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Few restaurants, chain, ethnic, or otherwise, offer more bang for the buck than Sweet Tomatoes. More than 60 types of lettuces, vegetables, toppings, and dressings are neatly lined up in a long, clean, salad bar. On the same row are specialty salads such as caesar, cobb, Thai noodle salad with peanut sauce, ginger lime shrimp, won ton chicken, and jalapeƱo potato salad with chipotle chile vinaigrette. Pile the plate (or plates) high as you head past the array of selections and toward the cash register. Once you pay a ridiculously low sum, you're free to grab a table, set your salads down, and then take part in the rest of the all-you-can-eat buffet. This includes eight superior soups prepared from scratch each day; a trio of pastas cooked exhibition-style; warm, freshly baked muffins and pizza-focaccia breads; nonfat frozen yogurt with sundae toppings; rice pudding; and jello. On Sundays, the restaurant serves breakfast from 9 a.m. to noon.
OK, so you have to queue up with what can be described only as an arthritic chorus line of elderly people who, for some unexplained reason, seem to have extremely sharp elbows. Nothing worthwhile comes easy. But once you plop the two big, empty, white plates upon your tray (only novices take one) and begin to work your way down the aisle of prolifically piled produce, you'll be so focused on composing (piling) towers of greens with every salad garnishing imaginable that you won't even notice... More »
Sure, the tomatoes here are sweet. You can pick 'em up off the salad bar, you can spoon 'em out of your soup, and you can even find the juicy fruit on focaccia bread. But that's not all you can eat at this, well, all-you-can-eat, serve-yourself, prix fixe restaurant. The enormous salad bar -- the first thing you see when you enter the eatery -- offers a tremendous array of choices: Chinese noodle salad, pickled beets, hard-boiled eggs, and chicken tarragon salad, to name just a few.... More »
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