Side Dish Cafe
Side Dish Cafe
Take-out: Yes
Accepts Credit Cards: Yes
Bike Parking: Yes
Good for Kids: Yes
Good for Groups: Yes
Price range.
$ Price range Under $10
3 reviews
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It was not bad for a first visit. They have a small salad bar and hot food corner with Indian food (yes, curry chicken and chicken 69). They also have a deli section if you want wraps, sandwiches and burgers. The only complain that I would have is the small seating area. I mean it's a deli buffet place. My expectation is pretty low but decent food definitely.
Cute small cafe.. they have two bars one is bar salad and the other has hot food..(rice, chicken, fish, meatballs, eggplant etc.) You can pretty much pick whatever you want buffet style. On the hot food bar they also have two different soups (changes everyday) they also have a big area of drinks, yogurt, fruits, chips. On the other side they have all different types of sandwiches and paninis to choose from.. They have a few tables for you to eat if you don't want your food to go.. The staff was friendly and everything was very well organized and clean. The prices are pretty good. I did not like the smell when I first walked in, it smelled like curry since that's one of the choices they have on the hot food bar.. I decided to try out their chicken parmigiana panini which comes with homemade chips & salsa and they were okay nothing serious I would've liked my panini a bit hotter but it wasn't a big deal. The chips were okay too it wasn't anything crazy. If Im in the mall again I would probably go back again
The long-suffering Newport Mall gets another unfortunate entry. This salad bar/buffet joint seems to a reboot of a closed place at the same space. Like the earlier one, it offers an strange combo of Italian-type stuff like ziti, miscellaneous American food and a few south Asian items.
I could forgive the tech confusion at the cash register as opening-day-type problems. I cannot forgive the steam table offerings that weren't heated properly. Nothing like a cold meatball!
I got ziti, meatballs, corned beef, turkey and sausage. The quality was more or less generic corporate cafeteria – not bad, not good – but not a single item was hot. If they can't get that right I really don't trust them. On the bright side, the fruit salad was ok (I guess it's better to get something that's supposed to be cold.)
Let's see if they have a longer lifespan than the terrible crepe place upstairs.