Salata

Had this in Houston and loved it I was so excited to try it here in Illinois. It was just as great. Everything is fresh fresh fresh. You can get full on the mall bowl with no problem or do the large bowl for two meals. Try the chipotle ranch it’s great.

We finally went here for the first time for lunch. Very fresh, wonderful selection, reasonable price, quick service. A good place to get salads. And we loved the Tea bar.

Love the options here. Much better than s typical fast food salad. Everything you could ask for. Also enjoy the tea bar!

Great place!!! Huge salads and your choice of ingredients for under $ 8.00. Delicious!!! Wish I could eat here everyday. Clean restaurant clean bathrooms and delicious food LOVE IT!!.

An amazing salad and wrap place. There are so many options for toppings. The tomato soup is amazing and so delicious.
The only negative is that the interior is kind of odd and feels clinical. I know eating a salad is healthy but I don’t want to feel like I’m sitting in a hospital.
Best to grab to go!

Yum! It’s like a Subway ordering system. Lots of ingredients options. Everything was very fresh and the employees were very helpful and nice.

Very healthy and fresh salad options, until you get to the dressings. 2 options under 200 calories? That’s a little crazy. There are many yogurt dressing options now in the 120 – 150 calorie range.
Other than that, the other reviewers have said it all. Very good selection, super clean, a little pricey. Tea bar looked awesome but I didn’t see it until I sat down. «Is this your first time here?» should be the first question, asked preferably by someone who speaks and understands English.
The price bothered me a bit, but the protein options far outweigh other local salad bar selections, and the ingredients are obviously fresh. I will be back, but will leave off the $ 1 artichoke and will take it «to go» so I can add my own tasty lower-​Calorie dressing.

This place is amazing. Salads are fresh, healthy and delicious. I’m soooooooo glad it’s walking distance from my spa, so I can eat a healthy salad and not a burger. Lol

My colleagues always want to go to the salad place near the RAM Brewery, you know which one. Anyhow, to me its completely tasteless and all the premade soups, etc. just don’t cut it so I had to find somewhere new… I was blown away to find Salata. I must have driven by a hundred times and never saw it. I convinced the team to go and…
Great place — the ingredients actually taste like they should and appeared to be super fresh. I also prefer the assembly line style and someone else making my salad because it forces me to think about what is going in and keeps me from making a three bean salad over lettuce. I also tend to put too much dressing on. Some other great things — friendly staff, present management, a lot of tasty choices.
I noticed some of the other reviews mentioned the cost as being an issue but to me, good, fresh food costs money and I don’t mind paying for quality. I would have given it 5 stars if they had a hot chicken (protein) option.
Can’t wait to go back!

This place is a great spot to grab quick, healthy, delicious food! It is no additional cost for all ingredients except some of the proteins. The staff were so helpful and there were so many choices. I had a small kale salad with balsamic dressing and broccoli soup, that was plenty!

Nice place. Good sober décor. Convenient location. The small salad is excellent portion size for a lunch salad. One thing I like about this place is that you tend to eat a «bit less» than if you were at Sweet Tomatoes. I would choose this place over ST for a healthy lunch. Leisurely b’fast /​brunch on a Sunday, I am probably headed to ST. I wasn’t a fan of their broccoli soup though. And had to ask the server to put in a «little bit more» as they were building my salad toppings.

Overall, there are fresh ingredients with plenty of vegetables, proteins, dressings, condiments to choose from.
But, as many others have already noted, I feel like the create your own ***** (fill in the blank) fad a la chipotle has hit its saturation point.
This is another spin off of the create your own, assembly line food chains but for salads.
The salad itself tasted fine and fresh. But, the options are so dizzying, that it get like halfway down the line I just wanted to finish getting the salad made and eat already.
I think it would be great if they had a handful of pre-​determined salads that have been thoughtfully created that you could pick. And if you liked one, you could come in and just order it and put some personal tweets to it by adding this or that. And obviously have the option of creating one from scratch when you feel like it as they already do.
The food was good, other than the price, about $ 13 for a salad, with protein added, and a fountain drink.
In retrospect, I should have tried out one of their teas, to get a taste.
Due to the price, and again, feeling like its nothing special. I’d come back if I were in the area and someone wanted to try it. But, I don’t think I’d proactively seek out eating here as a top choice.
But for those who are looking for a quick, healthy, fully customizable salad bar with fresh ingredients, it would be a good option.

Clean, efficient, casual and cozy… the salads are light, fresh, and reasonable for the pricing ($ 7-​$ 8). I do wish their selection was more generous and expansive (ex: more variety of roasted or plain veggies, arugula, quinoa, toasted nuts, tofu for vegetarians, etc). If and when they expand, I will certainly be dining here again.

This salad bar is just so BEAUTIFUL! I think it only has Soup, salads, breads, and some meats. But it doesn’t matter since all that food is so amazing and fresh. When I walked up to the actual salad bar, I was not disappointed. So many different vegetables, fruits, meats, breads, and soups were there. The customer service as EXCELLENT. The area is just so clean and modern. Pictures of healthy foods (they sold) and beautiful glass murals. The music is so cute and fun. The tea tap was cute but it seemed a little bit empty. Anyways, I rate this 5 out of 5. I would TOTALLY come back here again and if any of you are driving by, make sure you stop by!
P.S: Vegan and Gluten-​Free options!

