Where is the Best Salad in Denver, Colorado?
My only complaint is the wait. Even when we have reservations, we still seem to have to wait about 30 minutes. People who walked in off the street were told the wait was 30-40 minutes for them. Besides that, this is one of our favorite places to go. You get a ton of food, all of it is delicious. Be prepared to eat a lot of meat. Thier salads and sides are fantastic, the meat is perfectly prepared, and the desserts are fabulous. So as long as you are not in a hurry, it’s a great place to go.Pros + Great food and lots of itCons – Long wait even with reservations
Have not been to the wine bar side yet, but the deli side is great. Popped in during the Cherry Creek Art Fair and had a delicious lunch. Quick service, ample portions and reasonable prices for Cherry Creek. Worst part was trying to decide which sandwich/panini to order…guess we’ll just have to go back!Pros + delicious paninisCons – below street level so need to know location
The Factory gets a bad rap because it is a chain that often gets lumped in with Applebee’s and Fridays. While it may be a chain, it is more like il Fornaio in operation, with real chefs in the kitchen, and a top operation in the headquarters. Thsi is not corporate food. This place is excellent for larger parties because of the diverse menu. It is conducive for sharing and general conviviality that good fun food can generate. It’s not Mizuna by any means, but the portions are huge, the ingredients fresh and well prepared, and of course the cheesecake is excellent. I originally resisted wanting to like this place and always come away satisfied and impressed.Pros + food quality, good serviceCons – long waits
All right, is Sweet Tomatoes a little cheesy with its plastic trays, sneeze guards and enormous pictures of produce growing in the field? Of course. But I don’t know anywhere else where you can spend $6.29 at lunch or $7.49 at dinner and get so much good-for-you food. (Let me say that these prices are not the menu. Almost every week in the coupon section of the Sunday paper there is a page of Sweet Tomatoes coupons. Plus we get coupons in our mail all the time. Often people in line hand you their extra coupons. In fact, about the only place where you can’t find a coupon is on their website.)Now about the food. The salad bar itself is large, with probably 100 items, but it’s not exactly THRILLING (unless garbanzo beans and baby corn are exotic to you, in which case yahoo!). Odd also is that the tomatoes are neither sweet, nor particularly great. What is nice is that you can put as much or as little of each item on your salad, and it is royally fun to see the mountains of salad walkin
