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| - I've been going to Sweet Tomatoes since before I started Yelping, so there's a long history behind this review.
PROS:
* Extensive salad bar. Almost always full. Prepared mixed saladsare freshly made and refreshed often. (You can watch the staff make it if you happen to be there when it's happening.)
* Extensive soup menu. Despite a review stating three soups, there are either six or seven bain maries for soup (I can't remember exactly). Soup is always freshly made; never boxed nor canned. Certain soups are constant, like their Big Chunk Chicken and their Chili; some are seasonal.
* Fresh pasta (three types) always freshly made.
* Baked potatoes (and recently added baked sweet potatoes). Condiment bar right there.
* Several types of breads and muffins, both sweet and savory. Butter, margarine and "honey whip" available.
* Staff is pleasant and always helpful. I have a bad leg and my wife has had back reconstruction; when we walk in with our walking sticks, we are ALWAYS asked if we need assistance taking trays to tables. Frequent offers to have our drinks refilled instead of us walking to the beverage station. Empty plates and bowls picked up from the tables on a regular basis.
CONS:
* Specifically addressing a comment made by another Yelper: sometimes the customers are faster at making a mess than the staff is at cleaning it up. Splashed dressings (a teaspoon or so of ranch in the French, for example) can't always be resolved with the lines of patrons running through the place. Also "mixed vegetables" (some cabbage in the radishes, for example) ... same concept. Not everyone has the same accuracy. Myself included. As full as they get the bins, I tend to spill a bit of cabbage or a few pieces of mushroom myself. My apologies to the folks behind me if I don't always get a chance to clean up after myself.
If you don't like serving yourself when you go out to eat (my dear mother, the venerable Mama Hawk, is one such), Sweet Tomatoes may not be for you. Otherwise, "come 'n' get it!" You may just see me and my darling wife there.
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On the newly-established Nighthawk 100-point scale: 97.
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