The Green House Kitchen - "Masterpiece Salad"
All they have for entrées are salads. But the salads are damn good and I'm not even sure I would consider it a salad. Just get over it people, the trend is healthy eating and TGHK is doing it right.
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Rating - 4.5 stars
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The ambiance, the food and the service. I feel like there are three main components that make up the complete restaurant experience these days. The inside is very open and clean looking, it definitely stands up to it's name of being a green house kitchen. Root style decorations and natural decor make it feel like you are one with nature.
We started with a cup of their chickpea zesty basil soup topped with a fried bay leaf and a cup of homemade horchata. We are still talking about how good the soup was. The flavors and fresh ingredients were perfectly balanced. We could not get enough of it! The horchata was not like I was used to tasting in Southern California, but I could tell it was made with real ingredients.
Then we received our fresh oven baked flatbread with cauliflower and tomatoes that were drizzled with a balsamic glaze. They even gave us paddles to use as extra plates that followed in the natural footsteps of the establishments wooden dinnerware theme. This was perfectly crisp and fluffy coming out hot and fresh.
On to the main event, the salads! The Masterpiece was laid out in a very chic manner with a little ball of goat cheese in the middle. The goat cheese was awesome and I was able to muster up a little piece of it with every bite. The big wooden bowls allowed me to scurry my food around and make each bite better than the last while keeping the dressing in a bowl and dipping each bite in it. The bacon was perfectly crisp for a salad and the fresh artichoke heart was perfectly fitted with the dish. The greens were all fresh and the mixture of seeds and cheese all made my little tummy smile.
The Thai Me Up salad was also amazing with it's big hunks of sliced flank steak laid out over the soba noodles with the ginger dressing "thai-ing" everything together. All in all a great experience and a fun time. Not too formal but well worth it.
The service was the only thing that held it back for the customers that came in after us since it seemed like the only waitress there was struggling a bit. But hey, that's a good thing to have your place get more business than you expected!
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All they have for entrées are salads. But the salads are damn good and I'm not even sure I would consider it a salad. Just get over it people, the trend is healthy eating and TGHK is doing it right.
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Rating - 4.5 stars
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The ambiance, the food and the service. I feel like there are three main components that make up the complete restaurant experience these days. The inside is very open and clean looking, it definitely stands up to it's name of being a green house kitchen. Root style decorations and natural decor make it feel like you are one with nature.
We started with a cup of their chickpea zesty basil soup topped with a fried bay leaf and a cup of homemade horchata. We are still talking about how good the soup was. The flavors and fresh ingredients were perfectly balanced. We could not get enough of it! The horchata was not like I was used to tasting in Southern California, but I could tell it was made with real ingredients.
Then we received our fresh oven baked flatbread with cauliflower and tomatoes that were drizzled with a balsamic glaze. They even gave us paddles to use as extra plates that followed in the natural footsteps of the establishments wooden dinnerware theme. This was perfectly crisp and fluffy coming out hot and fresh.
On to the main event, the salads! The Masterpiece was laid out in a very chic manner with a little ball of goat cheese in the middle. The goat cheese was awesome and I was able to muster up a little piece of it with every bite. The big wooden bowls allowed me to scurry my food around and make each bite better than the last while keeping the dressing in a bowl and dipping each bite in it. The bacon was perfectly crisp for a salad and the fresh artichoke heart was perfectly fitted with the dish. The greens were all fresh and the mixture of seeds and cheese all made my little tummy smile.
The Thai Me Up salad was also amazing with it's big hunks of sliced flank steak laid out over the soba noodles with the ginger dressing "thai-ing" everything together. All in all a great experience and a fun time. Not too formal but well worth it.
The service was the only thing that held it back for the customers that came in after us since it seemed like the only waitress there was struggling a bit. But hey, that's a good thing to have your place get more business than you expected!
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