Healthy eating option headed for Old Town Pasadena

When visiting Old Town Pasadena, you will soon have a new healthy eating option.

True Food Kitchen, a large restaurant chain with a healthy-eating concept, will open a location on the western edges of Old Town Pasadena at 168 W Colorado Blvd.

Healthy food with flavor

True Food Kitchen follows the anti-inflammatory diet made popular by Dr. Andrew Weil. The diet relies on whole foods like fresh fruits and vegetables, fish, whole grains, spices, cooked Asian mushrooms and dairy.

True Food Kitchen says it offers “honest food that tastes really good.” That honest food includes a selection of vegan, vegetarian and gluten-free options, as well.

Menus offer everything from quinoa burgers to fish tacos to flax-dough pizza (made fresh daily). There are brunch and dessert menus, as well as a section for kids.

True Food Kitchen has a full bar with an extensive beer and wine list, as well.

A expanding concept

True Food Kitchen has 10 locations open across the country, more in the works.

The restaurant chain already has Southern California locations in Santa Monica, Newport Beach and San Diego. Along with the Los Angeles branches, True Food Kitchen will also open in Walnut, California; Austin; Chicago; San Diego; Palo Alto; and Bethesda, Maryland.

The True Food Kitchen planned for Old Town Pasadena is expected to open by mid-summer.

Chris Reisbeck is a Pasadena real estate agent. Visit his blog at ClassicPasadenaHomes.com