The Big Carrot Danforth Community Market

I had a great buying experience at The Big Carrot Danforth Community Market! The variety of food options is impressive, especially with so many gluten-free and lactose-free choices available. While it’s a bit on the expensive side, the quality of the food more than makes up for it. I loved that they have a chart showing when fresh products arrive from each bakery, so you can grab items on their delivery day. Since I was staying nearby, I ended up buying most of my food here and was really satisfied with everything. Highly recommend for anyone looking for fresh, high-quality products!

Dear Big Carrot Management, I'm writing to express my deep disappointment and frustration regarding my shopping experience today. As a long-time customer, I've always felt welcome, but today's encounter left me feeling disrespected and uncomfortable. While shopping, I was persistently followed by two security guards - one Asian and one African. The Asian security guard was consistently beside or behind me, even entering the employee area without breaking eye contact. When I confronted the African security guard about their behavior, he denied following me. I felt targeted and stereotyped based on my skin color. This experience was particularly disturbing given my history of loyal patronage, shopping for myself and customers. I've brought this incident to the staff's attention and hope you'll take necessary steps to educate your security team about: 1. Racial profiling and stereotyping. 2. Cultural sensitivity and awareness. 3. Respectful customer treatment. Unfortunately, my family and I will no longer shop at The Big Carrot due to this incident. I hope you take my complaint seriously and ensure a welcoming environment for all customers. Thank you

Prices are surprisingly lower here than I can find elsewhere, and the selection is unbelievable. fresh produce quality is great, the burritos and deli food are delicious, and again costs less by weight than at Sobeys somehow. The green roof is pretty spectacular in spring/summer, and there's room to eat inside as well. Staff are wonderful, knowledgeable and go out of their way to make my visit a positive experience. Rather than putting my money in the pockets of Jeff Bezos or Galen Weston, I prefer to shop at the Big Carrot. They didn't gouge their customers with extra "inflation" to make record profits in the past few years. Also importantly to my values, the Big Carrot is Worker-Owned! The worker-owners run their own store like a co-operative with 'one-worker, one-vote'. Democracy in the workplace is so important, to me it points toward a better world. Truly a one of a kind place with everything I need, and I happily support them over the grocery giants.

It is a great and neat location, with most of their staff having excellent customer service. Neat and well-laid-out store and products The downs I’ve got about this location is 1. Phone ethics: Don't bother calling, as the mailbox is full, and no one takes calls most of the time. Please, this needs to be improved. Travelling to the store could be an issue for shoppers with hectic lives and work schedules for a problem or question that a representative could resolve or answer over the phone. 2. With the present global economic situation and inflation, it would be well appreciated if some of the products could be less expensive compared to other stores that carry the same products and brand; for five years, I used to get all my produce and some groceries from the Organic Garage. Upon closing all their mid and downtown outlets, one of the employees referred me to the Big Carrot for the continuity of quality products. Unfortunately, I find The Big Carrot more expensive, but what can I do 🤷‍♀️, buy? 😔 I could have given them a five-star rating, as they sincerely deserve it if these two issues had not existed.

The Big Carrot is my favourite place to shop in the world. I'm not kidding. I've been a customer for close to thirty years and I'm there every day. The team, like Warren and Christian, know me by name. The whole team is excellent. And the food! Fresh organic produce that you cannot find anywhere else - including many local farmers. Nick and the whole team at the food bar are excellent. They have a real commitment to food excellence and it shows. The food bar is exceptional including daily made fresh organic delights made with care by the on staff team and chefs. That's just the beginning. Visit and check it out yourself. Highly recommended! Tracy

We grabbed some very delicious gluten-free tacos from the market and sat up in the Big Carrot Rooftop Garden - lovely little oasis in the city! Met up with high school friend we haven't seen in wwwaaaayyyy too long and talked for hours, completely undisturbed.

Monday, 7pm July 15th I tried to get a burrito at the Big Carrot deli. The young South Asian male who served me was one of the rudest inept people I have ever had serving me. He made me wait 10 minutes, claiming someone else was coming to make the burrito, and no one did. Then when he made it, he wasn't listening and I had to constantly repeat myself. He also refused to make it correctly and bunched all the toppings unevenly in an anarchic pile even though I asked him to line everything up. The woman behind me was even helping trying to explain that to him. She had issues with him before. We both complained to a manager, but didn't get anything for our poor customer service, nor did they say they would address the concerns seriously. I had to push for everything and it was exhausting. Don't shop here or the deli.

Located just beside the juice bar, this is a small but mighty food store where you can get everything you need including some lunch. They had a hot food section where you buy food by weight. I sampled quite of few of their dishes and it was great. The staff were nice too. I would recommend stopping by if you're in the neighbourhood.

