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Charlotte restaurants offer dishes to start 2025 on a healthy note

Queen City favorites are making it easier to eat healthier menu items year-round.

Plates of Latin cuisine are placed on a table.

There are still plenty of reasons to eat out in 2025.

Photo via Calle Sol Latin Café & Cevicheria

How are those New Year’s resolutions holding up? We won’t judge.

Here’s some good news: If you vowed to have a healthier diet in 2025, you don’t have to give up your love of eating out.

Several popular Charlotte restaurants are providing healthy and delicious dishes to keep your goals on track. Let’s see what’s on the menu:

Calle Sol Latin Café & Cevicheria
Known for its Cuban, Peruvian, and other Latin American flavors, this Charlotte favorite is offering The Sol Bowl, packed with Panca salmon, roasted sweet potato, salsa criolla slaw, tomatoes, avocado, mojo corn, and salsa verde over kale and quinoa.

Editor’s note: Hungry visitors can also try a Chicken Sol Bowl.

A colorful plate of protein and vegetables on a plate.

Pick your favorites for a colorful and delicious bowl at YAFO Kitchen.

Photo via YAFO Kitchen

YAFO Kitchen
The “Build Your Own Bowl” offers guests the chance to pick their favorites from a menu of clean protein, vegetables, and more.

Kid Cashew
Savor a list of healthy flavor options, including the Wood Fired Chicken Avocado Sandwich, packed with garden greens, tomato, gouda, cilantro yogurt, and toasted multi-grain bread.

Midwood Smokehouse
There’s way more than barbecue. Try a Downstream Salad with Ora King Salmon. It’s a healthy blend of mixed greens, tomatoes, cucumbers, and broccoli tossed in balsamic vinegar, topped with avocado and quinoa.

A plate of chicken, mashed potatoes, and mac & cheese served at a table.

Be sure to try the gluten-free Mac & Cheese when visiting Flower Child.

Photo by CLTtoday

Flower Child
Visit locations in Ballantyne or South End and savor delicious flavors from dishes like Mediterranean Chicken Kabobs or the Mother Earth Bowl, with grains, sweet potato, portobello mushroom, avocado, cucumber, broccoli pesto, charred onion, leafy greens, red pepper, and miso vinaigrette.

Little Mama’s Italian Kitchen
Give the alfredo a break and order the Broiled Ora King Salmon. Taste fresh salmon served with a warm quinoa salad and herb oil.

Roots Cafe
Need a spot for lunch? Consider ordering the Roasted Carrot Bowl, packed with roasted carrots, toasted pistachio, roasted peppers, pickled red onion, mixed greens, creamy herb dressing. Another delicious choice is the Seared Salmon Salad, filled with salmon, mixed greens, charred edamame, sesame, sunflower seeds, green onion, avocado, crispy wonton, and rangpur dressing.

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