Chia Chia — Restaurant in Melbourne

ORDERED: 🥗  Make your own salad Base: Penne pasta, baked potato (hot) Toppings: cucumber, fresh chilli, broccoli, feta cheese, sun dried tomatoes, quinoa Protein: Smoked salmon (+$5.00) Dressing: Olive oil

I paid $18.00 here.

REVIEW: 💖 Chia chia is great for a truly home style salad for lunch. There's no additional frills, but because they're catering to a lot of people, economies of scale comes through with a lot of options you can choose from.

I find that simplicity works best here. I stuck to toppings and things that would complement a penne pasta salad (such as sun dried tomatoes, cucumber), because my last experiencing in building too many sauces and flavour backfired heavily. 🌦️

The portions are generous, ingredients are fresh, and the staff friendly. Definitely worth hitting up for your next lunch if you're looking to make your own...

I am not surprised to see that the restaurants do not have many customers at the busy hour. I was about to get a salad and was treated very badly at the counter by the owner. Thank you very much for saving me 17.5 $ for the pricey salad. You guys make wrong salads all the time and would not admit mistakes for what you have done but instead treated a regular customer so badly. Yes, you are racist like how you commented yourself. I don't need it. It is disgusting to think about those ppl with ugly service attitude serve you food. Enjoy the comment :) If you treat customers badly and rudely, this is what you enjoy. Thanks for being so rude today! I will never ever ever come again. I will strong advise other people not going....

The Concept of customised salad is fantastic and when delivered properly its usually 4 star or above. And it has been delivered perfectly every 1 out of 2 times i have been here. But having visited this place many many times in last 7 plus years and counting the number of occassions they have gone wrong in assembling the salad I am now forced to write a negative review after they missed adding 1 ingredient and also did not add salt & pepper today. Its so common for them to miss an ingredient like sundried tomato, cahsew or grilled pumpkin or salt & pepper etc. and you just dont enjoy the end product. Plus I always do take away & it not practical to go back to them to show their mistake. I dont think i will be...