Salad World recently opened in Peoria Arizona not too far from P83. They are a casual not fancy “Chipotle Style” build-your-own salad type of restaurant.

You start by picking one of the two size bowls for your salad. Then you go down the line and pick what you want. The person behind a clear sneeze guard wall builds the salad for you. You start out by picking the lettuce bend. Then you can add some fruits like grapes or dried cranberries and around four other things. Then you have all kinds of vegetables to pick from. There are vegetables like cauliflower, broccoli, onions, mushrooms, and jicama. Protein choices cost extra and are chicken, ham, plant based chicken, steak, and tofu. Other items to add to the salad are cheese, toppings like nuts, croutons, or bacon and salad dressing.

You can build your own salad of around 60 items or pick a suggested salad from a menu that they will make for you.

We each tried a salad. One regular sized and one large. You can’t tell by my picture but the large really is much larger than the medium.

I do have to say that the chicken breast is much better than what you would get from most places for salads. It can pass as sous vide chicken. Everything seems fresh. I got mixed greens and iceberg lettuce, radishes, broccoli, carrots, chick peas, onions, cranberries, sliced almonds, sesame sticks, and some sort of Asian Ginger dressing that seems tasty. Too bad I can’t go back for cucumbers……I think they’d go well here. I was surprised to be offered my choice of roll. (regular or whole wheat).

My husband got the large salad. He also tried the chicken and also added the steak. I didn’t taste the steak but it did look good…….But I can smell it and it is very smokey. He also got bacon, egg, and cheese and several of the vegetables. The large is a real bargain here….It’s so big that people can share.

They do offer a variety of soft beverages here, a children’s menu, and maybe a few other things such as a packaged cookie. I read on their website that they offer soup? Maybe they do but I didn’t notice it today.

I’d say well worth a try for a fast/casual healthy food option in Peoria.

Salad World

8390 W Cactus Rd Peoria AZ

623-248-3030

www.SaladWorldAZ.com

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That Place Subs and Salads is a neighborhood Gangster themed casual sandwich and salad restaurant located in North Peoria Arizona. They serve most subs or hoagies on what they call French Rolls (8 inch) but also offer choices of wheat, marble rye, spinach tortilla, and lettuce wrapped. They offer sandwiches named after gangsters.

A few of the sandwiches have names like The Capone, The Gambino, The Siegle, The Lansky, and The Gotti. Some of the gangsters are pictured below.

It’s extra casual. You order at the counter, pay, and they run your order to you.

I tried a small Italian Beef with added giardiniera.

This is very spicy and might be too spicy for some people with the giardiniera. But it is delicious with really great flavors. It comes with some au jus that is very good. The roast beef is very tender…I like the taste of this very much. I’m just not a fan of the bread…..because it is that Arizona style squishy bread that most sandwich shops use…….Never had this type of bread until I moved to Arizona so I call it Arizona style squishy bread. ….BUT it still taste really great even with the Arizona squishy bread.

My husband tried the Castello (Castello was from the Luciano crime family…….He was a crime boss that survived several assassination attempts.) *******(ham, mortadella, capicola, Genoa salami, pepperoni, provolone, lettuce, tomato, onion, garlic mayo (left off because my husband doesn’t do mayo), and Italian dressing).

I heard it was a tasty sandwich. My husband said he’d come back and eat either of these sandwiches again.

Some sandwiches cost more but most run only around $10.49 (subject to change because that is very cheap these days)

That Place Sub and Salads

Is Worth a Fork!

That Place Sub and Salads Peoria AZ

20340 N Lake Pleasant Rd Peoria AZ

623-466-6814

www.ThatPlaceSubs.com

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Hot Pot For Days is a casual Vietnamese Hot Pot Restaurant located in Peoria Arizona across from Desert Diamond Casino. Maybe you aren’t familiar with hot pots? It’s basically a big boiling pot of soup and you add all the vegetables, noodles, and meats to it that cook in your soup that you want.

Hot Pot For Days offers four kinds of broth – pork broth, spicy sate beef broth (not so spicy), Thai Style very spicy sweet and sour (not so spicy), vegetarian (owner recommended not to get because she said it was the least flavorful………..I mentioned that because..remember ……….I tell The FORKING Truth)

Next you can try all the meats that you want. The meats that you can get served to you are – prime beef brisket, chuckeye, beef tongue, chicken breast, pork belly, catfish, salmon and sometimes an extra seafood.

Not done yet…here comes the fun part.

You go to the buffet and you can pick buffet things like – octopus, mussels, whole shrimp, fish cakes, tofu, eggs, a few kinds of noodles.

Vegetables like carrots, onions, bok choy, broccoli, Asian greens, daikon, hard squash, zucchini, and scallions.

Here it is.

Not sure why but Hanukkah garland decorates the front desk in September…

ANYWHO-

Today we picked a ying/yang pot of spicy sate beef broth on the left and Thai Style very spicy sweet and sour on the right.

I got a big plate of vegetables and some noodles to cook up in the boiling broth. They also give you a condiment to add a little more flavor to the food.

We also got plates of different meats and fishes to cook up in the broths.

I only tried the beef broth and the Thai Style broth. I thought the Thai Style had more going on with it than the beef broth. Both are suppose to be spicy but are on the very mild side for spicy. I tried a few different meats, The brisket, chuckeye, chicken, salmon and the catfish. Usually catfish is my least favorite fish but for some odd reason it taste the best to me out of what I tried in the Thai style broth……It just complements that flavor better.

I’d say Hot Pot For Days is With a Try! (current price subject to change is $25.00 for all that you can eat)

I have not found a website or Facebook page

Hot Pot For Days

9284 W Northern Avenue Glendale Arizona

623-877-9492

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T&J Asian Cuisine is located in Peoria Arizona not too far from Westgate. They offer most of your usual American-Chinese favorites and some dishes that you don’t see everywhere like lemongrass scallops, Korean ribeye steak, and Vietnamese Beef. It’s casual and is full service. Soft beverages and bar drinks are offered.

You can sit at a table or at the small bar in front of the dining room.

We started with what they call Asian potstickers.

They are more like fried chicken dumplings. They are stuffed with mostly chicken, a few scallions and a little bit of onions. They are tasty but ever so slightly oily. They come with ginger soy sauce for dipping.

For my main I got the sizzling sea bass. It came out on a sizzling skillet or is it a clay pot? It looks exactly like the clay pot from another restaurant I went to.

It’s lightly coated chunks of mild white fish that is cooked so astonishingly perfect…..It’s amazing. Nobody in the whole world can do a better job. It’s almost like dining at a very expensive restaurant. The Szechwan sauce has some flavor but is without heat. The menu shows a picture of a hot chili for this dish but it lacked heat today………But I’m so glad that this dish is savory and not sweet. Not all but most of the American-Chinese restaurants on this side of Phoenix often sweeten the sauce up like marmalade and that is unpleasant to me. The sizzling sea bass was accented with a few vegetables, some zucchini, onion, celery, carrot, and mushrooms. For me this is a large portion and today I’m also getting two meals out of it.

My husband went with the sizzling pork.

This meal was very similar with the same vegetables but the sauce had a slight heat instead of zero heat. The pork wasn’t crispy but was tender.

Service was speedy and efficient. Plates were cleared quickly.

I’d say T&J Asian Cuisine is Worth a TRY!

www.TJAsianCuisine.com

8877 N 107TH Ave Peoria AZ

623-972-6600

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