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| - I am one of those weirdos who come to Sweet Tomatoes for salad and vegetarian soup. You know, healthy food. Food that makes your colon look up to you and say "thank you," to which you reply "no, thank YOU." I don't come here for the greasy, bready pizza and flavorless old-people pasta - although the lemon cream and caper pasta is so delicious I want to fill a swimming pool with it and... but I digress.
So how hard is this, right? It's a salad bar. get fresh veg, cut it up, serve it. Have competent dressings (their Greek is quite good) and BAM - you're done (except for an ironic month a while back where they had signs up about not having any tomatoes on the bar because of some crop devastation or I don't know what). Ah but the soups - what I love about Sweet Tomatoes versus other salad joints which shall go unnamed is their soups. They always have a couple of vegetarian options and they are uniformly delicious (if somewhat lacking in salt, but let's get real - this place is for geriatrics, not soccer parents).
Another thing I appreciate about Sweet Tomatoes is that they don't try to get their busboys to act like they're waiters. Thanks, no, I don't need a glass of Phoenix tapwater ice for my bottle of purified water. Thanks, no, I doubt I'm going to need to ask you for anything, IT'S SELF-SERVE. But they do come around and offer you cookies. Those are the kinds of nice touches that make me come back.
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