Sweet Tomatoes?
 

Am I alone in really liking Sweet Tomatoes? I enjoy Haute Cuisine as much as anyone but on a hot summer night a great salad and soup just tastes right...

problem is finding them. I think this will not be a problem as the various farmer's markets are popping up now in chicagoland.

I'm a big fan of the grape tomatoes, lots of flavor.

www.sweettomatoes.com http://www.flyertalk.com/dining/ftdining_forum/wink.gif

OH THAT Sweet Tomatoes!

Closest one to "us" is in Schuamburg no?

Schaumburg and Glenview (near the Glenview Costco). Check their menu online and go when they have their Butterscotch Praline Pie http://www.flyertalk.com/dining/ftdi...um/biggrin.gif

In Atlanta, there are no sweet tomatoes anywhere near the city proper. You have to go to the perimeter to get any of their good food. So I never eat there unless I happen to be on the far north side of town, which is rare.

If you live in an area with Sweet Tomatoes restaurants, be sxure to check your Sunday newspaper coupon inserts. They often have coupons good for $1.20 off of lunch and $1.70 off of dinner (good for up to 4 in your party).

I got sooooo excited when I saw this thread.

Alas not what I was expecting. http://www.flyertalk.com/dining/ftdi...orum/frown.gif


A new branch due in West Newton soon.

http://www.sweettomatoespizza.com/about.htm

We only use San Marzano Tomatos.
...From a small town outside Naples, Italy, come the best tomatoes on earth. Nestled at the base of Mount Vesuvius, the sun-drenched volcanic soil of San Marzano provides the perfect environment for the production of the most sought-after tomatoes in the world. Ask any real Italian restaurant owner....

....The San Marzano Difference
(Science Behind the Tomato)
Round tomatoes have between five and seven locules or seed pockets; plum tomatoes like the san marzano have two. How did that happen?
"The plum shape might have arisen as a mutation," says tomato geneticist Charles Rick of UC Berkeley. "Only one or two genes
differentiate it from the round tomato. It apparently wasn't in any of the original varieties brought into the Mediterranean, but the fact that it is pretty widely spread through the Mayan area [of Mexico and Central America] suggests that it is a very old type of variant.".....

http://www.sanmarzanoimports.com/

Here we buy them:

http://www.pennmac.com/page/24

Did Souplation change their menu to be more like Sweet Tomatos?

I thought of Souplation to be HIGH carbohydrates http://www.flyertalk.com/dining/ftdi...orum/frown.gif, but liked the stuff better at Sweet Tomats http://www.flyertalk.com/dining/ftdi...orum/smile.gif.

Surprised that they are the same company. Must be a bicoastal thingy.

Mrs. RobotDoctor just went to a Sweet Tomatoes the other day and said she liked it. I am indifferent so we can chalk up 1 1/2 votes for this establishment.

There is a good Sweet Tomatoes in Mesa Arizona and a newer one in the Phoenix Metro area off of I17. There is a Zuppa in Tukwila, WA that is from the same chain that is decent too.

Happy Travels

Good Southern fare; a tomato sandwich. Yum! Take your BEST tomato, salt and pepper, mayo or ranch dressing, good bread, onion and cheese (or not). Delicious!

Mrs. cfrehner LOVES Sweet Tomatoes-- I will let her drag me along for their little pizza-like things (I can't remember what they're called) and their blueberry muffins with honey butter. Yum!

Mrs. Amanuensis also really likes Sweet Tomatoes.

There must be something wrong with me because I didn't particularly like their selections. Reminded me too much of "Old Country Buffet" with less choices. Pasta was bland and the pizza was mushy. Salad bar was ok but not worth $10 IMHO.

I love Soupplantation - there's no Michelin star, but good, fresh food, constantly replenished, a lot of variety (but of course not the meat/potatoes kind), wonderful fresh baked muffins, super clean restaurant, and a wonderful meal for the price.

Very hard to find much PROTEIN at the Souplantation! Little pieces in the chicken salad. Large pieces in the noodle soup. The noodles are LARGE!

Prefer the Home Buffet any day over all the starchy stuff at the Souplant!

beans have tons of protein - available in salad bar and many soup offerings have it. if you're meaning meat-based protein i'd agree. but for my diet sweet tomato's rocks. i'm just sorry there isn't one in my locale, just my former locale PDX. i only have Fresh Choice, which pales in comparison...and isn't even nearly as fresh as ST.

I think they are putting some serious MSG or something in their stuff now. Very not cool. Noticed this the last 3 times i went.

Sweet tomatoes
 

I like them, at least the Orlando locations. Forget pasta, light years away from being tasty, pizza so so. But the soups are good and the veggies are ok too

Some of the soups are quite good (the Mexican 'Albondigas' (Meatball) soup is tasty). With that exception, I otherwise tend to avoid any of the soups with potatoes, as those seem to be consistently watery and less-flavorful and sometimes undercooked).

One negative recent development: the coupons in the Sunday newspapers have changed from a dollar-plus off an individual meal, to two-for-one offers, which are useless for a single diner like myself :td:

I still like them, but there aren't many in northern California. I go to one in Sunnyvale at the corner of Lawrence & Kifer. I love the dark brown home style bread, and the salad bar selections are good. I used to hate their competition (Fresh Choice) which seems to be everywhere. Some time ago FC switched to more diverse and better ingredients on their salad bar. The food is much better, so I don't go to Sweet Tomatoes as much as I used to.

The closest to us is either Jacksonville or Orlando, but I enjoy them, as do my parents :)