Sweetgreen, which serves healthy, environmentally friendly food, will expand to Columbus
Sweetgreen, a restaurant chain popular in big cities and college towns from Boston's Harvard Square to Palo Alto, California, will open its first Ohio location in the Short North.
The Los Angeles-based company said yesterday in a news release that it has signed a lease to occupy a 3,756-square-foot space at 700 N. High St. It's the former address of Level Dining Lounge and, most recently, Monarch Cocktail Lounge, which closed in 2020.
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Sweetgreen specializes in, in its own words, “fresh, plant-forward, earth friendly food.” Its menu includes salmon and chicken but consists primarily of vegetable-and-grain bowls. Its "Shroomami," for instance, has roasted tofu, portobello mushrooms, cucumbers, basil, shredded cabbage, roasted almonds, wild rice, shredded kale and a miso-sesame-ginger dressing.
The chain was founded in 2007 by three newly graduated business students from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. There are now 234 existing or about-to-open locations in 19 states and the District of Columbia. Its closest restaurants right now are in Indianapolis and Bloomington, Indiana, as well as in suburban Detroit and Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Sweetgreen's owners gave no opening date for their Columbus restaurant but promised more details "in the coming months."
In addition to its mission of serving healthy food, the restaurant chain says its committed to operating in ways that are healthy for the environment. Every menu item comes not only with nutritional information but also with a score of its carbon footprint, and it looks for food suppliers who practice regenerative agriculture.
This article originally appeared on The Columbus Dispatch: Sweetgreen will open a Columbus restaurant
