Overpriced lettuce. I had the Vegan SIAM I AM and, when suggested by cashier, ordered heavy dressing, yet regardless it was sparse and hardly enough to give much taste to the greens and was rather bland. I could have made this at home and saved $13. As served. Doesn't look anything like the menu picture. read more

We needed a quick bite to eat before an appointment so Yelp directed us to Mad Greens. Up front, the parking is terrible and we had to pay to park in a lot for only a really short visit. I ordered a build your own bowl with quinoa and chick peas as my proteins. The options are super healthy and fresh, but the dish was ICY! I like this business but I think I'll stick with their other locations in future. read more

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Got here right before they closed (mostly open for lunch) with my partner and his family. I was impressed by the Elote Mac Bowl I ordered and the size of everyone else's salads. My meal had white cheddar bowtie pasta with roasted corn, their MAD Spice, Southwestern chicken and cilantro chili lime dressing drizzle. Delicious and filling. This place is great for kids and adults like, which is perfect for being next to the Denver Art Museum. Easy walk over and plenty of seating throughout the restaurant. There's refreshing drinks available and caramels and other sweets for sale. Customer service is great. I wouldn't go out of my way to come back again but totally if I was already visiting DAM! read more

MAD Greens - Denver Art Museum - Elote Mac Bowl - Vegetarian Near Me - Denver, Colorado

My husband and I stopped here for a quick healthier lunch before exploring the city. I love Mad Greens because they have an allergen menu that is easy to navigate with delicious meals. My favorite salads are the Ty Cobb and Don Quixote. I will often change out the protein for shrimp. Also since I cannot have cheese they will allow me to substitute for another item. Score!! This location is nice because it is located near the Art Museum. We were going to check out the museum but it was currently sold out for the times we could go. Boo. read more

Got a wonderful salad and ate outside. The service was excellent and there were many choices! This place is super clean and I loved every bite! As I was coming back in to return the fork that I borrowed the man at the door asked how my salad was. I told him great! He was smiling and said thank you! read more

Just had one of my worst experiences here. The service was rushed. They ended up giving me the wrong wrap. Half way through the wrap and I get a massive taste of tobacco?!?!? I've smoked cigarettes in the past, but I never thought I'd get one in a wrap. Disgusted and tossed. I will never go to a Mad Greens again. read more

Restaurant of the Denver Art Museum. Healthy menu options and soda is offered but cola is Mexican Coca Cola products. I am ok with that. I've seen this offering before being offered because it is made with cane sugar vs fructose syrup in American made Coca Cola. Whatev... You go through a line as they put your meal together in front of you, pay at the end of the line, get your drink from the self-serve soda fountain, then find a seat. I opted for a steak wrap with a diet coke. It was delicious and just right for 13.00 and a treat after visiting the museum for their grand Monet exhibit of 120, repeat 120, of the masterpieces. I would definitely recommend this restaurant. read more

The variety of salads is great and you can do custom ones too! The set up is chipotle style and you would think it is for time efficiency but there is obviously some work on that. It seemed that the end stations hold up the line and it's rather slow. Forget a quick lunch if the line is long. The wrap was really good. The chipotle Caesar dressing delicious. The soups of that day were a list of 3. We picked the chicken one and the roasted pepper one, both delicious. The place is very loud. It's also self cleanup. Rather pricey for a self serve style but it's new and trendy, which makes sense why. The staff was very friendly. Don't go for a quiet sit down. I would go again for the food. They also have other locations. read more

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Our food was good, but unremarkable. The drinks are where Mad Greens really shines. My Almond Joy latte was a perfect blend of coconut and chocolate, and my daughter raved about her Strawbery Cooler juice smoothie. The ordering system is a little weird- if you're familiar with The Mixx or Ingredient restaurants, Mad Greens runs the same way, which is to say it runs not like a well-oiled machine because nobody can figure out where to go to order which menu item. Really wish it was more centralized and streamlined. Really nice staff, and a sparsely decorated but good size outdoor seating area looking onto the Denver Art Museum. It was 80 degrees the day we were there- bliss. read more

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A colleague bought lunch for me. I picked the Mad Caesar which is the house grilled chicken in a bed of romaine lettuce and tomatoes. Parmesan and house made croutons top this salad. The dressing I have is the Caesar of course. I like the dressing light because otherwise it feels like the salad is drowning in dressing and I am unable to finish it. I do not like salad leaves soaked and limp in dressing. A light crunch is preferable. My advice is dressing on the side or light dressing. If you're buying lunch for someone, dressing on the side is the way to go. That way they can eat it when they want. The Mad Caesar is my go to when I'm not interested in looking at the menu or I want something I know will be tasty. Not fancy and different, a solid choice. Can't go wrong. read more

