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Little Beet opens in Washington, DC

November 13, 2019

New York City-based Little Beet, a plant-inspired fast casual concept, is opening Thursday in the Pentagon City Mall, a shopping mall in Arlington, Virginia, near the nation's capital and situated on the Washington D.C. metro system.

"We're striving to make a wellness lifestyle easier to adopt and maintain by making nutritious and nourishing food accessible to all," Becky Mulligan, CEO of Little Beet Brands, owner of Little Beet and its full-service brand, Little Beet Table, said in a company press release. "With the D.C. metro area ranked as one of the healthiest cities in America, it's an obvious choice for us to continue the expansion of our vegetable-forward concepts to the market. We can't wait for our new neighbors to fall in love with our wholesome ingredients and flavors.”

The Little Beet menu features thoughtfully sourced ingredients, including organic quinoa, sesame avocado, delicata squash, farmed Maine kelp, shaved Brussels sprouts and beet falafel, said Trevor Kunk, who was recently brought in as director of culinary innovation.

"It's exciting to promote healthier food choices and overall wellness through creative, vegetable driven dishes that are good for you and full of flavor," he said in the release. "We're always working to create new and exciting menu items for our guests. 

Since Little Beet Brands' founding in 2014, the New York-based restaurant concepts have grown to 15 locations across the East coast with locations in Manhattan, Long Island, Westchester, Jersey City, Washington, D.C., Arlington, Miami, Chicago and Greenwich. Recently opening its first location in Florida at the Aventura Mall, Little Beet Brands plans to open 15 more restaurants throughout the Mid-Atlantic and Southeast regions by the end of 2020, according to the release.