Silvergreens, WTF happened to you!!!!

Tuesday, September 30, 2003 » food update

Until Sunday night, I actually hadn't been back to Silvergreens since returning to Santa Barbara on the 11th. I had heard some things about changes to their menu and new customization options, but what we discovered upon arriving was very disheartening.

First of all, two of the great Silvergreens sandwiches, the eggplant pesto and, my personal favorite, the MBT, are no longer on the menu. In fact, about 3/4 of their sandwiches are now gone, replaced by a list of "build your own" ingredients. Of course, the aforementioned sandwiches' ingredients are nowhere to be found. Adding insult to injury, later on it was noted that the signs explaining all the great benefits of the menu changes listed "more meat" as one of the bonuses. That's great. I think there was about one sandwich aside from the teriyaki chicken one I ever ordered that had meat on it, and I doubt they're going to slap another chicken breast onto it now (not that that would even be welcomed).

Also missing were several salads (Replaced by a green apple salad? What?), and while I didn't order them as much as I ordered sandwiches, I noticed the ingredients to rebuild them were also missing from the respective "build your own salad" box of ingredients.

I have no theories why they'd drop such huge sections of the menu, aside from the obvious conspiracy against good food. On the plus side, the new pasta dishes are very good (except what the heck, bacon?), and there are four, as-of-yet unsampled MILKSHAKES. They aren't enough to help me forget about the missing MBT, though.

Feel free to complain.