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| - I was taken to this restuarant for my birthday last year, being told "if you're going to have a big birthday dinner, we'll take you somewhere healthy for lunch".
Glow's value prop is that they offer portioned-controlled meals that use alternate, light ingredients. Ex. the burgers don't come with buns, their sandwiches are open-faced (i.e. 1 side of bread only) and they don't use heavy ingredients like cream or butter. The menu was created by the same woman who created the healthy menu options for Pickle Barrel, but what I don't like is that for some reason Glow doesn't include calorie counts on their menu. Minus one star from me - why not here, at an entire restuarant dedicated to apparent "healthy choice" food items?
On my first occasion, I ordered the sliders and the lobster mac and cheese. I liked how the sliders were each a different meat with different toppings for variety, and they were very flavourful. This was an appetizer, but if you weren't incredibly hungry (and for the price), it could pass for an entree. The lobster mac and cheese was dry and the cheese was tasteless (lacking butter and cream perhaps?) and I barely tasted any lobster at all. It reminded me of Homer Simpson's "hello taste? Are you in there taste?" diet moment. So a hit and a miss on that visit.
The next time I visited, I opted for the open faced philly cheese steak. I had a hard time imagining that this was a low-cal option as it came on a prezel bun loaded with melted cheese. The side salad it came with however had a very light but tasty vinigerette dressing, with fresh berries that were perfectly ripe and juicy. Overall, it was an extremely tasty sandwich and I left feeling good about my waistline.
For the price, the portion sizes on a few of the items just arn't worth it. I appreciate the healthy portion sizes, but can we adjust the price please? The dry, tasteless lobster mac and cheese comes in at a whopping $18 for a portion smaller than my cereal bowl. And it would be great if I could get some calorie counts up in this piece. But overall, the food is decent and I like to think that maybe, just maybe my arse won't be wider for it.
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