Souper Salad

This place is always packed and especially during snow bird season! But the food is always fresh and the soups are good and usually they have three or four soups to choose from. The only thing that I would say needs improvement is the facility, the booths are torn up and dirty and the carpet is horribly dirty and according to the wife, the bathrooms are scary! But with that being said, the food is good and prices are fair and I have never had a rude employee at that establishment.

I am writing this update just as a follow-​on to my recent review of Sweet Tomatoes. We went to SouperSalad! yesterday for lunch. Compared to Sweet Tomatoes, the salad material was better, the dressings were thicker and richer, and their tuna noodle salad had lots of tuna in it. They also had Thai peanut noodle salad and that was very flavorful and good! Only thing was that their soups yesterday were mediocre at best. But being cheaper than Sweet Tomatoes, I think they are a better deal and I enjoyed their food a lot more!

This place was a disaster. Not sure whats going on? We have eaten there before and was good. Tonight was awful. Food looked old, out of several items, romain salad especially. Salad bar was Messy with food scattered. Tables were dirty, not being wiped after trays/​plates retrieved. One couple walked in, stood at the cash register for 5 min, no one was around, so they left. Un freakin real. What happen to souper salad! You suck now! Eew

This place just doesn’t trip my trigger. The price is about average for a lunch buffet, but the selection is not. It is laid out all wrong. They have the plates at the end of the salad bar which is walled in to allow a line of people to walk on either side. When going for another plate, you have to squeeze past the people getting salad to get another plate. Then unless you get another salad, you have to squeeze past them again to go to the other buffet tables. Easy remedy would to have a plate holder at each station, or remove the wall.
The dessert table is at the end of the salad bar and ahead of the soup table. The nachos and cheese are at the very end, but you have to go back wards to get the taco meat and salsa. If you want black olives, jalapeño peppers, or onions, you have to squeeze past all those people in line at the salad bar because that’s where these items are located. To top it off, the Ice cream machine was broken.
Now about the quality. I liked one of the 4 soups they offered. The twice baked potato soup was pretty good. Now I know what they do with all of yesterday’s baked potatoes. The Italian wedding soup, not very good, and I’m part Italian I would know. The pizza is one of the worst pizzas I’ve had. It’s like they put toppings and tomato sauce on a flour tortilla and baked it a few minutes. The crust was limp and doughy. the sauce was very bland, and the toppings barely cooked. The macaroni and cheese was like wallpaper paste. The noodles over cooked the cheese sticky and gooey. It tasted ok, I didn’t care for the texture. The baked sweet potato was mush in a skin. There’s no other way to describe it. Again a texture thing.
The only redeeming quality I found was the salad bar, and as I’ve stated it’s set up wrong. The salad and toppings were fresh, There were several dressings to choose from.
As far al lunch buffets go, I’d rather spend just a little more and go elsewhere.

We have been to Soup&Salad many time before this visit but never had to get a different soup because the first was bland and tasteless only to try a second which was different but tasted the same as the first. Yes the place was full of seniors like us but we do live on a fixed income and try to eat healthy. For the same $ you can eat at Golden Corral and the selection is fantastic and before 4 PM the drinks are free. The staff was friendly and counters were clean.

My first visit here 10÷13÷15. 11am.
Inside, the restaurant was clean, well stocked salad bar. Total cost with tax for one trip down the salad bar and a drink-​to-​go, $ 10.68.
The ranch dressing had almost no flavor. The veggie soup was bland, had about as much taste as a bowl of soup with half a beef bullion cube added, then some of yesterday’s veggies from the salad bar tossed-​in. The cheese with noodles soup with tiny chunks of ham tasted like it had sugar in it.
I doubt I’ll return.
The staff were friendly. Oddly enough, the entrance faces the street, not the parking lot. Easy access off Hampton or Power Rd. Then you take the hike around to the south side of the building to walk in the only door which is on the wrong side of the building.

