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Blue Star Provisions

3.9 (27 reviews)
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Alexis B.

Every time I visit San Antonio, the Blue Star complex gets bigger and better. On my most recent trip to San Antonio this past weekend, a friend and I explored the shops (some of which I hadn't been in before), and we wandered into Blue Star Provisions for a bit. If I were local and lived in Southtown, I'd probably do a bit of shopping at Blue Star Provisions. This little grocery store had great local produce, including meat and dairy. Yeah, you can get this stuff at Whole Foods, but here you can also fill up a growler of any of Blue Star Brewing Company's beers. (And just because you can get stuff at Whole Foods doesn't mean you have to!) They also had a case of baked goods. Definitely not cheap. And it's not going to replace your HEB, but if you're in the area, stop in and buy something for dinner or grab a growler! It's a fun place!

Less than $2 for quality coffee
Kara S.

What do you do when it's Saturday morning and the line at Halcyon is out the door for people ordering brunch and you just want a quick drip coffee to go? You go next door to Blue Star Provisions where the coffee is amazing quality and less than $2! Plus, there's a variety of breakfast tacos, pastries, and wonderful customer service.

Michelle O.

Blue Star Provisions is a cool place but there is no reason to buy anything there unless you live right next to it and have a lot of money to throw away out of convenience. I stopped by to get a smoothie before ordering some food at Halcyon, which is right across. They are pretty pricey but I wanted to try it out so I thought why not. I got the pineapple and greens smoothie and wasn't that impressed. I couldn't taste the pineapple at all and it wasn't blended very well. The girl that was working that day was super nice though. They have really good fresh juices in little glass bottles but they are really expensive...In the end it's really not worth it. I think it's worth checking out once or twice but that's about it.

Growler station in their cooler!
Chris A.

Open about 6 weeks, Blue Star Provisions looks set to corner the local market in imported eclectic food items in an equally eclectic neighborhood. This shop is located adjacent to Halcyon in the Blue Star complex. It's actually attached, both architecturally and entrepreneurially to the Blue Star Brewery next door - hence the name. The owner was very outgoing describing the various products, where they're from, and his culinary creations both for this shop and for the brewery next door. Most of the items are fairly common import items you can find in bigger grocery chains. Amongst those items are some more interesting things like Honey & Sunflower Seed Spread. They even have some bread made fresh locally and some meat from farms not too far from San Antonio. They have bulk items as well e.g. jelly beans, gummy worms etc., as well as some spices. A few standouts worth mentioning are the "growler" station in their cooler, the cold-pressed juice bar, and their home made kolaches. The "growler" station has around a dozen items on tap, literally, but not just brews. Evidentially, they were sold out of their on-tap kombucha... They also have, for example, sparkling water available in growler form. Prices vary based on product and size. And yes, they do sell the growlers in store. Additionally, Blue Star Provisions has a cold-pressed juice bar. While juice bars are becoming more and more common, cold-pressed juice bars seem harder to find in River City. Well, this place will sort you out. Lastly, the shop proprietor, or one of them, is also a chef or sorts. He prepares kolaches fresh daily and in some quite interesting varieties like Peaches & Cream w/ toasted pecan. The didn't look like the kolaches we're used to getting at most places here but I'd certainly give them a go. Oh, they also have a seating area behind their shop just in case you can't wait to down your kolache and fresh from the tap kombucha. Next time I'm in the neighborhood, I will be trying a kolache - that's a given.

Hannah L.

As mentioned by two other reviewers, the most unfortunate part of this store are that many of the products aren't unique and can be found at Whole Foods. I don't mind paying more for specialty items, but Blue Star Provisions isn't particularly carrying much special. Or rather, if they are it does get shadowed by the Tazo Tea you could buy at Target, HEB, Walmart etc. That tea could instead be either a local tea from Austin or San Antonio, or another unique blend that we can't get elsewhere in the city from the west coast (looking at Red Blossom Tea Company). In Fayetteville, Arkansas there is a store like this called, Blackboard. I really hope the owner looks that business up to see what they carry and how they are doing it right. The owner is an Austin native that stocks her store with local Arkansas products, cheeses from New York City that you can't get anywhere else in town, really unique products like spicy honey, and lots of "treat yoself " goods like beautifully packaged fair trade chocolates. If I needed to buy a gift, that is where I went, and their square footage was way tinier than Blue Star Provisions. I do shop at Provisions about once a week. I want it to stay because I don't use cars and live in this part of town because it has a better walkscore than most of San Antonio. Until they stopped having it on tap, we would fill up our gallon jug with delicious 99 cents mineral water made in store. Later we still came back for still water until we bought a water filter. We also filled our growler with a few things. The Austin based Basil kombucha was awesome, fhe raspberry beer was sour and seemingly not brewed right, and the cold brew coffee was good but fizzy (is on tap coffee supposed to be fizzy?) They carry just one brand of milk and while I'm not sure whether it's available in town elsewhere or not, the whole milk Milk King Milk is decadent. Definitely so rich it should be enjoyed alone or with your coffee and tea, not your breakfast cereal. Over all I want this place to succeed but I wish it'd be better. I get the impression that "current/with the times" businesses in San Antonio catering to the millennial influx or locals eager for businesses that make the Austin commute unnecessary are getting by with doing good enough because they have no competition. Unfortunately they are charging prices that reflect the monopoly but not awesome quality.

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