Salads in Phoenix

SmashBurger

815 E. Baseline Rd. Tempe

480-838-9933

Burgers, Salads, Sandwiches, Best Of, Sponsor, Menu

2 articles

Bottled Blonde

7340 E. Indian Plaza Central Scottsdale

Pizza, Salads, Sandwiches, Slideshow

19 articles

Bowl of Greens

555 N. Central Ave. Suite 102 Central Phoenix

602-795-9710

Salads, Smoothies, Sandwiches, Menu

The closest restaurant to the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Bowl of Greens is a counter service eatery offering build-your-own salads. The fast-casual restaurant also offers cauliflower crust pizza, sandwiches, and smoothies.

5 articles

Brosenbrus Cafe

922 E. Apache Blvd. Tempe

480-704-3515

Breakfast, Coffeehouse, Salads, Sandwiches

1 article

Cafe 8

5235 E. Southern Ave. Mesa

480-338-2640

Breakfast, Deli, Mediterranean, Salads, Sandwiches

2 articles

Cafe Eleven Forty

1140 E. Washington St. Central Phoenix

602-252-1228

Cajun, Salads, Sandwiches, Soul Food

D'Vine Wine Bar & Bistro

2837 N. Power Rd. #101 Mesa

480-654-4171

Wine Bar, Salads, Pizza, Recommended, Menu

Enjoy a glass of wine in this inviting neighborhood hangout.

1 article

Daily Dose

4020 N. Scottsdale Rd. Central Scottsdale

480-994-3673

Breakfast/Brunch, Salads, Sandwiches, Coffeehouse, Best Of

Daily Dose is simultaneously stylish and down-to-earth, a cheerful indie eatery from Matt and JenLyn Long, the same folks who own nearby Fusion Restaurant & Lounge. They serve accessible, affordable American comfort food with tasty, creative flourishes. Depending on the time of day, the restaurant either feels like a hip cafe (free Wi-Fi is a bonus) or a low-key lounge. Dig in to killer biscuits and gravy or decadent, fruit-laden pancakes in the morning, and sink your teeth into a hefty turkey melt later in the day.

10 articles

Federal Pizza

5210 N. Central Ave. Central Phoenix

602-795-2520

Pizza, Pasta, Salads, Recommended, Best Of, Menu

The fourth project from restaurateur Craig DeMarco and his Upward Projects team (Postino, Windsor, and Churn), this intimate yet lively pizza parlor, housed in a restored 1950s bank in north Central Phoenix, features a thoughtful food and drink menu with dishes ranging from the dependable, to the very good, to the sublime. Satisfying pizzas, designed by master bread maker MJ Coe, feature a slightly crispy and chewy crust with a thick, puffy edge and a harmonious flavor balance of toppings. But don’t stop at the pies. Federal also serves up lively salads, luscious pasta, and killer sandwiches incorporating ingredients like house-made mozzarella, locally procured sausage, and a farmers market’s bounty of vegetables. Read our review.

31 articles

Fired Pie

3110 N. Central Ave. Central Phoenix

602-266-1490

Pizza, Italian, Salads, Best Of, Menu

When you bite into the Steak and Blue Pizza at Fired Pie, it bites back. That would be the gorgonzola, a pungent Italian cheese made from unskimmed cow's milk that has salty sass running through its blue veins. The way the cheese interacts with the rest of the Steak and Blue's ingredients — garlic, oil, mozzarella, mushrooms, peppers, onion, and thin-sliced steak — doesn't change much about its dirty-foot aroma. Against these odds, though, this pie tastes amazing. We recommend it for a solo outing, though. Maybe not great for date night.

24 articles

Fired Pie

3049 W. Agua Fria Freeway, Unit B2 New River

623-879-6500

Pizza, Italian, Salads, Menu

When you bite into the Steak and Blue Pizza at Fired Pie, it bites back. That would be the gorgonzola, a pungent Italian cheese made from unskimmed cow's milk that has salty sass running through its blue veins. The way the cheese interacts with the rest of the Steak and Blue's ingredients — garlic, oil, mozzarella, mushrooms, peppers, onion, and thin-sliced steak — doesn't change much about its dirty-foot aroma. Against these odds, though, this pie tastes amazing. We recommend it for a solo outing, though. Maybe not great for date night.

22 articles

Focaccia Fiorentina

112 N. Central Ave. Central Phoenix

602-252-0007

Italian, Pizza, Sandwiches, Salads, Dessert, Pasta, Recommended, Best Of, Menu

Downtown folks crowd this cozy shop for tasty pastas with homemade sauces (love the signature zesty tomato topped with light ricotta cheese and parsley), gourmet focaccia and baguette sandwiches, salads, and homemade cheesecake. Come hungry.

