Cassandra H.
Yelp
My husband and I were across the street for lunch at Grain & Gristle and I saw Colibri's storefront full of plants. I thought, "oooo, I love a good plant shop" but had never heard of it. As we sat for lunch and looked it up I saw it was a prominent chef's new venture. Definitely peaked my interest.
After lunch we walked across the street to go in. Upon entering, it's quite lovely inside and there were people sat, one working on his laptop, and another group sat together and wine tasting (?).
Immediately I was interested in a plant with beautiful foliage, lifted it, gave it a spin, no label, no price. In a nursery pot so I'm only assuming it was for sale. I continued to look around the shop, looking at plants. Some haphazardly labeled; some potted, some in nursery pots. Perhaps the plants potted aren't for sale, I'm not sure.
I looked up to make eye contact with anyone in the store and did a few times, but was never greeted. I was in the store for a total of 10 minutes. In that amount of time, there were at least 3 plants I would have purchased if there was ANY TYPE of customer service, however, I still don't know who actually worked there. No one made any attempt to say hello, ask if I had any questions, direct me in anyway, even to say "that plant isn't for sale". ABSOLUTELY NONE. I'm extremely disappointed. I'm a chef, and in my opinion this couple should stick to an industry they're good at.