I love our new neighborhood! The Oakhurst square in Decatur is full of life every day and night. There are several restaurants and bars, a shoe store, gym, mechanic and dry cleaners. The other night we walked over to Nectar for some smoothies and a meal.

I created my own smoothie with OJ, frozen bananas, frozen strawberries and frozen peaches. For my meal I ordered the Hearts of Palm salad with the dressing on the side. It was a really good salad and the first time I had hearts of palm on top of some field greens. Every salad at Nectar is topped with red onions, tomatoes, home made croutons and raw pumpkin seeds. My salad came with a side of toasted mutilgrain panini bread.

Loren ordered the detox juice (lemon, ginger and carrot) and the veggie panini. The panini had cooked eggplant, zucchini, red onions, tomatoes, pesto and havarti cheese.

I went to Nectar on a Saturday morning to get a breakfast panini (egg white, Tofutti vegan cheese, veggie sausage) along with some friends and we had about an hour long wait. There were tons of people waiting for food and only 3 people working. They only have 1 panini press and 1 blender inside and there was a festival in the square that day so I understood the wait.  If you read the (1) review on Yelp that person said they waited 45 minutes for their sandwich so I have to assume there is usually a wait. When we went for dinner we were the only people there so it was quick and easy.

If you’re lucky enough to grab a meal during their down time it’s amazing. The options range from meat eaters to raw foodists and the presentation is outstanding. They have soy cheese and vegan cheese, veggie sausage, raw juice and smoothies, fresh wheat grass shots and their website claims to have raw meals on the way.

Here’s hoping (but I won’t cross my fingers)!