This store charged me more than the marked price on an item. (I did not discover this until I returned home.) This disappointed me.

I drove over an hour to get to this gem and it was worth it. Highly recommend. You can find about any spice you would need or want here at reasonable prices.

Excellent selection of foods and goods you wont find anywhere else.

Items from all over the world. Good stuff however prices are quite high compared to chicago stores.

World Harvest is truly a neat place. They have a great selection of things you really cant find in many other stores in the local area. Its much more fun to look than it is to buy, the prices are extremely high. Although you cant find much of the selection elsewhere, I dont believe the demand in the area is very high, because there are a ton of expired items in this store. Always be sure to check the dates on literally everything, I have found things more than a year old, which should not be happening if the stores inventory is being taken properly and proper facing is being done. They often have sales, but the sales for food product are generally expired items, and still very expensive. There is a fantastic selection of essential oils and natural care items that is very impressive and worth taking a look. The owner is very charismatic and extremely nice, as well as all staff. The facility is fairly clean as well.The attached café, Strawberry Fields, is a gem. The food is fresh and fantastic, bringing different flavors into play. The wait is a bit long for them to make food but it is worth it. The staff is very attentive to the diners needs and very willing to answer any questions about the food they serve.As far as their baked goods, we were stopping in every Friday for baked goodies for nearly a year and a half. I will say the quality of these items seems to have gone downhill and we havent been impressed in 2021. The selection has gone down and the cakes/muffins/cupcakes have been very dry and just not good so Im unsure what happened. Recently, SF has partnered with Hunny Bunny Bakes which has brought new life forth, and although the cake jars are home made and very good they are small Im unsure they are worth the $8 price point (That isnt advertised on the case, so you will be surprised at the register). I wish theyd bring back a better selection of regular baked goods with high quality. We havent been patronizing the facility as often because quality is down and prices are up.

World Harvest (WH) is with Strawberry Fields (SF) and both have lost. SF was community based & helpful in vegetarian, vegan, & health foods. WH with ethic foods. The selection for both is down, & some of the more economic items are missing, making both stores expensive. Staff does not know its own product. Food is still open for the public to pick by hand without gloves or safety items. The deli is also open for various staff. Note: they are close to campus. No one is masked and aisles are narrow. Not ADA friendly but some staff will help, even to your car, but not all. Parking is free but in an incline. The cold section items are mostly able to be found in other small stores. If it continues this trend, I will stop shopping here, as it is, I have cut back going due to other locations being less expensive and friendlier. There are still unique items to find, if you have the time, and if dont mind the lack of social distancing. Call ahead as hours seem to change. Would be glad to review again to see it get better, as these were once my favorite places to shop.

Love the new store. Great selection of international foods. Staff has always been friendly. Stop in in August/September for fresh dates right off the tree.

Perfect place for Halal meats! Loved it.

This is a gem for central Illinois. What a treat and oasis in the land of corn and soy. This is my favorite health food store in Champaign-Urbana and always look forward to going when Im in town. The owner is so sweet and the staff are super friendly and warm. Always a great experience.

Good place to buy spices, tea, health food. Price is also good.

Many unique international edible/drinkable items. We always visit before the holidays to get stocking stuffers. Give them a try. You will not regret it!

It was ok but man do I miss the original strawberry fields cafe!!

Nice variety of international food stuff

So I read a review that didnt paint this store as the best place but as I try to not be the type of person who judges a book by its cover, I decided to go look for myself. I had time to kill so I went nice and slow as I walked as many isles as possible. Many of my favorite items were there and equally priced to my experience or on sale. The only hiccup is some of those sale items were not correctly priced. When I brought my receipt and items back to clarify, Ata (my checkout person) and Mohammed (I dont know if this is correctly spelt, the owner) helped get everything into order. They have ceylon cinnamon which is hard to find. Overall, they had a huge selection with varying prices. My intent is to shop local when I can and prices are right. Big box stores killed mom and pop shops, now the internet is doing a final round. I am a hands on person so I am archaic and proud.

Great selection of natural foods and international foods and also a huge varied selection of supplements, olive oils, balsamic vinegar. I even finally found my favorite cacao powder! Mohammed, the owner, engaged us with much hospitality and helped us orient to the area, and the staff were all friendly too.

This is a very authentic and interesting market. It is amazing to see all types of food items from all over the world considering the physical space of the market. We were able to find a special brand and blend of tea that I have been searching for and could not find even in Amazon. I highly recommend the place.

I am so grateful for this place. Its selection of bulk goods, middle eastern spices that remind me of home, and really just about everything is second to none. Also the best olives in town, without a doubt

The atmosphere is Multicultural, welcoming and the Ambiance is very nice. The coffee is comparable to Starbucks. And I love the sushi! The dragon rose I love especially.

Variety is high, you can find halal meat. Check expiraton date of discounted products.