Loved this place! Lots of choices, all the food was fresh and delicious. I really like there tea tap with lemonade and tea. They even had unconventional sodas. Beautiful atmosphere too.

I visited Salata with a coworker today for lunch. We were surprised how empty is was for a Friday. I guess this side of Schaumburg isn’t is busy as the Streets of Woodfield or Meacham Rd area.
This place is brand new. It is like a Chipolte but for salads and wraps. The selection is unbelievable. Choice after choice is available behind the counter. Each station has a person who assembles your food like an efficient assembly line.
I chose the regular sized salad with turkey, a crap-​ton of veggies, parmesan cheese, and ginger lime dressing. I was happy to see soooooo many gluten free choices. Yay. My salad was delicious and my coworker said her salad was delicious. We were both super hungry so we ate the whole dang thing. (don’t judge)
The fountain drink choices here are unique. You can get diet or regular Mexican cola, plus 2 other regular sodas. They also have a whole bunch of iced tea choices. SCORE. I love iced tea. Half are regular sweetened and the other half are unsweetened. I drank a diet Mexican cola and the unsweetened plum tea. Both were great.
We will definitely be back… with a coupon or for a celebration. The food here is not a bargain. I spent $ 14 for my salad and soft drink. I try to avoid spending that much for lunch. I am not living the high life.

Great salad and fast service. You can’t go wrong with this place, a bit pricey but the amount of fresh ingredients and choices are crazy goof!##

Came here with 3 coworkers and we loved it. The possibilities were endless and the portions are huge! The place is clean and bright and the staff was friendly. It was also very busy. I hope this place sticks around.

You know how one company makes a great idea popular (Chipotle) and then a bunch of other restaurants (Italio, Pie Five, Pancheros) try to hop on that form bandwagon? Well you can add Salata to that list.
The problem is, salad bars already exist, most notably and in close proximity, Sweet Tomatoes. For me, a salad is a very personal food. Why Salata thinks that having someone else put the wrong amounts of ingredients in my salad will work is beyond me. I know I can’t be the only person to experience this frustration because the person in front of me and the people behind me expressed the same frustration: «No, beets, not turnips» or «I’ll take some peas. More please. MORE please.» When you pay $ 7 – 8 for a salad and you can’t come back for seconds, you get frustrated when the person behind the counter has been instructed to give pinches of each ingredient.
The woman in front of me asked for dressing on the side so they gave her one small container. When she asked for more, they told her an additional container would be extra. Okay. When it was my turn, the guy went overboard with my dressing and put two heaping scoops overpowering the salad. Of course I couldn’t know that until they started to toss it and I realized that my entire salad was the color of the dressing. Good grief. What makes it okay to charge one person extra for the same amount of dressing that I was given AND ruin my salad in the process?
Want to add protein? That’ll be $ 3 extra for chicken and $ 4 extra for seafood or turkey. Want vegan protein? $ 3 bucks please. At least there’s no extra charge for bacon.
It’s hard to come down on a new business but I’m gonna have to give this place two thumbs down for poor execution and inattention to very competitive options in the immediate area. Panchero’s, which is right next door, seems to be hanging on by a thread but they also have nobody to blame but themselves for opening up across the street from Chipotle.
Ugh, never again.

Welcome to Schaumburg, Salata! I always welcome any healthy option in the ‘hood. Today was opening day and my coworker & I were lucky enough to be one of the first 50 there today granting us a free meal.
The entire staff was very welcoming and friendly which was a nice introduction to Salata, plus they had cool carrot & broccoli balloon sculptures. Ha!
I ended up trying their wrap today which they have 5 tortilla options for (I went with Thai Ginger), multiple green options (I had spinach & kale) and tons & tons of toppings. It’s a choose your own adventure type of place allowing you to pick everything that goes into your wrap or salad from start to finish. Everything was so sanitary and clean, brightly colored fresh ingredients and it tasted really good, too! For me the portion was quite large and I have enough to eat for later. My friend gobbled up his entire salad but then he’s a beastly man.
My favorite thing about Salata was their «Tea Tap». I’m a big tea drinker as I stay away from the bubbly stuff and loved having many fun options for tea from no calorie black teas to a delicious lemonade green tea option and everything in between — I think there were 7 options in total. I really liked this idea and haven’t seen it at other fast casual restaurants. All you can drink, too!
My one sticking point with Salata is the price point and that’s where I fear for them. I don’t see this changing because they are a chain restaurant and I’m sure the prices are mandating my corporate. Salads are $ 8, small salads are $ 7 and salad wraps are $ 7. Now these prices seem completely acceptable to me but where it gets rough is if you want protein — that will add $ 3 to your meal. Want avocado? Another dollar. Artichoke hearts? $ 1 homie. Ain’t no wrap worth $ 12 to me. It is very delicious, very fresh and a fabulous healthy option but I think this may be slightly too rich for the Schaumburg blood.
You can order your meal ahead so you can skip the line & simply pick up. Sweet! Be sure to join their loyalty club! You will leave feeling full but satisfied and probably slightly better about yourself for not eating a greasy burger & fries, but your wallet may be slightly upset with you.