Honeygrow

First visit at honeygrow and I really enjoyed the experience! The restaurant is very trendy and the touchscreen ordering is cool! I ordered the spicy garlic stir fly and replaced the red onions with mushrooms. I honestly didn’t expect the noodles to be as spicy as it did, but I can’t complain. Sister has ordered the red coconut curry and said it was a bit on the bland side. Service was okay, hope to come back to try something mild.

Got this two more times with two other sauces — the sesame garlic and the red coconut curry. They were both really good! (much better than the miso tahini, more flavor and lighter)

My coworkers and I were so excited when Honeygrow opened. We needed a change from our usual lunchtime options. Honeygrow specializes in fresh, healthy ingredients. Honeygrow operates a tiny space in University City near the University of Pennsylvania and it gets very crowded during the school year. The lines are long and then you go to the other side of the store and wait (for quite some time) before your order is ready. It is for this reason that I would stay clear of this place if I was in a hurry. You order your food on your own (similar to how Wawa is set up) I usually get the stir fry but I wish there was an option to order extra sauce (there is an option for less sauce) because there are times particularly if you create your own stir-​fry that I wish I could have had more sauce.

honeygrow is one of the places that I crave occasionally, and is a pickup and go kind of place. They have automated ordering screens, which is nice and let’s you customize your meal. During rush hour though, it’s pretty swamped with Penn students so try to avoid that time if you can!
I can only speak food wise for the stir fries, since that is what I get every time, but it is to note they have salad options as well. You get to pick a protein, base, as well as vegetables, toppings and a sauce for your dish. The stir fry is flavorful for sure (maybe a little overpowering at times?), and I would recommend choosing «less» for the sauce amount, as it tends to get drenched with sauce.
Overall, it’s a decent, quick meal, but in my opinion a little pricey (around $ 10 or more) for the food, especially considering the vast array of other food options around University City.

I love honeygrow! I could probably eat lunch here everyday if I wasn’t a broke grad student. Oh wait. I eat here all the time anyway.
Very automated ordering setup: you choose what you want and customize your order on a touch screen. I recommend adding an egg to any of the pre-​made stir-​fries.

This place is amazing! I cant believe its the first time I went even though its been in philly for a while. You can get either salad, stir fry, dessert, or shakes. Its such an advanced way of ordering by doing it all at a kiosk. My food barley took any time, and believe me it was a thursday night and it was busy. I was very impressed with the food it was seasoned great and there were no mistakes. My entrée ended up being between 7 – 8 $ which is really affordable for a semi-​healthy meal! I def recommend this place I am definitely going again! I do have to mention if you like your noodles on the saucy side, you may want to ask for extra sauce instead of «regular» amount of sauce (which is a choice they give u at the kiosk). I found my entrée to be just a little bit dry for me, but besides that this place is great!

This one of the newer salad+ bars in the University City area… It is a little space, always bustling with students making the average lunch wait time reaching the half hour mark.
I, however, can happily wait for even an hour for a rather pricey menu, if the food tastes good… but sadly that’s not the case here…
Honey, you need to step up your quality to grow!

I really like the salads here, but I’m so disappointed with the service. Twice, I found an ingredient missing from my salad, and I don’t even come that much — I wonder what it must’ve been like if I had come here more often and find food constantly missing from my salads (and thus I would’ve paid for more than what they were worth)…
Just today, I ordered whole wheat noodles salad (with all the standard ingredients, including shrimp, cashews, etc.). When I got home, I found no shrimp in my salad and am really annoyed by this. I am not walking all the way back to Honeygrow to get shrimp. The whole wheat noodles salad is the most expensive salad on the menu, and I know the shrimp was worth like $ 3, so I feel cheated.
I am not trusting the servers anymore — from now on, I will always check my food to make sure they put ALL the ingredients that I asked for. It’s really annoying and frustrating that Honeygrow is making so many mistakes with my orders…

