I love the greens on a salad bar, along with tomatoes, radishes, egg, cheese, croutons, love cauliflower but don't see it often on salad bars, some broccoli, some cottage cheese, no onions, or olives for me. A nice dressing usually thousand island, or a little ranch. I usually fill up on the salad.
Mary

Pickled beets! My fav!

Rhizo, I'm just popping in to say thanks for your email. I answered it, but ever since my server was taken over by new ownership a few weeks ago many of my outgoing emails have been landing in the recipients' spam folders. (Nice touch on their part.) So I'm just letting you know in case it never arrived. :-)

Pickled beets and olives

Pickled beets, shredded carrots, peppers, and greens. Oh and sunflower seeds for sure with a vinegarette dressing.

At Jason's deli, I always order the same: a single serving of tuna salad

Eat with their wheat crackers and hit the nut bowl for couple spoonfuls.

Chopped eggs, sliced beets, cherry tomatoes, whole peppers, and the lettuce has to be Romaine or assorted fancy greens. We went to a Golden Corral yesterday and they had a very nice salad bar and it was actually the best buffet restaurant I've ever been to. I still did not eat $10 worth of food, though. Buffets make money on people like me.

FlamingO, that's interesting about the Golden Corral....I wouldn't have thought of a great salad bar in that place, but then I haven't been in one for years.

Lots of pickled beet fans here. I almost grabbed a few, but passed them over. They had nice, small, whole beets. I'll make sure that I get some next time.

(Thanks, Susan!)

Does pudding count? :) I too like the Golden Corral and the Sirloin Stockade's salad bar, actually I like the Sirloin Stockade's better.

Sue

Marilyn, that's funny. Since it was MLK day yesterday, and the kids out of school, the restaurant was filled with youngsters having lunch with Mom or Dad. I sure did observe lots and lots of dishes of soft serve ice cream and pudding being scarfed down!

Went to Golden Corral yesterday....For salad I had lettuce, tomatoes, black olives, mushrooms, hard boiled egg, cheese and shrimp, with thousand island dressing.....They just changed their policy where senior citizens do not get their beverage included in the meal price now...grrr...

I never eat from a salad bar. I've seen people let their kids touch food. Lord only know where those fingers have been. I've also seen adults touch food. And cough on it. Yuck. Bad enough I don't know what's going on in the kitchen, but when you physically see people mishandle food meant for the public, I can't touch it.

Our local Shop and Save has a really nice salad bar. I love using the mixed greens with onions, mushrooms, cranberries, raisins, tiny shrimp, black and green olives, crab meat and strawberries and a toss of blue cheese. I use my own dressing from home. When I get this salad it usually costs under $5.00. The one time my husband was out and I said if you happened to go by Shop and Save make me a salad. He called and went around adding the things I like. Holey cow, his salad was over $8.00. He sure knows how to pack it on. lol

We have a Soup Plantation near us that has a nice salad bar. It's the only one I've seen where you actually pay before getting your salad, which makes so much more sense than trying to balance a tray while paying.

It's very clean and I've never seen people with bad manners. There are tons of staff monitoring it and keeping it clean so I'm fairly certain if a kid stuck his fingers in it, the food would be whisked away.

I prefer the prepared salads. My favorite is the asian one with wontons, but I also like the pasta salads and other ones that are already assembled. I supplement them with additional greens and call it a day.

The Whole Foods near me has a massive salad bar too. I think it's about 6 different stations of hot and cold salad fixings including a lot of prepared salads. I don't usually go there as it gets expensive, fast.

Spinach, eggs, bacon, olives, strawberries, manderin orange, seeds, cheese, berries, salad greens, most veggies cukes, broccoli, cauliflower etc, no beets can't stand them. If there's seafood yes, if there's meats possibly. I like to mix a dressing if possible raspberry vinaigrette with a few drops of blue cheese, I also like some ranch dressing.

At home I have a bottle of raspberry infused wine vinegar, so good, I use that with just a dollop of Ken's blue cheese. Wonderful.
I absolutely love flavored vinegars I have a large selection. I add a few drops to my water bottle, very refreshing, better than a twist of lemon. My favorites so far are the raspberry, pear, and pomegranate.

We don't eat out very often.

I never eat anything from the salad bar. I don't like veggies, eggs, or anything else that a salad bar has.

I've never gotten sick after eating at a salad bar/restaurant. I just don't worry about stuff like that. Golden Corral had such big sneeze guards, I could barely reach the salad fixings, I needed elastic arms. LOL The beets there aren't pickled, or they weren't yesterday. No matter, I like them any ol' way.

They have great brownies, too, just like the ones that Sara Lee used to make and sell frozen in a flat package. LOVED those. Not on my diet, but I ate one anyway.

Oh, and they give a military discount, which is nice. The young man inquired which branch my husband served with and shook his hand, thanking him twice. (Embarrasses my husband, but it was nice.)

A bit of everything, why be fussy when there's food involved. But slow down, I'd rather have 2-3 servings of steak rather than fill up on greens & bread.

Another beet lover, here. I drizzle mine with ranch dressing. We used to go to a restaurant that had pickled watermelon rind and herring in cream sauce on their salad bar. It was heaven! I rarely get a salad at the salad bar.

Bonanza. One spoonful of everything they have. Go back for everything that was really, really good.

Golden Corral, hands down, for a great salad bar in my area. There's one about 20 minutes away from here. Fancy greens, broccoli, cauliflower, cucumber, radishes, chopped egg, LOTS of both green and black olives, sunflower seeds, and ranch dressing. With their yummy hot rolls and honey butter. I like their soup, especially their creamed soups.

Not crazy about any of their entrees, but that's OK. I can eat soup and salad bar, then DESSERT. They used to have a really good carrot cake, but the last time I had it, it wasn't so great. They usually have a good chocolate cake or brownies. And banana pudding.

What is their age minimum for Senior Discount? 60? I'm not quite there yet.

you name it and I like it....we had a wonderful soup and salad bar in ca we went to all the time it was nearly 15 ft long, lol...(and that didn't include the soup!)

I take a tiny bit of lettuce with egg, chick peas, tomato, cheese, and a few other toppers. Mostly I like the pasta and potato salads at a salad bar.
I did not see anyone mention Sweet Tomatoes restaurant. They have a great salad bar (actually the whole basis of the restaurant), plus some soup, bread, a couple of pasta dishes, and dessert. No meat entrees.
Also like Ruby Tuesday's for salad bar.

Due to my kidney transplant and being on immunosuppressant medication, I can no longer eat at salad bars. I do miss them. I used to love a nice plate of lettuce with crunchy sprouts and salty savory toppings, cheese, pickles, peppers, etc.