Some of the chocolate was expired/expiring soon. I enjoyed coming for the variety of food, which was there. Im not sure how busy you stay, but you should get to know your customers to find out what they like and bring those products in. no point in having merchandise that no one wants. I think there needs to be more Indian items

I love the cheese and olives but the main person who always waits on me never gives you the quantity of anything you want. If you ask for a few olives he fills the container so full that it leaks in the bag in your car. I asked for a small chunk of cheese today and specifically said a 1/4 lb or less and he cut 3/4 of a pound slice. He did this 2 times in a row and the first time he was rude when I told him i wanted a smaller chunk. They are greedy money hungry people who have terrible customer service and want the maximum amount of money out of you on every trip. Ive been a loyal customer since the old location and they have lost my business. If the cheese is 20.99 per lb there is a huge difference between 1/4 lb and 3/4 lb. They also have multiple expired and out of date products in the store and still sell them at a high cost. They also treat the employees terrible as I witnessed yet again today. Go to Harvest Market or anywhere else if you want anything that resembles good service.

Great place to shop lots of healthy options

The best hands down in central Illinois

Maybe not that great for regular groceries but certain things like their snacks and coffee is pretty good.

A wonderful place filled to the brim with all kinds of interesting and delicious international foods. Love their tea and spice sections!

Great selection--love the grains, oils, and seasonings

Looking for mung beans to sprout and there they were!

Amazing store and restaurant. They had high quality ingredients for every item in my recipe. Plus I asked for some bananas which had already browned and the grocer went to the back and pulled some out of the freezer which were absolutely perfect! Always a pleasure to shop here!

Too many expired products. Check b4 buyin it.

Love it! It has a huge selection and i found everything i was looking for. I was surprised how affordable they are. This is my new place from now on

What a lovely surprise! I love this supermarket. I went there to buy halal products. I was really happy to find Arabic products (qeshta, frozen falafel, Domiati cheese, Vimto, Ta7ina) and much much more! I will definitely be going back. The supermarket is very clean and the staff is very friendly and helpful. If you are trying to get goodies for Ramadan, you’ll find plenty of things you may like!

Great variety of specialty & health products. Very helpful staff. Warmed my heart to see a young lady with Downs Syndrome employed there!

Love the different selection of teas

I love the new store! The owner was there and he was so caring and helpful. And the store has so much more new things and its beautiful inside

There are a lot of food products that you can only get here. Their prices seem reasonable. The bakery always has lots of good options. The only problem is that they never seem to be at the register when I want to check out.

Delicious smoothies.

This is a nice place. Very clean. Very organized. We drove from Terre Haute to come here and will definitely be back. I reccomend 100%

I went to get peppermint oil and found myself going up and down aisles. It seemed over crowded and old. I bought olive oil and pasta but each had expired dates on some items so check. I think its a good place for special hard to find items.Ill go back but cant say it was comfortable.,....what happened to Peterson ww flour!

This is a very neat place with a lot of very unique items. I really enjoy shopping here and always able to find something new to try.

Looking for that item you might not be able to find anywhere else, chances are you will here in their many isles of worldly food. The service is also stellar

Wonderful people great selection of cheese and they support live local music!

I used to frequent this store when it was just Strawberry Fields,. When it was announced that it was merging with World Harvest, I switched to one of the other organic stores in the area. Today I went back, looking for a few specific items and I was shocked. The place was dirty, smelled, and just overall was not what you would expect from a natural foods store. It was nothing like how it used to be, the first store that introduced me to organic foods and I left very disappointed. I could not find any of the few items I was looking for, which are common at the other stores but simply out of stock. It may be good if you are looking for certain regional or ethnic foods, but not for organic/nature. I will not be back.

The go-to place for anything you cant find at the supermarket: unique ingredients, special spices, imported specialties, and the nicest owner ever. They even have a small cafe which serves delicious food.

Compared to other markets, their prices are always expensive! Also, please check dates on anything before you purchase it! They do have habit to cover expired products date and try to sell them like fresh. Lastly, they hide cheap cheeses at the back of the freezer in order to sell their open box expensive Bulgarian cheese. After they sold out with it, those inexpensive cheese moves back to the front to sell them higher. When we confronted them, they of course denied! Never again!!

So I just quit my job at Strawberry Fields/World Harvest in Urbana and I picked up my last paycheck so I am now finally free to shed some light on that business.My very first day of training they taught me how to slice the cheese at the dairy counter so that the customers dont see the mold. The majority of the cheeses are expired and they leave the knives out all day and only some employees actually wash the surfaces.The food that is in the deli cooler at Strawberry Fields (like the hummus, dolmeh, pad thai, etc.) is literally left out for a full week just sitting there. The pastries are left on the counter until they sell. There are probably two oat cookies still in the jar on the counter which have supposedly been there for months longer than I worked there which, admittedly, wasnt very long after I had seen these practices.2 weeks ago they replaced their espresso machine because the steamer stopped working. Why? Because no one ever cleaned it so it got so full of old, bacteria filled milk that it plugged up and stopped working.The dairy and dairy substitutes that they use for their drinks are almost always expired and chunky, but they will blend it anyway and serve it.The grocery store part has products that expired YEARS ago still on the shelves to sell, and when I and other coworkers suggested that maybe we shouldnt be selling smores that expired in 2017 that contain egg and dairy, we were told to keep them there because there is still money to be made.I was very grateful to have met so many wonderful people who come through the store and to have made a connection with the regulars throughout my shifts. I cannot stress how much I loved talking to people and how much I appreciated my coworkers like Rad and Najat. But I cant lie to customers and knowingly sell them expired and contaminated goods.Mohammad, if you see this, this is why I quit and I sincerely hope that you fix your business practices and learn to have integrity. You wonder why people quit frequently and it is because you value money over human beings.

