“The Root Café is a farm-to-table restaurant,” explained co-owner and operator Jack Sundell. “Our mission is building community through local food and that has been at the core of everything we've done since opening 13 years ago.”

To create a bowl, customers first choose a combination of bases, either grain- or lettuce-based. The grain options are brown rice, bulgur (gluten free, a partially debranned wheat grain), and Roots rice (a mixture of brown and purple rice).