This restaurant is tucked inside the Omni hotel next to the hotel's conference rooms. The public can also get to this restaurant from the escalator leading to the 2nd floor in front of the Starbucks inside the Overstreet Mall. I would never discover this restaurant if someone hadn't told me about it.
The Trade offers a lunch soup & salad bar Monday - Friday for $6.95. I'm a big fan of this salad bar. Supposely, some of the lettuce served on the bar are grown on-site on the hotel's pool deck. (Chef keeps a small garden up there). [Someone please help me verify this information]. All the salad dressing are homemade. The mix salads are changed daily, and they're hit & miss. The tomato basil soup is consistently good, but there's always something not right about the other soup of the day. The featured dessert is always good but they always forget to bring out the small dessert plates.
Overall, it's a lot of value for $6.95 lunch. However, the fountain drinks are $4 with free refills. So, it may send your lunch budget into overdrive if you really have to have a soft drink for lunch.