Rooted: South Medford

Really great vegan food with plenty of gluten-free options. We always stop here when road tripping Oregon <—> California for a meal ‘to dine in’ and a meal ‘to go.’ Staff is always super friendly and helpful. During our last visit a few weeks ago, we commented on how much we loved a ‘special’ we had eaten months ago - and the team member said she’d make it for us even though it wasn’t on the menu. If you’re traveling up/down I-5, this is just a few minutes off the South Medford Exit.

This is going to be long so in advance the TLDR is the food is amazing and definitely go there, now for my review: We spent $71 dollars and got: pulled popper panini (8.3/10) with gf bread replacement, rooted nachos as a rice bowl(9.5/10), apple nachos (7/10), matcha mango smoothie (8.5/10), berry cherry smoothie (9/10) and a cookie which was probably a good 8.6/10. I absolutely would recommend this place. The food was really amazing and their use of the chipotle lime jackfruit was genius, I've never had jackfruit before and could've been fooled that my sandwich had meat in it! Absolutely awesome. I was really happy to find a place with such a great diverse menu while remaining vegetarian and also having gluten free options and (I think) vegan options. The drinks were also great and they have a lot of options. Also as someone who can't eat peanuts it made me very happy to see a menu that isn't using peanuts and is using alternatives!!!! The service was good and the wait wasn't super long at all, it was empty when we got here tho (about 4:30pm, on a Friday) and the atmosphere is great with a welcoming seating area and good music A side thing I loved is they have compostable straws that aren't paper so they're not disintegrating as you drink I think my only criticism would be with the nachos, but this is probably a personal preference thing, but I'd say the ratio of toppings to apple was off, it needed a bit more apple I would also recommend this as more of an individual or date food spot vs whole family just bc I imagine it'd get pricey if it was like four people Overall genuinely one of the best places I've ever eaten, the food was diverse and delicious and service was amazing

At first I was so excited to finally have a place that has a menu for those who suffer from gluten & dairy allergies. The gentleman at the counter was so nice, I got ahead of myself because of the excitement, and simply forgot to ask for gluten-free on my melt. The women was then so rude, made me pay for the whole meal twice, even though I hadn't touched the original melt. I've been a chef for a better part of a decade, and I've never experienced this...ever. Almost had a forever customer..but unfortunately customer service is everything in the food industry. Thank you to the kind gentleman than "made it with love". You were very sweet. But the woman needs understand she's making the whole place look bad. Fifty dollar melt....