Sunday brunch spotlight - Green Tomato Grill

It's been awhile since MOH and I have gone out to eat, but we finally visited a restaurant on our list that has a great brunch menu and it did not disappoint! We spent our Sunday having a great meal in Orange at a tiny place called Green Tomato Grill, a little mecca for meat-lovers, vegans, and vegetarians alike. It's a cute restaurant with a cafe type setting that feels like a mash up between a Veggie Grill and Peet's Coffee.

Green Tomato Grill has a wide menu of breakfast items such as burritos, breakfast bowls, and egg scrambles, in addition to a huge variety of healthy lunch options (grilled bowls, salads, and wraps). There's also room for customizing your dish if you want that little extra kick or sauce to top your dishes - just simply grab a blank menu and circle your choice toppings.

Let me just say that everything we had tasted amazing. The food is super healthy, We started our meal with one of their most highly rated sides, chili lime popcorn.

The popcorn had a great lightness to it - not at all buttery, but full of a great tangy kick. I just kept popping these little kernels into my mouth until my actual meal arrived. Poor MOH, I ate more than half our shared bag.

Everything here is delicious and fresh. I ordered the BBQ Tofu bowl, one of their most popular items (at least through Yelp). Crispy lemongrass tofu is served atop brown rice with a great heap of stir fried vegetables that consists of cabbage, snap peas, tomatoes and onions. And to top it all off? Green Tomato's signature chipotle sauce with sliced avocado. The bowl combination was so delicious. The crispy tofu was so well seasoned and stayed crispy despite being mixed through all the sauteed vegetables. The dish was extremely filling.

Definitely a great welcome back to trying new foods. I'm not a fan of bowls when I go to restaurants, but the great sauce combination with vegetable stir fry was too delicious to pass up. And who can say no to fried tofu???

Until next time, happy eating all!