Comments on: Fresh and Local: Shadowbrook Salad Company

By: ej

ej — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 21:36:42 +0000

Cool!

By: wisco

wisco — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 03:53:46 +0000

We’re back now – sorry for the lull.

By: ej

ej — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 15:36:04 +0000

So Shadowbrook Salad Co. went belly up, as has, apparently, this blog.

By: k

Mon, 15 Sep 2008 15:09:32 +0000

Maybe you’ve gone on off nights, because I’ve been there several evenings and the entrees were excellent…the beef brisket had a unique seasoning, and the stuffed mushroom caps melted in my mouth. I got to visiting with one of the owners and found out that almost all of the food is made in house (as opposed to Old Country Buffet or Valentino’s). Knowing that, I find it hard to argue with the price…the mixed salad greens that they have on their bar, local and organic, goes for $10.00 a pound at the farmer’s market. Have none of you noticed the price increases all over? I had lunch at Hardee’s the other day, and it was over $7.00!

By: Mr. T

Mr. T — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 23:53:03 +0000

Just wanted to add my 2 belated centavos. I went there for dinner about a 5 or 6 weeks ago. I LOVE fresh salad and I was impressed with the spread overall for the green salad. They had iceberg lettuce, arugula, and fresh spinach, all of which I love. They also had some toppings i don’t see elsewhere, like tofu, blue cheese crumbles, and baby corn. I wonder if the baby corn is truly “local” or not. The cucumber yogurt dressing was great, but the caesar dressing was way too sweet.

I did try the entrees as well, and there was some kind of herb baked chicken that I thought was really quite good and flavorful. I also had the french onion soup – another favorite of mine – and it was way toooo salty (over salting something is my pet peeve).

It was about $10 per person. I think i differ from most of the other comments here because I thought the price was fair. To get a good caesar salad or salad nicoise you would probably pay $7-8 at least. Paying $10 for all you can eat green salad, as well as the entrees and soup, and all the potato and pasta salads (which were my least favorite), AND the gelato, made it a pretty good investment in my opinion.

By: Kim

Kim — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:06:55 +0000

I thought it was boring. I’m a vegetarian and I can get salad anytime I want, I basically live off of it. There was nothing extraordinary about it, except the price! They need better greens, better toppings and better dressings. The only reason why people like it is because its a new concept for Lincoln and it embraces the new “local” food trend. This place wouldn’t survive in a large city, its not good enough. Yes the idea is nice, but the follow through needs improvement.

By: Benn

Benn — Sat, 31 May 2008 15:29:12 +0000

My gf and I thought it was REALLY good. They had baked potato bar when we went and I didn’t indulge in that. Yes, it seems fairly pricy, but when I thought about it more it didn’t seem as bad. Drink, huge salad bar (had more than I thought it would), nice choice of soups, and then gelato on top of that … seems OK … especially when I think about it trying to do the local thing, etc.

We will be back for sure … too bad it’s SO far away from us (we’re near Northstar).

On another note … looks like starting mid-June you will get a coupon for 1/2 off of gelato rather than a free (small) serving.

By: foxspit

foxspit — Sat, 24 May 2008 03:51:08 +0000

Actually, we ate lunch there today. Thought it would be cheaper but I was wrong. Still $20 for the two of us. We were somewhat disappointed in it this time. The soup was pretty good but I had the seafood chowder, which had what looked like imitation crab, otherwise I couldn’t see any other seafood. The salads were good.

I had a baked potato that was good. The other entrees didn’t look great, they had chicken quarters that looked absolutely bone dry. Nobody was eating them. The chicken in one of the chicken salads was rubbery and dry, so I assume it was some of the leftovers.

I don’t think we’ll be back. It’s a great concept but they’re just priced too high.

By: wisco

wisco — Fri, 23 May 2008 14:07:07 +0000

Moses & Foxspit – I’m glad that you agree with our assessment. I like the idea of going for a late lunch to save money. It sounds like we didn’t just hit a bad day for the entrees, this sounds like the general pattern.

By: foxspit

foxspit — Thu, 22 May 2008 21:58:29 +0000

Agreed. We went one evening and we had pretty severe sticker shock when we paid. We will go back but it will be for lunch next time.

I thought their soups were excellent and the salad bar was good. I tried their entree but I really didn’t expect to get an entree when we decided to go there.