Original Grain — Restaurant in City of Syracuse

"Issa Vibe". Original Grain in downtown Syracuse is making its name well known, offering quality and quantity in an environment that any hip, cool individual can enjoy. The aesthetic is clean, modern and caters to everyone from health conscious fitness enthusiasts, young SU students and the mall walkers that take their A game to the streets of downtown. No matter your age, good food is good food.

Personally, I'm a huge fan of the OG bowls for lunch and dinner. Specifically Hail Kale Chicken Bowl: which boasts some of the most tender and flavorful chicken on this side of the Mississippi. The homemade sauce compliments the bowl like no other. In the morning their coffee and smoothies will help get your day started on the right foot. I've yet to try their avocado toast but it always looks good.

'OG' is what the kids are calling it these days. They've never disappointed with their food or service, the owners of this establishment are bringing dope restaurants to CNY. It's locally owned and operated, but I could see OG in every US city in a few years. Give them a try, you will not regret it.

“Issa Vibe”. Original Grain in downtown Syracuse is making its name well known, offering quality and quantity in an environment that any hip, cool individual can enjoy. The aesthetic is clean, modern and caters to everyone from health conscious fitness enthusiasts, young SU students and the mall walkers that take their A game to the streets of downtown. No matter your age, good food is good food.

Personally, I’m a huge fan of the OG bowls for lunch and dinner. Specifically Hail Kale Chicken Bowl: which boasts some of the most tender and flavorful chicken on this side of the Mississippi. The homemade sauce compliments the bowl like no other. In the morning their coffee and smoothies will help get your day started on the right foot. I’ve yet to try their avocado toast but it always looks good.

‘OG’ is what the kids are calling it these days. They’ve never disappointed with their food or service, the owners of this establishment are bringing dope restaurants to CNY. It’s locally owned and operated, but I could see OG in every US city in a few years. Give them a try, you will...

I am speaking purely from pick up experience, not delivery, although it’s a beautiful, bright, spacious, and clean restaurant with dine-in options so I imagine that would be excellent as well.

Every smoothie, sandwich, and bowl that I have tried from original grain has been absolutely amazing and SO fresh! I am now hooked! The sandwiches and bowls in particular are SO densely packed with high quality fresh ingredients, and SO many of them! Each bite is a burst of flavor in your mouth! They really pack so much into these sandwiches and bowls.

They looked deceptively small to me but the bowls lasted me three meals and the sandwiches two meals (one half kept me full), especially after a free side of their warm amazing variety of soups I got as a free side for getting a smoothie and sandwich combo.

Very highly recommend if you love very healthy and tasty takes on some classic favorites like BLT, kung pao (kung POW!) chicken, Tex-mex, chicken bacon ranch, etc. You will come away feeling so much better without any gut or stomach problems and they taste even more delicious than their unhealthy traditional greasy origins.

I am beyond shocked that they only have one location in Rochester and one in Syracuse. Original Grain should at the very least be a state- wide chain by now. Consider that the speed at which the friendly and helpful employees make the food is faster than most garbage fast food places, the prices are only slightly higher, and you’re giving your body love while satisfying food cravings instead of artificial trans fat filled garbage that just makes you feel yucky.

Please check this place out!!! They are opened from 8 AM to 8 PM M-F and Saturday, with sandwiches and bowls available after 11 and they are sadly closed Sundays (would be a perfect Sunday brunch spot...

Unfortunately very disappointed. I stopped by a couple weeks ago for the antioxidant boost smoothie. I’ve had their smoothies in the past, albeit a few years back, and enjoyed them. I took my first sip while still in the shop and it tasted really off. Sour, funky, and unpleasant. I asked the barista what kind of yogurt and mentioned that it tasted off. They told me it was Greek yogurt and assured me it was normal. I enjoy Greek yogurt and always keep some in my fridge, so I don’t think that was it. I hoped that my initial question would lead the barista to ask if they could offer me something different or check to make sure all ingredients were unexpired but they did not.

With every sip, I tried to convince myself it was fine, but it tasted horrible, and I ended up tossing 3/4 of the $10 smoothie.

In good faith, I emailed Original Grain that same day to inform them about this, and to see if there was an expired ingredient used in the smoothie which led to the sour taste. It’s been a few weeks and no one has responded to my inquiry. Feel bad that I wasted $10 and didn’t get to enjoy this drink. At the very least, I think management should have done its due diligence and responded to my inquiry and checked the freshness of the ingredients used that day in the instance that my instincts...