I received incredibly rude service - so much so that I will not be returning to this location.
This location is listed as excepting "Level Up" for payments. Â I had a $2 credit at the location. Â Upon using the app, I was told that the store's Level Up was not working, and I had to pay with a credit card. Â I said that was ok, but asked if the $2 could be credited to my bill. Â A tall African American gentleman rudely told me that it wasn't his problem that the app wasn't working, and I couldn't receive a credit. Â Two other people in line behind me had the exact same issue. Â They should have honored the $2 credit considering that they hold themselves out to accept Level Up for payments, and it is not the fault of the patrons that they do not know how to use this system. Â I will definitely not return to this store, nor will my coworkers who were with me.
My second time to Freshii and first time to this location.
My first time and I immedietly fell in love with the healthy meal. It's not cheap, but atleast its a healthy meal with no grease and reduced fat. And it doenst break the bank.
Although I didn't like this location as much as the other location I tried downtown Chicago - the service was a bit slow takes about 15 mins to wait for your meal after you place your order.
Can't wait to have Freshii again!
I think this place perpetuates the stereotype of food that's good for you tasting bad.
Ordered the Asian Chopped salad as part of a big delivery for our team's lunch.
"Salads don't need to be bland! Dressings don't need to be overly sweet and thick. Why are my wontons soggy? I need an adult!"--these are the thoughts that ran through my mind as I tried to navigate my salad. I say this because all of the non-lettuce ingredients were at the bottom of my salad. I don't understand this. The lettuce is going to make everything else soggy if it's on top. And so it did.
The taste of the salad (minus wontons) was just okay. I've definitely made better salads at home. Not inedible, just not something I'd go back for.
... and I'm out.
They just redid the store layout and ordering process, and it sucks. Â I used to always get a rice bowl loaded with veggies--unlimited. Â Now, you only get four free toppings and have to pay extra for more. Â Seriously? Â Best of all, they are charging more now! Â So I got a lousy bowl of brown rice with four veggies (most of which were cold, I might add) and paid about $8. Â No thank you. Â I am officially over you, Freshii.
My second time here, take out. I'm back at my desk.
I'm wondering what on earth could have made this godawful bowl of noodles cost $7.76. The noodles themselves (85% of the dish) are bland, sort of like styrofoam. The veggies (which I ordered this dish for, yet only comprise maybe 10% of it), are soaked with oil and do not taste fresh or healthy. The rest of the dish is tofu, spices, and oil, none of which are that good.
Wtf?? How do you get away charging $7.76 for this? The only benefit is that its filling, but I can go to, oh, anywhere for that. Maybe if this were in the $5.00 range, I'd be cool with it. Maybe if it were super fresh and healthy tasting, i'd be ok with it. But come on, this is a bland, oily mess.
This place is in my building, so unfortunately I go there a fair amount.
Here's the thing - the food is fresh (as advertised) and (if they grilled it properly) would actually be very good.
Here's the problem - I go here probably once a week and they mess up my order 80% of the time. All I get is a wrap, grilled, with no tomato. 75% of the time, the wrap isn't grilled at all (which I send back promptly because I can feel it) and a lot of the time, there is something in my order wrong (tomatoes, wrong dressing, etc.).
Either the sheets they use to fill out the orders are too confusing for employees or they hire the stupidest people in the world because my order is so consistently wrong, that I had to write a review (which happens rarely). If you can, I'd recommend staying away from this place.
I still frequent Freshii on a semi-regular basis. More often than not I build my own rice bowl with black beans, corn, sprouts, salsa, tofu, broccoli, and carrots.
I've also ordered the frozen yogurt several times. It's far more fro yo than I would ever eat in one serving and the staff really seems to struggle with the concept of giving me just a half serving. (Rather than taking a full serving and throwing half away.)
They recently raised the prices a bit, but the rice bowls are plenty of food for the money. Â I can usually get two meals out of one rice bowl.
If you live downtown, here's the trick: Â Place your order online! Â You can build your meal at your own pace, and even prepay for it. Â They tell you what time it will be ready -- or -- you can schedule a pickup time.
Then you just walk in and pick it up. Â In and out very quickly.
I've now ordered online 28 times over the past few months and have zero complaints. Â And the staff at the Jackson St location is outstanding.
Not going back, sorry. The music is way too loud in there and you literally have to scream your order. Plus, it looks like IKEA and has an IKEA concept. Don't get me wrong, I love IKEA (see my IKEA review), but not when it comes to food. You have to fill out your order on a sheet of paper with a pencil. Little do you know that every time to put a checkmark next to something, you run up  your little food bill higher and higher.
