Buds

I have a low key addiction to this place. The food is sooooo good and the price point is wonderful! I absolutely love their cheesesteak and want to order other items, but don’t want to stray from my favorite menu item! I have also gotten their lemonade and zucchini cookie, both amazing. I wish Buds would expand with a couple more locations and get one closer to where I live, but for now I will make the drive here for a delicious vegan sandwich.

Awesome sandwiches for vegans and very reasonably priced. Even the zucchini chocolate chip cookie was delicious. I wish a place like this opened in every city. Just go and try it!

Updated 7/27/2020: There seems to be some negative feedback about the owner(s) in the "Salt Lake City" vegans Facebook group. If someone believes the owners of a vegan restaurant should handle employee issues in a certain way, I'd recommend you read up the posts in that group. One of the owners posted her response in a separate thread. You could decide for yourself after reading from both sides.

Have been eating plant based for over three years and of course found it very difficult to eat out! Selection in our eastern Idaho community is very limited! Brought my wife down to The Huntsman for another surgery and she instructed me to go find a good sandwich while she was undergoing treatment! Bud's was close so gave it a try! Ordered the taco salad! It is huge! Very good! Thought there was no way I was going to finish but did! Definitely will be back! Great selection and more than fair pricing! Highly recommended !

The overall flavor and quality was disappointing at any price, but especially for $8.35. I got the Barbacoa Sandwich because I have had Barbacoa "jackfruit" Tacos (not in Utah) that were phenomenal, but this sandwich was not.
Let's talk about the description of this sandwich, "Grilled jackfruit and black beans slow cooked in a chipotle BBQ sauce with shredded cabbage, fresh made guacamole, and ginger sour cream on a toasted sourdough hoagie"
1.The jackfruit needs more of a spicy, smokey flavor to resemble true barbacoa and there was no essence of BBQ sauce.
2 The cabbage/ginger sour cream mash up was AWEFUL. Ginger is a fine option for tang but it needs to be better quality crisp red cabbage and also sweet to off set spicy/smokey of the barbacoa.
3. The "guacamole" is a great idea, it just needs to be turned into real guac with lime, cilantro, jalapeno and ONION (this sandwich NEEDS a lil onion in its life)
4. Bread. not good. just pick a better hoagie.
This place has a great basis on vegan food and flavorful ideas, its just lacking follow through. And not to compare them to other businesses, but I'm writing from a former Chipotle Kitchen Manager perspective of a Kansas City BBQ girl, living in a Utah world.

Buds is delicious. Admittedly I've only tried the same sandwich every time I have been there. It's deli classic. I've gotten it on sourdough and wheat. You can't go wrong either way.

I have also had their zucchini chocolate chip cookies. They're great. They're chewy. They're vegan. They're chocolatey.

The service is good too. They're super fast at making sandwiches.