Utopia Gardens
2/8/2019
Utopia Gardens is hands-down, my favorite dispensary. They've done everything right, as far as I'm concerned. They serve super high quality product at all price points, so whether it's top-shelf or bottom-shelf, it's grown, trimmed, and cured well, emits the appropriate terpine profile, and is nicely representative of the strain. And despite the obvious attention to quality, they're not pretending like this stuff is anything more than it is and marking it up or hyping it up. Many of the strains are grown in-house and trimmed by the budtenders themselves, so everyone there is very familiar with the product. The concentrates are a great bang for your buck, and are always flavorful. The budtenders are all very friendly and unpretentious, like some places where I'm supposed to be impressed that they're all attractive females wearing black t-shirts or something. I always end up wasting more time than I need to just chatting with them about how much I love their stuff. I've spent quite a bit of money here and have only had a couple of minor issues, which were corrected without hesitation. They went out of their way to make sure I was happy with everything. The points program is great, you can get a free preroll or shirt or discount every now and then. The atmosphere is excellent - lots of natural light and a cool industrial feel, very unlike some of the panic-room style dispensaries you come across. They've got decent daily deals on everything, so it's best to time your purchases based on those. My only complaint is that the menu (over the last few months that I've been a patron) tends to be quite weighted towards the indicas. The focus seems to be on presenting an array of nicely-curated flower with impressive flavor profiles (as well as a large selection of cbd-focused strains), but they could use some more sativas, generally speaking. But aside from that, it amazes me that some people go to such unpleasant dispo's instead of places like this. HIGHLY recommended.