The food is bland and overpriced. I had two different bowls here and they both tasted very generic. There is something missing here, but I cannot put my finger on it... Perhaps they skimp on seasonings or something. Anyway, I came because I purchased a kgb deal and even then it was not worth it.
The only nice thing about Freshii is that it is located in a nice building. But even the 311 Wacker location can't save that 10 dollar bowl of bland.
With flavorful Panera Bread right across the street, why bother with Freshii?
Fro-yo girl here. Â Freshii is an eco-friendly chain that emphasizes customizable fresh food (burritos, wraps, bowls, soups, salads, breakfast items). Â They have healthy options like brown rice, tofu, wheat tortillas, etc. Â They have vegan options too. Â The wall is covered with clipboards with forms that you can fill out to place your order. Â
They have fat-free, probiotic fro-yo but it's only one flavor (plain) and one size (large, 12 ounces). Â The price includes your choice of two toppings (choose from fresh fruit, dried fruit, nuts, candy, cookies, granola, sunflower seeds, honey and coconut). Â I don't think they had mochi.
* Plain fro-yo with strawberries and blueberries ($4.99): The fruit was fresh and the fro-yo flavor was decent (sweet aftertaste, very refreshing, icy, soft, a bit lemony/tart) but the texture was horrible. Â It was already melted when I first received it and turned to soup in a few minutes. Â They served melted fro-yo. Â Yuck!!!
They're opening in SF soon. Â I hope they don't serve melted fro-yo there. Â And what's with only having one size and one flavor??
You know you love me. Â X0 X0, fro-yo girl.
I still don't like freshii, but i need to update and say that the list of veggies/toppings has been drastically reduced, and most now require an additional fee (75c for sundried tomatoes, 75c for olives, etc).
Oh and as much as i thought 'soup't' was a stupid name for soup, they now just call it plain 'soup' and that's kind of boring.
This is a review of Freshii's fat free, probiotic frozen yogurt because I didn't know they served food until I saw the menu in my frozen yogurt bag (co-worker brought me dessert).
I tried Starfruit for the first time at the Yelp Shedd event last month. Â The kefir fro-yo taste is either love it or hate it... and I love it. Â It's wonderfully sour and magically fat free; I can't get enough of the stuff.
Insatiable yet lazy, I was on the lookout for a kefir source closer to work. Â
Lo and behold, Freshii! Â They have around 20 toppings to choose from ranging from chocolate chips to sunflower seeds. Â The yogurt is delicious and apparently they have a menu full of organic brown rice dishes and wraps. Â I'm salivating just reading it. Â Finally, a new option for lunch in the loop!
Freshii -- I'm addicted to your Chicken Teriyaki Bowl.
When I first tried Freshii, I was a little displeased with what I got. I had chosen roasted red peppers, goat cheese and olive oil over brown rice. The thing tasted healthy but my tastebuds almost died of boredom. Then I tried their garden tuna wrap -- another healthy choice but it was just veggies and tuna and there was obviously something missing ... oh yeah ... FLAVOR.
So Freshii was 2 for 2 in the department of healthy but flavorless meals. I decided to give it one last chance and I ordered the chicken teriyaki bowl. BINGO!!! This is the perfect healthier alternative to its fattier, carb-overloaded counterpart.
The "bowl" (I put bowl in quotation marks because it's not actually a bow but a Chinese take-out container) starts off with brown rice. This is already a great substitute for white rice -- less carbs and more fiber. Then they add a little pre-chopped chicken breast -- none of that fatty, juicy delicious pan fried goodness .... whoops! Healthy ... we're thinking healthy. Badness, fatty, juicy delicious pan fried badness. And then they add bean sprouts, carrots and broccoli. The carrots and broccoli are either raw or blanched, so they retain most of their nutrients. Lastly, they add the teriyaki sauce (I usually add 1/2 the sauce because the regular amount has over 1,700 mg of sodium).
And there you have it ... Chicken Teriyaki done "healthy". All of this for under 500 calories! Your fat ass will thank you, I know mine does.
Since nothing else was open in the loop at 7:00pm, I stopped in here to get a salad.
The salad was very fresh and yummy, though a bit pricey for the Centurion Salad that I ordered ($14!)
The salad was a perfect size and really delicious. I looked up the calories on the restaurant's website and it was 625 calories. Not that bad for all of the various toppings on it.
