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Whole Foods Announces GMO Labeling and Transparency Goal

Austin-based Whole Foods Market has announced that by 2018 all products in U.S. stores must be labeled to indicate if they contain any genetically modified organisms (GMOs). This move by the natural and organic foods retailer marks the biggest step in a growing movement led by consumers and various ... More >>

Whole Foods Coming To Uptown

The Dallas Morning News reported yesterday that Uptown will be getting a Whole Foods. A new structure will be built on a vacant lot on McKinney Avenue between Fairmount and Routh streets. See Also: Getting Your Drink On At Whole Foods While Kroger is opening a grocery store a few blocks away next ... More >>

Getting Your Drink On At Whole Foods

When Whole Foods announced it was installing bars in many of the chain's grocery stores, I thought the idea would never catch on. Grocery stores are for grocery shopping, bars are for boozing and the two could never happily exist under one roof. The parking alone at most grocery stores is enough to ... More >>

Fog And Smog Turn Their Sights On Overwrought Bartenders

I don't know why Jasper Russo sends me the occasional video, interspersed between promotional emails about his liquor empire Siegel's, but he does. Most of the time I watch the short movie once and then go on with my day, but this one I think is worth sharing. DJ Dave and Barney Kook, the dudes behi ... More >>

The City of Ate Interview: Whole Foods "Forager" Natasha Calvert on Buying Local for a Living

Natasha Calvert is originally from Denver, and began working at Whole Foods in 2006. She recently moved to Texas, where she's a "forager" for local products, traveling around meeting purveyors, producers, growers, ranchers and the occasional chicken. Then she helps bring those products to the store' ... More >>

In Today's Least Surprising News Ever, Yes, a Walmart Grocery Is Coming to Lower Greenville

​Speaking of Walmart (told you) ...In the end, turns out, I didn't need Mitchell Rasansky to tell me what everyone already knew -- or guessed, anyhow. Because, as I discovered this morning, the permits were filed with the city two months ago and approved December 29. So, yes, brace yourself, Lower ... More >>

Whole Foods Market to Close Local Bakehouse and Ship from Houston Instead

Whole Foods Market​Whole Foods Market announced recently that it will close its Dallas bakehouse, located on University near Central, which for the past 12 years has produced breads and pastries for its eight area stores, as well as Little Rock, Tulsa and Oklahoma City. After the spring closur ... More >>

Five Breads to Bring Your Holiday Hosts, Starring Empire, Eatzi's and Others

We've gobbled about birds and various local sides. But bread is a category all unto itself. Clothes make the man, you say? Well, bread can make or break the feast. We've covered the issue extensively here and there. Whether to cradle meat for a sandwich or wipe a plate clean of every last speck of g ... More >>

This Earth Month, Dallas City Hall Is Gonna Recycle Like It's 1969. Or Something.

Patrick MichelsCity employees sing their earth-loving granola tune in the Lakewood Whole Foods parking lot, near the hybrids-only parking. With all the planet's dwindling forests, contaminated waters and changing climate, it might take a 2012-themed recycling rally to scare new people into recycling ... More >>

Begging and Choosing: Which Market's
Free Samples Give You the Best Meal?

Brooke NottinghamWe managed to snap a couple of pictures of freebies before the Central Market Stasi busted us.​During a dinner shift a few weeks ago, I returned with a guest's drink and asked if he'd like to start with a cup of soup or an appetizer. He stared at me. Then he said, "Do those c ... More >>

Whole Foods Wants Me to Be Healthy.
Good Luck With That.

ShutterstockAny have a good recipes for blueberries with, say, bacon?​At least when Whole Foods Market asks you to trade in cheese-covered gristle for a sporkful of hummus, they know they're asking a lot. So that's why they plan to hold your hand through most of it. This month the store launc ... More >>

Hey, Whole Foods! We're Growling for Growlers Over Here.

