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| - I used to eat here relatively often and my family has been a fan of Sweet Tomatoes for years. Unfortunately when I stumbled into the Field Kitchen I was not expecting the change and I was already a little grumpy and hungry. When the woman at the front door offered me my restaurant tutorial I really wanted to leave, but I decided to give it a shot.
The basic issue is not that you only get one trip to the salad bar. Most people never take advantage of unlimited trips to the salad bar, myself included, and I'm a salad fiend. They didn't make the salad mixing bowl too small. My complaint is that Field Kitchen has greatly reduced the number of healthy options available in the Sweet Tomatoes restaurant model. They reduced their lettuce options and all of their salad toppings. My biggest complaints are with their vegetable-based proteins (beans) and dressings (ST's original Greek dressing was gone in favor of a nasty, unhealthy cream based Greek and I had to take the dressing woman's word about and contents of her HFCS vinaigrette...instead I opted to pour straight vinegar on my poor salad). If you choose to use the salad bar, they only give you one cup for soup and three soup options...one cream based soup, one salty minestrone type of soup, and one nasty soup they like to call chicken noodle. You are also expected to fill your second side dish with a macaroni salad (yay, that sounds healthy!) or a fruit salad (nowhere to be found). You are also given an ice cream dish and if you are lactose intolerant, tough! Actually, the biggest problem for me was actually that I found no fruit in the whole establishment except for in the decor. There were no healthy dessert options at all.
So there you go...if you opt for the "healthy" meal option of the salad combo, you get unhealthy dressings, pasta salad, unhealthy soup and unlimited bread. That sounds reallly healthy, but then I forget ST's regular clientele. It's just sad because in the old model people actually had a choice, you know? I could eat my salad and chicken noodle and everyone else could have their Joan's broccoli salad and pizza bread.
This place also now has a bunch of overpriced booze and cupcakes and macarons the size of your head and greasy meat and overpriced soup (that used to be free) and veggies cooked in bacon. I can't speak to the quality of those things because I came for salad. I really wanted a corn bread muffin or a low fat blueberry muffin as a guilty treat, but they phased those out too.
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