The salad came with a piece of brown pita type stuff, which looked and felt like cardboard, but tasted SHOCKINGLY yummy!!! Â
Next time, I will try a make-my-own-salad (so it wont be so pricey!!!) or maybe a wrap, given the yumminess of the bread.
That's right - I ate a salad today.
For everyone who knows me and just slapped their hands to their cheeks á lá Macaulay Culkin in Home Alone - hear me out.  You KNOW me - and the only way I would eat a salad is if the thing is more "bowl of goodies" than "salad", and Freshii actually allowed that to happen.
I saw the place when I was trying out Kamehachi next door and glanced inside only to be greeted by walls covered in clipboards and menus displaying what seemed like nothing but vegetables and brown rice.
I am not a fan of the brown rice. Â I am not a fan of veggies or anything "vegan" or "organic". Â I am not a health nut. Â I am just a nut. Â Or at least a squirrel, trying to get a nut - so move your butt to the dance floor...
...but I digress. Â I was disgusted and stormed out with my sushi in tow.
And today, I got curious. Â What was that Freshii place, REALLY? Â A look online and I discovered that while the facade is an organic, healthy, vegan-friendly, brown-rice-pushin', tofu-fartin' foodatorium - they somehow still left me with the power to make something awesome...
So I put my reviewing pants on and sacrificed half of my 30-minute lunch break to make it over there and order and head back to the office to chow down. Â I stepped into that familiar nightmare and reached for a clipboard. Â I eventually found the basket of golf pencils and started the crafting of my lunch.
Step 1: Select Your Meal
The wraps and bowls were out, because of the brown rice factor. Â The soup seemed like an interesting concept, but I was in work attire and am prone to soup-related spills and dribbles so that was out. Â And so I was faced with my mortal nemesis: the Salad.
Romaine itself is too bland. Â Spinach by itself is too gross. Â I went with the "Freshii Mix" - which it turns out is more than just romaine and spinach (I learned later I could have just checked both boxes instead, but the Mix wasn't bad).
Step 2: Unlimited Toppings
Now THIS is a lunchtime option I can be down with. Â Unfortunately, the selection is void of most of the really GOOD items I like in a salad - they're in the Premium section. Â Also, while the Premium section offers the choice of "double", the Unlimited section does not. Â I went with Broccoli, Crispy Wonton, Egg Whites, House Croutons, Mushrooms and Red Onions. Â I pondered getting Sliced Eggs as well, but the whites are my favorite part, so I was set.
Step 3: Premium Toppings
Here's where they get you. Â They gave you a bland base of greens and you're already at $5.95. Â The unlimited toppings are freebies, but nothing spectacular about them (and you can't double). Â I understand that proteins are where the real flavor and filling comes from, so I went the route of Buffalo Chicken for $2.00 extra. Â And then I "doubled" it for another $1.25 extra.
Step 4: Choose Your Flavor
I'm still trying to understand Freshii's categorizations of "24/7", "Balance" and "Splurge". Â I guess the first is good "any time", the second is for "trying to be healthy" and the third is for "not trying to be healthy". Â So it's pretty obvious I splurged and went with the regular Ranch dressing (not the Lite version). Â I appreciated their additional option of "half", "regular", "heavy" and "on the side" - especially since the "heavy" option I chose doesn't cost any more than "half".
Name at the top and gave it to the guy, who handed me the carbon copy and I took that to the register to pay. Â And yea, for a salad this awesome, the damage was about $10 - but I can at least say that it was worth it. Â It's almost two meals, and I'm a guy who can handle a lot of food.
The croutons are gigantic, the dressing managed to cover everything I needed at the "heavy" setting, and I felt like they actually gave me "double" on the buffalo chicken which paired splendidly with the Ranch dressing.
I'd love to give this place a bad review. Â I love knocking down the hippy-dippy health-food craziness places. Â But they let me get something as unhealthy as I could create it. Â I'm still not going to give them anything higher than 3 stars because the brown rice factor eliminated half the menu right off the bat. Â Freshii, I understand that you want me to eat healthy - but if you'll let me splurge on fatty dressing and chocolate chips on the frozen yogurt you sell, why can't I splurge and get plain white rice or something just as filling but TASTY like refried beans or fried rice or chocolate?
This place apparently isn't as scary as it looks from the outside with walls of clipboards and a creepy-looking metal sculpture holding chips and organic candies. Â Unless you're afraid of brown rice, whole grains and vegetables...
Somehow this slipped through my review net, so take this with a grain of salt (it's been ~6 months so things may have changed there).