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I would give it Another half star if I could because I feel like it was a little better than average but not much. Ask for dressing on the side and it is a 4 star experience. I did not, and even asked the attendant to stop when they went in for more dressing but still got more dressing than salad. However, the salad was otherwise good. And a decent value for downtown Denver. We were at the Library and it was a super short walk. Nice outdoor dining. Can't remember what was like inside honestly, but it was clean and there was a dining room. The staff were really nice. I wish I had just asked for dressing on the side. If I go back I'm going to and may amend my review accordingly. read more

It's crazy for me to be writing a review for a restaurant in Denver when I live in Los Angeles lol, but literally every time I visit Denver I go to this place. (Usually I'm going to the museum which is just across the way so very convenient) Fresh food, good selection, good portion size, prices are not insane, and healthy. And tasty! And no offputting attitude. Honestly! Why isn't there a place like this in Los Angeles? That would be totally awesome :-) read more

A few days ago while taking shelter from the rain and hail storm we noticed the Mad Greens which is part of the Mad Beans coffee shop. So when we were needing lunch downtown on our last day in Denver we decided to give it a try. It was nice and warm out and we spent a long time walking on the 16th St mall area, so a salad was on my agenda. I had the MAD Ivan, which was greens, Goat cheese, pumpkin seeds, portobello mushrooms and a balsamic vinaigrette. It was perfectly sized and very tasty. The nice man making the salad was a pleasure to talk to and I made Wisconsin connections with him and another worker. Yay! It was very busy when I was there, but it was after all 12:00. You order at th counter and they make your salad for you as you go. Nice selection of vegetarian options which is also awesome. I'd absolutely return if I have an opportunity. read more

This place has changed my mind about salads! I am changing over to a plant based diet and MAD Greens is making the transition much easier and tastier! read more

Heard it was bussin, but not enough chicken and it's not a Mac and cheese when the cheese ain't melted.

Do you ever have those weeks where you are so busy you can't even find time to make it to the grocery store? I find myself having those weeks more often than most I imagine and so my solution for eating is very often a trip to the salad bar at Whole Foods. So, imagine my dismay when I went there to grab lunch yesterday and all the refrigeration was shut down for some sort of neighborhood noise ordinance testing/repair. Luckily, I had my trusty Yelp application on my trusty iPhone and found out that there was a Mad Greens down by the DAM. So, away I went. It was pretty dead when I went in, I was actually the only person ordering food. Then again it was 2:30 which is a late lunch hour for most. The two guys working were still super friendly and helpful while I chose to build my own salad. While I wasn't in charge of the tongs, eating at Mad Greens was pretty much just what I wanted in terms of adding a strange mixture to a bed of mixed greens. And boy, do they have a lot of choices, even one of my favorites - chickpeas. :) As far as price goes I found it comparable to buying the salad bar at Whole Foods, which isn't necessarily cheap, but I hear the upkeep on fresh veggies can be expensive so I'm not complaining. read more

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I usually do not say negative things about a restaurant, but I am afraid I must with this place. After a nice visit to the Denver Art Museum, my friend and I went over to the Madgreens for lunch. I had the vegatable soup and a half of a Cuban Chicken Sandwich. My friend had clam chower and a salad. Both lunches tasted very good. About an hour and a half later, I got a stomach/intestine ache that lasted for about 12 hours. It was very much like something I experienced before several years ago. Although I cannot be sure, from the symptoms, I suspect food poisoning. Must have been something in that sandwich. That lunch was the only thing I had to eat and my friend was fine, so it must have been something I picked up at Madgreens. I probably should call and tell them, but they would probably just deny having anything to do with it. So, I won't say not to go to this place as I am sure there is usually no problem. For myself, I will go somewhere else, 12 hours of misery following lunch is enough for me. read more

