Restaurants offer delicious, healthy options
Grilled tuna steak, salads, wraps, quiches, herbal teas among choices available.
With sunny skies and high temperatures, the last thing our body craves is a plate full of mashed potatoes and meat.
Making good meal choices is not only essential for your health, but it can also provide more pep in your step throughout the day.
And while finding healthy options when heading out to eat can be difficult, there are a few local gems that have their customers’ health in mind when dishing up a delicious plate.
Here are some of the best restaurants in and around Round Rock and Williamson County offering healthy choices — and more than just a pile of lettuce.
Greenhouse Craft Food
1400 E. Old Settlers Blvd., Suite 110, Round Rock
This counter-service restaurant is known for its locally sourced comfort food, with plenty of healthy options. A couple of fresh salads with local ingredients from Texas farmers and ranchers are good go-to’s. Try the Grass Eater sans tortilla chips or the Turkey Club without the cheese.
Salt Traders Coastal Cooking
2850 N. Interstate Highway 35, Round Rock
This seafood-centric restaurant is from the team behind Jack Allen’s Kitchen, and offers a menu that is inspired by their coastal travels. Chow down on an order of fresh shrimp cocktail, or get a juicy grilled tuna steak full of protein and omega-3 fatty acids.
Salata
200 University Blvd., Suite 420, Round Rock
This fast-casual restaurant makes eating healthy easy. Salata offers a variety of fresh ingredients and more than 50 toppings to create your own masterpiece in the form of a salad or wrap. If you are on-the-go and don’t have any time to waste, this is your spot.
Nancy’s Sky Garden
1105 S. Mays St., Round Rock; 501 S. Austin Ave., fourth floor, Georgetown
If you’re craving a filling and guiltfree option, Nancy’s Sky Garden is the place to go. The restaurant has a menu catering to vegetarians (meat eaters can also get their own dose of protein as well) and is mainly gluten-free besides its spicy red dressing. The food is refreshing and light, skipping oils and salt commonly hidden in dishes, and it also has a fine selection of herbal teas.
Monument Cafe
500 S. Austin Avenue, Georgetown This classic roadside cafe is a crowdpleaser, offering both healthy and greasy options for guests with all types of appetites. The beloved restaurant dishes up foods that are farm fresh and never frozen, and has a wide selection of salads and guilt-free breakfast options such as quiches. Guests can also buy farmfresh foods at the Monument Market, which is definitely a plus.
Farm to Fork
11880 Old Farm to Market Road 2243, Suite 201, Leander
Farm to Fork serves local Texas and organic foods without GMOs so you know you are eating quality when visiting. The menu is based on Texas southern cuisine with a French flare, and is nicely priced for what you are getting. The house-roasted turkey BLT wrap is a solid healthy choice on the menu, and the daily specials occasionally offer a healthy surprise.