True Food Kitchen opens May 16 in The Woodlands

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The Woodlands' dining options is going to get a jolt of seasonal, health-driven food when True Food Kitchen opens at Market Street in the Woodlands on May 16.

The new restaurant, at 9595 Six Pines Dr., features a menu developed in partnership with best-selling author and healthy living guru Dr. Andrew Weil, a proponent of an anti-inflammatory diet. The restaurant was originally part of Phoenix-based Fox Restaurant Concepts (which opened its first True Food Kitchen in Houston's Galleria neighborhood in 2014, followed by North Italia) but is now a stand-alone brand with its menu and culinary philosophy intact.

The Houston area's second True Food Kitchen is a biggie: 7,300 square feet of indoor and outdoor dining space with 170 seats and a patio that can accommodate 100. By comparison, the Houston outpost is 4,500 square feet.

The menu features starters such as shiitake lettuce cups, kale guacamole, edamame dumplings and herb hummus. Bowl meals include cashew pad Thai, teriyaki quinoa, spicy Panang curry, and miso-glazed sweet potato, snow peas and grilled Portobello mushrooms. Entrees include wild caught albacore tuna poke bowl; grilled salmon with smoked onion farro; Moroccan chicken with mission figs, chickpeas and heirloom carrots; sustainable sea bass with broccolini; spaghetti squash casserole; grilled fish or grass-fed steak tacos; and lasagna Bolognese made with fennel chicken sausage.