Olive-n-Grape

When The Dude meets people passionate about their work, original in the concept and highly personable, he is hooked.
Dude and Dudette met Manny (we will assume from the
link). Walked out with a few bottles of premium, imported and high end olive oils for ourselves and gift giving.
Manny made the difference with subtle, non-​invasive charm, orienting us the store and then giving his time to educate Dude on how to taste test olive oil. You want to learn? Stop by and visit. Your taste buds will thank you. Your salad and fish will thank you. The recipients of your holiday gifts will thank you.

Hands down, the best place in the area for balsamic vinegars! We have had tastings at a dozen or so olive oil and vinegar boutiques, but we always make our purchases here. The vinegars offered elsewhere simply pale by comparison. Among the many charms of Olive and Grape’s vinegars is their rich viscosity, rendering oil unnecessary for salad dressing.
Our balsamic favs include fig, juniper berry, currant and pear. I loved the idea of one of the newer flavors, lavender balsamic, but the bitter finish was a little too pronounced for my palate.
The owners are wonderful and most helpful!
Worth the pilgrimage to New Hope. And this is superb place for gifts that recipients will love and use. Guaranteed!

Great selection and knowledgeable staff! The selection is wide and the staff is very helpful with ideas with food pairings.

Wonderful customer service! Came back to New Hope just to buy more olive oils and balsamic. The store had just close we knocked on the door and they let us in!

Okay, so this is like the 15^th 5 Star review which makes me ask myself, why bother? The place is great. If you are invited to a dinner party and want to bring a unique and well-​appreciated gift, look no further. You can easily spend around $ 20-​$ 30 and look like a frigging hero.
Owner and staff are also top notch, helpful, friendly and more than knowledgeable. These people know more about olive oil and balsamic vinegar that Bubba from Forest Gump knows shrimp. A must stop when visiting New Hope/​Lambertville.

What a welcoming place! Great selection and super friendly staff. My favorite thing about this place is the suggestions they give you on how to use their products. Like a kid in a candy store here!

obsessed. like, seriously. you NEED to try this place.
i love high-​quality flavored olive oils, so i was excited to try some out (and was hoping to find a good lemon olive oil)… but i hate balsamic vinegar, so i was prepared to stay away from that section.
…until one of the friendly staff members handed me a sample cup of mango balsamic vinegar and dared me to taste it.
WHOA.
it was so good– unlike any other balsamic i’ve tried before. naturally, i made my rounds and tried EVERY balsamic vinegar, and many of the olive oils, too. in the back of my mind, i was keeping track of my absolute must-​have favorites to buy and was trying to narrow it down (because how many 12-​oz bottles of balsamic and oil does a girl really need at a time? especially when they run approx $ 16)… and then i saw the back wall.
it was lined with rows and rows of small mini bottles in just about every flavor offered in the shop… 6 small bottles for $ 28. (and they sell cute gift boxes for them too… because these would make an amazing gift!)… PERFECT!
re-​thinking my strategy, i picked up 6 mini bottles… and i can’t wait to come back for more. my picks this time:
3 flavored olive oils: lemon, black truffle, and garlic
3 balsamics: mango, traditional, and white peach (a white balsamic)
the staff at the store are incredibly friendly and love to talk about their product. everything is imported from italy and hand-​bottled onsite. there are only 2 olive oils (butter flavored and bacon flavored) that use artificial flavorings. they will tell you their favorite pairings and will suggest recipes to try with the products you’ve purchased.
no joke, this place is BYOB. bring your own BREAD. they welcome visitors and taste-​testers, and even suggested bringing our own things to dip in our samples next time (they provide small plastic spoons otherwise).
you can’t go wrong at olive-​n-​grape. be prepared to spend some time here (especially if you’re as indecisive as i am)!

My take-​a-​ways from Tom Mueller’s Extra Virginity
are:
1. A lot of olive oils marketed as EVOO, when tested in a lab, aren’t.
2. Fresh, fresh, fresh! Buy small bottles with recent releases.
3. The best EVOOs are almost always from specialty EVOO stores, not from super markets.
Oilive-​n-​Grape, in addition to flavored EVOOs — not my cup of tea — has terrific traditional Italian EVOOs. I like their Tuscan San Lorenzo, for instance.
Hope these nice people can stay in business and continue to supply New Hope /​Lambertville with real EVOO.

So glad that we walked in here on our Sunday stroll through New Hope! Incredible assortment of olive oils and balsamic vinegars! We walked down the street to C’est La Vie– bought a loaf of freshly baked bread and had a delish appetizer when we got home! My hubby is addicted — we will definitley be coming back for more!

The friendly owner described this as a candy store for adults, and it really was. I wish they provided bread so I could get the true sampling experience but it was still great. There were sooo many types of oils and balsamics, as well as salt and some other items. Everything I bought was wonderful and I have forced everyone I know to try the Mediterranean Sea Salt (it does NOT taste like regular sea salt) and they have agreed with me. I would love to return!

