Mendocino Farms, a California sandwich and salad shop, has opened a restaurant on Ross Avenue in downtown Dallas, as of March 11.
We called Mendo one of Dallas’ “most exciting restaurants" opening in 2020. I noted that healthy, fast, fashionable food is having a major moment in Dallas, and this coming-soon restaurant seems to fit right in with other fast-casual shops like Flower Child and Original ChopShop.
Mendocino Farms first launched in Los Angeles in 2005. Today, it has nearly three-dozen restaurants across the country. All are in California except for a handful of open and coming-soon restaurants in Houston.
The Ross Avenue shop is Dallas’ first.
The restaurant’s hope is “to be a neighborhood gathering place,” says CEO Kevin Miles, a Dallas native, in a statement. It was started by Mario Del Pero and Ellen Chen, a husband and wife who wanted to open a shop with a “farm-to-table philosophy,” according to a company statement.
The restaurant has vegan, vegetarian and gluten-free options. Some of the sandwich items on the menu include a fried chicken sandwich, a “not so fried” chicken sandwich, a hot Italian hoagie and a pork belly banh mi. Salads include a chicken cobb, caesar, beet-and-goat-cheese, and avocado-quinoa.
Dallas’ first Mendocino Farms is part of the large-scale renovation of the Trammell Crow Center project in downtown Dallas. Need a wayfinder? It’s on Ross Avenue near a gaggle of new restaurants: all-day eatery Sloane’s Corner; pizza and pasta restaurant 400 Gradi, and coffee, wine and boutique grocery store Royal Blue Grocery.
Mendocino Farms is at 2000 Ross Ave., Dallas.
Updated on March 11, 2020 to show the restaurant is open.
