The Mendo Blog

Last month, Mendo Co-Founders Mario and Ellen celebrated the ten year anniversary of our relationship with Scarborough Farms by driving out to visit the farmers in their fields in Oxnard, CA. We always feature their baby greens in some of our most popular salads, but...

At Mendocino Farms, we see ourselves as more than a restaurant; our mission is to be a neighborhood gathering place that helps build community. That’s why we’re especially thrilled to be partnering with five local elementary schools in Del Mar to have their students...

YOU DID IT! That's right, we said YOU. YOU raised $10,000 for people in need, and you did it by ordering Cassia's Lemongrass Chicken Sandwich with Chickpea Curry Sauce!   We were absolutely blown away by the response to our sandwich collaboration with Chef Bryant...

Our new Chef's Pick is something really special, and we're excited to share it with you starting on Monday! We have collaborated with Chef Bryant Ng of Cassia in Santa Monica to create a sandwich inspired by his legendary Chickpea Coconut Curry. The sandwich combines...

  At Mendocino Farms, we see ourselves as more than a restaurant; our mission is to be a neighborhood gathering place that helps build community. That’s why we’re especially thrilled to be partnering with five local elementary schools in our new neighborhood of...

Our Pastrami Passion   It started five years ago when we were on a food tour of NY. We got a tip from one of the founders of Chop’t Salads, Tony Shure that there was a “hole in the wall” modern Jewish deli in Brooklyn serving the best pastrami he had ever tasted!...

How did Mendo’s Impossible Taco Salad come about? A couple of months ago, we ate the best Taco Salad we had ever had on a food tour in Houston. None of us had eaten a Taco Salad from a restaurant in a long time…but, it made us ask ourselves…what is the modern,...

We have an unlikely new hero on our menu, one that doesn't usually get a lot of glory. We've partnered with Tofu Master Minh Tsai at Hodo in Oakland to bring his carefully handcrafted organic and GMO-free tofu to our fans, and we think it's pretty special.  ...

Two years ago, the culinary team was on a Food Tour of Dallas. We hit some of the famous barbecue joints like Pecan Lodge, The Slow Bone, and Bone Daddy’s. The trip also included some of the great Tex-Mex places like Gabriela’s and Tacolicious. But, if you know Mendo,...

You really can judge yourself by the company you keep…why do they say that…because good friends inspire you to do great things, bad friends do the opposite! At Mendo, we are honored to have some great friends like Kim and Tyler Malek from Salt & Straw. Earlier in...