I used to order Freshii at least 3 times a week at my old job when I worked downtown. Â The online ordering made it ridiculously simple, the massive number of options made it irresistible, and the fact that they used bike messengers who never cared that a massive weimeraner assaulted them everytime they entered the office sealed the deal on me approving of Freshii.
I always opted for the wraps, and was never let down. Â The things were huge, and always accurately made, with (mostly) fresh ingredients so far as I could tell. Â One of my old co-workers would get the soups, and never had any complaints--and if I had to guess I'd say the soup contained at least 1.5-2x as much food as my already big wrap.
The one crazy incident I had with Freshii dealt with my wrap being late...3 hours late. Â When it finally arrived, it was brought to me by the manager, who apologized, gave it to me for free, and also brought along tons of tasty treats for myself and my officemates, all on the house, so really I can't complain too much.
If nothing about Freshii has changed in the last six months, I'd say hit it up!
I went to Freshii about a month ago and ordered a bowl without onions. Guess what I got? A bowl with onions. They gave me a free coupon for an entree next time I come in.
I go in today, and order a Bankok Burrito to go. I get back to the office, bite into the burrito into a hard piece of metal. I looked, and there is a SMALL METAL RAMEKIN INSIDE OF THE BURRITO!! I was mortified and disgusted. Needless to say, I didn't eat the rest of the burrito. I called the store and talked to the manager who said that they would give me a free entree... again. I'm done with the free entrees. I'll pass. What next?
This never should have happened. I took a picture for proof and showed my coworkers, who were also stunned. How does someone put a metal ramekin in a wrap??? Talk about negligence! This is unacceptable.
If you decide to go, be sure to check your food for foreign objects before you eat it.
I was quite impressed with the online ordering and website. More businesses should take note. The delivery service was prompt, and as we were ordering for a large group, it was appreciated that they took the time to label each meal for easy grabbing.
I had the lemongrass soup with rice noodles. It was ok. Nothing to write home about.
I've got 10 of my colleagues in town and knowing we'd be hitting the dinners/drinks pretty heavily I promised everyone healthy lunches. So hello Freshii!
I really liked their detailed website and so genius that it counts calories for you. Â I asked my colleagues to make their own salad, soup, freshii bowl...and send it to me. Â Um, not one of my most genius ideas because ordering 11 different types of salads, soups, etc for picky eaters was not fun! I'll admit it...i was cursing my colleagues by the time I placed the 11th order.
The food was pretty yummy. I enjoyed a brown rice bowl filled with veggies and chicken. And I really liked my coworker's spicy lemongrass soup.
A good, healthy option...just make someone else do the ordering if it's a large order.
Freshii's website alone gets 5 stars. I love online ordering, and the fact that you can create your own salad, wrap or soup on line, especially for a large company lunch order, this is awesome.
When I initially made my order a few days in advance, I was stuffed, so the last thing I wanted to do was think about food, so I went for the lemon grass soup (I'm also a soupaholic). But when lunchtime came around yesterday, i sorta regretted it. I was famished.
Luckily, this was no side soup. It was served in a large cup/container. I must say that it had a surprising amount of savory flavor. It had a zesty broth with hints of earthy spices and lemon. Loved it.
The only reason why I knocked off one star was that I ordered mine with brown rice instead of rice noodles, along with cilantro and some other fixins that weren't included. Not too big of a deal; I still ate it all.
I'm on a fro-yo bender, apparently...
-Only size: $3.75. It's BIG. Probably a medium at most othre F-yo places.
-Original is light and "flash frozen" for ultimate aeration.
-fresh fruit (I had mango, which was a bit unripened) + granola
I like Freshii. I wish they were in my office building...but um, I work from home. They have fresh options, the prices aren't crazy...and they aren't so UBER healthy that they skimp out on fountain sodas. I mean, I get it Whole Foods, et al. Sodas are bad for us, but I still want my Diet Coke, so fountain it over, why don'tcha!? Freshii score.
A nice little afternoon treat, and after the lunch rush there isn't a soul in sight...and you can hang out in the luxe lobby seating and enjoy.
Fro-yo week has commenced...
This place could be awesome - four stars - but it's just too confusing. Â It's like they don't really want customers, or else they've never been an office worker who has a lot of options and wants healthy, but also doesn't really want to have to figure out a convoluted system just to eat lunch.
They need to have photos of how the styles of prep look. Â My food was okay, but I would have ordered differently if I knew what it looked like first. Â They also need to greatly reduce the complexity of it. Â It's great to have such total control over your food, but I couldn't tell how the system worked or what pieces went together or how much it would end up costing me based on what I picked. Â
I may be back, because it seems like a cool concept, but despite all the options, the system makes it more work than lunch should be.