2 articles

Forno 301

1616 N. Central Ave. #104 Central Phoenix

480-787-5654

Italian, Pizza, Pasta, Salads, Recommended, Best Of, Slideshow

Forno 301 offers a small menu that’s full of expertly crafted dishes. A trio each of salads, Panini, bruschette, and house specialties are offered alongside three daily specials and a dozen different pizzas; highlights include the grapefruit salad, served as layers of tart fruit and slices of fennel tossed with mixed greens and tomatoes. The menu-staple Caprese, a simple, traditional preparation of sliced tomato, mozzarella, and fresh basil leaves with a drizzle of sweet balsamic is the perfect showcase for the mellow, woody olive oil that Forno imports from Italy. The bruschetti are all excellent, none so much as the 3, spread with gorgonzola, figs marmalade, and prosciutto crudo. Ravioli is cheesy pillows filled with ricotta and resting in a buttery broth of sage and olive oil. Decadent eggplant parmigiani is also perfect, layering tender, thin slices of eggplant, smoky mozzarella and tomato-rich red sauce. Forno means “oven,” and this one is hot.

8 articles

Franco's Italian Cafe

4327 N. Scottsdale Rd. Central Scottsdale

480-481-7614

Italian, Restaurants, Salads, Seafood, Critics' Pick, Best Of

Offering a sophisticated cuisine both rustic and refined, this posh Scottsdale restaurant wows with appetizers like polenta gorgonzola, a tasty beet arugula salad, and a stunning seafood risotto. Franco's mother's merenghata is a light, tasty dessert you won't find anywhere else in town. Read our review.

10 articles

Freshii

1290 S. Normal Ave. Tempe

Salads, Restaurants

2 articles

Funky Food Shack

1722 W. Van Buren St. Central Phoenix

602-488-6763

Pizza, Salads, Sandwiches

George's Kitchen

6102 N. 16th St. Ste. 1 East Phoenix

602-441-3030

Greek, Salads

This family-owned, fast-casual Greek and Mediterranean eatery is known for its lunch specials. First, there’s the Chicken Feta Salad — with mixed greens served under a generous amount of free-range, grilled chicken breast, and enough imported French feta to satisfy even the biggest feta fiend. But there are also Greek fries, other salads, pizza, and insanely good pitas. If you happen to develop a taste for any of this, you’ll often spend lunch in George’s Kitchen sleek dining room (though delivery and takeout service is available).

GoGo Greens

No Address Tempe

Salads

Another virtual restaurant, GoGo Greens offers to-go salads for delivery from DoorDash, Grubhub, and Postmates. The Tempe eatery’s menu lists five salads with grilled chicken (unless otherwise specified) and choice of dressing. Think garden, Caesar, chop, Cobb, and Sedona — a signature salad heavy with Southwestern ingredients.

Grabbagreen

50 W. Jefferson St. Central Phoenix

Health, Salads

Opening December 2014.

2 articles

Grabbagreen

15689 N Hayden Rd. North Scottsdale

480-991-9901

Fast Casual, Health, Salads, Smoothies, Best Of

2 articles

Grabbagreen

7366 E. Shea Blvd. North Scottsdale

480-991-8999

Gluten-Free, Health, Salads, Smoothies, Recommended, Best Of, Menu

You'll find the brightly lit juice bar and kitchen adjacent to the infamous Amy's Baking Company, in a shopping center located on the northwest corner of 74th Street and Shea Boulevard. Grabbagreen's menu offers plenty of choices, as well as the option to create your own meal in nearly every category. Juices come in a variety of flavors. For more substantial fare, Grabbagreen offers grains-based bowls and five salads. All of the menu is gluten-free, so look for ingredients like brown rice, quinoa, and quinoa noodles. Each bowl also comes with a selection of fresh vegetables, often a protein, and a housemade sauce -- think chimichurri, creamy avocado, and Mediterranean pomegranate. Read our review.

5 articles

GRAZ Kitchen Fresh

1005 S. Arizona Ave. Chandler

480-722-2472

Breakfast, Salads, Sandwiches

1 article

Heart and Soul Cafe

4705 E. Carefree Highway #117 Cave Creek

480-595-7300

American, Breakfast/Brunch, Burgers, Salads, Sandwiches, Southwestern, Menu

This cute little cafe with a '57 Chevy in the middle of the room (and a dining table in the middle of the Chevy) offersoptions to make your breakfast seem anything but everyday. It's a favorite place for pancakes in particular, with the Bacon Blue Pancakes topping our list of favorite breakfast dishes. The dish is just blueberry pancakes with crispy bacon added to the batter, but they're so much better than that sounds, contrasting the plump sweetness of blueberries against the salty crunch of bacon.

1 article

Hob Nobs

149 W. McDowell Rd. Central Phoenix

602-253-9220

Cafe, Coffeehouse, Deli, Salads, Sandwiches, Coffee Shops, Best Of, Menu

People who've lived here a long time remember when this little Cotswold cottage was the home of the Willo House, and many of us were sad to see that long-time favorite lunch spot go away. That is, until we stopped in to eyeball the warm, friendly, and chic breakfast-and-lunch café that took its place. Now we can't stay away-especially at breakfast time, when we usually go for the steel-cut oats with honey and hot milk, or the tasty cheese-and-broccoli quiche, straight out of the deli case. There are sweets in that case, too, and we can never resist them. The peanut butter cookies are to die, but first (if we're dining mid-day) we go straight for the soup of the day, always made fresh and full of locally grown ingredients (if you're lucky, it's the gumbo, although the chicken noodle is also really good). Take away a bag of fresh-baked blueberry scones, and make a note to head back to hob nob some more, pronto!

