Popped by here for lunch recently. The place was absolutely buzzing on a Saturday. Managed to grab a table, that we ended up sharing with a lovely older couple. I ordered a grilled cheese and fries. The grilled cheese was pretty good. But the fries were a total winner for me. They were better than some fish & chip shop fries I've had in town. I'd like to come back and try their breakfast one of these days. read more

Saltbox Kitchen - Grilled cheese, Fries. - New American Near Me - Concord, Massachusetts

An oasis in the middle of Concord. Farm to table goodness. Grilled cheese sandwich excellent. My companions enjoyed their maple-roasted squash and fontina sandwiches and beet and carrot salad. Coffee grades an A+. As homey as can be on a wintry afternoon, Saltbox is a local institution. read more

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Excellent food, breakfast, lunch or dinner, bakery. They have a number of ready to go/ take home options. The brewery has some very tasty options as well. They put on some great events all year long. The service here is great as well. They have a limited number of seating with a view of the brewery inside and the local West Concord village. A great option for any meal or a couple of them. read more

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Every. Single. Bite. Was wow. I tasted everything all 9 of us ordered. Including the sauces. Every thing was incredible and natural and delicious and healthy. Farm to table. I love eating this way. I tried so many things that I wanna go home and make now. Delicious and amazing service by the owner. What a delight to find this place here: I just wish I had this restaurant in California when I go home. I'd eat here every single day. All the foods we asked about, he started out...we grow our outside, we make our own ketchup etc. Phenomenal Thank You read more

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Our favorite lunch place when biking the Bruce Freeman Rail Trail. Open kitchen. Expertly prepared food. High energy vibe. Order at the counter and they bring your food to your table. They make their own beer. read more

They are delicious, kind, and responsive. They have a great changing, seasonal menu. Thoughtful and yummy

I wanted to love this place after waiting so long to get here. The place is beautiful and well designed. Staff are friendly and welcoming. Perhaps I ordered the wrong item from the menu as I went with the cauliflower Ruben. In all fairness it looked great and tasted just so so. The hardest part was it also just fell apart when I took a bite. My son had the BLT which he said was tasty though served on an English muffin which was too small to satisfy him. With your prices Saltbox you can do better. Enjoy! read more

Saltbox Kitchen - Cauliflower Rubin - New American Near Me - Concord, Massachusetts

Such a great local spot! We came in around noon on a Saturday and had a great little brunch. For drinks we ordered a matcha lemonade which was very sweet and a hot coffee. We modified the breakfast sandwich to have ciabatta bread instead of an English muffin and it was delicious! Everyone was so friendly and it really felt like a nice neighborhoody spot. They also seemed to host a bunch of events such as oyster nights and speciality dinners. read more

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The food here was incredible. I would consider myself a foodie. We had a table of 9 and everyone single person LOVED there food. Borrata salad, schnitzel, and BLT were amazing. Even their home made ketchup was incredible. Highly recommended!! read more

Saltbox is a newish café in the town (At least seems that way to me! I guess they opened in 2015) with a variety of special breakfast and lunch items, along with delicious coffee beverages. Their menu items are drawn from a locally sourced farm, perhaps one reason for the high prices. But despite that, the lattes I've ordered were actually very reasonable and always delicious. Their flavors are vanilla, maple, honey, mocha, and pumpkin spice during fall. The pumpkin spice is probably my favorite, house made with various spices. I also had to try their famous grilled cheese during my latest visit, what some have called the best they've ever tasted. I can't disagree, being super cheesy and buttery for a delectable lunch treat. The inside is pleasant and usually full of people, and some wonderful paintings on the walls near the kitchen area. It's an upscale place, with some fickle hours I've found so keep that in mind, and certainly worth checking out! read more

Warning: Do not walk into this place.. . Run into this place, it is so tastety! This is best place to eat in the whole area. Our table of 9 tried almost all of their dishes, and they were all an A+. Burata tomatoes, panini, BLT, cheeseburger, chicken, mezze, and their salad. Everyone of them tasted fresh and delicious. They came out quickly once ordered. Super clean inside. And the server, Dan, was very hospitable. If I were to be in the Concord area, I would visit here every time. read more

Nice enough staff, decent food, definitely overpriced for what you get. No complaints really but this place is just ok.

The food here is good here but not over the top and is definitely overpriced. The reason for a low rating is the lack of hygiene in the kitchen. Not all people working with ready to eat food wear gloves and we saw them stick their bare fingers in the food that customers are going to eat. When I said something about it there didn't seem to be any awareness of the hygiene laws in Massachusetts. read more

Saltbox Kitchen is a restaurant that also serves lattes and pastries. I've only been in once and it was both classy and comforting being there. I got an iced mocha latte and it was quite good but didn't have the level of richness I expected. I will have to go again but I recommend giving it a try. The service was good and the barista took care making the latte. It is not a place you can run in when you're in a rush for a latte and get it immediately. There is care taken in the process but it's good. read more

The breakfast sandwich is by FAR the best I've ever had. Unbelievably delicious, quite possible the most perfect thing I've eaten all year.

