Dig Inn
“The sweet potatoes were roasted so nicely – slightly crispy on the outside, melt-in-your-mouth smooth on the inside.”
“I ordered the grilled tofu over farro with a side of the kale/curried squash and the roasted pumpkin and pesto carrots.”
“The way it works is that you pick a meat and grains and two sides- rounding to about ~$15 per platter if you choose a large.”
Dig Inn
Take-out: Yes
Accepts Credit Cards: Yes
Bike Parking: Yes
Good for Kids: Yes
Good for Groups: Yes
Caters: Yes
PokéStop Nearby: Yes
Price range.
$$ Price range $11-30
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Recent visits to Dig Inn Market have been very disappointing for several key reasons;
1) Price – The price for a market salmon plate with Mac N' Cheese side approaches $15. In my hometown $15 will get you a cheap sit down meal with table service. For fast casual, non table service food in a style similar to Chipotle, $8-10 should be the norm. While I understand Manhattan is an expensive real estate market, prices are just too high to justify anymore.
2) Quality – the food is not as tasty as I remember it. I noticed a change in the quality of the steak. The salmon is often overdone. In fact, I've been there several times when the food was flat out cold.
Although I listed these criticisms, I do commend the chain for trying to be the first true healthy fast casual restaurant. Their goal is commendable. However, as prices increase and quality decreases, it is becoming hard to justify a $13-15 take out dinner. I'd rather save up for a nice meal out with friends.
The food I'm generally a fan of. I like their flank steak (really good!) and meatballs. Their warm side dishes are all pretty good (especially the Mac and cheese) and as far as cold I would recommend the spinach and mango salad. Great dressing in it. I'd stay away from the lentils (way too much celery but I'm not a fan of celery.)
Really close to main campus Columbia (whenever you have to take Butler library break.)
The entrance is between the tables they placed outside. It's a weird set up they have between the entrance and the exit. They have a rest room. Staff is apathetic but get the job done.
Pretty solid option in the neighborhood- gives you variety, good portions, and mostly healthy!
Nothing fancy, but I like their food for the purposes of a quick bite. I've had their flank steak and salmon options, both of which are decent. Even the small plate gives you a decent portion; there doesn't appear to be a big difference between the small and large, so I would opt for the small. I like the fact that they have brown rice as a standard and they have a good variety of sides to choose from.
Lines appear long but it moves quickly (reminds me of a healthier Chipotle). A decent option for a quick lunch if you're in the area, although I wouldn't make a special trip here.
My friend will not stop raving about the corn on the cob she ate for lunch today at Dig Inn. I got a big market plate with steak. Portion size is good but man, what an awful piece of steak. It was tough, chewy, flavorless and underdone. I do like my steak rare but having to chew a slice of almost raw beef for 10 minutes is not pleasant. My receipt says the steak was grilled and chilled. Why chill it??? I got lentil and squash as sides and both were great choices.
My friend and I came here after a long day of studying. We were both feeling really shitty and overwhelmed with our lives and despite my pestering about going to eat something unhealthy and bad to make ourselves feel better about being bad, he stuck true and fast to eating at Dig Inn. His rationale was that he would personally feel worse if he ate something super greasy and unhealthy at this time … I guess he's not a fan of unhealthy comfort food. But anyway, since I've never been to Dig Inn and one of my other friends has been raving about this place, I figured, why not? I could probably do myself some good and eat something relatively healthy.
Dig Inn Seasonal Market is a small place that serves a lot of locally sourced, non-GMO foodstuffs. You line up and get a tray filled with your choices. I ended up getting the whole grain with chicken, upstate macaroni and cheese, and the kale and granola salad. After awkwardly maneuvering my way into my seat with my giant student backpack, I was finally ready to eat my healthy meal. After a slight struggle ensued between me and the plastic cover, I was ready to … Dig Inn. (Haha, get it? I'm so punny.)
The chicken was very flavorful and mixing it with the whole grains was a good choice. I've been trying to explore other carbohydrate options and so the fact that I was able to choose whole grains was very satisfying. The macaroni and cheese was creamy and the macaroni was cooked to perfection. The kale and granola salad had a great flavor and whatever dressing was drizzled over this salad really blended the kale and granola together in a great way. The best part, in my opinion, was the fact that if you ate each of these things together (as in, chicken, whole grains, macaroni and cheese, and the kale salad [or a combination thereof] in one bite), it would still taste great. There are some foodstuffs that taste great by itself but awful when its combined with other things, but I was pleasantly surprised to find that all these flavors don't overpower each other when eaten together and that they actually go extremely well together. I'm not sure if anyone else eats like that (but I'm sure there's SOMEONE out there who does) so this little bit might sound gross – feel free to skip it or purge your brain of this image.
Overall, I really like Dig Inn. I think its a little pricey, maybe, but when I'm trying to be healthy, I'll probably come here.
If, like me, you've recently realized you can't eat "whatever you want" forever, you'll be thankful for Dig Inn.
This chain is serving clean, farm-to-table food to the masses — and at an affordable price.
I ordered the grilled tofu over farro with a side of the kale/curried squash and the roasted pumpkin and pesto carrots.
It was all really good. And this is coming from someone who doesn't love kale or tofu.
I'll definitely be back!
My first time here definitely wasn't the best experience, but I decided to give it another try. This time around I got the chicken and was definitely happy with it. It wasn't dry and was cooked perfectly. The brown rice is a bit bland for my liking, so I got hot sauce with it which completely changed the flavor for me. The mac and cheese was better this time around (except they charge you more for it for some reason). I also got the winter squash with tahini as a side and it was great! I guess this is the type of place that's a hit or miss. I feel like the food could be more flavorful, but this experience was at least definitely better than my previous one
Absolutely fantastic food. I love the concept and the execution was great. Moves like a Chipotle line (super fast service), tastes like fine dining. Has this great, open, fresh ambience. Think wood furniture and lots of daylight. I also loved their book selection – I was perusing their copy of Pollan before my friends arrived.
I ordered the grilled salmon with sweet potatoes and their seasonal veggies. The salmon was delicious and grilled to perfection. It was topped with this lovely green sauce (peas, maybe?) and sat on a bed of some type of savory grains that was also amazingly flavored and soft in texture. The sweet potatoes were roasted so nicely – slightly crispy on the outside, melt-in-your-mouth smooth on the inside. And the seasonal veggies (spinach and some other veggies) were fantastic. Flavoring was so nice and clean. Nothing was bland or boring. I was so impressed.
Also had their vanilla mint tea, which was delicious and refreshing. Cannot recommend this place enough. You literally feel so healthy and good about yourself after you eat here (successful marketing or just damn good food?). I'm definitely coming back.