Pluto's Restaurant

3258 Scott Street
San Francisco , CA 94123
(415) 775-8867

Cute little "fast food" type restaurant. There appear to be a number of locations; I visited the one on Chestnut, in San Francisco. They serve beer and wine here, so I guess "fast food" would not be exactly the right description, but it's not "sit and serve" dinning either. There are little paper menu’s you scout over and then order to a cook/prep line who either puts everything together for you on a plate, or in a "to go container".

You have a number of choices here, either the "make your own salad", which is what I had; "sandwiches", "meat" and "sides". Everything is fairly affordable. The side salad which is quite large and comes with a nice size piece of bread was $5.15. You can also get a main salad, a side salad with a choice of meat or a main salad with choice of meat. Each moving up in price slightly. I believe the side salad with a choice of meat was about $1.00 more, so $6.15.

Not much to say about the salad, can’t really blame anyone if your salad tastes like crap at a “make your own salad” bar. Basically, you get your choice of lettuce and 7 additional items to go with it. Then finally your choice of dressing, I choose the Low Fat Yogurt Based Honey Mustard – yummy!

I also decided to get two sides, I couldn't resist the "smashed spuds of the day" and the "mushrooms of the moment". The spuds came with choice of turkey gravy or beef gravy. This is a very health conscious and "organic" type restaurant, so you have to keep that in mind. The potatoes were good, but a little dry, I ordered the beef gravy and it saved them from not being edible. As for the mushrooms, I'm not sure what the sauce was on them, but it wasn't for me. The mushrooms themselves were delightful, great texture, nice size, a bit larger than a quarter, not over cooked, soft but not mushy, and crisp, but not crunchy. Very nice. However, the sauce ruined them for me. It seemed like the mushrooms were made with their own gravy or sauce whatever you want to call it, with no additional seasonings at all. No salt, no garlic, no onion, just mushrooms a thickening agent and that was it...they had a very flat organic taste to me, some people like this, not me.

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