We loved everything about this place. The food, the vibe, the people and those pretzels are so memorable. I could go for some right now! read more

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The sweet potato schnitzel is the most delicious sandwich I've ever had. My family would agree with the BLT and the tomato grilled cheese. Sat at the counter and enjoyed watching the chefs at work. Great stop on our journey home. read more

Saltbox Kitchen uses fresh and tasty local ingredients. Everything I have had is yummy. Their fries are THE BEST. I usually get the mezze plate (hummus, dolma, beans, pita, olives, dates) as I love it and it is generous. Have gotten the daily soup a year or two ago and while it was tasty, it was not a large portion. I think you have to know the menu to be happy with the meal as it is not cheap. But it sure is tasty. Atmosphere is lovely, casual, local hangout. You bus your own dishes, real silver silverware, fabric napkins, and mason jars for glasses. Service is very friendly. read more

Food and drinks out of control prices. Tiny cocktail $17. Egg sandwich $8 plus. No for me.

Interesting menu choices, friendly staff, cheerful ambiance. I've never been disappointed with my food. Highly recommend!

It's ok, not amazing. Service was pleasant, interactive, and helpful. The place looks cool. The food is meh. This place place hits all the boxes for Concord trendy: walkable, cafe, shiny stuff, chalkboard, wood, artsy stoneware, craft beer. It is beautiful to behold.....all of it. But the food itself is meh. You can tell they thought about ingredients. And you can tell they put a little thought into presentation. But the execution, the methods of preparation, are lackluster. It is like having good ingredients thrown at a new cook. BUT, that MA IPA was a thing of beauty. Well done. I wouldn't recommend as a place to blow away your friends with the food. But, bring your superficial friends for the shiny visuals and good conversation. Your mouth won't be full enough for long enough to impede a good discussion. It's like a lot of Concord eateries: cute and shiny in just the right ways, but vapid on the inside. Spent around $20 for a breakfast sandwich and the beer. Had the sandwich been better, it would have been a deal. read more

A+. I had the sweet potato schnitzel. It was tasty and hot. It came on a kind speciality bread that was toasted to a perfect crunch. My tea came in a pot that kept the tea warm so my tea never got cold. Service was friendly and quick. For the quantity, quality and the uniqueness of the food, I felt the price was fair, and not over priced. I will certainty return. read more

The space is convenient and the interior is bright and clean, but I felt underwhelmed with the food. Staff were helpful and talked us through choices for flights and drinks. read more

Went here for a lunch date with a friend for the first time and really enjoyed it. A lot of salad, soup and sandwich options with plenty of baked goods and meals to go at the counter. Kind of like an upscale Panera. It was pretty busy when we went so we did have to wait a little for a place to sit down, but it wasn't unreasonable. Only complaint was that I got the soup of the day with bread and the bread was pretty inedible since it was charred so much. But overall the food was great and the baked goods we took home, delicious. read more

Very cute cafe in Concord with good food. Only downfall is that it is overpriced. Needless to say, I would still come again.

A True Story I was feeling a bit melancholy and out of sorts when I agreed to explore our new stomping grounds in West Concord with my wife. We weren't welcome in our own home while it was being shown to possible buyers, thus a trip to see the area around our soon-to-be home was in order. It was a pointless venture in my eyes as we had everything we could want or need in our old neighborhood. So when my wife stopped by the tracks in West Concord, told me to stay in the car with the dog and called me Grumpy, I was content to do just that. She had gone in the door to someplace called Saltbox Kitchen and upon her return to the car, she suggested I put the dog in back, because I wasn't going to want to share my breakfast with him. With that, my ears perked up... slightly. I took the bounty from my wife, so she could get back in the car. An iced coffee for me and a bag with two carefully wrapped objects. My wife says they're both the same and, with a noted bit of pride and certainty, claimed to know what I like. I grumbled a little in a protested retort. Upon opening up the thick paper both retaining and protecting the booty enclosed, I got the first whiffs of the savory aromas intermingling under my nose. The smells were irresistible and I bit into my Farm Egg Sandwich. As if some inaudible signal had passed between us, my wife and I exhaled a long combination of yummy sounds and chewing, as we both experienced our first bites simultaneously. Looking at each other, we giggled at the realization of unspoken agreement that this was a great find and it being only a quarter of a mile from our new home-to-be. The Farm Egg Sandwich is a combination of a frittata with greens, cheddar cheese, bacon, and a tomato jam all combined on a substantial English muffin. I'm not sure if it's the tang of the tomato jam, the savoriness of the frittata, the sweet, crunchy, satisfying goodness of the thick-cut bacon or the perfect combination of it all, but the morning haze began to burn off and blue skies and sun shone through. As I reached for my iced coffee, my hand was rebuffed by my wife's as she bypassed the coffee she'd brought from home for the third time, took another long pull from the straw and exclaimed, "Mmm! This is really good coffee." To which, I replied, maybe predictably so, "I wouldn't know." In response, I got the look so many wives give their husbands complete with eye roll as she relinquished the coffee. I took a swig of the elixir and couldn't deny its delectability and unlike the coffee flavor at the chain shops. To my disappointment, I came to the end of my sandwich, a bite that was as delicious as the first. In hopes of having missed a morsel, I checked the bag the sandwiches came in to no avail. My wife looked at me side-eyed, reached around to her side opposite from me and said, "Oh by the way, here's their menu." Looking it over, I saw a full day menu of items that all sounded delicious. They're a farm-to-table establishment with a farm in Concord, which sounds really ambitious. As I perused the menu and mulled over its possibilities, my wife casually threw in, "Did I mention that they make their own beer?" Oh! Well played, Dear. Holding your cards close to your vest and playing them at the perfect moment. As I put my sunglasses on for the sudden brightness, I thought this could be the start of a beautiful day. "Onward towards more adventures in this new land," I exclaimed as the caffeine kicked in and had its desired effect on my disposition. My wife did the eye roll thingy again and drove on. Saltbox Kitchen - we shall meet again! read more

