Reviews of Shelbourne Plaza - Fairway Market (Mall)

Ty

They don't really offer a wide range of fresh veges, otherwise staff is very friendly and great service

Tom

Great selection, fresh food. Some items are pricy, but overall best groceries store in a 30 block radius.

Malcolm Tanner

Wish they had a bathroom. Nearly peed myself

Todd B

Great place to grocery shop. Good selection of ethnic brands and exotic fruits and veggies. The fresh produce can hit or miss. Biggest drawback are the poor quality foreign meats (ie. Beef from Australia)

Farooq Satt

Not sure if I want to give it 1 star, but afew months back cought one of their staff preparing the salad bar after his fingers went into his nose. Past the info.to his manager nothing happened this worker still work there?!

Valerie Russell

Great selection of Asian foods. I had not been here before and was pleasantly surprised by the selection.

Russell Sensei

I always find stuff too expensive here. But if you need some Asian food, it beats any other grocery stores for selection

Aidan Knight

I miss living closer to the Quadra Fairway Market, it's a great balance between cheap prices and good quality. For Asian produce, especially, it can't be beat for variety. If you are looking for fresh udon noodles, lemongrass, shimeji mushrooms, and offal.. or olive oil, parsnips, multigrain cheerios and apple juice: this is the best one-stop market in Victoria for the price!

Carlos Arturo Gómez Teshima

From my point of view, Fairway Market has the best prices for meat (i.e., chicken, beef, and fish). Quality is also fair. However, if you want to buy baby stuffs (e.g., food, formula, etc.) I suggest to go to another super market. Finally, what I love from Fairway, is the food zone that they have!! Chinese food!. Also, near Fairway you can find Fujija which is my favorite place to buy sushi.

S Kelly

Be sure to check the dates on EVERYTHING you buy there. Out of my 10 items I bought today, 3 of them expired over 6 months ago. Discusting!!!!

Shawn DeWolfe

This store got a lot better after its upgrades. Now the checkouts are understaffed and the lineups are very long and slow moving.

Kate Lois Howell

I really like shopping at the Fairways. They have good selection. Cobbs and M&M Foods are favourites as well.

nicole alexandra (il6unas)

I'd usually rate this Fairway location a 4 or so, but I've been really frustrated with some of the employees lately, and today pushed me over the edge. Never buy their deli or over-the-counter "hot food". Not the 1st time feeling uneasy …

Candice Peterson

I like that they carry ethnic foods. Reasonably priced grocery store

Alex Carroll

Their customer service is seriously lacking. And the food in the deli hot case was questionable. When i watched the grocer scrape the potato wedges from the dish, i should've declined. And the food was lukewarm at best.

Kandice Nagel

Newly updates to parts of the store, salad bar added, large selection of Asian and other ethnic foods. Lots of free parking and fairly good prices.

Tyler Kennedy

Fairways always has a great international section to pick up those odd ingredients or delicious snacks that I crave. It's like a grocer plus a specialty store all in one. Also, the baking section often gets me super excited with sesame buns or BBQ pork buns or something equally delicious!

Walter Cameron

the cashiers are really clever and witty. sometimes i like to throw a curve ball at the till and the cashiers always stay sharp and hit it right out of the park. love it.

Hong Ngoc Trinh

Good selection of groceries and reasonable price

Ty Bee

Handy little plaza. Fairways is what you expect, decent selection. Great selection of Asian foods especially.

Dave Alex

Very good prices and specials. Lots of Asian foods, plus a new hot food section. Staff goes out of their way to help. Parking can be a handful on busy days

Christian C

Great selection of Asian foods. Hot food bar with lots of options and deli. Good sale prices on meat. Would definitely recommend their international selection. Lots of European delights.

Ian Campbell

Great store. Good location. Excellent selection of items for Asian cooking.

Brian Green

Ok selection etc. but very mediocre floor management of tills, line ups etc. resulting in longer lines than other places. Doesn't seem to be anyone with a broader picture managing things, just focused on immediate task with heads down. Price alone doesn't do it all

Robert Mitchell

Best prices in Victoria for a medium-sized grocery store. Excellent variety featuring an international section. Produce is always fresh and beats competitor prices.

Chris Shepard

Parking is usually not an issue. Convenient location. Great selection of Asian foods.

Jay Schappert

We found this market to be very expensive. Staff are good and the checkout area is cleaned almost on a minute by minute basis.

PARK JUNO

They sell various asian instant noodls, cookies, meats, fishes. Reasonable pricing and quick stocking for new products.

Malcolm McPherson

Good strip mall with a couple of angles; the parking lot. Good grocery and liquor stores with pharmacy, bakery, nail salon and assorted eateries. Bike store as well as Starbucks and laundry services.