I’ve visited this Honeygrow several times in the past couple months, as I was very excited about a new restaurant opening in University City that is explicitly vegetarian /​vegan friendly. I’ve been quite happy with the food, until today. As usual, I got one of the vegan options with tofu and red curry, and headed back to the office to enjoy it with my colleagues. Halfway through the box, I start chewing something that feels a bit funny, and pull out a big chunk of CHICKEN, in what is supposed to a be a *vegan* meal.
I went back to explain what had happened and ask for a refund, and the team starts cooking the order again. I explain that I don’t want a redo, as I’m feeling ill from inadvertently eating meat, and the front staff fetches someone to process a refund. They then process the refund without saying a single word.
I understand that things like this happen by accident sometime, but at no point did anyone offer *any* sort of apology. If you choose to eat meat, you’ll probably do well here, but if you’re veg, I suggest checking your order before biting in, to avoid any nasty surprises.

Delicious! I saw this place was busy and wanted to give it a try. Friendly and helpful staff. You can choose a salad or stir fry or design your own right from the kiosk.
Lots of vegetable and protein choices. I designed a veggie stir fry and chose «less» for the sauce. Fresh and delish!
However– it’s busy. You will wait for your good. Not loads of tables/​seating. A lot of people seem to take the food to go.

I had my first experience this past weekend at the Honeygrow at University City and was extremely pleased with both the service and the quality of the food. When you walk in, you place your order on a screen. I chose one of Honeygrow’s predesigned salad bowls. What’s great about ordering from a computer screen is that you can customize your order (I swapped out chicken in my salad for tofu.) What’s bad about ordering from a computer is that things can be lost in translation. Instead of substituting tofu for chicken, the computer thought I wanted both tofu and chicken… hence when I went to pick up my order, it was wrong.
Cue EXCELLENT customer service. I told them about my mistake (I assumed once I chose tofu for my protein I was no longer getting chicken) and they couldn’t have been nicer. They made me a new salad free of charge and gave the mistake salad to my boyfriend who was thrilled. I am sure people probably make order mistakes all the time, but to be honest, the service I received completely made up for the confusing computer error. Honeygrow, you ROCK!

Tried Honeygrow in rittenhouse last year and was not very impressed — after seeing the large crowds and lines for the past few weeks, I finally decided to give it a second chance.
I stopped in for lunch on a Sunday afternoon and surprisingly found no wait and ample seating! We went with the red curry pre-​made option — coconut red curry sauce, rice noodles, roasted organic spicy tofu, carrots, red onions, bell peppers. The bf and I shared just one since we weren’t starving (and when I say share, I mean I ate most of it bc he wasn’t that hungry and I’m.always very hungry). Overall, the dish was good! Good veggies (we added corn) and a healthy amount of noodles as well. We did have to douse it in hot sauce though… the curry itself was very very light and was definitely lost among all the other flavors. However, nothing a big serving of sriracha couldn’t fix.
Tips:
+Don’t make your own noodle stir fry… we did that last time and just ended up with some weird flavors. Until this time when we really liked our pre-​made option. So try one of those and modify as you see fit.
+Get it to go because it’s pretty loud inside /​full of students
Pros:
+LOVE the screens you can order from — you can modify to your hearts content without annoying the person taking your order (oops)
Cons:
–A little pricey at around $ 9 – 10 for a lunch in university city — but worth the warm box of noodles on a cold afternoon!

Tasty stir-​fries and salads — very wholesome and healthy ingredients too. However, a bit pricey. The salads are smaller and I think I like Sweetgreen’s better, but they have more filling options like the stir-​fries. I love their fruit bowls too with the honey and dollop of yogurt, but they are way overpriced at more than $ 5 for a tiny cup with a few slices of fruit. I love the touchscreen kiosk order stations though — ordering is quick, low-​pressure, and efficient. Gets really busy during lunch hour.

Love the fresh taste of this place! You order just like you would order a hoagie at wawa and you just wait for your food. The only reason complaint I have about this place is the interior. It gets pretty crowded/​stuffy easily and there aren’t enough wait area/​seatings. It’s easily my favorite take out place in university city.

