honeygrow — Restaurant in Philadelphia

Great spot!

This is a great area to have a honeygrow - right near Jefferson!

The motif has an Asian twist on the fast casual restaurant trend. In general, the choices include either a salad or stir-fry (or both if you are so inclined.) From there you can customize to your liking. The ordering process is pretty user intuitive - you queue up in line and enter your order through a kiosk/tablet. There are multiple stations so you're not waiting in line to enter your order. It's like going through self check out at the super market, so if one person finishes, you can move to the empty station allowing the line to move much quicker. Since you pay through the kiosk as well, the staff solely focuses on the food and once the order is up (you can monitor the board for your number), you can pick up your order - ready to eat!

I chose to order a salad. I picked that option and then the menu leads you from the base to the top on what to add for the ingredients. I liked the experience since it gave me time to think to go back and forth on different options before settling on the preferred combination of ingredients. I was super happy with the final creation - filled with spinach, arugula, quinoa, roasted cashews, craisins, some feta, white beans, etc. I loaded that puppy up! I also thought the portion was ample for one (or even two), and I actually had to ask for a to go box since I wasn't able to finish the whole thing in one sitting! It was well made, with the ingredients cut down to bite sized portions. I appreciated the vast amount of ingredients they had to choose from and for a vegetarian like me, the options and combinations are endless! The ingredients were also pretty fresh and well seasoned (the beans). In addition, I ordered the salad with a spicy tahini dressing and it was a great kick to a hearty meal.

They do have "signature" blends of salads (and stir - fry) in case you wish to go with a recipe already defined, but in the event you wish to customize, the make your own options seems to be the best bet. Also, during the ordering process it will let you know how many of each item type you're allowed, any additional add ons (which you can do right through the kiosk) are just extra to the base cost.

I have to say the staff were really accommodating and super friendly. Any questions about the ingredients I had, they were readily available to help out.

Excited to have a honeygrow on this side of the city and hoping for more visits to test out different...

I read the reviews and when my daughter suggested it, we decided to go. First thing I noticed was the order terminals weren't working correctly. But we managed to get our orders okay. I ordered the red curry noodles and my daughter did a customized stir fry. When I got my order the first thing I noticed was my food was hot but not steaming. The flavor was bland and the noodles were dry. I had to add soy sauce, salt and pepper and whatever I could to make it taste like something. But I made do. I noticed while my daughter and I were sitting in the restaurant that one of the servers came out to hand another customer there order the server was wearing her rubber gloves the server went back behind the counter, started a new order, after preparing the new order she washed out the wok and then started chopping veggies but she never once changed the gloves she was wearing. The other server was also wearing gloves tried to help me with the lock on the bathroom door and he never removed his gloves either when he returned to the food station. They refused to believe the bathroom lock was broken and never apologized when they finally had to call someone to take care of the matter. Needles to say we will not be return. Not only because of their rudeness but their lack of food safely...

Okay, so about two weeks ago I came to this location and ordered, I watched them make my food I paid for extra sauce I watched the cook squirt a little sauce in the pan. I had to ask the lady at the register to tell him that I paid for extra. No biggie because I caught it while I was there now if I would have left and went home with my food I would have been upset. Fast forward today I go in ordered for me and my daughter stir fry she added extra shrimp and paid for extra shrimp doesn’t look like extra was put in it. Also they are really skimming on the veggies and extras that you add into your stir fry. For the price why isn’t my container filled all the way up. I open my container of food it is barely any veggies in it. Also I thought it was me it seems that the containers have gotten a little smaller. My daughter said the same thing. I paid almost $34.00. Not...