Hu Kitchen

I do love this place and frequent both locations as for work I run around town. The new location is good, just lacking in consistency. Hu Bread Rolls are often off tasting. I’m addicted to Paleo Blondies but will often get one with little or sometimes no chocolate chips in them. The music, like the downtown location, is louder than it needs to be for an eating establishment, but that’s just part of their brand for some reason. Love that they’re committed to a Paleo menu and stick to the principles and know I can always get safe and clean food here.

Food can be good. Service is always horrendous. I would be embarrassed if I owned this place and found out my staff members were so ungrateful.

It’s not even worth one star. This is the worst restaurant ever! The food is awful, very spicy and tasted terrible. The staff is rude. Don’t waste your time or money.

I am eating clean and have eliminated sugar from my diet as of late. Dining out can, at times, be challenging but I make do.
I have been wanting to try Hu Kitchen for some time soley based on how compliant with my dietary needs it is.
The establishment was empty at 1:45 PM on a Thursday. I ordered the quarter chicken with the mixed greens. I also picked up a pack of chocolate almonds.
The chicken was seasoned nicely and was very good. The mixed greens were okay but not terrible.
I would def come back to stock up on things to keep in the apartment. The woman ahead of me must have had the same thought, she spent $ 250 on chocolate bars, granola, chia crackers, etc.
This place is expensive but if you are strictly paleo, you maybe ok with spending $ 40 on two lunches.

Happened upon this place just walking down the street. While I’m not 100% Paleo, I do follow out strictly at points through the year, so I couldn’t help but stop and check this place out. I was pretty excited at first — seeing so many options, plus take home snacks. My first reaction is the place is a bit disorganized. I stood there for 5 minutes at the food counter and got looked over by everyone working. I thought maybe I wasn’t supposed to order there. Finally asked and got some help. The bacon was exceptionally salty (hard to make something already salty too salty), and the sweet potato hash was eh. I found a small container of chicken salad and almost purchased it till I realized it was so expensive (3 times the price of normal chicken salad at the grocery store counter). Would I give it a second chance? Yes. If so, will update the review accordingly

There are some vegan options. I am giving it 3 stars because it is expensive.
The food was really good. I order 2 vegetables (cumin broccoli, mixed veggies & pineapples) it cost 10 bucks.
the girls that work there are really nice. it just a lot of money.
xoxo
c.

After first going into the nearby Starbucks, I left because there were no open seats. I then ended up at Hu Kitchen.
This place is great! For my first time here, I tried the mashbowl and the gentleman serving me walked me through what to put. He let me try the different options and I went with the vanilla chia pudding. Then I got to pick what toppings I wanted, such as fresh fruit and granola. Everything is dairy free. Imagine one of those FroYo places where you build your yogurt bowl– but this is much tastier. As someone who is lactose intolerant, most of the FroYo places will have only one or two dairy free flavors that are not what I usually want… but Hu Kitchen solves that problem.
There is a large seating area upstairs. It was very clean and comfortable. There is free WiFi. I am not sure if there are outlets to charge your laptop or not. I didn’t see one at the booth I was sitting at but maybe if you look around.
For my mashbowl and medium coffee, the total was $ 9. A little pricey but well worth it.

Ordered a «bowl» and this is what I got. Choose two ingredients — quite misleading calling it a bowl it’s more like a to-​go cup. With tax 12 dollars– and it’s mostly sweet potato. So I paid 12 dollars for a sweet potato soup. I don’t even know how they can justify that cost. Will not be returning.

Alright, I just got home from working overnight and was wanting something quick to eat before I went home. I got off the train at 8:01 right around the corner, ordered quickly, and didn’t walk out with a breakfast wrap until 8:20. The place was empty, so it took about 18 minutes for the guy to make a single wrap. I still like their food, but don’t come here if you are hurrying to work.

Lots of open space and the food is quite good. The staff was very friendly too. I had the roast chicken, which was quite good.

Can I actually give 2 stars to a place where the food, for the most part, was awful? The obliging staff members doling out samples (one just handed us an entire chocolate bar!) certainly helped, as did the beautiful renovation of this space, which was once the shabbiest on the block.
But it’s a restaurant, not a museum, so that brings us to the menu. I don’t follow a paleo diet, and in fact I barely know what it is. Unfortunately, the only thing I learned here is that nothing paleo is properly seasoned, or seasoned at all. To anyone with an average palate, the lack of salt is a deal breaker. And I could accept that there’s no bread, except they feel compelled to offer you a «roll,» which is so baffling and foul that it might come from the cafeteria of a prison planet in a dystopian novel.
So you will like this, if this is the sort of thing you like. To everyone else, you were warned.