This is a growler. Notice that it's empty. That's a hint.​Dear Park Lane Whole Foods Market: It's the Christmas season, a time when all good boys are brimful of dreams for presents. Seeing as I have been good this year -- as far as you know, anyway -- I'm hoping you will grant me one heartfe ... More >>

Growler Program Confusion: Whole Foods Wants It, Gordon Biersch Has It and the TABC Is Playing the Waiting Game

​A local specialty market is one bag of feed away from a cash cow. Unfortunately, it doesn't know which end to feed. The wine bar at the Park Lane Whole Foods Market, the Dallas flagship store, has been a boon to the location's bottom line. Beginning at about 3 p.m. on weekdays, the bar, with ... More >>

Turkey Mole With Balls: Torchy's Tacos and Whole Foods Have You Covered

​Mole, complicated in both production and flavor, is one of Mexico's traditional sauces, so traditional, in fact, its name translates to sauce in English. Mole is also one of my favorite delicacies. It's a delicacy because its making is reserved for large family gatherings and celebrations in the ... More >>

Celebrating Belgian Independence At The Ginger Man, Ranking Urthel Hop-It And Le Merle Saison

Jesse HugheyUrthel Hop-It Belgian IPA​Just as the hot summer months inevitably result in a spike in crime stats, something about the July heat must make people get the urge to collectively rise up against their oppressors. Not only is our own country's independence celebrated in July, but the Fren ... More >>

Veggie Guy: Thanksgiving

​I would've really liked to spend this Thanksgiving with my brother and sister-in-law in Northwest Spain. They throw an amazing bash each year for all of their American friends, then take it to the clubs for late-night dancing and drinks. Fun times, for sure! My recently retired mother, however ... More >>

Now, Go Left: The Whole Foods "Buycott"

​Don't know how we missed word of the Whole Foods "buycott," which kicked off Tuesday night in St. Louis and at the Preston Forest location. Read about it in this morning's Los Angeles Times, where author Meghan Daum brings word of the National Tea Party's response to the response to Whole Foods c ... More >>

As the Whole Foods Flagship Goes Up At Park Lane, the Web Gets Busy Taking Down Its CEO

Seriously -- I'm asking, how do you like the apples?​John Mackey's no stranger to a little controversy, especially the online-first Mark Cubanesque variety. But the Whole Foods co-founder took it up a notch with his Tuesday guest editorial in The Wall Street Journal, in which he takes issue with u ... More >>

Wine Rocks

Rock stars plus alcohol can add up to a lot of things. But when you add organic grocery stores to the rock and booze equation, the sum must certainly change, right? Guess we'll find out when Maynard James Keenan makes an appearance at the Whole Foods Market in Plano from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m., March 2 ... More >>

Food For Thought 3.05.09

"Consumer awareness for natural and organic foods is so much stronger now that more retailers want to imitate what we do." (Mark Dixon, southwest region president for Whole Foods, staking a trendsetting claim. As quoted in a Dallas Morning News story on the opening of a new Lakewood branch of the gr ... More >>

Move On Down The Road

There's a new grocer in town. Well, not really new. Just bigger, fancier and in a different location. Dallas' newest Whole Foods Market location opened Monday to much fanfare. Yeah, the store is more than a little bit similar to existing siblings in look and product selection. But there's a lot wo ... More >>

Marc Andres Shines Some Sun on Sunflower Farmers Market Deal

Getting Your Goat on Greenville

Hunt on Walking in Dallas, Barking Diners and That Whole Foods Fight

Sip This

Some Coppolas get drunk

Whole Bull?

Original Whole Foods Moving Less Than a Mile. Might as Well Be a Million.

Baby, You Can Drive My Cart

Whole Lotta Whole Foods

No, Seriously. A Chocolate Fountain.

A Whole (Foods) Lot of Moving

Whole Foods By Half, More or Less

Sprouts Spouts in Dallas, At Last

Sample Shop

Whole Foods celebrates spring flavors

Whole Lotta Nuthin'

Best Free Lunch

Whole Foods Market

Car & Driver

It's the feel-bad movie of the week

Blast Back

Grown-up kids share their childhood lessons

Best Chicken Salad

Whole Foods

Best Grocery Store Snack

Salsa at Whole Foods Market

Best Last-Minute Party Groceries

Whole Foods Market

Best Soaps and Toiletries

Caswell-Massey

Best Health-food Store

Central Market

Best Health-food Store

Ann's Health Food Center

Best Ice Cream

Out of a Flower

Best health food store (tie)

Whole Foods Market & Roy's Natural Market

Best place to buy juice

Whole Foods Market

Hot Dish

Free-ranging deli

Can eating at Whole Foods make you a better person?

Hot Dish