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| - I don't understand the bad reviews against this Sweet Tomatoes. In fact, it's one of the best ones I've been to.
I love the redesign. True, most Sweet Tomatoes restaurants have a sort of "home" like atmosphere, but this also comes at the cost of being tacky and outdated. This one has a cool, contemporary, minimalistic sort of design that I really do enjoy. It certainly doesn't feel cheap, and I for one like that the trays are a lighter metal material than the typical heavy plastic trays. Other Sweet Tomatoes will use heavy trays so it feels like you have more food on your plate than you really do.
The soup bowls are a bit bigger so you get more soup each time you go up to serve yourself, and they also have fairly big plates for the bakery items like muffins and mac and cheese. Most Sweet Tomatoes restaurants give out TINY plates that barely fit 3 muffins on them. These plates could easily hold 8. The plates also work for the pasta; this location doesn't have those tiny oval shaped pasta trays either. Seriously, this location doesn't try to use psychological tricks to get one to take less food. You can get a bit more soup, have an almost regular sized plate (less going to the food area) all on nice looking white dishware.
They also have an updated soda machine with touchscreen that will dispense pretty much any soda (or powerade) flavor you can think of. This includes strawberry, grape, peach, and regular Sprite--in fact there are more Sprite flavors, but I just can't remember them. Also, there is more than one entrance to the food area and I think the Andrea reviewer was being a bit silly to try to squeeze through where the soda machine was as that isn't the only way to get to the food area!
Soup was utterly fantastic and had a lot of good flavor. My time-proven favorite, kettle chili, was scrumptious. The chicken and rice soup had a wonderful home-made flavor to it. The other soups were tasty as well.
The salad was just fine, and I must confess salad isn't what I primarily like about any Sweet Tomatoes restaurant as I'm not much of a salad fan anyway.
Also, it is true that this Sweet Tomatoes location doesn't have big tags indicating what each soup or salad menu item is, though the tags ARE THERE. I would almost guess that the reviewers who complained of the lack of tags just didn't look hard enough or forgot their glasses.
Honestly I think the people who have given harsh reviews are just incredibly picky. They take off 2-3 stars because there are no kidney beans (which I think they do have) in the salad line or because the ice cream which is already cheap and crappy to begin with tastes a bit watery? Silly.
Yes this location does serve alcohol, but they also serve odwalla drinks. And have a huge selection of soda.
This place is booming...seriously, most tables were full the night I went (Tuesday night) and doing well. Don't be scared by the negative reviews. Totally worth going to in it's current Sweet Tomatoes form unless something radical changes.
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