What a cute place! Came here around 8PM on a Sunday and there was no line. The employees were so nice about letting us try all the flavors and they had samples! The cashew cream and vanilla chia pudding were my favorite flavors. Make sure to get the Paleo blondie bites! I always love a guilt free dessert :)

Ordered the 2 eggs with chicken sausage, sweet potato hash, and paleo bread. Also got an oatmeal smoothie. My GF got the paleo french toast and coffee with almond milk.
The Oatmeal smoothie was probably the best part of my meal. Slightly sweet. Not really flavorful though.
The eggs were good, but nothing I couldn’t have made on my own — just over easy eggs. The sweet potato hash wasn’t really hash, so much as just grated and heated sweet potatoes, kept warm in a pot… can’t be sure when it was actually made. The chicken sausage also, was pre-​prepared, just kept warm for I don’t know how long. It was dry and lacked any real flavor. The paleo bread is really just zuchini mush inside what seems like a burnt crust. Again, not really any exciting flavors here. I hate going out and eating something I feel like I can make at home better, and all of these are things I feel like I can make at home better (and cheaper).
My girlfriend got the paleo french toast, which she thought was good; I thought it was decent, but by far the best thing either of us got — the cashew cream was definitely a plus. Her coffee was overpriced, and the almond milk literally had chunks of almond in it that made the coffee tough to drink. Starbucks was right next door, so we headed over there for a better coffee afterwards.
They definitely hit the mark on making healthy food, however, at the end of the day, it just wasn’t as flavorful as it could have been. I’m in the camp of healthy doesn’t have to equal flavorless, boring, and bland, but here, it definitely bordered on it.
Service was friendly and quick enough.

I was extremely excited to check out a paleo restaurant for the first time but unfortunately I was pretty disappointed with my visit.
First, the good: one of the staff members offered me some samples to try out dishes prior to ordering. The root vegetable mash and the crack bar were delicious. There was a decent variety of food, and of course you don’t have to worry about what ingredients are in them as they are all listed and high-​quality.
The bad: Many staff members didn’t seem to know what they were doing. It was not busy and I waited 15 minutes to order because a staff member couldn’t figure out how to operate the scale to weigh the food. Once I finally got my food, I went to pay at the check-​out counter and realized I was overcharged by $ 16. I then waited another 10 minutes for this transaction to be fixed. The majority of my meal was cold and not very tasty. I could have cooked most of these dishes much better myself. Additionally, some of the snack options there were ridiculously overpriced, like $ 6 for a half inch layer of pudding in a small to-​go box.
Overall, a couple staff members seemed friendly and knowledgable but there were also a few that seemed completely clueless. I did not get the vibe that the people who worked here were passionate or even cared about the quality of food, which would have made a huge difference. The restaurant is in a nice space, however, and the intent to provide solely paleo food is definitely appreciated. It might be a good place to grab a quick meal or snack when you really need something on the go but there is a lot of room for improvement.

The food is healthy and delicious. Staff are very friendly. Have eaten here alone or with friends for breakfast lunch and dinner. Healthy food goes a long way. Ask for a take out box for what you don’t finish.
Why no fifth star? Hu Kitchen is not the only restaurant guilty of this. The food is healthy and good for the planet. The music choices are fine but would be more enjoyable in the volume was TURNED DOWN considerably. Music should be background and NOT competition for communication between friends. D– in the category of noise pollution.

Myth busted: Price, quality, service; pick any two.
But, somehow, Hu Kitchen nails all three at once.
For delicious food at a reasonable price that also happens to be really healthy… Hu’s your daddy! (As their tongue-​in-​cheek bag says.)
This was my 1^st visit to the uptown location. My (pregnant) wife and I stopped in around 7:30pm for a late-​ish dinner and were pleasantly surprised to find the place nearly empty.
The chef (?)/​owner (?) Brian Johnson was behind the counter for entrees. Very friendly and personable, offered a taste of anything we wanted to try. All the other staff were friendly as well.
Meatloaf, cocoa sweet potatoes, market veggies, and persian lime bar were all excellent.
And, the chocolate chia pudding… Wifey went back to grab several more to-​go on the way out.
Any place that can serve up a full-​size delicious meal for me (with leftovers) for under $ 15 AND provide tasty treats to keep a pregnant woman happy and healthy is 5-​star in my book every day.
PS Brian — looking forward to that cookbook!

love the organic food, seating layout, and location. The servers are polite and gloved. So far, this new location is a well kept secret, but word will get out fast. Plenty of outlets, so you can recharge your devices while you recharge your inner batteries. There is an elevator, with second floor seating and clean, working restrooms… what’s not to like!

Good beans, terrible Baristas!
Come her for Latte’s, they could really use someone who knows how to pull a shot using the espresso machine (shots are pulled for too long leaving a burnt coffee taste in your pallet.)

You have to wonder if curry powder was found during the Paleo age? Still, this place is alright and makes some okay food. For $ 9 you can get two side dishes, and a cup of tap water, free of course.
The side dishes were alright, and a little too spicy for my taste. The curried, roasted cauliflower was almost brunt, and came with a rather strange «cashew crema.» It tamed the spice a bit, but was still rather overwhelming for my taste. The sweet potatoes on another note, were alright. Still, the spices were a bit much for my taste, and needed some salt.
Overall, Hu Kitchen is a welcome adjustment to the usual café in the neighborhood. We will see what happens and if the place with survive.

Finally a safe place to eat all the time. Organic, fresh, clean food and snacks. The place is big and well done. Comfortable with high ceilings and a large upstairs dinning area. Fountains of free filtered water and their version of bulletproof coffee, called Crack Coffee. A cold case of Togo items as well. I tried the salmon cake today and it was tasty.

I went with a girlfriend for lunch. The restaurant was beyond clean, the employees were so helpful because I asked a LOT of questions. I got the chicken salad and brussels sprouts. I will definitely be back to try the chicken tenders and broccoli.

Great, healthy food served quickly. If you like Paleo style food then you will like this restaurant.