Takeout Tuesday - Sweetgreen Summer Corn Caesar Salad

 

Happy Takeout Tuesday! I recently enjoyed this seasonal Summer Corn Caesar salad from Sweetgreen.  I did make a few modifications to the original salad - my version has Romaine, wild rice, black beans, roasted corn and peppers, tomatoes, crispy rice, tortilla chips, hot sauce, and Caesar dressing.  So many different textures and flavors, and super delicious! 

If you are a Sweetgreen member through their app, you also get a credit on your birthday, which is what I used for this salad - but I'll be sure to go back to get this again while it's on the seasonal menu! 

Sweetgreen Pike & Rose

11875 Grand Park Avenue

North Bethesda, MD 20852

Sweetgreen - September Salad

I enjoy Sweetgreen's salads, but I never quite get around to eating them as much as I'd like.  If they had one by my work I would definitely be here more often for lunch! 

On a recent visit to the Mosaic District shopping center in Virginia, I decided to pop in to Sweetgreen to try their September salad, which I had heard about from their e-newsletter.  The September salad consists of "organic mesclun + shredded kale with 'true blue' maryland crab, green and red peppers, raw corn, avocado and spicy sunflower seeds; topped with a carrot chili vinaigrette".  This salad was delicious! Besides the obviously tasty crab, I loved the mix of the crunchy peppers, corn, and creamy avocado.  I really enjoyed this salad and I'm very glad I got to try it while it was available.  I look forward to seeing what they have in store for the October salad :o) 

Lunchtime Links for July 25th, 2012

• Serious Eats: Sweetpress juices from Sweetgreen in DC. 
• Picky Palate: 60-second chocolate chip cookie a la mode.  
• Bakerella: Holiday cake pops book. 
• Smitten Kitchen: Bacon corn hash.
• Hey Love Designs: New online store on Storenvy.

Sweetlife Festival - April 24th, 2010

On April 24th, N and I went to the Sweetgreen Sweetlife festival, which was held all afternoon/night in Dupont Circle.  I "won" a chance to get advanced VIP passes (above) which included a coupon redeemable for a free Sweetgreen Salad Blaster bowl, woo!  I say I "won" these because the tickets were all sold as donations, so it wasn't like they cost a specific amount to begin with.

We got there pretty much right at the beginning of the festival, and there were a few clumps of people wandering around the different stands.  We got a t-shirt with a suggested donation right at the door, and headed into the festival.  The weather was pretty grey and chilly, but we made the best of it and made the rounds to the different stands.

The best two stands were the Honest Tea and Living Social stands for sure- Honest Tea gave away free bottles of tea, and Living Social had a carnival-type game (throwing bean bags into different holes on a board) for account credits towards your next Living Social coupon purchase.  I was pretty horrible at the game and got only $2, but it came in handy with my later coupon purchase, haha.

Sweetflow Mobile

Mini with almonds and strawberries

There were also a few local businesses, a Sweetgreen stand selling sandwiches, and the Sweetflow truck was there.  I got the mini size (yeah, that's the mini, haha) with almonds and strawberries- love that combo!

Unfortunately the bigger music acts weren't scheduled to come on until later that day/night, and we weren't planning on staying that long to begin with due to other plans.  I think the idea of a block party like this is great, but I did think it was a little odd- and yes I know this is also me being cheap- that they were charging for Sweetgreen food/frozen yogurt at their own event.  I mean Honest Tea was handing out free bottles, and I heard that they gave out Sweetflow frozen yogurt at the event last year, so that was a little confusing to me.  Regardless, it looks like there was a great turnout as the day went on and more people started to show up, and I hope Sweetgreen does more fun events like this (when the weather's cooperating, haha).