I lived in C-U for 11 years as an adolescent and young adult. I did undergrad school at U of I, and quite often I used to go to Strawberry Fields back in the 1970s and eat their homemade dishes. Forty-five years later, this place is one of my go-tos for buying more esoteric goods: spices, groceries, bakery, deli, etc. I go there every visit. I have brought Chinese black vinegar, rice wine, pomegranate molasses and savoiardi biscuits with me from California in order to make a Moroccan chicken, tiramisù and a Chinese pork dish, but I could have saved myself the luggage inspection by buying it all here. Yes, its pricy, but if you like to cook... ... ...interestingly, I ran into a Pakistani gentleman at the local Meijer grocery store as he was selecting limes to pickle, and he said the same thing: expensive, but the only game in town more often than not. Its nice to have the advantages of a small town but be able to get big city goods as well. My friend says that if they dont have it, theyll try to get it for you. I spoke with the owner this last time, and he is personable and helpful.

Authentic food, great people.

Like this place a lot.

Great olive bar! Most other foods can be found elsewhere for cheaper.

Always a good experience. We have known the owner for many years

One stop shop for most Indian and middle eastern groceries. Really good cheese selection, be it Italian, English or middle eastern

More of an organic store rather than an international products one [I had come in expecting international since international came before gourmet in their store name]. ie, rather than finding polish dumplings in the freezer aisle, there were 6-7$ fancy pint ice creams. Rather than those Kinder European chocolates there were those 4-6$ chocolates found in Walgreen. Good place if your looking for expensive organic teas or oil. The international selection at first glance is more Italian, Turkish, some Japanese and Polish, Jewish [tho dont quote me on it, I didnt stay long to find out specifically]. The prices are not double tho they are higher, ie if at a discount big retailer it costs $3.50, at County Market it would cost $4.00, here it would be $4.75. By the way, make sure to check your receipt after checkout (I ended up paying $0.08 for a weighted product I didnt buy.). Students get 7% off on Wednesdays. I didnt see any expired products although there were no dates on the bread I looked at in the bread aisle [they do have homemade-looking polish rye bread but not the Lithuanian black rye bread that I was looking for].TLDR: its a gourmet store, not an international one like the 3 Asian ones you see near Green Street in the undergrad downtown area.

Awesome place. Cindy helped me find everything I needed.

Good food. Shop before or after you have lunch.

Quality products and friendly staffs!

Awesome selection of cheeses, olives, chocolates, canned fish...really just about anything they specialize in! Friendly, knowledgeable employees can help with your selection via free tastes and info.

Excellent shop for specialty and international foods.

Excellent customer service 👏

Overpriced, in addition to expired. By finding the same imported products in the Polish stores in Chicago, I saw that the World Harvest’s prices are DOUBLED or even more than that!!! I mean, I understand that it maybe needs to be a bit more expensive since it’s on the UIUC campus, but what’s too much it’s too much. I wonder how come inspection does not do anything against it. Too bad that they are the only store around that offers certain products not obtainable elsewhere, thereby obviously misusing the situation.

Great selection. Helpful staff.

Best source for both natural and international foods.

Love this place. They have halal meat

Nice selection of goods pleasant owner you just need to watch the expiration date on some of the packages.

My husband loves it not my kind of place

The deli foods are excellent & so inexpensive. Try the Greek salad!

Unique high quality products are sold here.

Key places to go and feel like being somewhere else in the country. Lots of variety of foods and delicatessens.

Nice wide variety of hard-to-find items. Relatively low prices too.

Great good food

They have many things that you cant find elsewhere. So be careful, just buy the things that you can only find there, everything else is more expensive than the competitors.

Great place very interesting

I couldve sworn I was at Strawberry Fields...

Nice selection of hard to find items.

Amazing selection of those hard to find items

Wow very nice

Amazing place

Awesome cheese selection

Neat place

I bought sausages and after I ate them I saw that it expired 1 year ago. I believe they charge more than they should.(Some of the goods that can be purchased in wall mart costs there two times more expensive)

The food was mediocre at best. The only positive was that it was delivered quickly.

This is the place where you can find worldwide food ingredients

Pricey but thats what you expect from a specialty store.

Quite helpful employees

So so prices but have hard to find items.

Wide selection of international and organic or healthy foods

Higher price, higher quality

Fancy grocery store!

Hard to find treasures

Way too expensive

Have hard to find items

Great selection

Overpriced

Anything and everything

Its international, but Koreans wont use it much.Eastern bloc food (caviar, etc.), centered on Indian masala.Japan / Korea / Greater China - 2 (almost only basic spices)India - 4 (Bulk Masala Center)Middle East - 3 (still varied)

The choice is not great. Not like a Russian store

Great selection of international food