Photos: A look at True Food Kitchen in Buckhead

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Photos: A look at True Food Kitchen in Buckhead

Photos: A look at True Food Kitchen in Buckhead

In keeping with the healthy lifestyle angle, True Food Kitchen features a light and airy dining room outfitted with trendy, minimalist sensibilities and a stunning windowed wall overlooking Buckhead. Photo by Jenny Turknett

You’ll find that kale used in many dishes, even the beverages. Instead of traditional sodas, True Food Kitchen whips up custom refreshers like the kale-aid, a beguiling cucumber-y, V-8-like mixture of kale, apple, cucumber, celery, lemon and ginger. Or, you can get your antioxidant blast from a tartly sweet concoction known as the Medicine Man, a harmonious medley of sea buckthorn, pomegranate, cranberry and black tea. Photo by Jenny Turknett

Favorites here include the garlicky (and a little salty) butternut squash pizza. Unless you order the gluten-free version, the pizza is made from a flax-seed crust and topped with smoked mozzarella, Vidalia onions and toasted walnuts. Courtesy of Fox Restaurant Concepts

Order the vegetable crudites and you’ll receive bowls of creamy tzatziki and black olive dip with a dazzling display of vibrant veggies. An oversized bowl packed with ice sprouts long stems of rapini, crisp cucumber sticks, stubby scrubbed carrots, tufts of purple cauliflower and baby bell pepper halves, making you feel as though you’re devouring the day’s harvest. Photo by Jenny Turknett

Try the quinoa burger, another of True Food’s greatest hits. This “inside-out” burger makes use of the red quinoa-tabouleh patties as buns, stuffing a wealth of cukes, avocado slices, hummus and tzatziki in between. Courtesy of Fox Restaurant Concepts

Though they sounded appealing, the street tacos are a bland compilation of unseasoned grass-fed steak, avocado, cotija cheese and a bare touch of tomatillo salsa. You'll quickly discover that you can give the tacos a salty punch by topping them with the accompanying, stewy anasazi beans. Photo by Jenny Turknett

As you would expect, salads factor prominently into the menu. Add juicy grilled chicken to the large harvest chopped salad peppered with pomegranate seeds, cubes of roasted butternut squash and tangy pops of goat cheese. Photo by Jenny Turknett

The spaghetti squash casserole is a gluten-free, vegetarian lasagna of sorts with veggies, tomato sauce and mozzarella. Courtesy of Fox Restaurant Concepts

The Tandoori chicken, which seemed to have such promise, was an underperformer. Nearly unseasoned and undercooked, the grilled bird pinked in comparison to the rich, black Beluga lentils on the side. Photo by Jenny Turknett

You might convince yourself that dessert is healthy here, too. Well, why not? The pie is made with squash. I’ll take a slice of that pumpkin-pie-spiced squash topped with a fluffy coconut whipped cream for a “healthy” dessert any day. Photo by Jenny Turknett

The flourless chocolate cake is simple, rich and gooey. Photo by Jenny Turknett

The restaurant's menu stems from Dr. Andrew Weil's cookbook, “True Food: Seasonal, Sustainable, Simple, Pure,” which are featured prominently (and for sale!) in stacks throughout the restaurant. Photo by Jenny Turknett

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In keeping with the healthy lifestyle angle, True Food Kitchen features a light and airy dining room outfitted with trendy, minimalist sensibilities and a stunning windowed wall overlooking Buckhead. Photo by Jenny Turknett

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