I had a great buying experience at The Big Carrot Danforth Community Market! The variety of food options is impressive, especially with so many gluten-free and lactose-free choices available. While it’s a bit on the expensive side, the quality of the food more than makes up for it. I loved that they have a chart showing when fresh products arrive from each bakery, so you can grab items on their delivery day. Since I was staying nearby, I ended up buying most of my food here and was really satisfied with everything. Highly recommend for anyone looking for fresh, high-quality products!

Dear Big Carrot Management, I'm writing to express my deep disappointment and frustration regarding my shopping experience today. As a long-time customer, I've always felt welcome, but today's encounter left me feeling disrespected and uncomfortable. While shopping, I was persistently followed by two security guards - one Asian and one African. The Asian security guard was consistently beside or behind me, even entering the employee area without breaking eye contact. When I confronted the African security guard about their behavior, he denied following me. I felt targeted and stereotyped based on my skin color. This experience was particularly disturbing given my history of loyal patronage, shopping for myself and customers. I've brought this incident to the staff's attention and hope you'll take necessary steps to educate your security team about: 1. Racial profiling and stereotyping. 2. Cultural sensitivity and awareness. 3. Respectful customer treatment. Unfortunately, my family and I will no longer shop at The Big Carrot due to this incident. I hope you take my complaint seriously and ensure a welcoming environment for all customers. Thank you

Prices are surprisingly lower here than I can find elsewhere, and the selection is unbelievable. fresh produce quality is great, the burritos and deli food are delicious, and again costs less by weight than at Sobeys somehow. The green roof is pretty spectacular in spring/summer, and there's room to eat inside as well. Staff are wonderful, knowledgeable and go out of their way to make my visit a positive experience. Rather than putting my money in the pockets of Jeff Bezos or Galen Weston, I prefer to shop at the Big Carrot. They didn't gouge their customers with extra "inflation" to make record profits in the past few years. Also importantly to my values, the Big Carrot is Worker-Owned! The worker-owners run their own store like a co-operative with 'one-worker, one-vote'. Democracy in the workplace is so important, to me it points toward a better world. Truly a one of a kind place with everything I need, and I happily support them over the grocery giants.

It is a great and neat location, with most of their staff having excellent customer service. Neat and well-laid-out store and products The downs I’ve got about this location is 1. Phone ethics: Don't bother calling, as the mailbox is full, and no one takes calls most of the time. Please, this needs to be improved. Travelling to the store could be an issue for shoppers with hectic lives and work schedules for a problem or question that a representative could resolve or answer over the phone. 2. With the present global economic situation and inflation, it would be well appreciated if some of the products could be less expensive compared to other stores that carry the same products and brand; for five years, I used to get all my produce and some groceries from the Organic Garage. Upon closing all their mid and downtown outlets, one of the employees referred me to the Big Carrot for the continuity of quality products. Unfortunately, I find The Big Carrot more expensive, but what can I do 🤷‍♀️, buy? 😔 I could have given them a five-star rating, as they sincerely deserve it if these two issues had not existed.

The Big Carrot is my favourite place to shop in the world. I'm not kidding. I've been a customer for close to thirty years and I'm there every day. The team, like Warren and Christian, know me by name. The whole team is excellent. And the food! Fresh organic produce that you cannot find anywhere else - including many local farmers. Nick and the whole team at the food bar are excellent. They have a real commitment to food excellence and it shows. The food bar is exceptional including daily made fresh organic delights made with care by the on staff team and chefs. That's just the beginning. Visit and check it out yourself. Highly recommended! Tracy

We grabbed some very delicious gluten-free tacos from the market and sat up in the Big Carrot Rooftop Garden - lovely little oasis in the city! Met up with high school friend we haven't seen in wwwaaaayyyy too long and talked for hours, completely undisturbed.

Monday, 7pm July 15th I tried to get a burrito at the Big Carrot deli. The young South Asian male who served me was one of the rudest inept people I have ever had serving me. He made me wait 10 minutes, claiming someone else was coming to make the burrito, and no one did. Then when he made it, he wasn't listening and I had to constantly repeat myself. He also refused to make it correctly and bunched all the toppings unevenly in an anarchic pile even though I asked him to line everything up. The woman behind me was even helping trying to explain that to him. She had issues with him before. We both complained to a manager, but didn't get anything for our poor customer service, nor did they say they would address the concerns seriously. I had to push for everything and it was exhausting. Don't shop here or the deli.

Located just beside the juice bar, this is a small but mighty food store where you can get everything you need including some lunch. They had a hot food section where you buy food by weight. I sampled quite of few of their dishes and it was great. The staff were nice too. I would recommend stopping by if you're in the neighbourhood.