Roast Kitchen
Roast Kitchen
Take-out: Yes
Accepts Credit Cards: Yes
Bike Parking: Yes
Good for Kids: Yes
Price range.
$$ Price range $11-30
4 reviews
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Roast Kitchen
As others have said, for what it is, it's expensive- even for NYC. It's also a very weird line situation- you order before you get in line, so you don't really get to see ingredients and whatnot like at similar places. I would have added/subtracted things had I been able to see, and they were really weird about whether we needed to join the line or not after ordering. We didn't, but had we, I would have changed a few things. It's also far far too loud in here, to the point that I gave up trying to even ask my mom if I could have a napkin. It takes quite a bit for me to complain about noise- this was loud. The salad I got was okay, really nothing to write home about, but also not overdressed or any other serious salad error- and my mom liked her bowl which had veggies and quinoa. Overall, I won't be returning. Confusing, loud, expensive- no thanks.
Average at most. 3 stars might be generous. I got the dragon saute bowl and portion was puny! It filled half the bowl they serve it in and it was drowned in salty kung pao sauce. And it is additional to add tofu (and they give you a few measly cubes) so it was like $12 for a tiny vegetable stir fry with a few pieces of tofu. And it was supposed to have cashews as part of the dish and I counted maybe 1.5 pieces of cashew in there.
It tasted ok but very salty. I could have used store bought kung pao sauce and poured them on veggies too.
They need to double their portions or charge less. Seems like they have a good concept but not well executed. They recently opened so hopefully will make improvements.
Sticker shock hit me right away when I looked at the menu, but my colleague was super eager to try this new lunch spot. We got back to our desks and had the same impression.
I got the Dijjonaise Bowl, which amounts to a handful of sauteed baby spinach, a scoop of farro, some roasted veggies/mushrooms, and a hard boiled egg. She got the Dragon Saute Bowl.
If you're into organic this, charred that, and other health food buzz words, I guess you're used to paying these prices anyway. For what it's worth, staff was friendly.
I was excited for the grand opening, but this place was not ready for today. It looked like an episode from Kitchen nightmare without Gordan Ramsey. The menu has a ton of hot or cold salad bowls along with Ramen bowls. I was dying to try something new in the fashion district.
What was missing was leadership from the minute we walked in. The owner was busy looking confused and the order taker lack the discipline to control the line. Once our order was taken that's when the Nightmare began. The assembly line had no clue and lacked training. Plus leadership did nothing to take control.
As we watched our bowls getting prepared you could see that this location was missing training. Most of the assembly folks were confused trying to add the correct ingredients. Suddenly I heard a customer asking for his bowl which was missing his protien. I then saw one of my bowls was complete but the other bowl went MIA so I decided to record the confusing for you all to see. I'm sad to report that I had to leave because they wanted me to wait another 5 minutes to create the bowl they gave to another customer in error.
I will probably not return or go back until I see some positive yelp reviews. I was so traumatized from this experience which ruined my Birthday lunch. Thank god we had a back up called kobeyaki.