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| - I get a full bowl at the hot and cold salad/eal bar at the Middleton Willy Street a couple times a week. It is a godsend. You get dozens of different greens/reds/yellows colors/flavors/textures salads/casseroles/condiments (and that would be similar to the Whole Foods hot/cold bars in many cities, except that in other cities the Whole Foods tend to have vastly more extensive salad bars with vastly imaginative offerings than in Madison, where the Whole Foods hot bar is more like the cafeteria at an old age home - - huge slop pans of blandness).
The concept of upscale salad choices/garnishes/condiments is brilliant - - you get such a broad palette of tastes, textures, vitamins and minerals that a full-bore visit is probably nutritionally equal to the rest of the food you eat for the entire week all put together.
And the Middleton Willy Street Coop version is remarkable for their creative kitchen. The salad choices will power you up just fine and get you cookin' on vites & mins aplenty, but their hot food creations are something to be grateful for. Curries, imaginative mex-dishes, cajun thingies - - it's a feast.
What I do is pile salady thingies into a bowl, then take one semi-hefty spoonful of all the hot things that look good, and place them around the edge of the bowl. When you go to a restaurant, you generally have to choose one item on the menu, but here you get every item on the menu - - but it's like going to a brewpub, and getting a line of tasters - - you get a satisfying bit of everything, and it is all very well prepared. They do not skimp on the spice, They produce very good hot main courses (better at lunch, when it is more piping fresh, than dinner, when it has been out for a while).
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