The best grilled cheese of my life. And I don't say that lightly. This farm-to-table gem in Concord has healthy to greasy treats that's are locally sourced, if not straight from their own backyard and it shows. Everything is fresh and fast-casual in this quaint little town square. They have a lot of local and repeat customers for good reason. I'd recommend from vegans to meat eaters. read more

Disappointed I asked for a well done burger and that's not what I got. I got this as takeout thinking if I would give this place another shot they may do better but I was wrong. The fries were good but won't be back for the food. read more

Saltbox Kitchen - Salt box Kitchen Fancy burger of the week - New American Near Me - Concord, Massachusetts

Best grilled cheese I've ever had. I dream about it. Cute vibes. Great location. Not huge but I got a spot just fine to sit.

Went here today as my significant other insisted. Last time I was here was over a year ago. Everything is a grease bomb at this place. Today I ordered the one thing that I thought would not be a grease bomb, a turkey sandwich, and it literally had half a cup of mayonnaise on it. Also the service was slow, 40 minutes from order at the counter until we got our food. It will be another year or two before I'll be back. read more

I felt it was very expensive for the frou-frou menu sad uncomfortable seats, but I'm in my 60's and the clientele seemed to be in their 20s and 30s having a grand time. I am sure it was just a generational thing! read more

Got a $14 BLT, the English muffin was smaller than a normal one and the bacon was BURNED! And they want a 20% tip for self serve, though they brought it to the table. you bus it yourself and get your own drin, utensils, napkins. so lunch came to $19, I left $1 tip. They were on the cusp of rude, maybe because of this. have been here 5 times, never a great experience. Better options around. never returning. read more

Excellent food and very nice and chill atmosphere along with super nice staff. Even coming from San Francisco, we thought the food very impressive! read more

Lovely place for a late afternoon coffee with a friend in a charming neighborhood of Concord. Would definitely return.

Amazing food! Biked 16 miles to get here with some friends, two of them were vegan, and the staff went out of their way to make sure that the platter they ordered could be modified to be fully vegan. Amazing vibes here and all locally sourced! read more

I just spent $25 and received: 5 small shrimp 5 bites of flat bread 5 small bites of raw vegetables Never eating there again. The other rave reviews are fake or written by anorexic diners. Someone here thinks they are James Beard. That's the only explanation for the empty cafe. read more

Omg they make their own ketchup and it is the best I've ever had. So long Heinz 57, hello Saltbox Kitchen ketchup Oh wait, they don't sell it. I'm ready to open my wallet and drop cash to buy it. Please start selling it. And their honey mustard is the bomb, too. They could sell this mustard ketchup combo and make a killing on both. By the way the hamburger and fries were awesome. The IPA was yummy too. Great atmosphere. Wonderful experience. read more

Over priced for a simple sandwich, sides are extra. I would not go back. You pay a lot for a whole lot of nothing...very disappointing.

This is my favorite place in Concord! I have been going there for years and am never disappointed. On this trip both our salads were filled with vegetables directly from their farm down the street. The restaurant is beautiful filled with natural light and fresh pick flowers from the farm. All the employees are kind and you can peek right into the kitchen and watch the chefs at work! I am always happy and satisfied leaving Saltbox Kitchen. read more

Saltbox Kitchen - Hearty Green Salad and Saltbox Farm Shaved Vegetable Salad - New American Near Me - Concord, Massachusetts

Ive been coming to Saltbox Kitchen for a couple years. I eat their food almost everyday. Today I ordered a chicken sandwich and halfway through eating it I realized the chicken was RAW. I called back to complain was told that they use dark meat for the chicken and it wasn't raw. Anyone with eyes can see this chicken is not fully cooked. I am very sad because now I may get salmonella and my favorite lunch spot is ruined read more

Saltbox Kitchen - Chicken Sandwich - New American Near Me - Concord, Massachusetts