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Salad bar
Take-out
Non-veg

Serves meat, vegan options available. Small salad bar offering customizable salad bowls and occasionally vegan-friendly soups. Open Mon-Fri 11:00am-6:00pm, Sat 11:00am-4:00pm. Closed Sun.

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2 Reviews

First Review by PhyllisE

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mark m braunstein

Points +484

Vegan
30 Jul 2024

A quick and inexpensive yet highly nourishing meal for all

You might recall Mystic Salad Co.’s location as the former all-vegan Biologic + that closed a half year before MSC opened in June 2019. Whereas Biologic accepted eat-in on a few unstable high stools, MSC is solely takeout. For “eat-out,” you’ll find ample benches along the canal right outside its front door where you can enjoy laptop picnics as you watch the parade of tourists.

The menu comprises 1 customized salad and 1 soup, period. Nothing fancy. Unlike S&P Oyster Co. down the street, this is not a destination eatery that might lure you to endure the traffic turmoil of downtown Mystic. Rather, eat at MSC because you’re already ensconced in Mystic & you seek an inexpensive but nourishing lunch where you can even find parking.

MSC could qualify as all-vegetarian except for one topping of chicken at a surcharge. The soups the days I was there were vegetarian, as noted on a small chalkboard. Another signage is a handwritten listing on a whiteboard of the 8 or 9 dressings, of which several are vegan (“non-dairy”), but to know that you must ask. (MSC, can you take a hint?) The salad is basic salad bar fare. You instruct the very gracious server of your choices, like at some fast-casual cafés such as the Pokémoto franchise in nearby Groton. The base is 1 of 4 greens, including baby greens. Among the many toppings, a few are cheesy, but the majority are vegan, consisting half of canned veggies, sometimes beets, and half of fresh raw vegetables, sometimes mushrooms. Among the three canned beans is edamame soybeans, a pleasant surprise. To top it off you choose from 4 sprinkles, including the nutritional boosts of sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, or walnuts, all raw. After you select your dressing, the server tosses it all together and serves it in a paperboard takeout container.

The size of the salad is large, even by this whole-foodist vegan’s standards. And its price is enticing, especially by tourist mecca Mystic’s standards ($11 as of July 2024). And unlike the rest of downtown, you’ll likely find parking on this one-way side street.

The name Mystic spawns a mystique in some tourists’ minds, the way the name Vermont evokes wholesomeness. Hence many Vermont-based food companies add the word Vermont to their names. For touristy reasons, Mystic Salad Co. does the same with the word Mystic. Add the word Salad, and here you’ve got wholesomeness, too.

A quick, inexpensive, and highly nourishing meal for all.

Pros: the large salad at a low price, the very friendly server, all-vegetarian except for chicken at a surcharge

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PhyllisE

Points +669

Vegan
05 Jun 2022

So glad to have this place


The salad bar is small but everything is very fresh. And they give you an enormous amount. Often good for two meals. There are one or two soups freshly made in House. One is always vegan and very very good.

Pros: Fresh ingredients, Good choices, Large servings

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