2N1 Salad Bar and Grill — Restaurant in Austin

I have ordered here from Lunch Drop a couple times and will give a rating on the average of these times.

Today I ordered:

Chicken Tortilla Soup w/o corn. Its more of a tomato based broth with huge chunks of tomatoes and diced chicken that did not have the best texture. The oddest thing about this soup, there were no tortilla strips in it so I don't think the name Chicken Tortilla Soup adequately names it, should just be Chicken and Vegetable soup.

Also, I ordered the cheese to go with this soup as an option to do so, just no corn and there was not a drop of cheese to be found in the soup or my bag.

Gyro Pita: Its huge for the price but the quality is meh. There is no acidity in it like you would get with the tomato/cucumber/onion mix. It comes with sliced tomatoes, shredded lettuce, gyro meat, and Tzatziki sauce. I requested extra Tzatziki on the side as I usually love a bit extra and they did this for me. However, this is the most bland gyro pita I have ever eaten in my life. The Tzatziki sauce is basically non flavored yogurt with no seasoning or not enough. The gyro meat is bland and not much there although its moist and not dried out. Over all, not impressed - think I will take it home to my son to eat - he eats everything.

Previously I have ordered:

Salad: I ordered turkey and was sad to see sliced low grade quality turkey lunch meat on my salad. The eggs are chopped and not sliced. Other than that, I did like it. I had the Chipotle Ranch and enjoyed this a lot, very flavorful. Just wished they give you a bit more than one lil cup for the size of even the small salad.

My hubby says their hamburgers are amazing so if I order from here again, I will try one.

Pros: Chipotle Ranch dressing Salad choices

Cons: Diced...

Yikes! Soooo disappointed! Under seasoned, over cooked, hard, dry, & tasted like a microwaved frozen meal. Geez. From the reviews, I had high hopes.

We ordered: T-bone steak (medium rare) Chicken pesto quesadillas Tomato soup

The steak was so thin and so over cooked, it was like a hockey puck. The mashed potatoes were like tasteless pasty glue with absolutely zero seasoning. So either they don’t know how to season and properly prepare mashed potatos (over stiring creates a glue-like texture) or they came out of a box. 🙄 Even the broccoli and carrot medley was totally bland. Honestly, it all got spit out and turned into dog food. I’ve literally had better frozen Hungry man microwave dinners.

The chicken quesadillas had a great flavor but the chicken was soooo dry and hard, I picked it out. The lettuce, sour cream and guacamole that comes with it were a great compliment but not enough and they threw in big chunks of unripe, hard, flavorless tomatos, probably not organic either. I had to bring out my own sour cream and salsa to finish it because of how dry it was.

The tomato basil soup was the best item. Very well balanced and flavorful. Even the addition of the cheese was nice in it, but they were idiots and dumped in all the croutons into the hot soup before it was delivered! So… nice soggy, mushy, spongy, slimey croutons! 🙄🙄

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The perfect restaurant doesn’t exis-

Yes it does. And it is 2n1. I’m the “JJ” that regularly orders from Uber Eats (hiiii guys! Love yoooou!!). I usually get the Build Your Own Large Salad, which is ALWAYS perfect. Always. I love that there’s tons of options. Everything is fresh and high quality and my weird orders are always made right. That wheat bread is something I NEED. I don’t even eat bread regularly, but this bread? This bread is made of unicorn dreams and seeds of pure joy. Order whatever you want on your salad (get the bread too) I mean whatEVER. Want edamame and sun dried tomatoes? Got em. Add mandarin oranges? Done. Want to try ALL the dressings? Do it (definitely try the balsamic AND the spinach bleu cheese)

I thought this was lunch perfection.

But

I tried the Build Your Own Beef Burger on Friday and I CAN NOT function. I’m broken. Done. It was absolutely delicious! And GIGANTIC! A colleague ran up and took pictures of my lunch because it was a thing of sensory beauty. It was well made, exactly as ordered, fast, and so so tasty! The fries are fries I could only have assembled in my wildest snacky fantasies. Hot, crispy, perfect. I can’t even describe them. The oil must be magic. The salt on them has to be made from a mermaid’s tears of joy.

2n1 never lets me down and I can’t wait to come in with my husband (who has heard this story 11 times now) to finally see where all of this amazing food comes from.

Try it.

TRY. IT.

If you don’t like this place something might not be right with you. Idk, I’m not a doctor YET but I can tell...