I always love catching up with my friend Erica and this past time was no exception. We met up after work for dinner and ended up chatting and snacking for three and a half hours. Of course, it still wasn’t long enough.
We met up at Greens & Grille, a restaurant with two locations, both in Orlando. We met up at the location by the Mall at Millenia, and the second one is near UCF. They serve up fresh salads, soups and sandwiches. You can order off their premade, signature menu, or you can pick your own ingredients to build your own creation. All of the protein is thrown on the grill prior to being placed on your salad or in your sandwich. Erica and I both ordered salads from the signature menu.
I ordered a cobb salad with grilled shrimp.
Their prices do run a little high for salads (about $10), but they’re huge, and everything is very high quality. I don’t know why, but ordering salads out always tastes better than when I make them at home.
After gabbing for awhile at Greens & Grille, we headed around the corner to Tutti Frutti for some froyo. They offer soy bean froyo, but I stuck with the normal variety. The soy bean based froyo boasts being fat free, gluten free, has no artificial sweeteners, and has more protein.
I got a swirl of pineapple and coconut for a pina colada flavor and topped it with chocolate chips, kiwi, blueberries and a plop of whipped cream. I love mixing chocolate and fruity flavors.
It was a sweet ending to a fun time!
Do you prefer sweet or tart froyo flavors? I usually go for the tart, fruity flavors.
It’s so fun catching up with friends. You know that you are having a good time when so much time has passed and you don’t even realize it.
I’ve never heard of soy bean based froyo. I’m more into sweet froyo flavors.
Funny, cuz hubs has asked me to go to G&G and I refuse to because of the price. I hate when you get charged by the topping. That is so ridiculous. But I usually make my own salad instead of getting one from the menu and I like lots of toppings. So I usually stick with Hummus House. But Tenders has some awesome salads too.
And I’m with you…I can duplicate a freakin’ salad at home and it still tastes better out.
A new froyo opened here but I haven’t tried it. I’m pretty boring – I don’t really like toppings because I don’t like having to chew with my froyo. I like the idea of fresh fruit though – maybe that would entice me to add to it. We don’t get as much heat here in Washington as you do in Florida so the appeal of froyo only lasts a short time.
Sweet!!
I prefer sweet! But I actually enjoy the ice cream more than the toppings. Crazy, I know
Depends on my mood! I do love tart fro yo, but sometimes the sweet stuff is where it’s at!
I normally go with vanilla froyo an load it up with toppings!