Awesome Bites to Fuel Your New Year Goals
For many, the New Year is the perfect time for a fresh start with resolutions centered around health and wellness. Thanks to San Diego’s incredible restaurant scene, healthy eating doesn’t mean you can’t also dig into something that tastes awesome. Checkout these resolution-ready eats that make ringing in a new year – and new you – delicious!
This groovy little restaurant, Evolution is the future of fast food, with feel good ingredients that are fast and won’t break your new year health goals. Feel good burgers, sandwiches, wraps, and tacos all wrapped in biodegradable material are the perfect indulgence that actually is not breaking the diet (or bank).
The made-from-scratch menu is designed to give the Del Mar community nourishing goodness with a menu full of wraps, salads, veggies, grains, fruits and proteins customizable to any lifestyle whether you are vegan, paleo, gluten free or keto. The salmon and vegan chocolate pudding are some crowd favorites that are to die for. Not only is the menu filled with colorful foods, but the overall indoor and outdoor aesthetic is bright and cheerful.
Healthy Creations Cafe in Encinitas
Healthy Creations specializes in creating flavorful organic and gluten free dishes that make you forget you are eating healthy. Try their power bowls which are packed with nutrient dense ingredients to fuel the body or breakfast options like their buddha bowl or fried egg avocado toast.
The stunning rooftop restaurant at Monarch is a perfect place to get drinks and bites with friends. The menu has options to please the whole group with dishes like vegan mushroom and burratta pizza or seasonal vegan farmers salad with greens, roasted butternut squash, smoked beets, pomegranate seeds, and more!
This Instagram-worthy coffee shop/restaurant is the perfect place to meet your work or school goals while enjoying an ocean breeze and a delicious menu filled with organic local produce. Kick off the new year with an acai bowl, house salads topped with salmon and other protein, a grass-fed burger, or their blue algae super food smoothie. Palmys also has an espresso and tea bar with options like turmeric or lavender lattes and immune boosting teas.
True Food Kitchen in La Jolla and Mission Valley
Start the new year on a high note with True Food’s $50.00 “one day reset package,” filled with detoxifying food and juices to reset the body this new year. Included in the package is a Kale Aid cleansing juice and a Hangover RX immunity shot.The package also includes edamame guacamole, a Tuscan kale salad, a winter immunity soup (made of lion’s mane mushroom, farro, kuzu and hemp seed soaked in broth with your choice of chicken or tofu), and chamomile tea.
Verbena Kitchen in North Park
The new and noteworthy restaurant (and Friend of the Fest) features fresh, farm-to-table dishes that use locally-purveyed, high quality ingredients. The flavorful menu provides options like seared local tuna with apple, pomegranate, pickled shallots, hemp seed, poppy seed, ricotta salata and pomegranate vinaigrette. Not to mention, their happy hour menu offers one-dollar oysters!