Also, since they don't have any photos when a person offers to help you, it's really hard to visualize what the heck they're talking about, so even when they try to help, it's not very effective.
I don't understand how they don't realize that reworking their system, making their entrance and customer flow more user-friendly and intuitive and actually letting people SEE how their food will come out would easily double their customer base. Â I walked by this for a year, even walked in several times before I tried it out because it was confusing and I'm not in the mood to deal with confusion over lunch.
Freshii is my go-to Loop lunch spot lately. I know it's a tad overpriced, but the salads and brown rice bowls are huge... ingredients are so fresh and service is nice and speedy. A winner!
I really enjoy customizing my own salad. They are super health aware and you are able to modify your order however you want.
Also, any restaurant that has all nutrition facts on their website (with a calculator feature that does the math on each ingredient) is already a favorite in my book. I don't really do math... so if someone else does it for me, I'm in.
Anyway, a great, healthy option in the loop!
First off, their soup is called "soup't"... which is stup't. Â
Secondly, they have the most convoluted ordering process I've ever witnessed. Â Instead of just going to the counter and ordering what you want, you have to fill out a freaking checklist to adequately convey what you want. Â While I can see how this would be a good idea if you want to build-your-own meal, how is this helpful to the other 80% of the population that just wants something off the menu? Â Hey Freshii - you're the restaurant; why don't you tell me what tastes good together? Â
It's obvious that the creator(s) of this system think it is cute, novel, and exciting. Â In actuality, it's lame, burdensome and annoying. Â I don't want to fill out an MF-ing SAT test just to get some stup't soup't.
Thirdly, their food just ain't all that good. Â I had a buffalo chicken wrap that had nary a hint of spice to it. Â Was I supposed to check "buffalo sauce" on my frickin scantron sheet? Â I figured the buffalo chicken wrap CAME with buffalo sauce. In all seriousness, I'm pretty sure the sauce was on there, and it's just that bland. Â I've also had the cobb, which was underwhelming. Â How can a wrap with blue cheese, bacon and avocado be bland? Â And what of the stup'tly named soup't? Â The southwestern chicken was decent, but almost $9 with tax. Â It is big, but for $9, I don't care if it comes in a Rubbermaid garbage can, it should be some of the best damn soup I've ever had. Â It isn't.
Overall, I have to agree with the reviewer who said it's lameii. Â Also, more than one of their employees looks like an elf.
So, I have a mixed opinion here.
After seeing someone with what looked like a delicious bowl of soup from Freshii (and being hungry for such) a coworker and I abandoned a visit to Haifa Cafe to try this place out. I had the Thai Chicken soup, and my friend had a teriyaki concoction of some sort.
My soup was good - spicy, good noodles, good veggies. Could have been more chicken, but there was enough. I would like it more without the red onion, but I can pick around that. And it was a massive quantity of soup. My coworker, on the other hand, complained of a strange taste in his teriyaki, to the point where he stopped eating it entirely, after just a few bites. I finished most of the soup.
However, later that afternoon and evening, I was physically ill multiple times. The soup was not as good the second time. Now, I don't know that it was the soup, but you know how it goes, I can't help but associate being sick with food from here. And I can't help but wonder if that strange taste was something off about the food? And I couldn't tell in my dish?
Anyway. It was good, but I don't think I'll be back. I'll give it two stars out of the benefit of the doubt.
Let me preface this with, "I heart Freshii, hard"
The key to getting a satisfying Freshii meal is knowing how to order! The most important thing for you to know is, if you ask for just two ingredients you will receive the most boring and minuscule rice bowl/wrap/soup they only use one measured amount of ingredient, asking for just Chicken and Broccoli is not going to get you a container filled with 50% chicken and 50% broccoli it's going to get you a mostly empty container!
If you order a salad or rice bowl, they aren't going to toss it all together unless you specify! Tossing includes the dressing or sauce, so if that's a no-no, you have to tell them on the side.
I've had the most luck with ordering the Chef's choice creations and adjusting the ingredients to my liking, they seem to have the proportions down for these options, where sometimes the "build-your-own" options can be hit or miss.
Also, they only charge .25 cents for delivery! Now that it's getting cold out, my lazy ass is going to utilize the hell outta that one!
I ordered a salad from here and got it delivered. It came within 15 minutes, faster than I had expected. But the salad wasn't all that great. I was pretty disappointed! My salad consisted of spinach, beets, mandarin oranges, goat cheese and tempeh with balsamic vinegar dressing on the side. I thought this would just be balsamic vinegar, but it was a creamy dressing. Not healthy at all.
