We had been wanting to check out this place since it opened and it's not bad. They have salads, bowls and broths to choose from to make your meal. Over all the food is good but personally I think it needs more flavor. Their broths were really lacking. What I loved was their wide variety of lemonades - so good! You can sample them before settling on what you want. I love beets and their beet lemonade is something I've never seen before. read more

Omg so good!!!!! Everything looked delicious! I wanted to sample everything. I did order The Mediterranean salad, which came with 2 falafels, hummus and bread. So good! And the homemade lemonades are all good! Can't wait to go back! read more

CoreLife Eatery - Salad Near Me - Normal, Illinois

Food was great, lots of flavor and great choices.... my only disappointment was the serving size maybe I just eat a lot but I walked away hungry both times I ate there... read more

I love CoreLife Eatery. I have been to a multitude of their restaurants, and they are all equally good. The service and food are very consistent. The food is prepared fresh daily, and all of the ingredients are of excellent quality. I especially love the summer berry salad and wish it would be available year round. You can always find an excellent meal at CoreLife. read more

CoreLife Eatery - The limited time summer berry salad. I one hundred percent recommend this bowl. - Salad Near Me - Normal, Illinois

AMAZING FOOD AND AMAZING SERVICE!!!! Employer (manager I think?) took the time to come by our table and talk to us/ check in on everything. 10/10! read more

I've been in town visiting after 3 years away and this place is my saving grace. We all know Blo/No has a million restaurants, but sometimes you want something healthy, and this is where I go (especially when I don't want to cook). The tacos are a personal favorite (all flavors) and the KBBQ pork bowl is pretty good, too (with an apple cider tea). Everything is fresh and prepared in front of you. Employees are following all safety guidelines. read more

So, so, so excited to have CoreLife as a new addition to Bloomington!! It can be so difficult eating out when you value nutrition. In my experience I often have a hard time finding anything at all that is tasty and nutritious on a menu. But at CoreLife I have the exact opposite problem!! If nutrition is your game then this is the place for you. read more

CoreLife Eatery - Shiitake mushroom and tofu broth bowl. (Spicy)... (but not tooo spicy)! - Salad Near Me - Normal, Illinois

Ordered on last night the pick two and only got the small salad. I called and the manager on duty didn't have the authority to do a refund. She stated she needed her higher manager to do it. She said they would call me tomorrow to refund. Still haven't gotten a call to make it right. Over priced read more

I like the style of the restaurant and the prices were good but the flavor and portion sizes are lacking. Probably won't go back unless I'm with a group and they want to go. read more

I love the tuna poke bowl. It's a great place to go to get a healthy salad. I love having a kale salad that tastes great! You can only eat at Panera so often. read more

this gave me food poisoning. my boyfriend ordered a chicken tinga wrap for me and it was not only lukewarm, but there was literally a single bite worth of chicken in my wrap. he ordered a steak and bacon wrap and he received 3 pieces of chopped up TOUGH steak in his wrap. the wraps were both 70% lettuce which would be fine given there was enough meat or other filling... there are absolutely no seasonings on any ingredients in the wraps, it is bland and just overall not worth the $27 we spent. our cranberry lemonades were very very bitter and tasted out of date. the boys working tonight even informed my boyfriend of how "nasty" certain items were. not a fan. will not be returning. which is sad to me, given i really wanted to enjoy this restaurant and return. read more

If you want to spend $27 on a couple wraps that are 75% lettuce and come with 2 bites of protein than this is your place. If not, save yourself the time and go to subway. I do not recommend at all, the food has very little flavor to it at all. The staff was rude and the food was gross. read more

Tried CoreLife Eatery for the first time today. I was very disappointed. I chose a protein plate with steak, both roasted sweet potatoes and the roasted beets along with the field greens. My steak had no flavor at all and was loaded with gristle. My roasted beets were burned. When I went up to the counter to ask for beets that were not burned, they looked at their beets, realizing they were burned and told me it would be 18-20 minutes for a fresh batch of roasted beets. I did not bother to show them my steak at that point. I ate around the gristle, threw away my beets and left. I was not offered a coupon or anything for the inconvenience. For $12.50 (I drank H2O), I'd rather eat at Outback Steak House for a steak with a sweet potato and steamed broccoli. read more

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Isn't this a great place to eat healthy? Love the rice bowls the best so far. Perfect place for a gluten sensitive diet. If there is anything I don't care for on a bowl choice, I just substitute or I can customize my bowl. Great drinks too! Jim like Beet Lemonade. We get the small bowl and I am still stuffed! read more

I come eat once a week or every other week here. Yesterday I got food poisoning from this place. I am pretty sure one of the juices was fermented. I still think you should check the food asap. I saw another review of someone getting food poising to 17 days ago. Please check it so next time I go I don't end up sick. read more