I like everything about this place! Coffee shop area has outdoor tables overlooking the art museum, and is part of but separate from the salad line up, although when busy, diners can access the pleasant seating in the coffee area. The salads are fresh, and they have interesting sodas at their self service drink area of the restaurant and good iced tea. We arrived after 12 so there was a line up to choose your salad. The set up is like a Subway but with a big difference. The fresh, high quality ingredients for every kind of salad you can imagine are lined up before you. I started out with a Da Vinci salad, but added some feta because I love feta. You can mix ingredients, change the dressing and they toss the salad in front of you. Fortunately our friend recommended a small rather than large salad. The small is a full meal for one person, and they do not skimp on the ingredients. Calories are listed on the menu. Very tasty, healthy, and low calorie meal. read more

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So do this my friends: take some extra calcium before coming here if you order the panini - your teeth will need the extra. Strength. That was the hardest bread and chicken I've ever had. At one point I thought I was eating a brick. Not literally but you get the picture. Do this: stay thirsty - they've got one of those secret levers on the fountain machine to get club soda. That alone is worth 1 star and the friendly girl that brought us our bricks for lunch gets the 2nd. Great work. read more

MAD Greens - Denver Art Museum - Cuban panini. - Vegetarian Near Me - Denver, Colorado

This is probably the easiest place to grab a quick, healthy lunch or coffee/tea if you are in the area exploring museums and such. I had some Cajun food for breakfast and needed to get some greens into me. I had the Green Detox juice which was OK. The juice is not freshly squeezed and it's on a spicy non-sweet side, but it has only 4 g of sugar & 9 grams of protein. I also have the Siam I Am salad with tofu which was above average but not amazing. I enjoyed the ginger miso dressing. I ordered light dressing which wasn't nearly enough. I had to go back and asked for more dressing. Now I know how Denver people stay skinny. Next time I'll order it with medium dressing. Salad came with a lot of greens which I appreciate. The kale was on the rough side. More places need to massage their kale to soften it up and give it the sheen. The kale massage wasn't happening here. A lot of the customers were ordering the chili so perhaps that's the local way. Overall a quick place for a green fix. read more

You might think I'm partial because my manfriend works here, but I pride myself on being without bias when it comes to coffee shops and reviews. Mad Beans is wedged between the Wine Cafe and Mad Greens. When you walk into the location (which is across the plaza from the Art Museum), you can go right for salad and soup or to the left for some delicious coffee, pastries, wine, cheese, and -- my favorite thing -- games! Yes, there are about 20 copies of Scrabble, some Balderdash, and a variety of other games for your playing pleasure! The coffee is Illy, and the baristas know how to make some delicious drinks. My personal favorite from this locale was a Caramel White Mocha (topped with some cute drizzled coffee art). It tasted beyond anything I've ever procured from Starbucks, without a doubt. There are gluten-free granola bars and plenty of pastries, too. The ambiance is to die for, with a pillar decorated with wine bottles set in cement, comfy lounge-able chairs, plenty of light, and it's quiet and cozy. I can definitely recommend this as a different kind of coffee shop, and I made sure to suggest that the locale pick up some gluten-free beer (go New Planet!) for the booze bar. read more

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Fast food that is healthy and tasty. Great concept. Wish we had something like this in Reno. We are visiting friends here in Denver and came downtown to see the Colorado History Center. This was a perfect place for a quick healthy lunch. The space is utilitarian, and bright and colorful. It is a cafeteria style restaurant where you order what you want and then pick it up and pay at the end. Prices were reasonable for high quality fresh food. The portions were generous. I had the Edgar Allen Poe salad, a mix of greens with blue cheese, walnuts, apples and pears with a light port wine vinaigrette. Very nice mix of flavors and textures and the dressing was not overly sweet or heavy. Staff were friendly and helpful in guiding us newbies through the process.u read more

Mad greens is great for a fast healthy lunch. I've tried a couple of their signature salads but prefer to build my own. Sometimes they are out of ingredients, like the pasta for their pasta salad. I would think it would be a little important to try to carry the items you offer on the menu, but can't expect too much since it is still a fast food concept restaurant. Even though it is great, every time I eat there I do think to myself "I could have made this at home" and saved a bit of money since it's over $10 for a salad and a drink. Haven't tried any of their panini's yet or soup but they have quite a selection of those as well. read more

I've eaten at MAD Greens a handful of times and I do like the options. The Edgar Allen Poe and the Da Vinci are two of my favorite salads and the Marilyn Monroe sandwich was always yummy too. The people are friendly, most of their dressings are gluten-free, and they always have at least 1 soup option that is also gluten free. The salad makers are always willing to add in an extra ingredient for no charge if you want it (excluding protein options, of course) so you can customize your salad experience. I also like that they have reuseable glasses and flatware when you dine in. read more

