Capitol Soup & Salad Bar

Yum! Yum! Yummy! The salad and topping were very fresh. And the price wasn’t bad either. I suggest parking in Macy’s and walking (if you have the time and energy to do that). The parking in the street is crazy. I will definitely be back.

Ran out of soup at 1:30, dressing could probably be cut with a knife, soda machine was out of order… But it was cheap…

Great place if you’re looking a cheap place to get lunch! And the produce is fresh! But stick to the salad and soup combo (But more the salad, soup is meh) Everything else, stay away from it (sandwiches and pasta). Besides that, salads are great!

I eat here on Fridays about twice a month. The salad bar is well stocked and always fresh. I don’t eat meat and most of the time there is no veggie option Monday-​Thursday BUT Friday is Clam Chowder day and I do eat fish. For $ 6 downtown it’s a get deal anytime.
They do have sandwich and pasta but I’ve never tried them

This place is the bomb dot com!!! Old school soup and sandwiches with meat sliced to order. They do a good job of moving folks through even when the line is 20 deep during lunch time. Somehow it’s possible to get an open table, too. A+++++ experience, would eat again.

Is this downtown Sacramento’s best kept secret? It must be! I have worked a block away and no one has mentioned it to me. Everyone wants to keep it for themselves. Well too bad! I am exposing all of you salad bar secrets.
This place is great. Extensive salad selection, lots of green edible things I didn’t even recognize. So good and fresh. They even have a variety of soups to choose from. The cost of the soup and salad bar is $ 6.00, if you are a big spender for an additional 50 cents you can hit up the pasta bar. I did that and had a great lasagna to cancel out the benefits of eating a salad. It’s also clean and cool. Special bonus feature: the front windows act as two way mirrors, you can see out but no one can see in. Definitely coming back.

This place is a great, little secret and is my go-​to, default stop for lunch. As a downtown state worker, on lunch I’m looking for something cheap, filling, healthy, and quick. This place satisfies all of the requirements and comes with helpful staff.
I always order the small soup and salad for $ 4.77. The salad ingredients are fresh, there’s a good variety and you can fill your container as much as you want. There’s usually around 3 soups that are decent. I’m always content with the amount of food I get.
Another thing I love about this place is the appearance. It’s a blast from the past 1960’s-style cafeteria with no frills. Because of this, most passer-​bys don’t give this place a second look which leaves the line for food very reasonable. They have a great thing going here and I hope they never change.

Unpretentious and cheap, gratefully like some men I know. I love to pick outmy $ 5.77 large salad buffet groove on.
The décor is old school diner, but they serve a purpose. The salad ingredients are fresh. The people who work there are nice.
Bonus points: although super close to the Capitol, moms with screaming kids haven’t found this place yet.
Although I tend to drench my would-​be healthy salad with a bucket of their ranch dressing and croutons, thanks for providing a place where state workers like me can step away from their computers for a half hour and enjoy a cheap, healthy lunch.

Well, I didn’t get the eponymous salad, so I guess I have no one to blame but myself.
Food: If you come here, don’t even consider getting anything but the salad (and to some extent the soup). The sandwiches are super meh. Take for example my egg salad sandwich (please excuse the bite marks:
). Nothing to write home about. Exhibit B, my half cup of tomato soup, looked and tasted like it came straight out of a Campbell’s can (
). If you’re worried about the salad not satisfying your raging hunger, worry not. The salads are set at ungodly proportions and for the most part are not made with vegetarians in mind. When our orders came out I was doused in instant regret. Learn from my mistake.
Atmosphere: Nothing fancy about this place. It reminds me of the inside of a deli for some reason. The menus are written in chalk, which is a nice little touch.
Service: Order at the counter. We had a large party, so it took some time for our food to get out. I think they also mentioned that they were understaffed that day.
Synopsis: Good for salads, but I wouldn’t bother with anything else on the menu.

