Sweetgreen

Restaurants

Where to Sit: Take the salad outside and eat at Sweetgreen's wire tables.

The Extras: Get a Sweetgreen card and earn a free SweetFlow frozen yogurt or a free salad after a few purchases.

Feel "virtuous" "stuffing your face" at this eco-chic, "Nouvelle salad bar" chain sourcing organic, local components for "creative pre-fab salads" or bowls "made to your specifications", plus soups and "amazing" frozen yogurts; there's almost "always a line", but there's also a "quick turnaround", so while some call it "a little pricey for some greens", most judge "the ‘I-saved-the-world' vibe"...

Tales of youthful entrepreneurship are not overstated here: two young G’town graduates have parlayed a class project into a blooming DC business. The result: a snazzy salad bar starring six house-created salads plus assemble-your-own choices and a few classic greens combos. These are not run-of-the-mill salad selections, but outsized for flavor and creativity. Our favorite: the guacamole greens...

Summery salad smorgasbord scoffs at size zero but fills you up until you get there. Gargantuan piles of leafy green are fresh as hell, and like Michelle Obama, never overdressed. Earthy toppings sold like iPhone apps—mostly free, a few cost upwards of a buck—nuts, veggies, fruit and protein—all drizzled with black truffle oil. Biodegradable forks, cute-as-a-button white and green love shack...

Founded by a group of Georgetown University finance-and-marketing graduates in 2007, Sweetgreen serves up a selection of fresh, locally sourced, design-your-own salads. This small green-roof cabin...

sweetgreen is a destination for simple, seasonal, healthy food. We believe the choices we make every day about what we eat, where it comes from, and how it’s made have a lasting impact on our communities. From the seed to the store, we’re involved in every step of the supply chain, working with partners and farmers we know and trust. We make our food from scratch in each sweetgreen every day,...