Something Green makes salads, bowls and wraps on West 23rd Street in Manhattan, and its lunch menu on Zerocater runs to fifty-five lines. Read the end of each description and the same four words come back again and again: served with a side of. Forty-seven of the fifty-five lines send the dressing in its own cup, and each of those lines names its dressing.
That habit hands the last step of the meal to the guest. One box serves the person who wants the whole cup, the person who wants half and the person who wants none, so the planner never has to collect dressing requests or order plain versions on the side. This guide counts the habit across the menu, names the lines that send two cups and the few that arrive dressed, and shows how to order for a New York office.
In this guide
- The kitchen on West 23rd Street
- The lines that send the dressing in its own cup, counted by format
- The six lines that send two cups
- The eight lines that read differently
- How to order one box per guest for a mixed room
- How to place an order
A Manhattan kitchen that started in Brooklyn
Something Green describes itself in five words: Born in Brooklyn. Built for all New Yorkers. The shop sits at 41 West 23rd Street in the Flatiron District, a grab-and-go counter with a fridge of ready meals, and the kitchen says it prepares the day’s food each morning. The menu leans on greens, grains, fish and plant proteins: kale and romaine salads, grain and noodle bowls, falafel and tempeh, salmon and tuna.
The dressings are where the kitchen puts its own name. Most lines call the dressing homemade, and the list is long: lemon oregano, lemon mint, honey dijon, dill, balsamic, tahini, pesto, caesar, cilantro lime and a Thai peanut dressing among them. The kitchen’s own site prints the same sentence on the lines it puts first, so the menu on Zerocater and the shop say the same thing.
Forty-seven of fifty-five lines send the dressing in its own cup
The count is simple. Of the fifty-five lunch lines on the Zerocater menu, forty-seven of the fifty-five end with the words served with a side of, followed by the dressing. Every one of the twelve bowls does it. So do twenty-four of the twenty-five salads and eleven of the thirteen wraps. The table shows the count by format.
| Format | Lines on the Zerocater menu | Dressing or sauce in its own cup |
|---|---|---|
| Salads | 25 | 24 |
| Bowls | 12 | 12 |
| Wraps | 13 | 11 |
| Pressed sandwiches | 4 | 0 |
| Pizza | 1 | 0 |
| Total | 55 | 47 |
Look at the wraps. Most kitchens roll a wrap’s sauce inside, and here the Buffalo chicken, the BBQ chicken slaw, the pesto chicken, the tuna and the falafel wraps all send the dressing in a cup for dipping or pouring. The collard wraps and the rice-paper wrap do the same. A guest who likes a dry wrap gets one from the same order as the guest who dunks every bite.
The bowls make the pattern easiest to see. The salmon teriyaki noodle bowl sends a Thai peanut dressing in a cup, the Southwest chicken grain bowl a chili powder dressing, the Tandoori chicken grain bowl a cilantro lime dressing and the warm salmon bowl a honey lemon dijon. Each box arrives with its food on one side and its dressing in a cup, and the guest pours.
Six lines send two cups
Six lines send two cups, and they give a guest a choice inside a single box. Each pairs a bright dressing with a richer one, or a sweet sauce with a hot one, so the guest can use one, the other or both. The table lists the six in the kitchen’s words.
| Format | Line | What comes in the cups |
|---|---|---|
| Salad | Kale Falafel Salad | balsamic vinaigrette and tahini dressing |
| Bowl | Cauli-Rice Salmon Bowl | lemon mint dressing and tahini dressing |
| Bowl | Cauli-Rice Falafel Bowl | lemon mint dressing and tahini dressing |
| Bowl | Poke The Bowl | sweet sauce and spicy sauce |
| Bowl | Quinoa Poke Bowl | sweet sauce and spicy sauce |
| Wrap | Whole Wheat Falafel Wrap | tahini dressing and balsamic vinaigrette |
A seventh line does something similar with cheese. The Quinoa Salad sends its feta in a cup beside the lemon mint dressing, so a guest who skips cheese leaves that cup closed and eats the rest of the box as it comes.
The eight lines that read differently
Eight lines do not use the side-of wording, and they are worth knowing before you order for a guest who wants the food plain. The four pressed sandwiches carry pesto inside the bread, and the cauliflower crust pizza carries its marinara. Three more say it another way.
| Format | Line | What the menu says |
|---|---|---|
| Salad | Kale Caesar Salad | Served with caesar dressing, no side wording |
| Pizza | Cauli Pizza | Marinara on the cauliflower crust |
| Wrap | Whole Wheat Veg Burger Wrap | Sweet potato fries on the side, with spicy mayo and balsamic |
| Wrap | Col Falafel Wrap | Served with tahini dressing, no side wording |
| Pressed sandwich | Tuna Avo Panini | Pesto inside the baguette |
| Pressed sandwich | Portobello Panini | Pesto inside the baguette |
| Pressed sandwich | Mozzarella Melt | Pesto inside the bread |
| Pressed sandwich | Mediterranean Melt | Pesto inside the baguette |
Those eight are the lines where the kitchen has already made the sauce decision, and a room that wants a warm pressed sandwich or a slice of pizza gets exactly that. For a guest who wants everything plain, the forty-seven cup lines are the place to look.
