Pressed Cafe Open In Newton

NEWTON, MA —If you're looking for a spot to order breakfast burritos, soups, salads, panini, quinoa bowls and smoothies, Pressed Cafe, which opened quietly last month in Newton has a number of options.

Roi and Miri Schpindler, a married couple, had the idea to take high end ingredients and create fresh food, quickly and started the New Hampshire-based cafe in 2016. The Needham Street spot, like it's sibling cafes, features classic American, Asian flavors and there's Middle Eastern flare.

As the name alludes, Pressed offers a bevy of pressed juices and panini, along with grain bowls and salads, mac and cheese and several vegetarian and vegan options.

The menu is extensive; the panini section ranges from the 3 cheese grilled cheese ($5.95) on ciabatta to the Tel Aviv Tuna made with tuna salad, za'atar, labneh, a hard-boiled egg, Roma tomatoes, and English cucumber all pressed on a ciabatta ($12.5). The power bowls include a "Red Quinoa Protein Bowl" that is marinated grilled chicken, red quinoa, black bean sauce, avocado, corn, baby spinach and salsa, served with hot sauce. ($10.50) to a Moroccan Eggplant Farro Bowl with half a roasted eggplant, cilantro-mint farro, roasted tomato and red pepper sauce, tahini, herbed chickpeas and a side of hot sauce ($13.50.)

There's also grown up mac n' cheese, like the short rib mac ($13.50) made from the cafe's house Vermont Cheddar mac n' cheese with braised beef short ribs, topped with Parmesan demi-glace' and breadcrumbs ($13.50).

Look for breakfast burritos that range from the basic egg, cheese and potato ($5.95) to the "Healthy Start burrito bowl" ($11.50). There are bagels, toasts, shakshuka and salads, too.

The vegan menu, which utilizes something the cafe calls a vegan kabob: something that tastes similar to a Beyond Beef/Impossible Meat product, but with more spice.

The space is approximately 3,694 sq. feet and has the front entrance brings you right to the counter to order. The menu, which somehow fits on a front and back lamented sheet includes a number of vegetarian options marked with a V, and a handful of vegan options marked VG. But there's also an entire section on the menu to highlight the vegan options. Once you order, you're given a table number so someone can deliver your meal to you at one of more than a dozen tables or, should you choose to sit at the counter that lines the span of the wall, up there.

The spot is open from 7 a.m. until 10 p.m. Monday through Sunday.

The cafe has three other locations, two in New Hampshire and one in Burlington that opened in 2016.

The restaurant has been featured on Phantom Gourmet and on Chronicle.

Pressed Cafe To Open In Newton On Needham Street

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