Quantcast

Vital Juice

Vital Juice

Nutrition

January 26, 2010

San Francisco Treat

Send to a friend
Choose from bowls and bowls of mix-ins at Mixt Greens.

San Fran's favorite salad shop comes to Downtown.

Brick. Cement. Skyscrapers. Fast food. Isn't there anyplace to get a healthy lunch in downtown LA?

Psst--Mixt Greens is your place. The mega-hit salad café from San Fran has come to The City of Angels, and it's fast food like you've never seen.

CIA-trained chef Andrew Swallow (really) created the organic, farm-to-table lunch spot to prove "gourmet" doesn't have to mean fat-tay. Choose from Swallow's creations, or custom-design your own: everything is mixed-to-order in instants.

Stunning greens beckon from baskets while an eye-popping array of mix-ins tempts from behind the counter. We went with the Maui, a butter lettuce-based blend of avocado, tomatoes, mango, cucumber, macadamias and coriander-crusted seared ahi tuna (we had the perfectly-sweet mango citrus vinaigrette on the side).

Those outside the city can look forward to the Miracle Mile location, launching February 23 with a living wall of lettuce, tomatoes, peppers and cucumbers.

Told you it's farm-to-table.

Mixt Greens, 350 S. Grand Ave. (in the courtyard under Deloitte & Touche), Los Angeles, MAP