Where to Grab a Healthy Bite in Burien

When it comes to healthy eating in Burien, the locals know where to go. If you’re visiting the Seattle area or just passing through our lovely suburban city, here are the top healthy restaurants worth checking out.

Pho Vina

Boasting authentic Vietnamese cuisine, Pho Vina is a small eatery on 1st Avenue South. Despite the restaurant’s small size, the chefs serve up a wide range of dishes from soups and appetizers to rice noodle bowls and vegetarian entrees. In fact, the pho here has been rated the best bowl of pho in Seattle. With a reputation like that, you know the food has to be good!

Pho Vina’s menu consists of vermicelli noodle dishes, fried noodles, noodle soup (pho), and rice dishes, all which include vegetarian options. Whether you’re craving vegan stir-fried egg noodles or seafood fried rice, Pho Vina meets any foodie’s demands.

Bounty Kitchen

Located on 7 Boston Street, Bounty Kitchen revolves around a health-conscious menu made from organic, locally sourced ingredients. This bright eatery takes advantage of local produce to craft healthy but mouthwatering soups, juices, salads, and sandwiches. Best of all, the menu changes with the seasons, ensuring you get the freshest flavors year-round.

Just some of Bounty Kitchen’s seasonal offerings include the flagship kale salad, avocado toast with poached egg, gluten-free griddle cakes, roasted beet winter salad, Korean-style tacos, and vegan mock tuna salad made from chickpeas. Brunch is served all day, allowing locals and visitors to savor the classic Potlicker Bowl with Creole flavors, the seasonal veggie hash, and warming steel-cut oats.

Lovage

While you wouldn’t normally consider a pizza place to be a health-food joint, Lovage does things a bit differently. This Seattle favorite serves up artisan pizza, rice bowls, and salads with an emphasis on tasty, healthy vegetables. You’ll find traditional pizza toppings at Lovage, but also butternut squash, tofu, olive tapenade, lamb, brussels sprouts, potato, salmon, and other unconventional but healthy options.

Lovage also offers what its chefs call Hot Bowls and Cool Bowls. Hot Bowls include deliciously warm pasta, curry, and rice concoctions complemented by Bolognese, peanuts, peppers, kale, broccoli, tahini dressing, pineapple, jerk chicken, sausage, and other favorites. Cool Bowls refers to the eatery’s salads, which feature black beans, quinoa, cabbage, greens, housemade dressings, and spices.

Sprout

Situated in Seattle’s Smith Tower, Sprout is your local, healthy fast-food option. The organic-minded eatery crafts amazing salads, wraps, and frozen yogurt to satisfy any appetite, with gluten-free options galore.

Whether you choose to eat in, order online, or call for delivery, you can feel good about eating at Sprout. All Sprout salads come with a slice of multigrain bread from Grand Central Bakery, or you can order them in a wrap. Concoctions include the BLT with steak, bacon, apples, and tomato; the Hail Caesar with chicken, parmesan, avocado, and pea sprouts; and the Wild Roast with tofu, sweet potatoes, and roasted carrots.

No matter how hectic your schedule, you can always find time for a healthy meal in Seattle. Stop by one of these favorite eateries and let us know what you think!

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