True Food Kitchen Opens Tuesday at Lenox Square Mall

“We’re excited to bring True Food Kitchen into the dynamic and growing Atlanta dining scene,” Fox Restaurant Concepts Founder Sam Fox said in a release. “We strive to promote a healthy lifestyle by combining seasonal, fresh ingredients with global flavors enabling our guests to feel good while enjoying honest food that tastes really good.”

Named a 2013 Nation’s Restaurant News “Break-out Brand,” True Food Kitchen offers globally inspired cuisine including starters, salads, sandwiches, entrees and fresh-squeezed juices, based on Dr. Andrew Weil’s anti-inflammatory diet that aims to counteract chronic inflammation and help people achieve and maintain optimum health. Tailoring the menu to specific dietary restrictions and allergies, True Food Kitchen offers a wide selection of vegan, vegetarian, organic and gluten-free options, along with dishes for those following a paleo or Mediterranean diet.

“With the opening of True Food Kitchen in Atlanta, we hope to inspire healthy living and an enhanced focus on nutrition,” said Dr. Weil in the release. “Our menu, based around the anti-inflammatory food pyramid, will teach guests that fresh, nutrient-rich food is delicious and accessible.”

Chef Stephan Manning leads the kitchen in Atlanta, joining the team from True Food Kitchen’s Phoenix, Ariz. location. The menu draws inspiration from Mediterranean, Asian and traditional American flavors and features a diverse selection of dishes from pizza to tacos. Taking advantage of each season’s best ingredients, the menu rotates seasonally to give guests fresh and naturally great-tasting dishes that don’t require added butter, salts or fats for flavor.

In Atlanta, chef Manning sources produce from local farms including blueberries from Flat Creek Farms in Sewanee, Ga., baby bok choy from R&G Farms in Dublin, Ga. and radishes from Mack Farms in Lake Wales, Fla. The debut menu features year-round classics like the “inside out” quinoa burger, Panang curry and turkey lasagna, as well as seasonal dishes like heirloom tomato and watermelon salad, corn and eggplant pizza and strawberry rhubarb crisp.

The restaurant’s full bar serves sustainable, organic and bio-dynamic wines and cocktails made with fresh fruit, honey and other natural flavorings. True Food Kitchen also offers non-alcoholic “natural refreshments” including juice, herb and vegetable blends like “kale-aid” made with kale, apple, cucumber, celery, lemon and ginger and “hangover RX” with coconut water, pineapple, vanilla and orange juice. On the wine menu, guests can enjoy a unique bottle of Fox Block, a private wine label series developed by True Food Kitchen sommelier Regan Jasper in partnership with small vineyards. Each year, Jasper picks a different vineyard and produces a unique bottle. This year’s Fox Block Nine is from Melville Winery.

In addition to its healthy dining efforts, True Food Kitchen also strives to be an eco-friendly restaurant. Each location uses compostable take-out packaging and menus printed on paper from renewable resources. The dining room also features chairs made from recycled plastic soda bottles and reclaimed wood floors. 

The restaurant is open Monday through Thursday from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m., on Friday from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m., on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. and on Sunday from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Brunch is served on Saturdays and Sundays from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.