Southwest Farmers Market

I recently purchased goat at this place. I got 10 pounds of goat meat. After I purchased it I placed it in a freezer bag and headed straight home. After I got home I marinated it and let it stay in the fridge . Tell me why the morning of Christmas as I am cooking the goat it starts stinking up and falling apart. The goat wasn't even on the stove for 30 minutes. The meat was falling apart like it was pressure cooked but the skin was still hard . They sold us spoiled goat and when I called the owner they said we must have passed some place else before heading home. They refuse to refund us. This is honestly very upsetting and disappointing, I will not be buying any meat here again!

The baker woke up and chose violence today on the buns. The stars is for the puff puff. The buns were a terrible disappointment. I don’t think anyone even tasted these before they were put out for sale. Straight to the trash. I opened several to see if maybe it was just one but the entire batch of buns were tasteless, no sweetness at all and undercooked. It’s like they too puff puff mix and said let's add flour to it and call it buns. Please do better. We are already having to pay higher prices for your items so make them worth it please.

My recent visit to Southwest Farmers Market was extremely disappointing and confirmed that this establishment needs serious improvement—or even closure. The lack of customer service, especially from the staff and supervisor Lawrence, is unacceptable. I’ve been a loyal customer since the store opened, but the service has consistently declined. Today, when I asked a simple question about my food order, the staff member behind the counter rudely yelled at me and walked away. Instead of addressing the issue, Lawrence dismissed my concerns with unhelpful comments and gestures, even after I explained I was in a hurry to pick up my kids. This isn’t an isolated incident—previous visits have included buying expired products and dealing with poorly trained, unprofessional staff. As one fellow customer pointed out, this behavior is far below acceptable standards. Today was my last visit, and I urge the management to take immediate action to train staff on proper customer service. Without significant change, this store has no place in Austin.

This location has a huge variety and great tasting food in the food bar. I have never had a problem with them anytime I went shopping. The only thing I would not purchase from there ever again is their beef skin. I bought some, and went home to prepare it. Upon opening the bag to try and cut/wash it, I noticed the meat smelled urine (Ammonia), was slimy when pulling it apart, and was very soft to the touch, like I was squeezing it and it was falling apart (if you have tried to cook beef skin before, you would know it has a hard texture and can sometimes be hard to cut into). When I realized this, I called the shop and a member of their team asked me to bring in the item along with my receipt. I took it there there right away that same day, and the person I spoke with directly me to one of their supervisors in the kitchen. He was immediately giving me an attitude, telling me that I cannot return it and was not willing to cooperate. Keep in mind that I never had the intention of returning this item. I wanted to show them the item they sold me to ensure better quality in the future, as well as get a refund. After some back and forth and being transferred to another supervisor to speak with, they gave me in store credit (reluctantly). They never even bothered to look at the item in question. This was not the first time I have experienced this poor quality beef skin from them, just the time I decided I was fed up with it. In summary, I will NOT be purchasing beef skin from them again as I am concerned for my health if I do consume it. If you didn’t know, an Ammonia smell from meat IS NOT a good thing. I hope this review can help to improve the quality of your meat Southwest. I enjoy shopping at your store but this was not a great experience at all.

It's ok. I wish they had more varieties of dried fish. Their cooked food is always a hit or miss with the flavor.

I love this supermarket they have a huge variety of African foods, their fresh bread is to die for, but the only reason I'm giving a 2 is that they pack this rubber like tendon in their designer sauce that is not chewable, the sauce is nice but the meat they put in it is so disappointing especially because I drive over an hour to get this sauce. I'm beyond disappointed 😢

Great African Market. They offer a wide variety of mostly nigerian goods with freshly made selection of nigerian dishes available a la carte. They have rice, goat meat, porridge, puff puff, meat pie, egg roll, designer stew etc. If you're looking for a place to do your African food shopping, then there's no better place.

Large selection of meats and produce. The Nigerian jolloff rice with fish was yummy. The puff puff was delicious. Will be returning.

