Marczyk Fine Foods

Jim Conley 12 months ago

Very nice gourmet market. The meat, cheese and prepared foods sections are all good. The frozen and bakery sections are small as is the produce section. They also have a selection of their own brand of ice cream. Employees are friendly and helpful. The parking lot is large.

Gregg Gorstein 5 months ago

First time I came into this location and probably spent an hour checking out all the great products that reminded me of growing up on the east coast. Then I ordered a Jedi sandwich for an easy dinner and was blown away by how great it was! Excellent quality, and the best sandwich I’ve eaten in quite some time. 5 stars and will be making it a tradition to come back after a tough day at work!

Adam J Hamersky 5 months ago

Great food. Horrible prices. It’s just plain sad.. I really wanted to like this place. Marczyk Fine Foods presents itself as a high quality neighborhood grocery store that values local products, convenience, and community. On paper, that sounds great. In reality, the pricing completely undermines everything they claim to stand for. Charging $11.99 per pound for tuna salad is not premium. It is absurd. Charging $42 per pound for ribeye is even worse. That is not a small markup for quality or sourcing. That is an outrageous price that makes no sense for a regular Denver grocery shopper. This is not New York City. This is not Aspen. This is not some ultra exclusive butcher with rare, dry aged cuts and white glove service. It is a neighborhood grocery store. Convenience does not justify prices that are completely detached from reality. Plenty of stores in Denver offer quality meat, prepared foods, and local items without charging numbers that feel punitive. At Marczyk, it feels like the customer is being punished for walking through the door. It honestly makes you wonder what is going on behind the scenes. Did someone sign a lease that was wildly too expensive and now shoppers are expected to cover the mistake? Is the overhead completely out of control? Is there serious mismanagement happening at the top? Or is the assumption simply that customers will not question it? Whatever the reason, none of them are acceptable. The frustrating part is that the store itself is fine. It is clean. It is well laid out. It is in a convenient location. But none of that matters when the prices are so extreme that they push away the very people who live in the surrounding neighborhoods. This pricing strategy sends a clear message that the average Denver resident is not the intended customer. There is a difference between charging more for quality and charging so much that it becomes offensive. Marczyk Fine Foods has crossed that line. The prices are unnecessary, unjustifiable, and completely out of touch with the local market. Until there is a serious correction in pricing or at least some attempt to bring costs back to something resembling reasonable, I cannot recommend shopping here. Convenience alone is not worth feeling taken advantage of at the register.

Brent Bulger a year ago

Really disappointed with the direction I see them going. I've shopped here for a decade and gotten my Thanksgiving turkey from them for the last 5 years. This year was a wildly different experience and when I called to ask for help and give feedback, I was transferred to "meat and seafood" who seemed too busy to bother and just explained away all my issues with excuses. I went to pick up my turkey and was told that I hadn't stuck closed enough to my appointment window and would have to come back, turned away empty-handed. After making a second trip down there, I ended up paying $20 more than I was quoted when I reserved the turkey. In years past, I was able to pay in full online ahead of time, but this year was just given an estimate and charged a deposit. I reserved a smaller turkey because I have a smaller party to feed. I was given a bird over the range I selected and charged more than I paid last year. All of this was merely inconvenient, but I was happy with my purchase given past experience so I went home. Then I discovered that the turkey was frozen solid. I couldn't get it open to brine. So I left it to defrost overnight in the fridge. 24 hours later, it's still full of ice but manageable. The man on the phone says that it was just on the bottom of the cooler and that's how they come. I paid for a fresh turkey angled got a frozen one. One that threw off my prep timing as well. His suggested solution was to "just leave it out on the counter for an hour." I really hope that's not how they handle their meat in store. Then giblets came pouring out loose. There was a bag of organs and additional extra livers falling out of the cavity. Just not the quality I am paying for. Finally, the bird had 5 large black spots that I assumed were variation on feathers or skin, but it was still concerning so I decided to call. The man was very dismissive and obviously too busy to be bothered. He told me as long as it doesn't smell, it's fine. But no one heard my concerns or my experience. No one bothered to offer to help. Just "do you have any more questions bud?" I will not be getting a turkey here again.

Alex Montgomery 2 years ago

A very nice market. The owners of the store are Polish and it certainly shows in the stores selection. They have so many quality food options. They are one of the only places around Denver I can find some quality dark chocolate. They have a large selection of fine meats, cheeses, bread, snacks, water, wine, you name it. I will certainly be shopping here routinely.