THIS PLACE IS A WONDERLAND. They have a fantastic selection, and not only can you try EVERYTHING before buying, but there are great tips on how to use each type of olive oil or vinegar. The white coconut balsamic vinegar makes for the BEST shrimp I’ve ever cooked. I’ve had so much fun experimenting with the 6 bottles I picked up in my sampler. Not to mention, they have craaazy sea salt — I don’t even know what I’d do with it. Staff are super friendly, helpful, and knowledgeable. I thank this store for lots of cooking inspiration!

This is an olive oil and vinegar lover’s DREAM.
My folks and I strolled in here and had no idea I would be spending the next 30+minutes frolicking around in this store.
The gal there was AMAZINGLY friendly and welcoming and explained what was about to happen. This store is loaded with about 50 different kinds of olive oils and balsamic vinegars imported from Italy. I no idea this many kinds existed ! None of the vinegars have any thickening agents or added sugar — which is unbelievable since some of them are like syrup and SO FLAVORFUL.
Best part is you are able to taste test everything ! Think of the self serve yogurt places — but sub in oil and vinegar instead.
Since I can never make a decision with so many choices I got the sample pack of 6 for $ 25 to mix and match. WIN!
I bought:
Black Truffle Olive Oil
Rosemary Garlic Olive Oil
Black Walnut Balsamic
Pomegranate Balsamic
Zesty Lemon Balsamic
Tangerine Balsamic
Cannot wait to try them on everythaaaaang!
This place definitely a BYOB — BRING YOUR OWN BREAD!

What a great addition to the New Hope and Solebury area. Excellent variety of gourmet oils and balsamic vinaigrettes that should accommodate all palates and pocket books. Received a gift certificate for Christmas and cannot wait to see the new additions. Strongly suggest that folks stop in and enjoy the unlimited free samples.

Was causally strolling through New Hope with my date, window shopping and just enjoying the Christmas décor. I saw the sign for Olive N Grape from across the street, and decided to go check it out since the name and the sign were cute.
I’m glad we stopped in, because this store is amazing! They have a selection of about 25 different kinds of balsamic vinegars and an additional 25 different kinds of olive oil, and they encourage you to taste all of them! They have little tasting cups next to each little vat for you to use to taste. The staff was super friendly and answered any questions of ours as we made our way through the store.
They have everything from your plain extra-​virgin oil to fun flavors such as blood orange, Persian lime, to bacon. The same goes for the balsamic flavors — a few examples are mango, cinnamon pear, and cranberry.
All the flavors are available in larger 12 oz bottles (and will run you about $ 15/​bottle), but they have a mix and match mini-​bottle 6/​$ 25 special. We ended up taking home black truffle, jalapeño, BUTTER, and traditional EVOOs, and then a traditional, and a raspberry balsamic oil.
They also have some fancy pastas, and some salt for you to try, but what they do best is definitely the oil and vinegar tastings. Can’t wait for the next time I go back, to see what other flavors they have, and looking forward to trying what I bought!

I never thought an olive oil shop could be this cool.
Hell, I didn’t even know there was such a thing as an olive oil shop!
You can sample every kind of olive oil or balsamic that they carry in the store. The couple that owns the shop is really friendly and helpful, and they give you a punch-​out card so you can get a free bottle once you’ve purchased 12. I’ve tried everything in the shop, but my favorite is the garlic infused olive oil. I cook with it constantly… in fact, I’ve just run out, so I’ll be heading back to Olive-​n-​Grape pretty soon!

I have never been to anything like this place in my entire life, but it is simply amazing! You try one and you suddenly can’t stop with so many flavors all around you. I bet even if you don’t like olive oil or balsamic you could find something here that surprises you and tastes good. The balsamic flavors are so sweet, they are practically desserts, and the flavors of the olive oils are really diverse and amazing as well. Beware the habanero, its hot but amazing! I’d say after sampling beers… this is probably the best sampling I have ever experienced. Can’t wait to go back and most likely pick up a bottle for myself.

If you visit New Hope, be sure and come here!
You can taste all the oils and vinegars! The Balsamic Mango is my current favorite! It is amazing on salads!
I ended up buying three different oils and three different balsamics and have been enjoying them!

I just loved this store. It’s off the main street and not crazy or too touristy. They encouraged me to taste and taste and taste. Amazing assortment of oils and vinegar!

Olive-​n-​Grape is awesome! My husband and I decided to take a road trip to New Hope and walk around for the day. While visiting another local shop, we saw a flier for Olive-​n-​Grape. We hustled over to see what it was all about. Boy am I glad we did.
It’s like an adult candy store. Dawn has a plethora of olive oils and balsamics including Cinnamon Pear Balsamic, Blueberry Balsamic, Vanilla Orange Balsamic, Citrus Habanero Olive Oil, Persian Lime Olive Oil, and much more.
Feel free to peruse the store, sample, and let your taste buds come alive (don’t worry, she has water to rinse the palate). We walked in just to look and walked out spending $ 60! Oops! Well worth it.
Bottles average between $ 14.95-$ 18.95. The price is worth it for the quality. She also has yummy dips, pretzels, pastas, and flavored salts (we got some of those too).
PS — ask Dawn if Chi Chi, her chihuahua, is working that day. ;-)