DO NOT BELIEVE THE LOW RATING! This place has by far the largest selection of Nigerian groceries and the BEST Jollof in the city! I went there yesterday after not knowing that this location was here! My boyfriend and i are from Houston so we are very familiar with the locations there. But when we heard it was here and has been here for YEARS, we felt robbed because we could have been eating good Nigerian food all along! The jollof is so flavorful and has that classic smoky party jollof taste we like! Plus a plate of jollof comes with your choice of beef, chicken, or fish on top. The cherry on top it is only $7.99!!!! Best deal in Austin for sure. We also like the suya at the Houston locations but we missed it here (they tend to run out fast because they are sooo good) Do not go anywhere else for affordable delicious Nigerian food!

I have no clue why the rating is so low because that hot food be BUSSING!!! I wish I could order on DoorDash or Instacart. That "designer stew" is addictive!!!!

This is the only major Nigerian store in the Austin areaand it has most of what you'll need including raw produce, processed food, warm cooked food and frozen cooked and raw food. Most of the staff are nice but service can be slow. It's not particularly a clean store but it serves its purpose. You can find anything from raw yams, raw or cooked Egusi, and fresh seafood all the way through garri, milo and Maltina. I would come here again, but given the location, mostly because there's nothing closer to central Austin.

The Southwest farmers market is selling MAGGIE cubes in a wrap instead of the original packaging from the manufacturer and this is lots of health concern as the original manufacturer packaging has expiration date on them. This is a health issues for Nigerians in America. 1 We don't know the manufacturer expiration date. 2. Many years ago in Nigeria people alleged that MAGGIE cubes was cursing cancer because Nigerians were using expired MAGGIE Cubes. Back in Nigeria packaging expired food is common because there is no FDA checking packaged food so business repackage food to make profit and don't care the dangers or harm to customers. Being too greedyness can cause harm to customers who have no knowledge that the MAGGIE cubes has expired putting a toll on AMERICA health systems. The store management should immediately discard all the raped MAGGIE cubes from their stores all over USA for safety reasons. This AMERICA and not Africa were expired food poisoning has killed too many people. African and American society should not tolerate this type of nonsense. America is better than this nonsensical business behavior of a company trying to curse health catastrophic to customers out of greed.

This place is a blessing to have. However, a lot of us would like to see the akara return to the fresh beans, homemade it used to be. please stop using the packaged powder products in place of the real beans, nicely flavored and just enough onions, peppers and maggi like before would be great. Return to what you guys have done best in the past. Stop chasing your frequent customers away.

I can finally say that I have been to the three locations in Austin, Dallas, and Houston. Truth be told, my best experience was here at the Austin location. The staff greeted me upon arrival, and everyone was focused on doing their job!Typically in the other two locations of staff will either argue with you or are just flat out rude. However, this location everyone was nice and friendly to me. To get deeper into this for you, they had a decent selection of African produce.however, they did not have that much spice selections, which I typically find in the other locations. I bought meat pie, which I would rate a 7 out of 10 only because it is too oversized and doughy for my preference. In addition, i bought amala flower, fresh iru, cow meat, crayfish,bell peppers,and palm oil. I don't know what it is with them always running out of habanero peppers at all locations, but they didn't have much habanero peppers to choose from. Overall, I would definitely shop here on a Sunday morning when the crowd isn't too much..

This was my sister and I's first time coming to the store. We decided to come check it out because we just moved here and we have been looking for an African store so we decided to check it out. They didn't have what we needed but the store was a bit dirty and they had some habaneros that had mold in it!! Eww And the guy at the counter was a bit rude too. We bought some jollof rice and he was looking towards that area and we thought he wanted to know how much the jollof rice is so we were telling him the price because sometimes the cashier forget what the price of something is and he said "if I know the code, I would know how much it is." Yeah, we are DEFINITELY not coming back!!

What happened! Management? Staff? This place used to be clean and stocked! The bakery is down, yam and plantains rotten, bathroom is nasty, store looks unkept and the shelves are scantily stocked. Atleast the jollof rice is not extra hot(spicy) anymore. This place has potential. Management do better, this is our go to Nigerian store!!!!

I've bought your frozen okra soup twice and each time I.get home and heat it up, it's smells and tastes sour like you only freeze it after it's sour. This is so unsatisfying and very annoying. I never expect anything like this from any restaurant, not just once but twice. Now I'm skeptical about trying any cooked soups

excellent african market, the location is great and food is delicious. i visit their store in houston and service is good, the managers help me to find whst i was looking for. i give then five star.