The salad was lacking flavor. They didn't really flavor the tempeh at all and the beets were dry.
Although I will give them props because it was a big salad. And it did come with some bread....but that was flavorless.
So all in all, I wasn't impressed. I'll eat it again if I really need to. Meaning, I don't have groceries and am too lazy to walk down to the grocery store.
I'm torn about this place. I like the idea of fresh ingredients and a healthy lunch option downtown. (They're hard to find!) The portions are pretty big and the food tastes good for the most part.
BUT. The two times I've gone here, some of the veggies have look a little droopy (not too bad, but not crisp) and it can get a little expensive when you start adding on fancy ingredients like chicken or avocado.
Overall I'd say it's worth it, especially if you just avoid adding extras to your dish. I recommend faxing in your order as they get really crowded during lunchtime.
We ordered lunch from here today at the office and I really liked my food.
I got the Asian Wrap with Chicken and it was yummy in my tummy. One of my coworkers got a chicken bowl of sorts, he didn't really like it, but I tasted it and didn't think it was bad. I do think it needed a bit more flavor though.
Other coworkers liked it. And they called the office about 2 hours after it had been delivered to make sure everything was to our satisfaction. Customer service points.
After reading Karen T.'s review last week, I couldn't stop thinking about Freshii. It's not often that I leave the confines of River North for lunch so it better be good, I thought to myself.
Since I was on a tight schedule, I printed off their order form, checked off numerous boxes to create my salad wrap and then faxed in. Easy breezy. When I arrived, all I had to do was grab my bagged wrap as I had already paid for it as well. Good thing, because my little jaunt took much longer than expected due to *sniff* public transpo. And my cheap lunch would've been marred by taking a cab (i.e. $7 wrap + $14 roundtrip car fare. Methinks not).
Back to my wrap. Fresh natural chicken, crispy romaine, celery, red onions, goat cheese and a smattering of cucumber dill dressing in a whole wheat wrap. That particular dressing is lo-cal and legitimately awesome (this from someone who despises fat-free foodstuffs). My wrap was healthy according to the online nutrition calculator, filling to my tummy AND delicious as reported by my taste buds. Yes, thanks to Freshii the impossible dream is indeed possible. But, I'm pissed off because now I know how great the goods are and they're just a bit out of my reach. We need you in River North, Freshii!
Never have I ever... 5-starred a Loop Lunch spot. But Freshii warrants that, and more. This place opened up two months ago in the building south of the Sears Tower next to Kamehachi, and I lament every day gone by that I missed out on this spot.
The space is faintly reminscent of Jamba Juice. I'm not sure if it's due to the white walls/wooden floor, but it instantly brought to mind Southern California - the clean, fresh part of it at least. Or maybe it was the workers, who are so friendly I thought to myself, good Lord, your dosage of Valium needs to be taken down a notch. One bounded up to me - literally, bounded - and greeted me with a little clipboard, explaining all the options there were. I love you, my cute little elfish Freshii boy! not as much as my Pocket Gaysian, but then again, no one can match D.
So once I ordered a southwestern chicken soup because I needed to get in and get out, and that was that. Cheese, croutons, tomatoes, black beans and chicken in a warm, well-seasoned broth..I was sold. A Huge Soup for $6.
Trip 2: Yoggi. Don't judge too hastily my friends, I certainly wanted to gag at the trendiness of yet ANOTHER frozen yogurt..and melded into a salad/soup/wrap spot at that! But yoggi with reese's pieces and oreo crumbs? Berry Chill has got some serious competition, folks.
Today I trudged over again - I knew I had to get a salad because I ate my weight in food last night at Morton's. I made my own salad wrap: cajun chicken, goat cheese, mangoes, blueberries, onion/tomato/pepper/romaine/corn/asparagus....this thing was bigger than a CHIPOTLE BURRITO. oui, c'est possible! and healthier. If you're a masochistic type like I am, you can calculate nutrition here:
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This was $5 and 500 calories. I made all my coworkers salivate with the pronouncement that you could add bacon and four different kinds of cheese - FOR FREE.
Last but not least: I immediately logged on to write a review before I passed out from food coma. What food coma? I am light on my feet, chipper, full but energetic. Someone get me a treadmill, I'm ready to run! (I say this as my salivating coworkers, lethargic from Panda Express, are nodding off, their drool about to spill out onto their keyboard.)
Oh dear God and praise Buddha, all that is holy, Thank You For Freshii.
