Reid's Fine Foods | SouthPark

Description: A large gourmet market and restaurant in SouthPark with a deli, butcher counter, cheese and charcuterie department, pastry case, wine retail, and full-service wine bar. The space works for several modes: breakfast, lunch, dinner, brunch, grocery browsing, takeout, patio drinks, or a sit-down meal before or after shopping. Seating includes indoor and outdoor areas, with indoor and outdoor bars and a seasonal menu built around prepared foods, sandwiches, salads, small plates, entrees, wine, and market ingredients. It has more of a lively neighborhood market-restaurant feel than a quiet study spot, and it is especially strong casual groups and people who like to browse food retail before or after eating.

Comments: Has a rather large outdoor patio, and it’s a great place to hang out in the mornings for remote work on a warm day. There are always a few finance-looking individuals around grabbing breakfast and coffee, taking calls, and checking stuff on their laptops before ostensibly heading toward Uptown for the rest of their workday. It doesn’t really get busy here until around lunchtime, then it calms down in the afternoon before the dinner rush.

If you’re on a budget though, don’t come here. It’s expensive, and not just “inflation expensive.” Even if inflation were solved today and they took that out of the pricing, this place would still be expensive.

They’ve got coffee, tea, various drinks, and food all day long, plus a full-service restaurant, so it’s a lot more than just a grocery store. Indoor seating can become wait-to-be-seated during lunch and dinner, but the outdoor patio’s usually open, so time your visit well if you’re looking for casual coffee shop or cafe vibes rather than a sit-down restaurant.