How to order one box per guest for a mixed room
Because the dressing rides in its own cup on most of the menu, the planning rule is short: order one box per guest and leave the dressing question to the table. You do not need a dressed and an undressed version of the same salad, and you do not need to collect dressing choices in advance. Each guest opens the box, sees the cup and decides.
Then spread the order across the formats. Salads cover the guests who want a big bowl of greens, the grain and noodle bowls cover the guests who want something more filling, and the wraps cover the guests who want to eat with one hand at their desk. Mix the proteins the way you would for any lunch: chicken and salmon for most of the room, falafel, tempeh or the veggie burger for the guests who skip meat.
Say twenty people are coming to a Tuesday team lunch and three of them skip meat. Order eight salads, six bowls and six wraps. Put the Kale Falafel Salad, the Harvest Bowl and the Whole Wheat Falafel Wrap among them for the three, and add a Cauli-Rice Falafel Bowl for anyone else who wants one. Every box arrives with its own cup, so nobody has to ask for anything at the table.
Our salad bar guide makes the general case for keeping the dressing on the side when you set out a shared spread. Something Green does it box by box, which is why it suits a desk lunch. The guide to ordering for mixed dietary needs covers how to collect requests, and the vegetarian office catering guide covers how big the meat-free share should be. Confirm the current detail with the kitchen before you order for anyone with a dietary requirement. Nothing here is dietary or medical advice.
How to order Something Green catering for a New York office
Direct, the kitchen’s own site carries an Order Catering link beside its regular ordering, and the shop on West 23rd Street takes walk-in orders. Read the catering terms on that link before a large order.
Through Zerocater, the Something Green page carries the current menu and a live quote, and the order sits alongside every other kitchen your office already uses, on one invoice. How it works covers the mechanics, and our New York City office catering cost guide covers budgets across the city.
Whichever route you take, the ordering advice stays the same. Order one box per guest, spread the boxes across salads, bowls and wraps, and let the cups do the rest. For more kitchens that send a complete lunch in one box, our boxed meal catering page lists them, and the boxed lunch guide for meetings covers the room around them.
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Something Green and Zerocater
A kitchen that sends the dressing in its own cup makes a mixed office order easy to plan. One box per guest covers the whole room, the guest makes the last choice at the table, and the planner spends the time on the headcount instead of a dressing list. That makes Something Green a useful kitchen to keep in a Manhattan lunch rotation, and a strong pick for a team that eats at its desks.
CaterAi builds the rotation, keeps track of what the office has already eaten, and brings a kitchen like this one in when the week needs a salad day. For ongoing office catering, Zerocater manages the rotation across every kitchen the team likes. New York City catering covers the city, and the boxed meal catering page for New York City narrows it to boxes. For more reading, Bite, Hummus Kitchen and The Picnic Basket are three more New York partner kitchens on the blog, and Springbone Kitchen is another kitchen built on bowls.
Menus change. This guide describes how the Something Green menu is built rather than what is on it this week. For the current menu and a live quote, use the Something Green page on Zerocater, and confirm the current detail with the kitchen before you order for anyone with a dietary requirement.
Frequently Asked Questions
What kind of food does Something Green cater?
Salads, grain and noodle bowls, wraps in whole wheat, collard and rice wraps, pressed sandwiches and a cauliflower crust pizza, from a kitchen on West 23rd Street in Manhattan. The kitchen makes the dressings itself, and most lines name the dressing they come with.
Does Something Green put the dressing on the salad?
On most lines, no. Forty-seven of the fifty-five lunch lines on the Zerocater menu say the dressing comes on the side, in its own cup, and that includes every bowl and most of the wraps. Each guest dresses the box at the table.
Which Something Green lines come with two cups?
Six lines: the Kale Falafel Salad, the two Cauli-Rice bowls, the two poke bowls and the Whole Wheat Falafel Wrap. The Quinoa Salad sends its feta in a cup beside the dressing.
Which Something Green lines come with the sauce already on?
The four pressed sandwiches carry pesto inside the bread, and the cauliflower crust pizza carries its marinara. The Kale Caesar does not use the side wording on the Zerocater menu. Read those lines before you order for a guest who wants the food plain.
How do you order Something Green for a mixed group?
Order one box per guest and spread the order across salads, bowls and wraps. Leave the dressing question to the table, because each guest gets the cup and decides. Confirm the current detail with the kitchen before you order for anyone with a dietary requirement. Nothing here is dietary or medical advice.
Does Something Green have meat-free lines?
Yes. The menu lists falafel, tempeh, seitan, veggie burger, feta and portobello lines across the salads, bowls, wraps and pressed sandwiches, each with its own dressing cup or sauce as the line describes.
How do you order Something Green catering?
Two routes. Direct, through the Order Catering link on the kitchen’s own site. Or through Zerocater, where the Something Green page carries the current menu and a live quote, and the order sits alongside every other kitchen your office uses.