It seems this place currently averages out to a 3.5, which is what I would give it (if yelp would get with the program and allow us to award half stars, dangit!). Â I'm rounding down due to my annoyance with the rice bowls, which I'll talk about a little below.
I got a brochure for Freshii from our secretary. Â The concept sounds great - make a wrap, salad, soup, or rice bowl and add lots of veggies and healthy proteins to make a custom healthy meal. Â And I think the food is good - you just kind of have to know how to work it. Â
I almost always order the buddha bowl, which is a rice bowl with veggies and tofu served with peanut sauce. Â The rice bowls are actually served in containers that look like what you'd get at a chinese take-out place. Â The way the bowls are presented, all of the toppings are on top and the bottom is a brick of rice. Â The container makes it kind of hard to mix everything up, and the sauce often never makes it down to the rice. Â I think I've solved this problem though - order the sauce on the side, and use a separate container or bowl and dump everything in there - makes it easier to mix up. Â Once you figure out how to work it, it's delicious. Â Freshii, if you're reading this, PLEASE get a different container for your rice bowls. Â
I recently had a wrap for the first time and found it to be quite flavorful and good. Â I'm not a big wrap kind of girl, but I'd have one here again - it felt more like a really healthy burrito than a wrap. Â
The system for ordering is kind of scary - a long line of people ordering custom wraps, salads, and bowls takes awhile to get moving. Â I'd suggest going sometime other than right at noon - I usually go at 12:30 and the line is much more manageable by then. Â
Such a great concept - if they work out a few kinks this place would be a go-to spot every day.
This review is not for an in-dining experience, but rather, the food they catered for a work meeting. Â The salad looked delicious (with goat cheese and what I think were sun-dried tomatoes) but had avocado in it so I could not indulge (if I wanted to continue breathing). Â Caesar salad was fine. Â My brown rice veggie wrap, however, was moist and fresh and I enjoyed it very much.
I intend to go there and try other menu items.
I'm not going to fight the lines (out the door, usually) at Freshii, but I'll get it delivered. Sometimes, I forget to bring a lunch to work, so it's pretty convenient that this place exists. They're quick, too - I've never waited more than 20 minutes to get my lunch.
I'm a fan of the salads. Romaine + chicken + goat cheese + blueberries + green apples + strawberries + almonds + cracked pepper + a side of raspberry vinaigrette = my new lunch staple.
I've also had some less-than-awesome food here, but I have to blame myself for that. After all, I was the one who thought that cilantro might be good in a stir-fry (it's not).
It's a little bit pricey, but the salads are huge. Also, if you happen to order from the restaurant itself, grab a bag of kettle corn. It's yummy!
I was very excited to try this place since it's near my work and especially since I love frozen yogurt. Â Unfortunately, theirs isn't up to par as with some of my favorites places to get frozen yogurt. Â The texture of their frozen yogurt is icy instead of creamy and I'm not too fond of the flavor. Â Their fruit is okay but not great. Â I guess I'll have to go to Wow Bao for my frozen yogurt fix (even though I'm not too happy with them right now, see Wow Bao update) unless I can actually make the trip to Red Mango. Â
Onto the food, I tried one of their salads and they do give you a good portion and it's cool that you can add so many different ingredients but it's a bit ridiculous that it is almost $10. Â I am a little hesitant to try one of their fresh bowls with the combination of the cold and warm ingredients but maybe I'll give it a try next time I go.
I'm sorry to do this... Â I really didn't want to, I wanted to like Freshii. Â But now I'm sitting here at my desk at work with a less-than-half eaten salad for the second time! Â The last time I went to Freshii I was also very disappointed, however I thought I would give it a second try, big mistake. Â
If your going to call your self "Freshii" that implies that you have FRESH food, not wilty lettuce which is what I got both times.  Not only that but both the veggies and the turkey taste like they have been frozen and thawed.  The veggies were completely flavorless and seriously lacking in quantity.  I think maybe there were three pieces of broccoli and like 1 artichoke, not only that but every thing is diced up into ridiculously small pieces.  The turkey (maybe their other proteins are better) tastes like really bad/cheap deli-style turkey (like the kind with 80% fillers and solution and 20% meat) but cut up into chunks instead of slices. -yuck  The turkey was so bad they should really just take it off the menu, that's not something you should give to your customers unless they plan on taking it home to their dog.
Its just so disappointing because it is such a great concept, but in order to pull this off they need to source better ingredients. Â Maybe they should change their name to Frozenii or something.
Thought it would be funny to take my friend, who harbors a vivid dislike for salads to this place in order to see what the hoopla was about.
