The Garden of Eat'n — Restaurant in Grand Junction

If you can find a place to park, (this establishment is next to a very popular resturant) once you enter, you are promptly hit with a wave of heat. I visited in August and it was cooler outside in the noon hour than it was in the dining area inside. You look at the menu and ask yourself why you are paying so much for a one trip salad bar. You can have a sandwich, but that will take 20 minutes of waiting, (did I mention how hot it is in there). I did not try any of the soup as IT IS HOT in the establishment. Reading other reviews indicates that the temperature is not an isolated incident. After your 20 minutes of waiting for your sandwich elapses, your sandwich will be delivered to your seating area. Just a sandwich. Mine was said to be a "large" bit was simply just sandwich bread but you get two pieces cut in half. I am not sure of they burn every one's sandwich, or if the heat in the dining area burned the bread in the time it took to walk it to my table, (it is HOT in the there).

I wouldn't recommend this as a place to eat with a large group as there isn't seating to accommodate groups larger than probably 4 or so.

In fact, I wouldn't recommend this...

This is a restaurant of tomorrow, and is available to us all, today. They deserve all the business Grand Junctionites can give them as soon as you can include them in your restaurant queue!

Currently, I see myself as an intermittent carnivore. Through a hospital weight loss class I took, I discovered a man at the size I would like to become, only needs two ounces of protein per day. Beans, fortified non dairy beverages, unsalted raw nuts, or an egg white can provide it. I feel like I have improved my life by choosing to see protein as a condiment, not as an entree.

I willingly choose to eat at GARDEN OF EAT'N because they serve wonderful, raw, fresh vegetable salad ingredients and I GET TO CHOOSE WHAT GOES INTO MINE. If I am not mistaken all the food is made on-sight. I say this because the last salad dressing I had there is one I have never seen in any...

Love the salad bar at Garden of Eat'n! It's always very immaculate when I go in there. The staff is always so nice when I go in. The salad bar is always well stocked. I love the baked potato, too, when they have good-sized ones available. I really love the housemade ranch dressing. It's not the "usual" ranch. They have their own flavor and spin on it, but its one of my favorite ranches in town. I'm kinda a picky ranch snob 🤭. The bread hiding in the covered basket in the corner between the salad bar and the dressing bar is so soft and delicious as well. (I love to dip it in the ranch) Also, don't forget to get a punch card so you can earn a free salad after so many punches. They have several different fresh soups available...