Central Market

Central Market is gourmet grocery store that also has cooking classes. By far my favorite grocery store to shop at.

I cannot recommend this grocery store enough. It's similar to Whole Foods but way better. A lot of the items are sourced locally, and all the produce is top-notch. It's owned by HEB and they carry HEB items as well. The ice cream is freaking DELICIOUS here. I've never had a grocery store branded ice cream that was so damn good—it's some of the most creamy, thick ice cream I've ever had. Their marketing is also incredible, with huge coordinated campaigns like when their hatch chile launched for the summer and EVERY SECTION of the store had hatch chile flavored items. Too cool.