Outstanding lunch! Had the 'Pancho Villa'. Delicately spiced to bring out and complement flavors instead of overpowering. The spicy pecans and chicken were my favorite components. The staff was very friendly! Love the selection of Maine Root colas and 3 types of teas. And the bathroom was impeccable! Can't beat the location next to the Denver Art Museum. An exceptional lunch experience at a very reasonable price! read more

Nice patio and free meter parking after 6pm, but unpredictable food availability and odd wine list for the atmosphere. So, this place is kind of deli-style, being attached to a sandwich/salad shop and being a coffee bar in the morning. It feels like the kind of place where you roll in with your newspaper and post up in a chair with your coffee. When it becomes a wine bar in the afternoon, the decor does not change, it just feels like drinking wine in a coffee shop. That is kind of a cool and unique experience, so you go with it. But, the wine list really doesn't seem to fit this place. Honestly, I don't think I'd drink a $100+ bottle of wine with friends in that coffee shop environment, if that makes sense. But, the $5 happy hour glasses (which runs 5-8pm) does feel more appropriate. They have food, sometimes. It's a wine bar, but they only sometimes have cheese plates. Sometimes they just have leftover pastries from the morning coffee bar. And, the attached Mad Greens is really only a lunch place, so no evening grub. It's a little bizarre. Overall, it's a cool little place. And, if you are already in the area, it might be a good place to grab a HH glass of wine, but its definitely not a destination. read more

Fresh. Fast. Healthy. Light. It would be Madness to not see Mad Greens as the Perfect antidote to post-Thanksgiving richness of buttery foods and heavy starches. Even better than the Craisin and local Colorado goat cheese salad on the busiest Saturday shopping day of the year? The location. Tucked between buildings the Denver Art Museum, healthy options are a welcome respite after the decadence of world-class art and architecture. Global art, local Colorado business on Small Business Saturday #ShopSmall Happy. Healthy. Holidays! read more

MAD Greens - Denver Art Museum - Vegetarian Near Me - Denver, Colorado

I found a new favorite salad place to order from today! MAD Greens is my new go-to for salads! They really have it down for health and deliciousness! read more

I don't care about pre-built or build-your-own or Daniel Libeskind-inspired salads. I like booze. MAD Wine Bar, which shares the Denver Art Museum Residences building with Novo Coffee (review in the works) and MAD Greens, is great consolation for that lackluster Louvre exhibit to which you may have had to escort your Francophillic Amelie-watching girlfriend. Or your pretentiously artsy hipster boyfriend. Can't we all just down a $75 dollar bottle of Chateauneuf-du-Pape and quit pretending we really get Rothko? Yeah, yeah, Rothko was Latvian and wasn't featured in the Louvre exhibit but wouldn't it be nice to criticize my art-ignorance over a few slabs of Ossau-Iraty cheese and a dryish Colorado Gevurtz? DAM right it would. My only gripe with this place is that it is dramatically under-appreciated. Rarely is there staff because, you guessed it, rarely are there patrons. Often, one must walk to the other end of the "photoshopped veggies"-decorated space to solicit a MAD Greens worker to pour your poison. God help you if you have questions about the terroir. Oddly, no joyous pirouetting girlfriends or tightpantsed boyfriends are ever present. The majority of my fellow imbibers are old folks on an 'artful excursion' and in need of their 'house Chard,' or randoms craving a 90 Shilling beer with their 'Don Quixote Salad' and 'Inspired Panini.' Thursday nights, however, are a strange exception. The clientele sheds its grey and thinning locks for.... dred locks! Open Mic Night! Weird cats with guitars and strange people abound. A cute girl tends bar and seems to really want to talk about wine and art as opposed to the most recent Tom Petty album. Everyone claps and smokes cigarettes on the patio. I clap and smoke as well, sadly not for the open-mic-nighters, but in honor of getting a buzz in blurred eyesight of van Bruggen & Oldenburg's 'Big Sweep'. read more

I'm a fan of making my own salad. My only problem that I love me some toppings. When you make your own, you need to keep an eye on how many ingredients you are adding so the price doesn't shock you. I love the selection of seeds, cheeses and veggies that you can add. They don't even mind when I want to mix the spring greens with the spinach! I adore their Horseradish Ranch dressing. The soup, however, is atrocious. I can taste the plastic bag they squeezed it out of! The panini's are quite good (I especially love The Marilyn) but can not be adjusted in any way as they are pre-made. The staff is nice when not utterly overwhelmed which is most of the time. They recently made a change that so that they generate less trash by serving your salad in the same bowl they mixed it in! If you get a full salad, they will give you a container for leftovers if you ask! My only other beef is that Art Museum employees get to cut the line and I feel I must sear them with my eye beams. read more