I'm so sneaky.
She had no idea until we walked in.
The interior looks more like a shop as there is zero seating. Â Zero. Â There is seating in the hallway & outside (if it is a nice day), but the space is too small for seating. Â "Really? Â This is a restaurant?" she asked.
I had done my homework, so I made up my own mix in my head already. Â She needed more persuading, so this guy who was standing about (I think he's the COO?) talked her through it, which was nice of him to do. Â She decided on the "soup't."
Question: Â What's that supposed to stand for? Â Soup't? Â Souped? Â Like our car is all souped up? Â I dunno.
Anyways, back on track. Â So part of my evil plan was to get a shot of Ms. Salad-Hater in this restaurant so I could pass it along to her family & friends, who know her as such. Â But, to my shock & awe, the moment -& I am talking about the MOMENT- I took my camera out, I was bombarded with questions.
"Are you from the press?"
No, uh, I just wanted to take a picture of my friend. Â But, alas, because, as the dude explained, "All of this (he motions to the wall) is proprietary."
Whatever, dude. Â There are, like, 7-10 different salad restaurants in Chicago alone; you're not reinventing the wheel here.
But he did comp us some goodies, so that was cool. Â Gotta give him big props for that - Thanks, man!
So after that buzzkill, we went to eat our food in the hallway (where we DID take pictures of ourselves in various levels of stupidity). Â But as we were situating ourselves, this other guy came up to us & gave me his business card. Â He's the founder. Â So he tells us that they have pictures that he will send us if we want photographs.
Yeah ... that's all nice & good, but the point wasn't to take pictures of the restaurant. Â It was to take a picture of my specific friend IN the restaurant. Â My friend said that she noticed that while the COO was grilling me about my camera (it's a Canon PowerShot, hardly a press-worthy camera), this guy rushed to the entrance & started a feverish conversation, nodding in my direction.
Wow. Â Really? Â I mean, I get the whole intellectual property thing & all, but ... really?
Anyways ... to the food. Â It was pretty decent - I think I would have changed my dressing if I were to go there again cuz it's kinda bland (cucumber dill), but the COO (who came out again to talk to us - were we being punk'd?) said that you can do a half & half that may be really good ... interesting ... may try that.
On the Soup't side, my friend seriously - SERIOUSLY - had to wait 20 minutes for her soup to cool down to a temperature suitable for eating. Â We timed it. Â She said, "It's really f---ing hot." Â I said, "McDonald's lawsuit hot?" Â She said, "Honestly, uh, yeah."
I would post pictures of it to show you all, but the Gestapo wouldn't let me.
;) Â Just kidding, man. Â Thanks for the tasty treats.
I went to Freshii with a coworker last week for lunch after one of our other coworkers couldn't stop raving about it.
All of us were disappointed for a number of reasons. First of all, everything just seemed really cheesy. While we were in line, the employees started cheering 'Freshiii!' over and over for no apparent reason...those poor souls.
But let's get to the important part: the food. I made my own salad, and while I was impressed by the number of ingredients, I went a little overboard to the point where the things I put in my salad didn't go together at all. But that was my own fault, and I recognize that. I ordered chicken in it, and I swear there were only two bites of chicken in the entire thing. I also ordered feta cheese, and there were maybe four crumbles. I also questioned the quality of the romaine lettuce--not only were there several pieces of iceberg in it, but it was overall pretty wilted. The salad was big, but the cost ($9.89 with tax) still seemed a bit high.
Ultimately, both of us were still hungry because of the lack of protein included in our salads, and were disappointed with the corny atmosphere and high cost.
I absolutely loved the idea, and wanted to love the food. Â The concept of adding exactly what you want to a wrap, rice bowl, soup or salad is awesome, especially if you are trying to eat healthy. Â
I went in after work to grab something to take home for dinner. Â It was more or less empty at this point (it closes at 5:30), but all the staff members were frantically recovering from what was apparently an insanely hectic opening lunch hour. Â After an overly helpful worker talked me through the order sheet, I went with the Buddah bowl and added a few extra veggies. Â While I was waiting the overly eager, but very nice, manager chatted me up and gave me a free drink. Â
My disappointment came once I started chowing down. Â I ordered it with the spicy peanut sauce, but there was hardly any on it. Â While I'm thrilled that they use brown rice for health reasons, it's a bland food that desperately needs sauce. Â I added some soy sauce from my fridge and it was perfectly edible, but I just wish there was more peanut sauce. Â I'll try it again sometime and request extra sauce.
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