At Chestnuts Cafe, diners serve themselves in style ALL Edition

• Published in: Telegram & gazette
• Main Author: Erickson, Pat
• Format: Newspaper Article
• Language: English
• Published: Worcester, Mass GateHouse Media, Inc 14.10.1993
• Subjects: Restaurants; WORCESTER
• ISSN: 1050-4184

The salad bar is extensive, boasting more than two dozen vegetable, meat and cheese toppings and two bowls of greens, one holding just lettuce, the other a premixed Caesar salad. At 25 cents an ounce, you can truly "have it your way." On several occasions, I have cut off a thick slab of soft, rich bread, either white or raisin, and, along with a good-size salad, made it a complete meal. On our recent visit, my dining companions and I took a shotgun approach to choosing our meals, trying as many different items as we could. In addition to the salad bar, we sampled the day's appetizer of breaded cheese ravioli with tomato sauce on the side (35 cents an ounce). The crisp-coated pieces of cheese looked tasty, but turned out to be a bit overcooked, making them dry, even with the sauce. Chestnuts' soups are made on the premises, except when Legal Seafood's chowder is featured, as it was this day. Instead of soup, one of my companions ladled up a small bowl of chili ($1.55). The chili was thick with large chunks of meat, but my companion found its intensity overwhelming. She cut the flame by mixing the chili with her salad, and reported the result to be satisfactory.