The Skinny: similar to Panera bread, this joint features overly sweet food and not that great bread (3) service: good, counter service, nothing special (3) value: it's okay, nothing special.
The hubs dragged me here to try out this joint.
We each ordered a combo - I ordered the Chinese chicken salad with tomato soup and the hubs ordered a half sammy with the cream of mushroom soup. Each combo comes with a huge hunk of generic tasting sourdough bread that is pretty unappetizing and stone cold. Oyster crackers are available for the soup.
My Chinese chicken salad tasted alright - it wasn't anything special. They were really light on the amount of protein served in this chicken salad. I tried the tomato soup which was really really sweet. I don't think I would order that again.
The hubs ordered the Asian BBQ pork sandwich which was again too sweet and overly sauced. The filling is minimal and the bread is really nothing special. I kind of don't like the bread - the weird overly doughy firm bread is not to my taste. Call me crazy but I think I prefer the yoga-mat chemical laced Subway bread better than the bread they use here. It really isn't all that.
I think the chocolate strawberry was the best thing that came with our meals.
The cool thing that they do have here is the different Italian syrups in their beverage station so you can customize your drink into something new. That is really cool.
Given the quality of their product, I'm not sure if I need a repeat experience. I really wanted to love it, but their food is too sweet and I'm not really a fan of their bread. If there was no where else to go and I was in the middle of nowhere, yeah, I'd give this place another shot. However being located next to all these other great little eateries, I think I'll pass on this joint. 3 starred review.