The Plant

With eight outposts throughout the Bay Area, The Plant is a go-to, guilt-free chain for salads, sandwiches, juice and smoothies. Despite its growing size, the restaurant still sources all its organic ingredients from nearby farms in Marin, Napa Valley, Capay Valley, Fresno and Santa Cruz. The Pier 3 restaurant—impressively renovated from two 1900s-era warehouses—has the largest selection of smoothies, from the eye-opening Banana Buzz (coffee, dates, banana, cinnamon, cocoa powder, almond and coconut milk) to the tart Clean Green (avocado, kale, pineapple, lemon, ginger, almond milk, apple juice and orange juice). All the smoothies offer the choice of almond-, coconut-, or cow’s milk. Add a dose of chia, spirulina, bee pollen, hemp protein or almond butter for an extra 2 dollars.