I doubt I will ever eat here again. The food is fine, if a bit pricy, but the service? Every single time I come here, I wait. And wait. And WAIT. A panini that's already made up and just needs to be pressed or a cup of soup that's already been made and just needs to be ladled out should not take 20 to 30 minutes. To make matters worse, even when I have to go find someone who is forgotten to make my food, the most I have ever been offered is a half-assed apology. Since there are a number of restaurants around here with the prices that are comparable, where I can sit down to be served and actually get my food, I'll go to one of them instead. read more

I like the food. It looks dirty and floor gives the impression of greasy. I've come here 3 times to this location. The tables are all dirty and greasy. I didn't buy food this time just a tea, I walked in and it just didn't smell good and felt unkempt and greasy. Manager needs to break down and hire an extra person to maintain the dining area and empty trash. You have a good product, good location. Don't waste it! read more

I am always leary of the build your own salad bar, either weight or by item... just seems to add up so quickly. I've visited 2 different locations, once with a coupon, once to be healthy with a friend. (you can check your nutrition on line before you go) This location is by the art museum, but i visited on a winter Monday, so not a huge crowd. The staff is relatively friendly although the order then hand off thing lends itself to your desires for your lunch getting lost between staff members. I went with a ty cobb - and dressing on the side... i've heard too many people complain that the request of light is just too risky... I wanted the spicy avocado, but there weren't any prepped so i got a meh one... The ingredients are fresh and tasty, the bowl to eat out of leaves enough room to stir in your own dressing - but not the takout one - filled to the brim! Note: you order at the left, move through the line with your "salad enhancer/creater", then are dumped to pay - all three times you need to repeat what you wanted, what you wanted and what you got. Silverwre is behind you when you pay and you are allowed to dine in the other sections read more

A good, if unremarkable place to eat while visiting the Denver Art Museum. Our salads were delicious and not overwhelming. We enjoyed watching the ongoing human and pet parade outside. I would eat here again but only after checking out alternatives. read more

I was seriously bummed when the Cherry Creek Mad Greens location I used to frequent for lunch closed due to the impending demolition of the building. The manager there told me they were looking for another location in the neighborhood but that never happened. Imagine my happiness when I finally figured out that this Mad Greens location is not very far from work! And I can park either in the cultural complex garage (for free under an hour!) or at a meter not very far from the front door. I guess I kind of forgot about it since it's not really visible unless you're visiting the Denver Art Museum. I'm a late luncher so when I go in somewhere around 2:00 pm, the lunch rush is over. I've found the staff here to be friendly and helpful. I've also started using the Mad Greens app, which makes checking out a breeze and also gives me credit towards rewards. The quality of the salad ingredients here is just as good as I've seen at other locations. And since Mad Greens is a Colorado based business, they use lots of local ingredients in their food. Hooray for work lunch salad! read more

I grab a salad here often. The turnover seems high and recently some of the staff has been subpar while others are still very friendly. However, when you get that less than stellar staff member who has few customer services skills it doesn't make you happy about spending so much money there on a frequent basis. The salads are still good and the location is great, but some of the customer service experiences - not so great. read more

Great food, great service, & on-time delivery. Awesome!!! I'll be ordering from them a lot more, for sure.

I do not know how you could not love this place (unless the $10 salads are too much for you, of course!) The Don Quixote has everything you could ever want in life in salad form--avacado, mango, leafy greens and add the southwest chicken! Plus the location by the DAM has a wine bar!! read more

Great place to pop into after a tour of the Denver Art Museum. Lots of salads, sandwiches and yummy beverages. Lovely outdoor area for whiling away an hour or two. read more

Great place to grab a bite after visiting the DAM. I really liked it and the food was good. I would like a better selection of drinks but the salads and sandwiches were awesome. I had a Cuban this time and it hit the spot. I have also had the Poe salad. It is located near the parking building and a great alternative to the coffee and treats at the gallery cafe. There is also a coffee bar (Made Beans) at the Mad Greens which I had never seen before. It was clean and the service was fast. I will be back. read more