3.5 stars! The big question of the day for me is usually: «What’s for lunch today?»
Capitol Soup & Salad Bar has been good to me when being stuck on what to eat, and just need something quick. It is fast, cheap, and satisfying, and you can decide on a mix between salad, soups, sandwiches, and pasta. Set up cafeteria style, you build your own salad and fill up your own soup. For sandwiches and pasta entrees, you head over to the counter and someone will serve you your portions.
When I’m feeling soupy, I’ll grab a small soup for $ 2.26. If I’m wanting to be «healthy» for the day, I’ll get a large to-​go salad for ~$ 6 and literally will build a giant mound of salad with all my favorite vegetables/​potato salads. So cheap and filling! Sure, the décor is pretty outdated and the establishment gives off a 80’s vibe, but I can always depend on Capitol Soup and Salad Bar to help answer my «what’s for lunch today» problem.
Tip: Monday is lasagna pasta day. Friday is clam chowder soup day!

Pretty good price, clean, good salad options… Only downside– and thats why i took 1 star-​is that it smells pretty funky when u walk in.
Set up cafeteria style but everything is fresh and presentation is clean.
Got salad large enough for 3 for about 6 bucks!
Only meat option is bacon bits (or at least that’s all I saw)

When I worked closeby here I would come here once in awhile with a coworker and we’d chow down on lots of veggies, chili, and a little bit of the (not so good) pasta. The gal who worked here (not sure if she still does) was always polite and always wiped down the salad bar and refilled all the yummy toppings, greens, just basically anything that was running low, she’d refill right away. They also make sandwiches and you can also order your AYCE salad as a take out box (3 sizes and prices to choose from) to go, and it was fun to see how much food you can stuff inside a styrofoam take out box.
The salad bar is definitely affordable compared to what downtown restaurant prices are, but this place is more of a cafeteria than a restaurant. Still, it’s convenient, fast, and satisfying. We’d stuff ourselves and barely be able to walk back to work, let alone be all that productive in the afternoon, but we told ourselves we didn’t eat too many calories since it’s all veggies, right? ;)

Affordable and Fresh — a simple basic salad bar with chili everyday and a decent selection of soups.
The only drawback — I wish the salad bar had chicken or tuna salad or some other lean meat.
Capitol Soup & Salad is great for a quick lunch on the run downtown and won’t break the bank.

I am a bit hesitant to write a good review, as I feel like this is a hidden gem that I don’t want overrun with people during my lunch break. Just kidding (kind of). The place isn’t much to look at, but the food is fresh and the staff friendly. The salad bar is constantly being replenished with goodies. The lettuces (yes, plural – there are 3 different types) are fresh and crisp and the veggies are plentiful. I love that the bacon bits are REAL and not Bacos (Fakeos). In addition to the standard salad bar fare, there is fresh seasonal fruit, as well as some canned varieties, pudding, cottage cheese, and ambrosia. The cost is the best part – less than $ 6 for all you can eat salad and soup; however, I usually skip the soup and pasta, but only because I get filled up on the salad.

You get what you pay for! This place has great deals, but their food is yucky! I went in there with some co-​workers one day, and I was not happy. The soup is out of a can, and the pasta is kept warm in the water, so it’s super soggy when you eat it. The salad bar wasn’t bad. In fact it’s the only thing that I recommend getting there. The staff people were not friendly, and did little to assist us when we asked. One even got an attitude when my friend asked where to put her tray. If you’re looking for something more than just a simple salad, I would not go here.

