Green feast
Wagyu burgers and truffle pizza are giving way to quinoa patties and kale chips as restaurants jump on the healthful eating bandwagon. Will diners bite?
SO green is the new black. That is, healthy eating is "in". Throw a stone in the CBD and you're bound to hit a salad shop, grain bowl cafe or cold-pressed juice bar, all touting superfoods to give you lean muscle and protection from chronic diseases.
That's just the tip of the iceberg (lettuce). There are restaurants which calculate nutritional value, use local or organic produce or even subscribe to diet fads from paleo to gluten-free. Take the newly opened Frunatic, a fine-dining wellness-focused restaurant which offers customers a health consultation and designs meal plans accordingly.
"People pick their food based on what they like to eat and not what their body needs. If you go to a dietitian who tells you to eat more beetroot, chances are you won't because you just don't like it," explains Frunatic's founder Jason Fong. "So we do both - we persuade them to change thei…
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