5 articles

Ingo's Tasty Food

4502 N. 40th St. East Phoenix

602-795-2884

Burgers, Gastro Pub, Salads, Critics' Pick, Best Of, Menu

Part upscale diner, part theater-in-the-round, Ingo's interior offers a single curved counter where guests can enjoy superb gourmet burgers crafted around a thick puck of grass-fed beef, cooked to a pinkish medium rare and seasoned with only salt and pepper. The simple cheddar Cheeseburger is moist and chop-house sized, and the Paris Texas Burger, served with smoky-sharp apple barbecue sauce and pancetta, is another winner. A better than decent wine list and some tasty sides (particularly the Shattered Potato Chips) make this a burger destination.

28 articles

Kaleidoscope Juice

7119 E. 1st Ave. Central Scottsdale

480-949-2601

Health, Salads

Regardless of how healthy you're interested in being, you certainly don't want to be sick. Lucky for you, Kaleidoscope Juice offers a juice elixir called the flu shot. $5 gets you the small, but potent combo of oil of oregano, garlic, tumeric, ginger, cayenne, lemon and green apple for flavor that will surely knock the sniffles out of you. While the juice operation is located off First Avenue in Scottsdale with a full juice bar, smoothies and wheatgrass shots--or you can just have your juices delivered on Monday, Wednesday or Friday if you pre-order. Kaleidoscope also offers organic brown Rice Crispy squares, sun-dried tomato crackers, and lemondrop truffles.

6 articles

Kaleidoscope Juice

25 S Arizona Pl. Chandler

480-618-5891

Health, Salads

Regardless of how healthy you're interested in being, you certainly don't want to be sick. Lucky for you, Kaleidoscope Juice offers a juice elixir called the flu shot. $5 gets you the small, but potent combo of oil of oregano, garlic, tumeric, ginger, cayenne, lemon and green apple for flavor that will surely knock the sniffles out of you. While the juice operation is located off First Avenue in Scottsdale with a full juice bar, smoothies and wheatgrass shots--or you can just have your juices delivered on Monday, Wednesday or Friday if you pre-order. Kaleidoscope also offers organic brown Rice Crispy squares, sun-dried tomato crackers, and lemondrop truffles.

Kaleidoscope Juice

60 W. Vaughn Ave. Ste. 105 Gilbert

480-553-7143

Health, Salads, Menu

Regardless of how healthy you're interested in being, you certainly don't want to be sick. Lucky for you, Kaleidoscope Juice offers a juice elixir called the flu shot. $5 gets you the small, but potent combo of oil of oregano, garlic, tumeric, ginger, cayenne, lemon and green apple for flavor that will surely knock the sniffles out of you. While the juice operation is located off First Avenue in Scottsdale with a full juice bar, smoothies and wheatgrass shots--or you can just have your juices delivered on Monday, Wednesday or Friday if you pre-order. Kaleidoscope also offers organic brown Rice Crispy squares, sun-dried tomato crackers, and lemondrop truffles.

Leoni's Focaccia

7116 E. Mercer Lane, #101 Central Scottsdale

480-607-2888

Salads, Sandwiches, Italian, Recommended

The people – Danielle Leoni and Dwayne Allen to be exact – who brought you the Breadfruit & Rum Bar have also presented the Valley with fresh Italian sandwiches at Leoni's Focaccia. This Scottsdale lunch spot specializes in Roman-style focaccia bread paired with Italian meats, olive tapenade, and more. Leoni's Focaccia bread starts with flour imported from Italy, then gets baked in a Stone Heart, and basted with extra virgin olive oil. The focaccia is made daily, and the sandwich bread is said to never be older than an hour. There are seven signature sandwiches, numbered accordingly, with favorites including the #6, an albacore tuna salad sandwich. Other menu items include house and arugula salads, soup, and focaccia by the slice. Plus there’s a selection of house-baked cookies in flavors such as anisette, lemon drop, and walnut. The coffee is pretty good, too.

Modern Market Farm Fresh Eateries

4821 N. Scottsdale Rd., Suite 100 Central Scottsdale

Pizza, Salads, Sandwiches

2 articles

Momenti Local Pizzeria

4740 E. Shea Blvd. North Phoenix

602-992-0505

Pizza, Salads

2 articles

Panera Bread

2845 N. Central Ave. Central Phoenix

Salads, Sandwiches, Soups

2 articles

Portillo's

65 S. McClintock Dr. Tempe

480-967-7988

Hot Dogs, Burgers, Salads

We've started gushing about Portillo's almost as soon as it opened, but what's a little more going to hurt? The Chicago-area staple is a master of hot dog arts, but what some people don't know is the glory of Portillo's cheese fries ($2.29 for a small and $2.59 for a large). Since the creamy, hot cheese sauce comes on the side of the crinkle-cut and crispy fries, you don't end up with a soggy mess a minute into eating them. Instead you get a perfect cheesy, potato-y bite every time.

8 articles

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