Capitol Soups and Salad has soup, salad and for a little extra, pasta. For twenty-​five cents extra I ordered the pasta. I immediately regretted my decision shortly after I took a few bites of the spaghetti. The spaghetti noodles were still swimming in water for all those hours and was extra mushy. The salad was decent. And the Soup of Day is Chili. How does chili get classified as a soup? It’s fine to clean a salad bar but it gets obsessive compulsive when the maintenance worker keeps coming back to the salad bar and cleans it no less than three times within a fifteen minute span – and this is while customers were still eating. The ambiance are walls painted with a cool shade of gray – a cool shade of prison gray.
And there just isn’t anything friendly about this place, either. The elderly service worker sitting behind the counter looked like Mr. Magoo with his beady little eyes as he looked on at the customers suspiciously, making sure none of them were taking one scoop too many of Capitol Soup & Salad’s precious blue cheese dressing and pouring it onto their plate of three day old wilted lettuce.

I think a lot of reviewers are a little too sensitive. This place is very simple with every menu item below $ 5 each. If you’re looking for Fresh Choice or Quizno’s quality, you’re at the wrong spot. This place is for folks looking for a quick sandwich or box of salad for lunch and don’t want to spend over $ 5 for it. The salad bar is fresh and very clean.
They are very popular for their salad bar. This place is always packed so don’t believe all the low reviews you see here on Unilocal.It has lots of varieties, similar to a salad bar at Sizzlers or at a military chow hall. You can pack the togo box as full as you want, they won’t weigh it. They have over 6 different salad dressings to choose from and lots and lots of toppings. They only have 4 simple sandwiches to choose from with your standard toppings. All in all, I’m very impressed with the sandwich & salad I had today with my budget. I will definitely be coming back here.

Really? No clue how this place got any more than 1 maybe 2 stars by anybody. The only thing I can think of is that people are pumped up on garbage high school cafeteria food…
Seriously, this place IS a cafeteria – except worse. Salad bar sucks, they offer two soups, both looked gnarly so I passed. They have random pastas covered in wrinkled up foil. The other reviews said it’s a clean place – it smells and the salad bar was NOT clean. In fact, there was a bowl of salad chilling right on the bar that a customer left there half eaten. RAD.
There was a couple creepy looking dudes working behind the counter doing god knows what since the only labor required to run the place is opening a bag of dried up carrots and throwing it in a bowl tossing it on a counter and calling it a «salad bar.» I’ve had a better salad bar at Round Table.
Waste of money. Spare yourself the wasted trip – I know I wish I did.

Not fancy but it gets the job done, that’s exactly how I like my men and my lunches. You can get all you can eat (within two hours, note the time limit) for a great price. Lunch for two today cost me $ 13, and that was with sodas and pasta.
They chop the lettuce up really small, have everything I like on a salad, and serve their dressing straight from the hidden valley bottle. Some of my friends (who shall remain nameless) think it’s too much of a dive but, then again, I’m a dive kind of girl.

This is about the best healthy lunch deal going in downtown Sac. Part of the «Henry’s» chain, which includes a hotel, greasy spoon diner (which always has a $ 3 sandwich special EVERY day) and Henry’s lounge (which you should only go to if you just got out of Folsom and only have a one-​way Greyhound ticket to Sac or want to do the Leaving Las Vegas thing on the way outta this world).
Anyway, for $ 3.50 I can get a salad to go, everything I can stuff into the 6“x6″ square styrofoam box. I’ve gotten really good to the point where I can cram both halves of the container full of fresh veggies and close it all up without spilling anything. It’s really impressive, even if I do say so myself. It weighs about two pounds when I carry out the door. Beans, spinich, peas, olives, sunflower seeds, broccoli, etc. They have quite a vareity including several pre-​made salads like cole slaw, pasta salad, fruit salad and some others. I’ve been eating there almost every lunch for the past year plus and it’s always been fresh.
They also do sandwiches and soups. I’ve only had the split pea once, and it was tasty, though not hot enough.
The interior looks like some sort of old Italian restaurant, but is always clean and never smells nasty. It’s not particularly chique, by any means, but it’s pleasant enough. Jessie, the girl who works the register and cleans up is a gem and always friendly.
Again, let me reiterate the strong points:
1. Healthy
2. One of the cheapest lunches in town
3. Quality ingredients
4. Cheap.
5. Cheap.