Garden Bar by Evergreens
817 SW 9th Ave. #2576, Portland
(503) 764-9832
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It was so fresh. Will surely make a return trip. The bill was decent for the quality. Reminds me of a cafe in Chicago I loved to visit.
the food was super appetizing. the staff was very friendly and attentive. prices are appropriate.
The bill was appropriate for the quality. Ambience is similar to Fresno's scene.
DELISH salad and the nicest staff! Still can’t believe you can have as many toppings as you want for no extra charge. Love this place.
We had salads from the garden bar for our lunch meeting at work today. I was so excited for my Waldorf salad and I even paid the extra $3.00 for the chicken.
I give this spot a thumbs up. The service here is above par. It has a good atmosphere.
Favorite downtown salad and the price has dropped since evergreen aquired them.
Great customizable salad choices, nice employees, and convenient locations. One of my favorite spots for a salad in the city.
Your "summer menu" not only gets rid of some of the old favorites ... it takes away the protein, which means you're effectively raising prices. For example, my old favorite (the Northwest Bowl) used to be $9 for a bowl, $11 for a bushel (the default protein was tofu but you were allowed to swap - which I always thought was great - so I'd get chicken). I ordered the salad that seemed to be most similar to it today (Trailhead), for $10.50 the bushel - BUT NO PROTEIN. If I had wanted to add chicken, it would have been $13.50 - compared to $11 before. That's a HUGE price jump, percentage-wise - over 20%. Let's call a spade a spade. This isn't a summer menu. It's a price increase. Which I suppose is your prerogative but it's really disappointing.
Question, can folks who make salads be artists? Answer, at Garden Bar; YES! Big fan of Garden Bar, great food, fresh and made to order. That being said, I am a bigger fan of the great folks who work there. They are always so nice, patient and happy! A special shout out to Christian, Tanner and Ruben. They are fantastic at what they do, true salad specialists!
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All I have to say is yum!
Salads are king! This place is good but watch out you can get a little crazy with the toppings and spend all your monies haha well worth it though! They also offer reusable salad containers that you can bring in when you come.
I just tried their online ordering system, which was simple and easy to use. The reason I am giving a 1star review is because I did a build your own salad, I asked for tomatoes, cucumbers, and egg with my salad, and a vinaigrette dressing. Once I got back to work after pick up my order, I opened my salad, I noticed the toppings I picked out where not on my salad, and they provided some white cream type dressing that doesn't even taste like ranch, and I have no idea what it is. I paid 32$ for two premium salads, they could not even notify me to let me know they were at least "out" of these ingredients so I could pick out something else, or at least when I pick-uped my order that they were not able to completely fulfill my salads so I may have a chance to remake it. I had to wait until I walked all the way back to work to discover my salad wasn't what I ordered.
I've been to Garden Bar about 10 times and I've had an issue on at least five of those trips. This includes giving me about a half portion of the salad I ordered (ridiculous for $11), running out of steak at 12:45pm, losing my rewards account in some sort of system migration, food poisoning (several people in the same trip, same day getting sick), and raising prices so fast they can't keep their menus up to date. My favorite is the time I ordered online, showed up at the time it was supposed to be ready, and subsequently watched them make four salads for walk-ins before getting my salad.
This place is great! The food is always fresh. The people are friendly. I even wrote an email to the main address to recommend an ingredient and the CEO got back to me right away to say that she would look into it. Price is really good. I used to go to a similar place in SF and it was 2x the price. Keep up the great work!
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