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| - Came to Salads Up for the first time for dinner and was very underwhelmed by my experience. The Red Card deal of the week was to get $2 off any salad or grain bowl, so that's why my friend and I tried it out. In an effort to try something that I haven't had before, and something you don't see on many menus (unlike a Cobb salad or a Caesar salad), I ordered the Seoul Food which is a Korean BBQ salad. It was comprised of spinach, BBQ chicken, pineapple, cilantro, roasted red peppers, and Korean BBQ dressing.
I was really thinking that I would enjoy this salad, but after eating it I wished that I would have played it safe with their Cobb salad. The chicken pieces in this salad were large and unappetizing to look at. I ate them anyways, and they were meh -- not very tender, and took a lot of chewing to actually eat because they were big. My friend and I were looking for knives to use to cut our chunks of meat into smaller pieces, and the workers informed us that all they had were sharp knives behind the line so we couldn't use them.
The salad was overwhelming with roasted red peppers, and had a few pieces of pineapple in it. A bit more of a balance between the two would have probably helped!
I spent about $8 on the salad even after getting $2 off, and I don't think I'll be returning to pay full price for anything else. I feel a little harsh writing this review, but for a place that's meant to specialize in salads, they didn't hit the bar for me. I would much rather spend $10 at Panera for one of their salads -- which are healthy and filling and much bigger portioned than Salads Up.
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