Started with a stockpot. Grew into a neighborhood.
The Celery Stalk opened on Elm Street with one big stockpot, a battered cutting board, and a stubborn belief that lunch should be the best part of your day.
We're a small kitchen, and we like it that way. Every soup is simmered from scratch in the morning. Every chicken is roasted here. Every sandwich is built when you order it, with bread sliced thick and ingredients piled high enough to be a little ridiculous.
Over the years, the regulars became friends, the friends brought their friends, and those folks left us 325 reviews on Google with an average of 4.4 stars. We're flattered, and a little stunned, and we promise to keep earning every one of them.
Walk in any weekday between 10:30 and 4. We'll save you the corner booth.
Three small rules. We don't bend them.
Scratch, or don't bother.
If we can't make it ourselves, we don't put it on the menu. Soups, dressings, chicken salad, even the cookies — all from this kitchen.
Treat lunch like it matters.
Because it does. People work hard, and the middle of their day deserves real food, real flavor, and a real hello at the counter.
Keep it neighborly.
Fair prices. Generous portions. We'd rather you come back next Tuesday than squeeze an extra dollar out of you today.
Come hungry.
140 Elm Street, West Springfield. Open until 4 PM today.