Vibrant is a chic, health-focused café that delights with fresh, energizing bites and a cozy, sunlit atmosphere perfect for a laid-back meal.
"Vibrant’s second location has the best view in town. The all-day breakfast and lunch cafe located at Memorial Park’s Running Trails Center opens into a vaulted patio surrounded by colorful native wildflowers and thickets of trees. Similar to the original location, Vibrant serves dairy-, gluten-, and refined sugar-free food like crisp watercress salads with dijon and fluffy masa pancakes with floof of cashew foam and fruit preserves so good you won’t even miss the gluten-full kind. If you long to be nature-adjacent or want to sip bone broth or a turmeric latte between trail runs or jogging over Houston’s only land bridge, then bask in Vibrant’s glow." - gianni greene, chelsea thomas
"Maybe you’re looking for a fuel-up after an aerial yoga class, or you just need somewhere to lower your internal body temperature by a few degrees. For that, there’s Vibrant, a sort of healthy restaurant intent on keeping gluten out of meals and any sort of heat off of the premises. Vibrant’s design is minimal, which leaves all of the focus on dishes like sorghum blueberry waffles with a tart elderberry syrup, or a deceptively spicy sweet potato hash. And if you want to bring a pooch with you for lunch, the patio at Vibrant is dog-friendly." - chelsea thomas, gianni greene
"Whether you just ran a 5K around Memorial Park or need to stare existentially at some greenery, go to Vibrant, Houston’s secret garden restaurant. This all-day cafe next to Memorial Park’s Running Trails Center offers a panoramic view of native gardens and is usually full of runners sweating through expensive activewear. The menu is full of bright and wholesome food, like chia seed bowls, watercress salads, and turmeric lattes with housemade cashew milk. Dining on Vibrant’s patio between blooming wildflowers and lowing live oak branches serves as a reminder that, yes, we do have nature here in Houston. " - gianni greene, chelsea thomas
"A meal at Vibrant feels a bit like a wellness retreat, which is fitting because most people here are either wearing neon yoga sets or flowy wide-leg linen pants. The Montrose restaurant is focused on using “holistic” ingredients. This means dishes like spicy sweet potato hash, or a sorghum blueberry waffle with tart elderberry syrup that makes us consider foraging in the woods for our food. The temperature is typically set to popsicle, so either bring a sweater or take your meal to the outdoor seating area, surrounded by foliage and whatever shih tzus make an appearance on the dog-friendly patio." - gianni greene, chelsea thomas
"Vibrant’s second location has the best view in town. The all-day breakfast and lunch cafe located at Memorial Park’s Running Trails Center opens into a vaulted patio surrounded by colorful native wildflowers and thickets of trees. Similar to the original location, Vibrant serves dairy-, gluten-, and refined sugar-free food like crisp watercress salads with dijon and fluffy masa pancakes with floof of cashew foam and fruit preserves so good you won’t even miss the gluten-full kind. If you long to be nature-adjacent or want to sip bone broth or a turmeric latte between trail runs or jogging over Houston’s only land bridge, then bask in Vibrant’s glow." - Chelsea Thomas