Love to come here and eat wish they sold their juice in gallon jugs!! It is to die for! LoL

We were very excited to try CoreLife tonight and were very happy to have a new healthy option in Bloomington / Normal, IL. On a recent weekend in Chicago we tried a place called Sweetgreens and loved it. Unfortunately, CoreLife was a major disappointment from our experience at the the other restaurant with a similar concept. The quality was not the same. The service was lacking. When I paid they did not ask if I wanted a receipt and I discovered later that a receipt wasn't put in my take-away bag. This town needs a healthy choice, but I would guess this place will be closed faster than it opened. Boo! read more

It's completely my fault I keep getting ripped off at this place. I should learn my lesson and stop ordering from them. If they get the ingredients right they provide the wrong size (regular when I order a large) or don't prepare according to the notes provided on the online order. Extremely frustrating. I provide feedback everytime I order via the online survey and months later, still no improvement. read more

I've been so excited for this place to open but a little nervous that it wouldn't meet my expectation! It has completely surpassed it!! I've been here twice and both meals have been absolutely delicious! Bloomington-Normal has been in need of a place like this where it is healthy, a casual and comfortable atmosphere to meet friends for lunch and dinner! It's a little pricey compared to a fast food place but completely reasonable for the high quality ingredients and portions provided! Highly recommended!! read more

Honestly. I think this is the perfect place to get your grub on. Food was nutritious and well balanced and I didn't hate myself after finishing my plate. Will be heading back here whenever the mood strikes. read more

Had a Chicken Caesar. Tasted like grass covered cardboard . I have never eaten grass covered cardboard so I am just imagining what it must be like. Pretty disappointing $12 lunch. Soup/broth selection is better. read more

fresh and healthy food, great flavors and very clean restaurant. Most items under 500 calories.

As welcoming as the architecture was along with the admirable ability to glance at the menu that is along the waiting line, the main dish I wanted was not available because they were "low" on broccoli cheddar and most of the staff were waiting on customers to walk in instead of getting the most popular choice ready again for more customers like me asking for that dish. Missed 3 stars because as a newcomer to healthy eating, my first step wasn't tolerable tasting and none of the staff seemed to get on top of putting out more of the most popular dish. Will be back and possibly bring it up to 5 stars, but we will see. read more

I am so disappointed. Got the Mediterranean bowl. Paid $9 for a salad with two small, hard, cold pieces of falafel that were worse than ones you'd buy frozen. I can't believe I just paid this much for lettuce and dressing. read more

CoreLife Eatery - Mediterranean bowl with two awful, small, hard falafel pieces - Salad Near Me - Normal, Illinois

Delicious, fresh and healthy-different! If you need your veggie-fix but want the option of tasty meat protein too, this is your place. I tried a broth bowl which is your most chock-full-of-yummy imaginable. My sis had a grain bowl that included falafel and red rice. The variety of fruit and veggie agua ffrescas was amazing too. read more

Made first trip here and was impressed. Cafeteria style place where you lineup and order your entree at the counter and move down the line of ingredients. Vegetables lined up behind the counter is nice and adds to ambiance of healthy eating. The lineup is bowls. Green bowls (salads), grains bowls (rice, noodles,quinoa), bone broth bowls, and plates. Excellent grass fed beef, fresh tuna, antibiotics free chicken are meats that can be added to bowls or plates or you can go veggie. No soda pop Coke or Pepsi which is fine with me as they have a great lineup of flavored lemonade and teas. I had the Spicy ginger steak broth bowl with recommended veggies and sriracha and red chili sauce and was awesome. Wife has the Tuna/Poke grain bowl and loved it as well. Service was quick and friendly and price was little high 28 bucks for 2 but cannot complain as quality was excellent. Many more things to try we will be back. read more

CoreLife Eatery - Spicy ginger steak and rice noodles yum - Salad Near Me - Normal, Illinois

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I received a rock in my salad. Luckily I have strong teeth or things could have gone south very quickly when I bit down!

I loved it ! I like they had pictures of different type of food you could order. Looks a variety of think you can order. The staff seem friendly and polite. Nice clean atmosphere and very quick. I enjoyed my salad bowel read more

Lovely place to eat, healthy salads and yummy soups but I wish they had more options for us that don't just wanna eat salads all the time. The drinks are delicious and very unique!! Brand new building and it's not expensive. read more

I really truly wanted to love this place & was more than excited to try it, but I was definitely underwhelmed by the tuna poke bowl which didn't have enough sesame dressing (which wasn't the biggest issue) but the fact that the raw tuna did not taste as fresh as it should have been for poke and even gave a hint of fishiness for the after taste. I am a huge tuna fan, constantly ordering nigiri and sashimi, so I know that it's not my in-experience that made me dislike it, but knowing what true raw tuna should be like. Who knows, maybe trying something else will make me change my mind about this place so that's why I gave it 3 stars. Overall, I love the health concept, just wish my order tasted as good as it looked. read more

