A friend and I went to Whole Foods yesterday (post on that - with pictures! later), and then went to the Milwaukee Public Market for lunch. Both of us ended up with salads from The Green Kitchen.
Oh. My. Salad doesn't usually float my boat, but this place is remarkable. A clerk holds a huge stainless steel bowl, then asks what you would like, forcing you build your salad from among a multitude of choices: four greens mixes, almost thirty different veggies, five cheeses, three protein choices, six types of seeds and at least a dozen dressings.
You remember the voice over at the start of You've Got Mail when Tom Hanks' character complains that Starbucks exists only to make people who can't make decisions make twelve different decisions just to have a cup of coffee? Yeah, that - on steroids.
As if that isn't enough, they serve a dozen different custom juice mixes and an equal number of artsy-type sandwiches.
The line (and there were easily eight people in front of us when we stepped up) moved rapidly through the salads, but stalled at the beverages. The juice mixtures are quite literally juiced in front of you, which takes a bit. But worth every minute of the wait.
A single regular size salad would easily divide into two or three side salads to go with dinner for me - and certainly much easier than keeping all sorts of salad things on hand in the frig (I know lettuce is green, but is it supposed to be slimy?). I'll be going back.
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