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Buffalo chicken pizza is fantastic!
Salads are amazing!
The light balsamic dressing is heaven!
Only complaint comes from a friend, the calzone is too cheesy and the bread is too thin.
Also sometimes it can get a little pricey when you add too much to a salad.
This place is BYOB! For a place where you can get great food quick, you can eat and have time to enjoy your food and drink leisurely outside on the patio in the summer! There is not much seating inside, so I'm not sure how the winter will work.
i have tried to find this city a few times in the past and finally found it.
i sure will come back to check out more of this fine place, city.
as for couch tomato cafe, not a bad place.
i am not a much fan of salad but i can sure get to like it.
i had slices of pizza of different kinds and they were not bad
better than the big chain but noting sticks in my tongue.
meaning not un-forgettable.
i had a pizza at pizza john in essex, baltimore and it was very good.
dripping cheese and each bite wanted another one
another time, at whole food, silver spring, md, they had similar pizza as tomato cafe.
so to me, pizza at couch tomato cafe is not something that will make me want to go back.
that is jst me.
however, i can see why people will go jst for salad.
they were good (fresh and innovative with different ingredients)
Froufrou pizza that's ridiculously expensive, has no crunch and is weighed down with toppings. Unless you're in the mood for a bacon cheeseburger pizza, I'd try Riverside down the street instead.
With that said, the salads and soups are AMAZING. Each salad is freshly made to order (takes a lot of time), and comes with tons of toppings. Their caesar is delicious, and has large shavings of aged parmesan. The home made dressings are addictive.
Tips: Get your dressing on the side, they just slop it on top and don't mix it in. Call ahead if possible - recently they've improved this service and offer a separate line for picking up orders. It'll save you a good 20-30 minutes during the lunch traffic. Avoid the delicious warm triangles of wheat bread - I swear they must have 500+ calories.
They are cleaning up a lot behind their restaurant to make a new parking lot.
Love Love Love this place. I love a good salad and they have a nice salad selection. My favorite salad is Where's Waldorf with their homemade poppyseed dressing. Delicious
Parking can be ruthless around here and the Philadelphia Parking Authority are beasts. They have managed to morph themselves to illegally parked vehicles and vehicles parked at expired meters, place the ticket on the car, then disappear into thin air. It's amazing. LOL.
after wowing the pants off of my parents (not literally - ew!) with brunch at honey's, when it came time to grab a bite to eat for dinner, the pressure was on to impress once again.
our shopping endeavors had taken us to main street, manayunk - my old stomping grounds - so the folks were familiar with quite a few of the local restaurants, but were eager to get back to home in jersey and hesitant to spend too much time at a sit down meal. my solution: couch tomato! though i was convinced (still am, really) that they had enjoyed take-out from them years ago when i lived there, they claimed no memory of this. ah, the joys of getting old.... (sorry, mom & dad!)
regardless of their alzheimer's moment, one look at the menu, and they were sold. dad ordered the pollo pesto personal pizza (hold the roasted peppers), mom ordered the pear-fection salad, i ordered the pump it up portabella salad and she & i also ordered one slice of the garden of eating pizza (white pie with spinach, feta & sun-dried tomatoes) to share.
much like at honey's, everything was delish and everyone left with full, happy bellies. and our over-ordering after a huge brunch paid off, as we all packed up leftovers for tomorrow - woo!
Good Pizza that is unique and flavorful!
Yum!
I really like the salads here. I usually get the Big Kahuna which has Mesclun, chicken, toasted almonds, pineapple and sweet poppyseed dressing. I've tried a couple other salads and they're good too.
The pizza here is also pretty tasty.
It's a small place and parking is manayunk, so street parking.
This is a great "upscale" pizza parlor on Main St. in Manayunk. A large plain cheese pie is huge and sometimes I had to tilt it to get it in my car door. I love bubbles on my pizza and their pies always had yummy bubbles. My only complaint is that it is a bit on the pricey side. A great pie though!
