We will be taking a closer look at where you can find healthy food and restaurants in Madison today. We’ll do our best to cover all of the best locations near you to acquire nutritious foods so you will feel as good as possible when your next meal is finished.
The best vegan and vegetarian restaurants in your area will get things going and vegetable lovers have plenty of options in this town. Other local healthy restaurants will come next, as well as nice salad bars and soup restaurants.
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Buying nutritious things at Madison health food stores and markets is a fantastic way to be in control of how healthy your diet really is. Smoothies and juice stores will follow, and then a few gluten free bakeries with lots of fresh baked low sugar sweets will wrap it up.
Towards the end there will even be a healthy foods map that will help you locate all of the places we mention throughout the article. If you’re interested you can also check out our other posts on this area of the world at that link.
Vegan & Vegetarian Restaurants
Some of the best local vegan and vegetarian restaurants would be:
- Green Owl Café at 1970 Atwood Ave
- Monty’s Blue Plate Diner at 2089 Atwood Ave
- Himal Chuli Restaurant at 318 State St
The Green Owl offers a diverse selection of tasty lunch, dinner, and dessert selections in a comfortable informal dining experience with a small bar and a summer patio.
Monty’s Blue Plate Restaurant is a 1950’s-style restaurant housed in a renovated gas station that serves comfort food as well as vegetarian and vegan options including delicious burgers, sandwiches, salads, pies, cakes, cupcakes, and cookies from scratch every day.
Himal Chuli has been offering vegetarian and gluten-free meals near you for 35 years utilizing heart-healthy mustard, sesame, and olive oils as well as their unique blends of herbs and spices, each with its own medical value.
Madison Healthy Restaurants
You can also try other healthy restaurants in Madison like:
- Forage Kitchen at 665 State St
- FreshFin Poké at 502 University Ave
- Blended at 717 Hilldale Way
The majority of the menu at Forage is naturally gluten-free with vegetarian and vegan choices available on request.
FreshFin Poké offers a variety of meats in addition to high-quality fish such as sous-vide chicken, slow-cooked pork, and marinated tofu.
You can find some of the best smoothies and Acai bowls in town at Blended which is open from 9am to 7pm Monday through Saturday and until 5pm on Sunday.
Salad Bars In Your Area
Many of the places on this page are going to offer good options and Forage Kitchen from a prior list is known to serve some of the best salads in Madison.
Soup Restaurants
Great soups can be found at these restaurants:
- Saigon-Noodles Vietnamese Restaurant at 6754 Odana Rd
- Jason’s Deli at 7349 Mineral Point Rd
- Isthmus at 313 W Beltline Hwy #50
There are so many varieties of healthy soups near you at the above restaurants that we would fill up this page if we tried to list them all. It is probably best if you follow those links to see if they have the healthy soups that you desire.
Saigon-Noodles restaurant serves healthy Vietnamese and Asian noodle soups.
Broccoli cheese, chili, chicken noodle, chicken pot pie, and more dishes are available at Jason’s Deli.
Cabbage, chicken, kha, broth noodle, kimchi, tomato, chilled, onion, classic, and spiced lentil are some of the most ordered soups at Isthmus.
Health Food Stores & Markets
Pick out your own produce at these local health food stores and markets:
- Fresh Madison Market at 703 University Ave
- Trader Joe’s at 1810 Monroe St
- Metcalfe’s Market at 726 N Midvale Blvd
- Capitol Centre Market at 111 N Broom St
- Hy-Vee at 675 S. Whitney Way
- Whole Foods Market at 3313 University Ave
Smoothies & Juice Shops
There are quite a few Madison smoothie and juice shops too:
- Super Charge Foods
- Willy Street Co-op—East at 1221 Williamson St
You can expect to find a wide variety of healthy smoothies and juices in your area at any of the above. If you are after any particular juice, smoothie, bowl, or other health food check out the links we gave and see if they are on their menu.
Gluten Free Bakeries Near You
Gluten free bakeries in your area should have plenty of good things to try:
- Madison Chocolate at 729 Glenway St
- Bloom Bake Shop at 1851 Monroe St
- Oakhouse 2221 Mustang Way
Scones, pain au chocolate, waffle, hand pies, molasses cookie, chive and aged cheddar crustless, turtle brownie, pecan bar, brownie, pumpkin bar, and cookies are all available at Madison Chocolate.
Granola and gluten-free breads are available at Oakhouse.
We have also written about:
- Milwaukee’s Best Healthy Restaurants
- Chicago’s Best Healthy Restaurants
- Minneapolis & St Paul’s Best Healthy Restaurants
- St Louis’s Best Healthy Restaurants
Enjoy Eating Healthy In Madison
After learning about all of those local vegan and vegetarian restaurants, other healthy restaurants, salad bars, places to get great soup, health food stores and markets, smoothies and juice shops, and gluten free bakeries in your area it shouldn’t be hard for you to grab a delicious and nutritious meal in the near future.
If you noticed anything incorrect on this page please let us know in the comments so we can keep our info as fresh as possible. Hopefully you enjoy eating healthy food at restaurants in Madison.