Linh H Le

Great. You can buy anything here even Asia stuff. Foods and vegetables fresh. First time to Canada and dont know how to buy cigarette but staff very helpful. Shoppers nice. I like western chicken broth and mozzarella. I begin additing to the western cheeses like dictator Kim Jong Un and I gained weight significantly when i in Canada. Poor me, may I blame Fairway ? In short you should go there and forget other brands especially you from overseas

Angie Martin

I love the variety of foods from around the world. As well, I enjoy the convenience of hot chinese food and salad bar for meals on the go days,

Jessie Mitchell

My favourite fairway by far. Not too big not too small but always well stocked with my favourites. Staff are very friendly and helpful

Steve Bell

I have shopped at Fairways for many years and I personally feel they are 10% less than the competition. As a result it is a No Frills shopping experience.

Jamie Egger

Dirtiest store everrrr....never shopping there again!!..And they must be family there cause their always yelling at each other ..scaring people like myself..knives in hand chop chop!!

Han Qin Xin

They have a lot of Asian food and snacks that are otherwise hard to find. Very friendly staffs too. Now I go there all the time to get grocery.

rya pesti

It's a grocery store that will do in a pinch but unfortunately the staff are always a little cranky or just not pleasant. They always seem like they hate working there, which is a sad work environment. I recommend going to save on foods down the road.

John Brum

Good produce and service. Great area in the produce and deli section as you can get many different treats. I like to go here for my Chinese produce as it is way closer then having to go to China Town to get the same things. Just carries that little bit of better Ethnic Products that make this a nice place to shop.

Angie Torres

They are starting to sell more Mexican food (traditional spices and stuff we use to cook traditional meals). I really appreciate that!! I don't have to go to the crammed fairway on quadra anymore! Besides the fact that this one is closer to home!

Ricky Rick

For their deli Chinese food skip it and go to the quadra. st one. At Shelbourne, it has generally been sitting for a while and their portions suck. Every time I go here I look forward to the experience I get at quadra st and I am gut …

Robin van G

not sure if/how they are monitoring the number of people in the store, but it all seems to be running all right

Shannon

Had everything I needed in one spot.....laundry supplies, laundromat, liquor store and lunch. Grocery store line up all the way down the Aisle because cashier had overcharged a customer. ???? Sorry.....no photos!!

Christopher Duke

Good international food selection and decent produce section. Meat section has great deals too.

Sue McCaskill

Only two cashiers open and 20 people lined up at each one.This was the mornimg of April 7, about 10:30

Martin Kent

My favorite place to shop no gimmicks cards etc just good prices. Its my place for most things especially the meats sections

Adelheid Francis Teshendorf

Got some chinese take out from here. Nine bucks for a thing full of rice and like 8 pieces of ginger beef. Enough with the rice, give me some meat. I won't be back - big rip off.

Jay Coughlan

a clean store, with employees who actively sanitize stations between each shopper. No masks required, but are recommended. They don't have directional arrows like other stores, but they are smaller than most. …

Ed Bo

Decent selections, a bit pricey, but what really bugged me was the meat. My friends, and I buy meat at other grocery stores now because the meat at Fairway always left us sick, and seemed past it's expiry date but left on the shelf.

Naomi Nipp

Great selection of Asian/foreign foods but tends to have a smaller selection of goods/produce compared to other supermarkets.

Jennifer Whitfield

Busy grocery store with lots of interesting foods from around the globe and local. Lineup moves quickly plus I believe it is locally owned

Alex Klassen

Best grocery store for blocks. Huge selection of Asian food makings

Thiago Hinkel

Good price on fruits and veggies. Varied options of ethnic products. Sometimes long lines at check out.

Any Liu

Excellent selection of Asian goods.

GWoo

I like Fairways, unfortunately the produce and deli is located in a different part of the building from the rest of the store.

toni o

So many Fairways in town however this one is located in the Shelbourne stretch. Parking lot has always vacant spots any time of the day. Stocks a wide variety of Asian products. Produce is …

Alexander Loy

It’s got a retro feel to it. Friendly and helpful staff with a good selection of ethnic foods.

Jake McCloskey

Tons of variety and full of culturally diverse foods as well as regular staples. Relatively cheaply priced compared to other grocery stores.

Zac McCall

Love this fairway, amazing international isle ( ╹▽╹ )

Catherine Rogers

A favourite stop to stock up on vegetables and Asian condiments. The new deli is great and good meat selection. Check it out!

SJ Thoms

Staff wearing masks, lots of cleaning going on and wiping conveyor between customers is very much appreciated by this customer with a high risk household!

Christiani Thompson Wagner

Been going there for over 20 years. They have the vegetables I love that other grocery stores do not carry. As an immigrant, that's amazing!

Adam

Rude staff and expensive prices, find somewhere cheaper and less annoying to shop at.

Sirena L

Added in 2021 Again… got scones with mildewed… ------- …

Jennifer Lloyd

It has great selection of Asian foods. The staff is always friendly. It can be very busy though at certain times of the day like 4 to 5 and at lunch time

Douglas Chen

There are T&t s in Vancouver. We have fairways here in Victoria. It has more Chinese food selections then the grocery store in China Town. Many Chinese restaurants get supplies from there.

