating pastries, or enjoying meals of the good prepared items on offer at steam tables near the produce section, or the salad bar near the cafe. We appreciate that Harmons has quick, efficient checkout and bagging folks, lots of them, and that the store doesn't herd you to the self-checkout section as so many places now do. We'd give our eye teeth to have a chain like Harmons near us. But since that's not a possibility, we will keep making a beeline to the City Creek Harmons anytime we're in Salt Lake.