Whether you crave a slice of pizza or delicious salad, Couch Tomato has an amazing array of menu items to suit your taste. Being gluten-free, I love their salads. Grape Expectations is my favorite because their chicken salad is AWESOME. They make homemade soups that are available daily...check the website for the offerings. Pizza smells delicious and I hear it's quite good. Overall - great place for take out or a lunch outside if it's summertime. Looking forward to an expanded dining room so you can eat-in easily.
Not just the best whole wheat pizza, but also great salads. The seating is quite limited and very basic at this time but they have been promising to expand their seating to upstairs space and add table service. Right now, its mainly for take-out for me. The addition of the upstairs space will change that for sure.
The Buffalo Chicken Pizza here maaaay be the best novelty pizza that I've ever put in my mouth. I really like the menu options, even if I will never take advantage of most of them. Couch Tomato Cafe has a good, customizable selection of salads, wraps, and pizzas. The atmosphere is a little fun, with couches (duh, their name) and bar style window seating and a few tables. The staff is very helpful, yet often flirting with the edge of frazzled - no fault of theirs - they are busy, and that is a great sign for business.
On a customer service note the Couch Tomato Cafe has impressed me. Bry had a terrible experience here recently, crucified them in prose here on Yelp, and she was contacted by the Couch Tomato Cafe to address the problems she had. I feel like this is the kind of interaction that really makes Yelp shine - and really makes Couch Tomato stand out as a proactive business. Nice work.
I had a gift certificate, so I had to try this place again. Most people I know really like this place, but I'm definitely in the minority. The 1st time I went with 2 other people, and we were all disappointed with the food. I've heard rave reviews on the pizzas, so maybe I should have went with the pizza. The staff was once again very friendly and helpful. This time, I went with the Taco Paco wrap. My other 2 friends also went the wraps. The experience started out somewhat badly when they mixed up our orders. The sauce that was supposed to be on the side was in the wrap, and vice-versa on the other wraps.
Now to the food. The food was just okay. I really wanted to like it. It was nothing great. Again, my other 2 friends were in agreement. The wraps just didn't have enough flavor. If there is a next time, I'm definitely going with the pizza.
I only had 1 item here: thai peanut sauce sandwich. The peanut sauce was very bland, and there… Read more »
I did not think I was going to like this place.
Okay, that's probably not the best way to start off a 4 star review...haha.
I was visiting in Philadelphia and we had heard about the Couch Tomato via the gym. Main Street Manayunk is pretty cute--bourgeois-y as as bourgeois can be--so of course it's cute...I wasn't worried about Main Street not being an enjoyable place to be. I was worried that it was going to be this little spot with no where to sit. I was wrong. It's adorable in there and if I lived or worked in Manayunk, I would definitely get it more often because:
1) I think it would be near impossible to run out of new things to try
2) The inside is bright, cheery, and clean
2) The food is really great
We split a calzone (SO BIG--definitely share it) and a salad (also very large).
There were blueprints on the wall advertising more seating being built upstairs--very exciting, because it would turn this semi-eat in place into a full eat-in place. I'm a fan of eat in for bright, cheery, and clean places.
The Couch Tomato Cafe is definitely deserving of all its awards.
So tasty! Very friendly staff,. Everything on the menu is delicious - pizzas, salads, soups, haven't tried an actual sandwich though. Definitely one of the best places to eat in the area.
Good pizza if you're already in Manayunk, but I don't think I'll be leaving Center City for Couch Tomato. Rustica and NYPD Pizza are just more convenient.
Finding a good pizza in Philly is like trying to find the Holy Grail. This conundrum has always amazed me, because we have such a vibrant history of tasty food. Couch Tomato makes a mean pie, and they do it with a smile upon their faces to boot. Sure, it's a pie best enjoyed in the privacy of your own home (that place is teeny tiny) but you'll be licking the box clean when you're done, cursing the fact that you didn't buy an extra so you could have leftovers for later that night.
Not that that happened to me or anything...