Super Salad is predictable. The food is good, the selection is fair in comparison to other buffets but I find myself draw to Souper Salad because it is the same. I know exactly what I want and exactly where it is before I even get to the restaurant. The price is right, the wait staff is pleasant and ponschual. I’m meeting a friend there today.

ok, this is the second time I tried this restaurant. the food was sooo bland and no taste. I love thousand Island dressing and this was horrible. My daughter used ranch and said it was horrible. the pasta salads had no taste and I had to salt my food even though I haven’t used table salt for 20 plus years. horrible. had a very nice waiter though, but he never refilled our waters. the only thing that was good was the strawberry shortcake and the blueberry cakes. other than that it was horrible and I know now to never try this restaurant again. I will drive the extra miles for Sweet Tomatoes.

Found this place on Unilocal and after reading the reviews we were so excited to go! After walking in… we should’ve walked right back out! The staff was fine but the patrons looked at my daughter and I like we were two drug addicts trying to rob the place. The average age in there was 60+ and they stared as if they had never seen two beautiful Puerto Rican ladies before! The food was pretty good although the same toppings are not on both sides of the bar. Red bean and rice soup with sausage was really yummy but the atmosphere was so bad that we couldn’t wait to get out of there! A lady actually told my daughter to move because she needed a soup bowl… have you we were in a line of people and we where already serving our soups so 5 seconds is all she had to wait with her mouth shut! Incredible! My daughter has never told me that she feels out of place before but in the parking lot she asked me to never bring her back. So sadly all the nasty stares and dirty looks worked we’ll never go back so all the good olé boys/​girls don’t have to worry! The old and rude people win! Everyone got a kill you with kindness smile out of me and its just sad that the people in that establishment are actually okay with their behavior… for a 14 year old to vocalize it speaks extremely loud volumes to me!

Food was gross. Out of almost everything. People who were working were eating instead of making food. Worst management I’ve ever seen. Will not go back

Good variety of salads and pasta salads. They also have soups, pizza, tacos, nachos, and mac and cheese. The breads are yummy and there is soft serve ice cream. The food is decent for the price and nice for a food sampler like me.

We tried for lunch today and three stars is fitting. The salad bar offers above average variety and is well tended, but the soups were below average. I tried both the broccoli cheese and the vegetable beef and both had some strong off flavors. I didn’t try the miscellaneous items at the end such as tacos, chili, and nachos because they were not particularly attractive and not worth the calories and saturated fat — I came here to eat healthy!
Souper salad is pricey in my book (I don’t get the senior discount), upwards of $ 10 for the salad and a drink. Don’t go out of your way to eat here, but stop by if you’re nearby and need a healthy option.

I give it three stars because of the service. I love the staff but am not in love with the food. I have frequented here but lately the food has been less than satisfactory. The tortilla soup didn’t taste as good as usual and the ice tea had a significant aftertaste that wasn’t desired. I do repeat how much I love the service as the staff is always more than welcome.

I’ve been driving there recently since salads always taste better to me when someone else prepares them. I’ve noticed an improvement over the years in that some time back, it stank in there – most unappetizing – and I just left.
Tried it again one day and was pleasantly surprised – the funky smell is gone and the green-​leaf lettuce and mixed greens are fresh, and so are the vegetables.
Since I started going there a while back, I’ve noticed some unfortunate changes – I used to love the minestrone soup and now it tastes strange to me; I’ve tried other soups that I would normally enjoy, and haven’t liked any of them. I used to like their potato salad and some of the pasta selections, but not any more, and the ginger and blueberry bread squares are not the same, either.
I don’t know if they tried to ‘new and improve’ some items and made them worse or are cutting corners, as another reviewer observed.
Since taste is such a subjective thing I wouldn’t tell anyone to not try those items; I just find there is less to choose from now for me personally, though I still enjoy a nice cool salad on a warm/​hot day.
I always get my salads to go so can’t comment on a dining-​in experience, though if they are busy it does seem very loud and it is impossible to walk back up to the front without walking very close to folks sitting at tables, which doesn’t seem like a pleasant experience for the diners.
Despite the negatives above, I would like to see them open a location ‘out here’ in the San Tan/​Queen Creek area to have more ready access to a their salad bar during the six months of summer.

