honegrow is a wholesome fast-casual restaurant featuring stir fry, salads, honeybar desserts and more… and a new location is under construction in Moorestown NJ at the Eastgate Square shopping center.
The space for honeygrow Moorestown was previously a Boston Market.
Founded in Philadelphia in 2012, this month they are celebrating the opening of their 50th location, and are now in seven states with many more to come!
Pictures tell a 1,000 words and I always try to visit the places that I write about to share the experience with readers who may be unfamiliar…
So yesterday my wife and I stopped in for lunch at the Cherry Hill location on our way to see the new Beetlejuice movie.
Honestly I had no idea that the main menu items for honeygrow was stir fry… you’d think a guy who covers so many new restaurants would have already known this. It was a very pleasant and delicious surprise.
As mentioned Honeygrow opened their first location in June of 2012 but that was after three years of trying to find investors to help fund the innovative and fresh food restaurant!
Founder and CEO Justin Rosenberg first came up with the idea back in 2009 when he converted to a plant based diet and was growing tired of mediocrity in food and experiences presented by other fast-dining options… So he walked away from his cubicle office lifestyle, trained in a top kitchens… and focused on creating a new restaurant experience.
Neil at View From Evesham had this story first over the summer! Be sure to follow him at his popular page!
honegrow Moorestown (and a Cherry Hill Visit)
The upcoming honeygrow for Moorestown NJ is part of the Eastgate Square shopping center which sits next to the Moorestown Mall.
honeygrow takes up one segment of a smaller pad site location which is also home to a Cava fast-casual restaurant location. It’s an interesting pairing to have both Cava and honeygrow in the same building 100 feet from each other as both of them offer different variations of wholesome freshly made and delicious food… it should make for an area food destination stop!
This Moorestown area is a thriving commercial district but changes in the mall complex are also making it even more interesting with the new large Cooper Health facility having opened in the mall recently, as well as upcoming residential units being developed in the mall parking lot which will likely be in walking distance to the upcoming honeygrow.
A construction waste bin has been outside the unit for a few months now, likely first as part of the removal of the Boston Market interior and now supporting new construction efforts. A few weeks ago the honeygrow banner appeared on the building.
So as mentioned I’d never eaten at honeygrow and had never looked at the menu… so my wife and I stopped in for lunch yesterday at Cherry Hill.
The Cherry Hill location has been open almost 10 years and is located in the Ellisburg Shopping Center (Whole Foods). The new Dave’s Hot Chicken is located just a few feet away.
The end unit location for honeygrow offers outdoor seating along the side, which is where we sat and enjoyed our late lunch on a mild September afternoon.
Inside honeygrow it’s a nicely designed space with a modern feel to it… it has some similarities to the popular fast casual design that you would find in say, a Chipotle.
But our ordering experience at honeygrow was nothing like the “walk down the cafeteria line” model of other restaurants. While it looked like to the rear there was someone available to take an order we just walked up to the front kiosk, picked our two entrees and drinks and that was it.
We both went with the signature stirfry and choose variations of a garlic chicken based recipe… I ordered the Garlic Butter Chicken with extra chicken and my wife chose the Spicy Garlic.
Both stir fry dishes featured freshly made egg white noodles, roasted chicken of course and a selection of vegetables,
And while they would both seem to be the same, the two dishes were distinctively different with the Spicy Garlic (and its pineapple) having more of a sweeter sauce to it, and the Garlic Butter Chicken seemed to lean more towards a slightly saltier, soy sauce Chinese food style recipe.
My wife loved both of the options but honestly it was enough of a flavor difference that she actually switched lunches with me! More so because she’s not a huge fan of pineapple and I absolutely love it.
We both found our meals to meet the hype… they were incredibly fresh and flavorful and it was a healthy portion for $12.99 each (and of course the extra chicken was a small up charge).
I really enjoyed it, but my wife was a huge fan just straight up saying “I love it” and as we were walking back to the car she was already making plans of who she could bring back with her for lunch the next time!
Which brings me to a little question for the folks at honeygrow… With 50 locations and now in seven states “how the heck have you been missing out on the Gloucester County/Route 42 area which is about 10 miles from your home base?”. We’ve got some wonderful communities here that would really support a honeygrow such as Deptford, Gloucester Township, Washington Township. Heck will soon have our SECOND First Watch location and not one honeygrow!
It sure would be nice to not have to drive all that distance from Deptford to Cherry Hill. 🙂
Links and Location
honeygrow Moorestown – Coming Soon
Eastgate Square
1201 Nixon Dr
Moorestown, NJ 08057
honeygrow Cherry Hill – Open
Ellisburg Center Shopping Center
1586 Kings Hwy N
Cherry Hill, NJ 08034