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| - I'm a fan of The Herb Box. I realize I'd been there once before and really enjoyed it then as well.
Today the family came by to meet for lunch and I happened to have an email in my inbox with the new lunch menu at Shea. Talk about good timing. I'm trying to be a bit better at eating healthy and looking at the menu, there seemed to be a number of selections that would let me do that & still enjoy the food.
From looking at the menu, it was nice to see that they buy local where possible and are part of the Slow Food movement.
We started with the housemade sweet potato chips with sea salt and curry. These are ridiculously addictive. My 2 year old kept telling us "don't eat them all" and putting her hand over the basket. We all couldn't stop. While they might not really be, they even seemed healthy-ish (for chips anyway). I'd love to see if they had an extra curry version.
For lunch, we ordered the market sunflower salad (with chicken, bacon, goat cheese, dried berries, sunflower seeds & balsamic vinaigrette), the blackened chicken caesar salad (with crisp romaine, cotija cheese, tortilla strips and a chipotle-parmesan caesar dressing), and the kids split the brown sugar pork sandwich (with watercress-jicama slaw).
As our little ones have dairy and egg allergies, they were great about working around that and giving us suggestions. They were super nice with the kids too.
The food was excellent all the way around. I'm not by nature a big salad guy but I went that way as I'm trying to lay off the carbs a bit. I really liked both and will be eager to order either of them again.
I'm also eager to try some of the more carb-y items on the menu when I can. They had a couple of soups that sounded wonderful.
The service was great. Our server was quite knowledgeable, super personable and very engaging. He also put up with our 2 girls flirting with him non-stop.
As far as drinks, we did green tea and blackberry jasimine tea. Both were quite nice.
As I'm committed to staying on this healthy train, I think there will be many, many more visits to The Herb Box in my future. At present, I'm hard pressed to think a better healthy/tasty lunch option.
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