So their salads are still #1 in my book, but I've had their pizza a couple times since my last review as well. Pizza here isn't life-changing or anything, but it is a decent ode to the New York pie. They get the ingredient ratios right instead of just smothering everything with cheap cheese like most places in Philly. Toppings are fresh and the crust is actually properly crisp (miraculous, I know). It isn't the Brooklyn pizza I crave, but it will tide me over.
Pizza = 4 stars, Salads = 10 stars
Best salads everrrrr. I have never CRAVED salad the way I do now. They make their dressing fresh on… Read more »
When we first arrived at this 5-star Yelp'ed restaurant, I thought, "This is not what I pictured the #1 Philly restaurant to be. What the heck? " Its interior decor was reminiscent of a doughnut shoppe, and it seemed to seat no more than 20. I quickly realized that this establishment stood for quality food, affordable prices, and genuine kindness from its employee team. For those looking for a romantic getaway, this might not be the place. So, lets talk turkey!
The cheese pizza ($1.87) was a generous slice. Pie's are on display, and reheated at time of order. To my mind, the most important part of a NY pizza is the constancy of crispiness throughout the entire pizza. MMMMmmm...it IS crispy. Tomato sauce is not too thick and overpowering; just the way I like it. The closest alternative to a good NY pie, IMHO.
The miss had the Strawberry Fields salad ($4.49) with Italian dressing on the side -- it was heavenly. Content: chopped salad with almond slivers, coconut shavings [so clutch], and strawberries [duh]. The Italian dressing wasn't oily or salty, but fruity! In fact, we thought we got the wrong dressing because it was pink and sweet. Again, generous portions. One of the best salads for price.
Couch Tomato is certainly a price/quality gem. Bill M. said it well. Though not the best restaurant in Philly, it is certainly an excellent bargain.
What initially drew me to this place was the really talented acoustic guitar player in front, rocking out a fantastic cover of Pink Floyd's "Run". I went inside to see what the place offered and ordered a slice of broccoli raab and spinach pizza. Yummy! Then, just so I could stick around and listen to the guitar guy, I ordered a bowl of gazpacho. Yummy!! I would have checked out one of the salads --I've read on yelp that they're good --but I was getting pretty full. I can't wait to go back; I want to try every one of their infinitely many pizza topping combinations. The only complaint I have is that they put too much ice in the lemonade, I was done in two sips.
Maybe it was an off night, but it was decidedly mediocre - There's a lot of places in Philly to get pizzas and salads, and being dead-on average flavor-and-quality-wise, and a bit pricier than most, I can only give the average score of three.
While I don't think it's worthy of being dubbed the #1 restaurant in Philly, I'm having a hard time giving Couch Tomato a bad review to counterbalance. You've won this round fairness!
But at least that reason is justified. When My family threw my cousin an awesome surprise 30th Birthday Couch Tomato was there catering out a mighty tasty assortment of sandwiches, pizza, and salad. And our whole group of family and friends that were there enjoyed it thoroughly with zero complaints which is a tricky thing to do. But the attention to detail that went into the cards explaining what was in each item, the freshness of the ingredients, and then some just had to be acknowledged.
So while places like Southwark, Sabrina's, Little Fish, and then some might be a little more deserving of that #1 honor. Couch Tomato definitely deserves some mad respect. and I haven't even tried the soup yet.
I like to stop here on the return trips from bike rides out to Valley Forge. The salads are really good. I like their peanut dressing. The pizza is decent, but I really feel as though the salads are where it's at. If you want something healthy, in order to feel good about yourself, then grab a salad, which comes with a homemade roll. Not a bad deal.
One of my bestest friends, Eenie, and I decided dinner and a movie would be a great way to end another hellish day at work. So, we checked movie times for Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants 2 [oh, you know you love it], and she suggested Couch Tomato Cafe for a quick, easy, yummy dinner! I have a weakness for punny names, so I quickly agreed.