So I came to check out the West Philadelphia location. It was easier to get on as it’s on 37^th St. I liked the new program that they have you use to order. Now the orders go faster as you only make selections if you want to change ingredients or make up your own. Drawbacks– no charging station so if you don’t sit in a seat close to an outlet, there’s no way to charge up. Also, the stools were uncomfortable. Otherwise, great, friendly staff as always.

5 stars because I have a verrrry specific Honeygrow salad order that I am obsessed with. I’ve decided to share my secret salad combo with the world. It’s not the cheapest place ever but when I wanna splurge, I’ll come to honeygrow for a $ 9 – 10 salad. I’ll usually get the spinach and spring mix (sometimes I’ll add noodles, which cost a little extra, on payday), with grilled chicken, sweet potatoes, brussel sprouts, and squash medley, sesame sticks, and the honey ginger scallion vinaigrette on the side. Most of the time, my salad comes out perfect and in a timely manner (love the kiosks). Only once did my sweet potatoes come undercooked.
Pro tip: don’t go at regular meal times (12pm, 6−7pm, etc) if you don’t wanna wait forever. Penn kids swarm this place like crazy, especially since its in a prime location (I can say this as a former Penn student, we take up a lot of space)

I’ve given Honeygrow a few more tries since my last review, but unfortunately my review remains as is :(I was so excited for more salad options around campus, but it looks like I’ll have to stick to other options. On my most recent visit, I had the persampiere (I am no longer risking creating my own salads and them missing ingredients again), but it was drenched in dressing even though I got light dressing, and trying to find the chicken (which is a main ingredient) was like a treasure hunt. I realize that you can ask for dressing on the side, but usually ‘light dressing’ in every other place I’ve gotten a salad from has been perfect. Also, for something that is on their suggested salad options, this salad was subpar — nothing I can’t make at home, and the flavors were not too exciting.
While I do like the concept of ordering via the kiosk, with salads it might actually be a better option to do the down-​the-​line chipotle style layout so that you can make sure you see them put the right ingredients in your salad. And the calling out your order system leads to a pretty chaotic atmosphere, which is ok if you’re into that, but we always opt to do take-​out because we don’t want to scream over our food to have a conversation.
The stirfries are on the oilier/​saltier side, which has also resulted in a stomachache for an entire group of us who went out for lunch.
I really wanted to like this place, but it looks like I will be taking my business down Walnut to Sweetgreen even though it’s a further walk from my office.

This was super exciting. Looking at the map, this place is real different from the other selection of heavy-​sauce, fried/​bar, fast food in the area without breaking the bank.
Vegan kale salad:
This was pretty filling with a good balance of texture in their selection of ingredients. The spicy dressing was something I hadn’t encountered before and enjoyed. Probably too salty so perhaps have only half mixed in with more on the side.
Kale/​banana/​pineapple smoothie:
This was quite a heavy drink. With a salad, there was definitely enough to save for later. The mint is a nice touch to keep the drink feeling light.
Would definitely come back again for my salad fix.

This place serves an excellent stir fry. Each of the three times I’ve gone to Honeygrow, I’ve ordered the build your own stir fry and mixed and matched ingredients. I’m into the candied cashews and pork, they are great choices.
Both the salads and the stir frys are filled to the brim with healthy ingredients… and most importantly… they are cheap! My order was 7.95. Not bad for a health foods restaurant in Philadelphia.
Lines are very long during lunch hours, so expect to wait a bit of a wait if you’re looking for a midday meal.

I’m normally not the type of person to feed into hype, but this place is pretty great. The ordering is through a kiosk, kinda like Wawa, I didn’t really like this because it feels kind of impersonal, but I’m sure that this allows for people to get served faster. You can customize your entire meal through this kiosk. This location is currently crazy busy; a lot Penn students pack the place during lunch/​dinner time. It’s more busy than Chipotle.
I paid 10.75 for the sesame garlic stir fry. For the money, it’s a decent amount of food. It is drenched in sauce, and it’s amazing. I also got a good portion of steak with it too. Definitely excited to try out all the different sauces.