True Food Kitchen, the newest in a wave of health-minded eating places to land at Rosemary Sq., made its lengthy awaited debut Friday in a primary location on the downtown West Palm Seashore plaza.
The informal, full-service restaurant, which took over the previous Restoration Ironmongery shop house, follows the holistic dietary teachings of co-founder Dr. Andrew Weil, who gained nationwide prominence for his anti-inflammatory weight-reduction plan and wellness books.
However that doesn’t imply the menu begins and ends with salad. Count on a menu that adjustments seasonally and affords a big and various number of dishes for plant-based diners in addition to meat lovers. There are many gluten-free and dairy-free choices as nicely.
The menu lists every little thing from vegan and gluten-free Korean noodle bowls to grass-fed burgers to grilled sustainable salmon to a number of styles of pizza. Add to that full-bar cocktails and a variety of booze-free glowing drinks, natural teas and limeade sips.
Ask True Food Kitchen CEO Christine Barone about her go-to menu gadgets and he or she’ll direct you to the charred cauliflower starter with harissa tahini, medjool date, dill, pistachio and mint ($10).
She additionally likes the edamame dumplings with dashi, white truffle oil and herbs ($12). For her essential dish, she loves the Historic Grains bowl with miso-sesame-glazed candy potato, charred onion, snap peas, grilled portobello, avocado and a sprinkling of hemp seeds and cilantro-pepita pesto ($15).
“It’s exhausting to share a favourite however these are good introductions to the model,” mentioned Barone, who was readily available for the restaurant’s opening week when the restaurant supplied soft-opening preview seatings. “I’m loving the shrimp tacos at the moment.”
(These shrimp tacos are served with jicama slaw, cherry tomatoes, zucchini salsa verde, road corn and cauliflower rice for $19.50.)
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The Tampa-raised, Phoenix-based CEO says she discovered West Palm Seashore to be a great setting for True Meals Kitchen.
“This morning I walked throughout the road with a bunch of our new workers who’re driving their bikes to work. It’s only a actually superior, lively group,” mentioned Barone, noting that the restaurant promotes an “eat optimistically, dwell an lively life-style” mindset. “It so suits with what’s going on right here in West Palm Seashore.”
That outdoor-loving vibe is mirrored within the restaurant’s design. A leafy patio opens to the plaza’s frequent space, the place this week children could possibly be heard taking part in on the Rosemary Sq. fountain. Daylight streams into the principle eating room by means of the big home windows that line two partitions.
True Meals Kitchen was to open on the downtown procuring and eating plaza within the fall of 2019. The restaurant joins Planta and Pura Vida, two new-ish eateries with a give attention to holistic meals.
The West Palm Seashore True Meals Kitchen is the nationwide chain’s second location in Palm Seashore County. A True Meals Kitchen opened in Boca Raton in early 2018. The chain has places in Naples and Jacksonville, with others anticipated to debut subsequent 12 months in Tampa and Miami.
True Meals Kitchen
- Opened Friday, July 30, at Rosemary Sq., 700 S. Rosemary Ave., Suite 112, West Palm Seashore, 561-345-2155, TrueFoodKitchen.com
- Serves lunch, dinner and weekend brunch
- Menu features a vary of health-minded choices for plant-based diners, carnivores and people following particular diets.
Palm Seashore Put up contributing meals author/photographer J. Miller contributed to this story.