I got the caesar salad. Shocking! It was huge and wonderful. My friend got a few slices of pizza which looked absolutely divine. We sat outside where people watching and great conversation ensued.
I am a *huge* fan.
This is where my husband and I order most of our last minute take-out. We manage to reach them on the phone just before they close. They might hate us for that but sometimes, their salads are just what we want. They deliver.
Highly recommended for salad take-out.
I stopped in The CTC on a Sunday night to grab a plain slice, so that's all I can speak of regarding the food. It was a decent slice, but nothing to get me all effusive. I thought it could have been a little bigger given the price (about $2.25). But given the number of available storefronts on Main St., I felt good about supporting one of the local businesses. I'm sure the overhead is considerable here. They have other toppings available on single slices & they looked appetizing, but I always try to review on a plain slice.
The place itself was very clean, attractively decorated and had a nice sidewalk seating area. I was also impressed at the cleanliness of the restroom. The guy who took my order was pleasant and efficient. I get the sense that ownership & management care about what they're doing.
The slice was heated well. The crust had decent flavor with a slight cripiness on the bite. The sauce was pretty midrange with no obvious flaws. The cheese was fine, with adequate distribution. Overall quality was good.
Based on my experience, I could recommend a visit to this place and I would definitely go back to sample more offerings like the salads or wraps, which have been recommended to me by friends.
I was visiting my best friend in Manayunk this weekend and went here for a late lunch...hands down best meal I've had in a long time! I had the Waldorf Salad w/ chicken and a slice of pizza. Super nice staff and gave their honest opinions on their food. (Poppyseed dressing = to die for!)
The ONLY upsetting thing about this visit was that this is their only spot! Honestly if they had this place in Arlington / DC I would eat here at least once a day. And judging but some of the previous reviews I'm hoping the owner is reading this and opens up a spot down here....I would be more than happy to leave my current place of work and help you open up a spot down here. (ok maybe not that far) But honestly you would make a killing!
Can't wait for my next visit!!
the salads are pretty tasty. i'm a huge fan of the poppyseed dressing. They also had a pizza for a while that was called the clams casino. that thing was amazing. the pizza are huge...thin but huge and for the most part tasty. my biggest problem with them is the delivery. your typical evening its 1-1/2hrs for delivery and when they get there the pizza is usually cold and stiff. i no longer do the delivery because it does nothing but ruin your meal. salads on the other hand are fine of course. the pizza also doesn't hold up the next day which is a big drawback in my book. i love cold pizza and it literally becomes wood once its cold. boooo...
I remember it being a little pricier than I like for pizza but you can get some interesting speciality pies and whole wheat crust. We've ordered the Margherita and the "It's Not Easy Being Green" I believe (with roasted red peppers, artichoke hearts, spinach and mozarella). I think evryone thought the ingredients to be quite fresh and the pizza to be quite tasty.
I agree with just about everything everyone else has said about the couch: it's amazing. Definitely my favorite place to get a quick healthy meal in manayunk. All the wrap menu items can be made as salads, or you can do my favorite, the make-your-own salad. The ingredients are tiered by price, so it can get a little expensive for a salad if you get a lot of them, but it's well worth it. The have some of my favorite salad toppings including artichokes, kalamata olives, and gorgonzola (though I am sad they got rid of baby corn). The white or wheat bread served with all salads is fresh and hot... warm chewy goodness.
Their pizza is excellent as well, especially if you like thin, crispy crust and different toppings. Try the spinach and feta, yum. Delivery can be slow, so pick-up is a better option. The outside seating along main street is great in warm weather, and inside the high-top tables, counter seating, and big red couch are nice too. Definitely come to couch tomato if you're in manayunk!
The pizza can range from just average to very good, but the main attraction at the Couch Tomato is the emphasis on healthy eating, fresh ingredients, and options. When I first moved to Manayunk, I basically subsisted on Couch Tamato wraps and salads. I still make sure to pick one up every few weeks. The Couch Tomato is unlike your typical pizza joint. In fact, it's unlike any place I've ever been.
