I'm a Salad Bar junkie. I love the fresh, colorful, flavorfun choices (no, that's not a typo) that I can make while there. My baby loves the finger size munchies and there is something for everyone there. Sweet Tomatoes isn't necessarily my favorite though because they charge nearly $10 per person for SALAD. There's just something fundamentally wrong with that.
So I went to this particular location when I had to head over to Ikea recently. It's quite a drive from my house so I won't be hitting this spot up again anytime soon but that's not to say it wasn't worth the visit. The reason this was just A-OK was because the Lemon Orzo soup tasted like Lemon Dishsoap Soup. I did mention it on their Twitter page after they commented on my Yelp check-in and they said they would look into it...but I never heard from them again. The other reason this was just A-OK was that I would have told someone about the off-taste of the soup had anyone bothered to come by and say hello! At the Arrowhead location, they are on you like white on rice, insisting on taking your tray before your butt has a chance to get comfy in its seat but this place? Not once did anybody even stop by my table to do anything much less say hello. They stood around the drink area and chatted. They stood up by the macaroni and cheese and chatted. They stood by the bussing station and chatted....but no chatting with any customers. Not good.
I'll be back to Sweet Tomatoes, but because this one is way out of my way, I'll probably pass on it next time I'm out in Awahtukee.