This staff is outstanding, very polite and courteous. It’s hard to find good quality service people. The cashier was busy but turned to me and apologized and said he would be right with me, which he did. Layla my server was smiling the whole time, and checked on me with reasonable time in between, at times some servers are over attentive or non existent. The place was busy but everything stayed stocked and was fresh. My hats off to the management and staff for making this a pleasant visit for my first time, at this location. Keep it up!

*Fast, fresh and healthy food.
*Friendly people always willing to help.
*CHEAP.
*The only complaint I have is that it is almost always crowded. They need more space and more tables.
One of my favorite places to catch a quick bite.

Souper Salad offers less salad choices than Sweet Tomatoes, but it does make up for it by adding a make your own taco bar and cheaper price than Sweet Tomatoes.
The quality is decent. In addition to the make your own salad station, there are a few premade salads, a few soups, pasta, garlic sticks, the aforementioned taco bar, sweet and regular potatoes, and cooked veggies (Spicy kernel corn when I was there). They also have muffins, brownies, and soft serve for desserts.
Service was great. My server was prompt in refilling drinks and taking away plates, and was very friendly.
Overall, I liked the convenience of the buffet, especially if you have limited time for lunch. I’d definitely eat here again if I were in the area.

If you’re coming here expecting it to be like it used to you’ll be slightly disappointed. No more spicy or regular peanuts, no more real bacon bits, no more spring mix, watered down taco meat (too greasy), watered down chili, no more Warm bread (just sitting out exposed to whatever little kids and other people might expose it to), no more real butter on ‘potato bar’, watered down cheese sauce (gross now!), soups aren’t good any more and don’t taste homemade like they used to… Seriously obvious they’re cutting corners now. Sweet Tomatoes or Sizzler for me from now on instead of here.
Just found out why… It has a new franchise owner.

I’m going to write my review while I’m here so I remember everything.
First, was overcharged. They had to refund me and charge correctly. But he was nice so it was all good.
Salad: They need to take the time to actually cut the lettuce. It was in huge pieces. Not a huge selection of veggies. My salad dressing, which I thought was blue cheese was more like a ranch-​like milk. Made my salad very bland.
Soups: nothing looked good so I skipped it
Potato: it was ok. I mean how do you screw up a baked potato? You do have to backtrack and get your toppings from the taco bar (which I skipped too)
Random Mac and cheese was cold. It might have been ok if it was warm.
My daughter’s ice cream Sunday looked pretty icky too.
Overall, not impressed. And won’t be back.

I’m a big SouperSalad fan, so I tend to be picky about going to new locations. The location in Phoenix was my favorite for a long time. I used to go to the Mesa Grand location, but only because of it’s convenient location. Once I started coming to this location, I fell in love. My family loves to come here, I even bring the out-​of-​towners here regularly.
Everything is always fresh and delicious. Even the thin crust, plain pizza is super yum. Their only downfall is not having my favorite Baked Potato Soup on hand everytime I’m there. Other than that, I love going there. I take my 2yr old all the time. I usually serve her veggies (broccoli, peas), fruit (melon, grapes, oranges), a few vanilla wafers, a slice of pizza, and 3 – 4 chips with nacho cheese. She loves having options and she always eats a little bit of each.
I’m not sure what to call them… waiters…no…busboys…no…hosts, maybe. Well, the hosts that come around refilling your drinks are great. They even have a self-​serve beverage station and they still come around if you’re needing a fill.
Since this is one left in Mesa, it has become ridiculously popular. My recommendation: come for early lunches, and early dinners. Don’t ever come between 12−1pm, or 5−6pm and you’ll have a great experience.