Cute, homey charming feel inside. Delicious home-made tasting pizza. Decadent salads-- freshly made. Reasonable prices. AND delivery (with the most elaborate website and phone menu I have ever experienced with any pizza place..)
Beware, sometimes their delivery can take awhile, especially at busy hours (weekends) BUT it is definitely worth the fresh, healthy, mouth-watering food!
The Couch Tomato has the best whole wheat crust I ever tasted. Their pizza always taste fresh, and yummy! They will deliver petty far out, as I live in Germantown.
Beware their large pie is HUGE. I think the first time I ordered it, I almost freaked out it was so big, like 22 inches. It's way too much for me and a couple friends, but great for a family.
I have been back to the Couch Tomato and found it right back to the five star standard where it started. Yessss! I am also very impressed by the management's commitment to excellence by keeping up with the online reviews and addressing any problems customers have discussed. We need more restaurants and businesses that care like Couch Tomato does! I'll be back soon...
Ok, so I haven't yelped much recently because school is dominating my life, but I feel my Couch… Read more »
I am going to sound like a suck-up - but Couch Tomato is one of the best, if not THE best cafe outside of the city. C.T. is right off of Main St in Manayunk and specializes in specialty pizzas, wraps, and salads. The atmosphere inside is neat with stools, a bright red couch and tables. Add in some track lighting and you've got 'neat'.
Usually when I goto a place like this I like to try their vegetarian entres because they are usually the most creative ones - not at CT. On my first visit with a friend from college we indulged on a Paco's Taco Pie. This pizza had meat, sour cream, tortilla chips, and some great cheeses. The 2nd time I visited with my parents we all went the salad route (which I recommend now) and got the 'Strawberry Fields Forever' salad which had greens, strawberries (duh), almonds, and coconut shavings.
I know a lot of yelpers aren't the biggest Manayunk fans (not that I can blame them), but if you are outside the city swing a turn on that exit 338 and try Couch Tomato - you'll say, "Thanks Matt H."
EDITED: I received a note from the owner pledging to rectify the issue and it shows they have a commitment to their business. I decided I was a bit too harsh in my wording and given them 4 stars for this communication.
First off I'll tell you what I like. Delivery service is GREAT. Orders come in about an hour or so. The food is always EXCELLENT. The pizza is arguably the best in Manayunk/Roxborough. Salads are always fresh and visually appealing. I have absolutely no issues with the food. There is something for everyone at Couch Tomato and most of it is pretty healthy.
Now, what I don't like. I went in the other day to get a Ceasar salad and waited 15 min, no one greeted me when I came in the door even though there were 10 people working (10!) and the guys working the counter would not make eye contact with me.
I think I will stick to delivery with this place.
We have never eaten in the restaurant but have gotten take out many times.
The employees who have taken my orders over the phone could not be more helpful, friendly or accommodating. (It always leaves me a bit stunned, to be honest. They are SO. NICE.)
We usually get a large salad and pizza and the food is consistently fresh and tasty. The few times I have asked for a substitution, they do so (happily!) and exactly to my specifications.
I am not an employee writing a review. I have been going to Couch Tomato since it opened a few years ago. Food is consistent and always fresh. Soup and Pizzas are always great too! I love this place...
Only thing I can say to improve is....delivery...sometimes it takes a long time!
PS-When are you opening your upstairs?
Decent but I'm not kvelling over it.
You're best best is the eggplant parm pie or the buffalo chicken pie. Their default plain slice is kinda bland.
I ordered a whole wheat vegetarian pizza and found it to be VERY DRY and unappetizing. I think that pizza style can be a very personal thing and this one is just not for me. After posting this review I was contacted by Couch Tomato with an apology for a pizza that didn't satisfy and the offer of a coupon for a complimentary pizza and the recommendation that I try the regular crust. If all vendors took the opportunity to use Yelp as a tool to improve their products and services as CT did the world would be a much better place.
Great food! Cal zones are fantastic and they're made to order.
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