Local Roots

Great Service and friendly staff. Their food is so good and their ingredients always fresh. Fast and decent prices. Love their coffee and their Snickers (protein shake). Their breakfast tacos and burritos are delicious. Great selection of salads and sandwiches and options for vegetarians are available. Nice quiet place. Plenty of indoor seating and even some tables on Leidesdorff (the alleyway).

I ordered takeout & I thought that the salad had a good amount of toppings and taste for the price. The crispy chickpeas and artichokes were my favorite. The salad was well dressed and had great flavor. Would definitely recommend for a lite filling lunch option.

A friend and I chose this spot for a workday lunch because it seemed healthy and well-reviewed. I thought my food was ok, but maybe I ordered the wrong thing and would be willing to give this another try. Price was average for downtown (which is a little pricey to me, $18.14 total for a single serving).It was empty at 11:30am on a Thursday in February. But people were quickly arriving and there was a small line soon to order. There were always tables available.* California Curry Salad $10.95 (+Tuna Tataki for an extra $4.75) - 2.5 starsI chose this because the cooked cauliflower looked (and was!) delicious, but they gave me so little (maybe a couple pieces) and I had to ask for a little more. The rice was a little stale. They did sear the tuna fresh (I had to wait a little) but it was overall dry and fresh, which was the biggest disappointment of this meal.

California Curry Salad - 1/5This food is not for me. Chicken was extremely bland. My order was a takeout.

Generous portions and reasonably priced considering other options in the area. I had the locally rooted salad with flat iron steak, dressing on the side. I hardly had to use any of the dressing because the salad was already tasty without it! The flat iron steak was tender and not dry. Lots of tables available and clean. Service was friendly and efficient.

I never even noticed this alleyway lunch spot on Leidesdorff even though I work on the next block. That's because I stride onto bustling California Street with that typical blinders-on hubris for which the FiDi proletariat is renowned. Initially I shrugged at the prospect of another build-a-bowl place, but I noticed they had quite a few more options than its nearby competitors Homegrown and Torshi Mexiterranean and it was a bit less hectic than Mendocino Farms. Bowls, bowls, everywhere bowls.The multiphase ordering was daunting, but I managed to conquer my phobia for procedure and ordered the $9.25 base of Baby Spinach and picked Superfood for my style. That meant the spinach was mixed with roasted sweet potato, kale, caramelized onions, broccoli, avocado, goji berries, and toasted almonds, tossed in a slightly sweetened fig dressing. For an additional $2.95, I asked for the Chickpea Loaf, which was delicious and probably the closest I've been to a slice of meatloaf in several years (photo: http://bit.ly/2ZdqQJr).It was all pretty satisfying with the wintry flavors matching the inclement weather well. I came back a few days later to have the $9.25 Kale Salad with the California Curry, which consisted of broccoli, harissa cauliflower, chickpeas, artichoke, tomato, spiced cashews, and golden raisins, drizzled with a curry-yogurt dressing. And yes, I topped it off with the $2.95 Chickpea Loaf yet again (photo: http://bit.ly/2tvECep). Another tantalizing combination of flavors. Yep, I think I've found another go-to lunch spot when I'm in a hurry, at least until the Amazon Go reopens.FOOD - 4 stars...really like the combo of ingredients they offer over a saladAMBIANCE - 3.5 stars...pretty generic but spacious enough, looks like every other FIDi lunch spotSERVICE - 3.5 stars...nice enough and pretty fastTOTAL - 4 stars...building a bowl is better than building a bear (I don't know what that means)RELATED - Fiddling around in the FIDi? Here's a collection of places I've tried and reviewed: http://bit.ly/2F02OZN

Great lunch option. Very fresh ingredients and interesting salad styles.I got the kale base w curry style and chicken, but would probably try another flavor next time as I did not like this one that much. Huge portions, fair pricing! Staff is very kind and peppy; they seem to have a lot of regulars.

Ordered takeout through corporate Sharebite.Got their- Chopped style salad, curly kale base - ($12) -- delicious salad packed with toppings tidily in six square grids. Avocado, bacon, bleu cheese, and more. See the photo!One of the top value lunch salads I've had so far!- Soup of the day (creamy tomato), bowl ($5.75) -- warm and creamyA nit is I called them to inquire what the soup of the day was, and it took a few iterations for me to understand what the staff member was saying.

All ingredients are very healthy and clean and unprocessed. You will either really like or dislike a dish depending on how much you like the ingredients. Harvest salad 5/5The salads you get from elsewhere usually only have a few I ingredients. But this one has a universe of ingredients: lettuce, mixed greens, mushroom, carrots, brussel sprouts, red onion, bacon bites, beans, and chicken! Breakfast chicken bowl 4/5 A healthy breakfast bowl with a Mexican twist. Chickpea loaf with local roots 2/5Maybe it's just personal preference but I didn't really like this mix and match plate. The chickpea loaf tasted kind of weird. I couldn't tell its chickpea. Didn't like the beets and carrots part either. The only portion I liked was the diced sweet potato with kale. Wish there was more kale.

Great vegan/vegetarian options that actually include protein and the portions are large. There is also quite a variety of choices, so you can be as healthy or non-healthy as you are in the mood for.