North Adams Cafe Expands Offerings With Salad Bar
 The new salad bar at Eat To Total Health in North Adams contains both traditional and unique salad bar fare. |
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — There may be a lot of white outside, but there's a lot of green inside Eat To Total Health.
Renee Tassone, who owns the Ashland Street health food cafe, began offering a salad bar the first week of January where customers can come make their own salad for $5.99 a pound.
Tassone said the idea to add the salad bar came after she noticed a trend among her customers, who were ordering salads in addition to the other gluten-, soy- and dairy-free prepared food, smoothies and juices the cafe offers.
"Some of our clients were coming in almost on a daily basis and asking us to prepare a salad for them, which we did of course," she said. "But I started thinking, maybe we should get a salad bar."
So she put the question on her Facebook page and got her answer pretty quickly.
"The response was really incredible," she said.
Customers can come make a salad and either eat in at one of the cafe's tables or take it out. The bar will contain traditional salad ingredients like lettuce and tomatoes but also will offer other items like quinoa salads, bean salads and roasted vegetables. There also will be homemade dressings and a hot soup of the day.
On Monday, as slush filled the streets of downtown North Adams, the soup of the day was butternut squash chili. Tassone said she was happy with how the first week of business had been - and so were her customers.
"They really like the idea of making it their own thing, and creating it themselves," she said. "So far, so good."
Eat To Total Health is located at 14 Ashland St. in North Adams and is open Monday through Thursday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., Friday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Saturday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. For more information, call 413-346-4357 or 413-329-4710 or email info@eattototalhealth.com.
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