My friends know me to be conscious about what I eat, and striving to eat healthy as much as possible. So many of them recommended CoreLife to me, but there isn't one in my area of Wisconsin. On a recent trip home from the south, I stopped to eat in Normal, IL. What did I see? CoreLife... score!!! My first impression?! It looked like a grocery store with its array of fresh produce on display! There were so many menu items to choose from, but since I love anything spicy I narrowed it down to the Sriracha Ginger Tofu & Ancient Grains. Hubs got the Southwest Grilled Chicken & Purple Rice Blend. The kiddos got Chicken Noodle Soup and Power Pasta. Both items were on the kids menu. May I say, I have to APPLAUD any place that refrains from putting things like chicken nuggets, hot dogs, hamburgers, and grilled cheeses on their kids menu. I hate that kids menus are comprised of the lowest grade food items possible! The food was every bit as good as everyone told me! The whole family was happy that we stopped in, and happy with their food. We also enjoyed sampling a few flavors of the lemonade, and even got a Beet Lemonade to share. This is rare for us, especially me. I usually drink water all day every day! I certainly hope to see more CoreLife locations nationwide, and especially one close to me!!! read more

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Went there for the first time two weeks ago!! Fabulous food and such big portions ! It made two meals for me

Place is trash. Ordered hot food via Door Dash and somehow arrived cold. Place is 10 minutes from me. Don't eat here.

I've been eating at CoreLife since 2015/2016. I still eat there occasionally (1-2x per month). The food is great, VERY healthy. The issue is the steadily rising prices and and diminishing portion sizes. When they first opened, the prices were reasonable for what you got. Now, the size of the bowls has gotten significantly smaller. No, I'm not just talking about the size of the protein portions. It started with the 'to-go' containers. They shrunk. Then servings got smaller in the double sized bowls they give you when you sit down and eat - yes, then those bowls got smaller. Then the prices began to change - first .50 increase, then another 1.00. Now, another year after that, and during Corona, of course - it is just small portions of overpriced organic grub. I understand planning formulas and modeling. Once you are established, people are into your product, and you've had at least one expansion within the initial critical time frame (usually 3years for small businesses, then 6years for expanded chains), you know your company is potentially 'highly successful'. This is the time to make a move on your bottom line. However, I'm now an 'occasional customer' and I personally know several dozens of others that are now 'occasional customers'. We all used to be regulars at multiple locations. Literally, purchase 2-3salads 2-4x per week. Not any more. Once or twice per month if I'm feeling it. Same for them. How does that affect their bottom line? They are going to do better returning to the base price point, getting more customer throughput than focusing on providing a lot less for higher prices. Demand is there but people are put off by the gradual increase in the price point for what they are receiving. read more

I've been here twice and it's so good!! The first time I created my own bowl and the second I ordered from the menu. Both were so good and completely different! Easy to find that favorite dish, but you'll want to taste all they have to offer! read more

CoreLife Eatery - Custom bowl with root vegetable medley and cranberry cayenne lemonade. - Salad Near Me - Normal, Illinois

Fast, fresh and full of greens. I travel a lot and eating healthy on the road can be difficult. But the last 2 times I've been in town I've come here because of the good flavorful food and the many choices. It also helps that the staff is extremely friendly. read more

Different approach with some of the selections and then the typical salad choices in a bowl. Can't see where it should be characterized as a steakhouse just because they offer a beef option. Good enough to go back. read more

I've been here quite a few times since they opened and I really like their options. Everything has mostly been fresh and tasty. However, they lose a star for the inconsistency in the employees making the salads. You will go one day and get someone who is nice and fills the salad as they should, and then you can go again another day and the employee is rude/unfriendly and they skimp on every single ingredient. It is also really expensive. Easily will spend $25+ for 2 people if you get drinks. I also noticed during one particular trip quite a few people coming up to complain something was missing in their dish. They really need to be more consistent in their portion sizes because it is annoying for you to have to ask for more and then they act like you're asking for extra when you're really just asking for what you should be getting as normal. read more

Really wanted to like this place because of the healthy concept but unfortunately my two visits left me unimpressed. I had a small tuna poke bowl the first time and was a bit surprised by how small the serving was for over $9. It was smaller than a side salad in some restaurants. The second time, I ordered a regular sized chicken bowl and they forgot the chicken! The variety of drinks were good but the cups were small. It's just not worth the price as I could make similar bowls at home for 1/5 of the cost. read more

Noodles were inedible. How can you make noodles taste bad? Going to make a PBJ sand for dinner. Steak and broccoli were good. Liked the Ahi tuna and roasted beets and sweet potatoes on my last visit. Get some better noodles! read more