fresh&co — Restaurant in Westfield

My husband and I while visiting New Jersey, decided to try this place out for lunch and were elated with the options available. There was everything we could think of, right from the option to customize your salad/grain bowl with your choice of greens, grains, protein, toppings and dressings to freshly made smoothies and juices.

We ended up getting a Mexican Cesar salad with salmon and a customized falafel salad along with the turkey chili, the chicken and vegetable soup and the carrot juice. The salmon was perfectly cooked, moist and very flavorful and the falafels absolutely delicious. The greens, vegetable toppings and dressings were really fresh.

Both, my husband and I love trying out the salad bars in grocery stores as well as other salad chains and hands down this is the best we’ve ever eaten. The servers were extremely knowledgeable about every ingredient, the owners extremely welcoming and the food, fresh and bursting with flavor. We shall be eating here everyday and in the future as well when visiting New Jersey.

A place certainly not...

Food is great but the service is incompetent. Placed an online order, gave ample time, and walked in to find the store completely understaffed and multiple online orders had tickets on a counter unfulfilled. Stood around for 15 minutes, no one working there asked for a name or anything, I had to speak up a few times saying I had an online order and got a "we'll get to it". After they rotated between other online orders (I was assuming placed before mine) and in-store customers, I finally said my name to them and they pointed to a bag on a random counter. It had been sitting there the entire time I was in the building. Either ask for someone's name, check with them when you see them them there for a long time, or have an online pickup counter labeled as such. Standing there for so long, it’s easily noticeable they have no system in place at all for customers. Best part was the fact I placed a coffee order across town before walking into Fresh & Co assuming my food pickup would be quick and effortless when it was...

We tried Fresh & co for lunch on a Monday and spent about $55 on two salads, two small chicken soups, a container of watermelon and a rice pudding. The salads were fresh and delicious with no rotten or gross veggies. The quinoa in the harvest salad I got was well cooked and seasoned. The couple things I had an issue with were the price to size ratio of some of there items. As you can see in the photo I paid $5 for what I thought was going to be a big cup of watermelon but it turned out to be a small little container about an inch 2 inches deep and 3 inches wide. The watermelon was also not ripe and very sour. The other thing was the soup, it was pretty flavorless and way too expensive for the small serving I got. Definitely just stick to the salads when going here but they will definitely have some competition with a Sweetgreens opening up just...