Ingredient
945 Massachusetts Street, Lawrence, 66044
Phone: 785-832-0100
Web site: http://ingredientrestaurant.com/
Fitting in nicely with downtown's new emphasis on "green," Ingredient focuses on build-your-own salads and pizzas. Predetermined options and grilled sandwiches are also available for the less imaginative. Everything, however, is made fast and fresh. The affordable menu is certainly vegetarian-friendly but carnivores are well served with items like the sausage grinder. Atmosphere is clean, casual and spacious with plenty of seating. Bonus: Wall-to-wall windows make Ingredient a great people-watching spot on the bustling corner of 10th and Mass.
Heated smoking area? No
Smoking porch? No
WiFi: Yes (Free)
Wheelchair accessibility: (1, 'ADA-compliant') *
Cuisine: Pizza, Sandwiches/Subs
Price range: $5 - $15
Delivery? No
Buffet? No
Local establishment? Yes
Outdoor seating? No
Party room? No
Reservations accepted? No
Call-aheads accepted? Yes
Kids menu? Yes
Occasional live music? No
Accepts Off Campus Meal Plan? No
Accepts barter? No
Accepts REAL Dollars? No
Number of vegetarian dishes: 12
Number of vegan dishes: 12
Payment options:
Business hours:
- Sundays: 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.
- Mondays: 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.
- Tuesdays: 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.
- Wednesdays: 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.
- Thursdays: 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.
- Fridays: 11 a.m. to 10 p.m.
- Saturdays: 11 a.m. to 10 p.m.
The kitchen is always open during business hours.
* Restaurants are rated either: Very accommodating, ADA-compliant, Inaccessible. For more detailed accessibility profiles, check wiredonwheels.com.
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Posted by rcornish (Richard Cornish) on January 20, 2008 (Suggest removal)
Food: 5/10 Vibe: 3/10 Service: 2/10 Value: 3/10 Overall: 2/10
Some of the better food in Lawrence -- if you can stand their poor service and expensive price.
It's not uncommon to stand at the cash register while the all-female cashier staff either ignore you completely (no greeting, no "can I take your order," nothing) and simply walk away from you. I stood for 2 minutes (eventually sitting down), watching the "cashiers" gather into a huddle like a sorority event, eyeing and watching me. Absolutely bizarre and disrespectful. When someone finally took my order, she stalely said "Sorry for the wait."
I don't mind the wait. It's when I'm treated like a burden is when I get pissed off. Just say "I'm clueless and can't work a register." I'll understand that; it's the Kappa Lambda Ingredient sorority. Save yourself the trouble and go to Chipotle. They're always happy to see you.
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Posted by Dazie (Aileen Dingus) on November 20, 2007 (Suggest removal)
Food: 9/10 Vibe: 7/10 Service: 2/10 Value: 3/10 Overall: 5/10
First off, let me say that my salad was wonderful. Fresh ingredients with a great dressing. Very tasty stuff.
HOWEVER- I'm guessing it would have tasted better with ALL the ingredients I ordered, as would my friend's salad have tasted better with all the ingredients she'd ordered.
Plus, it took forever to get our food, the restaurant was loud and I'm not sure the very nice young lady at the register was quite ready to handle a lunch rush.
When a salad and a soda cost over $10, I expect a little more.
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Posted by emilyhadley (Emily Hadley) on November 18, 2007 (Suggest removal)
Steadily getting better -- now they have the vegan pizza crust, plus more veggie options, like the Philly Tofu Wrap. Yummo.
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Posted by emilyhadley (Emily Hadley) on July 2, 2007 (Suggest removal)
Oh yeah, and their unfortunately named "warm indian brick bread", which is served with almost everything by default, seems to be somewhere between naan and poori. I have heard that it is good.
They offered ciabatta as a vegan/kosher substitute for it, as it is made with milk.
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Posted by emilyhadley (Emily Hadley) on July 2, 2007 (Suggest removal)
Having been there and discussed the vegan options of the menu at length, I think 12 vegan dishes is an error (unless it counts every make-your-own salad option), but they did assure me that they were developing a vegan pizza crust and perhaps a couple of other new items that were more vegan-friendly than the current menu.
Their dishes are designed to have a perfect melding of intense, simple flavors, so removing part of a menu item to make it animal-free takes too much from the overall character of the dish.
Definitely worth trying, whether you go now or wait for any menu tweaking. They are obsessed with quality, and the ingredients are in fact superb.
(Oh, and they recycle -- always a plus in my book!)
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