URBAN MARKET

Urban Market consists of Gangnam market, a bar, coffee shop, bakery shop, and a few restaurants. Gangnam Market is an Asian grocery store, which is smaller than Hmart and Whole Foods. The Urban Market is mainly catering to local residents for their convenience. The parking garage is adjacent to the market through Morgan Ave to entrance. 90 minutes free parking with validation.

Cool new store with lots of Asian + non-asian options. Friend and I said it's very similar to a mix of maggianos and hmart 😂 prices and selection also match that expectation You can get hotpot ingredients i.e shaved/thin sliced beef, good selection of noodles (one shelf/row), and nice snacks like pocky, KitKat, chips Will be back

Dope new store owned by young asian entrepreneurs! (Changed ownership, it’s no longer Urban Market) neon directory lights inside mimic an Asian street market & there are a lot of different items from tons of different cultures available alongside your basics. Prices changed recently after they switched to a touch screen system so it’s pretty affordable for the near downtown area. Now they’ve got a food court in the works. Atm there’s a boba/coffee shop, a Turkey ramen place, a fresh bakery, a bar with bottomless mimosas coming in July, & a protein heavy rice bowl spot. Soon they’ll have a sushi spot & a Korean & Mexican taco joint. Excited to try out the new food!

Seems they are still working on getting the kinks out of the place. I would of thought that it was a fairly new place like weeks old but from the reviews it seems like they been open for a couple of months. We I went they work working on the lights and fresh paint everywhere. Looks really nice for the sections that were lit. Lots of variety on Asian foods. Some of the shelves were kind of empty but I thought it was because it was new but I guess it’s a supply chain thing. Only reason I gave four stars was because I would have like to see a more polished version of the store with a full assortment of items but overall didn’t leave the store with empty hands so it was a good outing.

Am very happy to have a grocery store in this location and am impressed with the quality of the selection (do note this means you won't find cheap off-brand products like you would at Aldi/cheap grocery stores so you might have to spend a little extra for higher quality goods). Also am loving the Asian products they have! My biggest complaint is that you have to check the expiration date on the products. I just went yesterday and bought refrigerated sausages and when I went to cook them today I saw they were over a month past their best by date! Not sure how many of their products are like this but a bad sign that they had at least one product over a month past it's date on the shelf.

My first impression of Urban Market was...WOW! I've never seen an independent, family run store with this many quality and locally made products. There is a huge variety of products, many that I've never seen in any other store, and I noticed that many of them originate or are made in the Chicago area. So if you truly want to shop "local", this seems like the place to do it. Considering that they opened in the middle of winter, during a pandemic induced global supply shortage, I don't know, it seems like they did a pretty good job to me? It looks like they are still slowly bringing in more products and getting up to speed, but I am already impressed with what I see. As for my shopping experience...Parking in the attached garage is free with validation and very simple. An elevator took me from the garage and conveniently dropped me off inside the store. I grabbed a latte from their café and a spinach pie from their kitchen, I'm picky as hell about my coffee and pickier about my spinach pie, so I was surprised when both exceeded my expectations. As I started pushing my cart around the store I thought about how I don't really enjoy grocery shopping anymore, especially at the big corporate grocers like Jewel {owned by Albertson's} or Mariano's {owned by Kroger's) because regardless of which location you go to, all the stores seem the same to me? Even though they are run by billion dollar companies...you walk down one dingy, narrow, badly lit aisle to get to another. Then you get to the crowded checkout, only to wait in one long line! It always seems the same. By comparison, Urban Market is family owned store that sells lots of quality local products. The store is bright and just has a sparkly, happy vibe. The aisles are wide, the lighting is vivid and they have a huge variety of neat stuff. It seemed like every time I turned a corner, I was saying "Oh that's cool." "I've never seen that before?" "Oooh I wanna try that!" The layout is open and inviting and the selection of quality imported and local products is impressive and makes shopping there fun. Lots of people I have spoken to are excited about Urban Market's addition to the neighborhood, and they should be...its an independent, family run business that sells quality products. Its the kind of store a neighborhood can be proud of.