Jeff Bissett

Clean covid friendly store.. lots of great products.. good prices and never too busy So great place to shop especially if you're pressed for time

Fraser Bedwell

They sold me 6 boneless chicken breasts that expires in two days (next time I will look better but even then I dont think that shoild have been up for sale) but other than that it was good.

Laylah Stewart

Not much selections and I found it to be expensive. But the meat products were good

Jesse Draves

Produce 1/10 - 4, never ripe enough to my liking so it sits on my countertop until it's too old an ends up in my garbage Staff 1/10 - 5, meh, never knows where anything is,they all wreak of highschool …

Trust Me

Dont come here for the hot kitchen food. Its a rip off. They give u like 50% less than the one on Quadra. Not very generous portions at all. If they werent so cheap i would come here a hell of a lot more. Management please train your staff to be more generous with the portions and i guarantee youll sell 500% more food.

Mike Tobin

You have 2 banks, grocery store, cobs bread, M&M meats, Starbucks, A&W, Booster juice, Oregano's pizza, little Thai place, frontrunners, Mac's cycle centre, liquor store, and marijuana dispensary. Perfect place to stop (for me anyway) on the way home from work.

Kyle Cameron

Great Chinese food! The ginger beef is probably the best I have had. Great friendly staff, too. Next time I feel like take out Chinese food, I'm going to the 3651 Shelbourne St Fairway Market instead of a restaurant.

Jorge Ferreira

They have the best fairway grocery store of all time

Sam

Shelbourne more like Shel-boring. Sure I can buy a sandwich, radishes and a loaf, bread or otherwise. But what else can I really do here? I recommend the plaza get a laser tag facility

mike chin

Best general supermarket on Vancouver island with great selection of ethnic food ingredients. The bigger locations are best.

DD DD

Great prices, not super busy and a solid selection of food stuffs

Clint Megaffin

Great international shelves and a solid Canadian grocery to back it up

Carolyn Ute Schneider

Janelle is the worst cashier and handles customers poorly, stereotypical wouldn't even believe me that the Tide laundry soap was 17.99 I even ran back and had to double check still she didn't believe me. She wanted another stock boy to do it and found out it was also 17.99. I thanked him in Spanish.

Mark A.

Very expensive. Hardly any good deals. Meat and produce second quality at high prices. Chinese people won't buy Chinese food here anymore.

G Funk

Where is the security guard to prevent overcrowding? Cheap take out Chinese food is good.

Alan Keser

Typical Fairway store, decent prices a large selection of Asian products but nothing to special.

V Leblanc

Good selection of international foods. Prices are a bit higher but still reasonable. Service is mostly friendly.

Wendy W

There is no service of quality from cashier who worked in the No.7 checking out desk this afternoon at all. I am understanding about the staff shortage during the COVID-19, but please training the cashier properly for serving in polite way!

Hsiu-Ting Chang

Product mislabeling. Usually, this wouldn't be an issue, but the way in which it was mislabeled is insensitive and completely disrespectful to Taiwanese. If you can put "product of" for all the other produce, why can't you keep doing that for Taiwanese cabbage as well? There was nothing wrong with how it was before. Saying that customers should obviously know that "China sweet Taiwan cabbage" means "Taiwanese cabbage, produced in China," is either lazy and ignorant, or intentionally condescending. Also, for what reason do you have to put there secondary information (country of production) before the actual product name itself? On a different subject, I've found them selling 3 packets of moldy noodles.

Gold66

I have been to the customer service desk twice in the last few weeks and both times the employee (different person each time) has been really snarky in their attitude. I have not seen either of these female employees before in all my months …

Christine Kay

Do not expect the cheerful, helpful staff that you will find at other locations like McKenzie or Quadra. It gives the rest of the establishments a worse name.

Brendon Restall

Unfortunately, I can promote this place as there have been numerous occasions where I find mold on the food here. Produce and meats..... It's a little gross when u see some nice green fuzzy on your juicy steak. Prices are OK with Save on …

Jeannie Ward

It's okay as a smaller grocery store. They have a good deli section. The staff has a workable grasp of the language, but with a mask on, they cannot understand what you may want and my order had to be repeated numerous times. I found the …

Mike Wood

They have a great international food section, and tons of instant ramen noodles.

Smokus Cat

Very possibly the worst hummus I've ever tasted in my life. I spent the next eight hours hoping I didn't have food poisoning. Fortunately, I didn't, but I don't think that merits a second star.

Andy li

I had a very bad shopping experience in this supermarket. When I checked out, the cashier told me impatiently and asked me to put things down. And when I put my briefcase on the table of the last payment, she was very unfriendly to let me put it down. Recommend not to buy here, don’t check out at window 5.