Description
Roots Gourmet is hard to pigeonhole. Is it a coffee joint or
a sandwich shop? Is it a Latin restaurant that serves vegan food or a
dessert place that does juice? To describe it as all of the above is the
same as not describing it at all. With little more than a cash register, a
few cookie jars and a mess of chalkboards flanked by a rut of kitchen
equipment, the store has no real seats inside save for a few stools. On some
mornings, a line of caffeine addicts snakes out the door, waiting for the
barista to pour each's chosen drug. Cups aren't complete until leafy
patterns are drawn into the milky froth. At lunch, sandwiches fly from the
kitchen, each plate garnished with a colorful, if just a functionally
decorative, side salad. Roots Gourmet, by the way, also offers a menu for
dogs, and then there's the list of Latin specialties that includes
thick-crusted homemade empanadas with a thimble of green tomatillo salsa on
the side.
