With locations dotting the California coastline, Urban Plates is a made-from-scratch eatery with a focus on healthy dishes and great ingredients.
Saad Nadhir and John Zagara opened the first location…
The food was amazing! Taste was on point across the board for the steak, cake, and sides. Only complaint is that the portion of steak was a bit small, and sliced a little thinner and rougher than I anticipated.
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Lisa M
1 contributions
Didn't like
• 10/22/26
• DoorDash order
The stew had just three pieces of meat in it and very little flavor. The potatoes also had very little flavor. I would definitely not order this again.
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Tabitha T
Emerging Expert • 11 contributions
Loved
• 11/2/25
• DoorDash order
The Cobb salad always tastes so fresh, and I love that you can leave the chicken off and it actually deducts from the price! The restaurant is super good if you call ahead and need to make slight changes you cannot make on the app.
Thank you so much to the chef for my incredible onion straws!!!
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Reneesha R
5 contributions
Liked
• 9/26/23
• DoorDash order
This was my first time ordering from Urban Plates and I really enjoyed it! I was in the mood for a salad and was delighted to see they have a beet salad (I love beets!). I thought the portion was great. It came with bread and I also ordered a tomato soup on the side for $3. I also ordered two sides, the brussel sprouts and potatoes, which were tasty, but I felt were a little pricey for their portion. I counted 10 potatoes in my container (which was the same size as the soup container), so I didn't feel that or the brussel sprouts were entirely worth the price. I also got a (New) Cantaloupe Pineapple Mango Replenisher which mostly tasted like pineapple, but it was good. Overall, a great place and I'm excited to try some of their other dishes!
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Jo Ann S
Local Expert • 21 contributions
Liked
• 6/20/23
• DoorDash order
The Grilled Grass Fed Steak was a little pricey for the portion size given, but is of higher quality. Though the steak was cooked a little more than pictured, it was tasty and tender. The side salad was the perfect size and the Brussel Sprouts were great.
The Braised Beef & Mushroom is delicious, a little pricey for the portion, but again, higher quality and cooked perfectly. The Artisan bread is so good, perfect flavoring and soft-ish.
The Stubborn Soda - Cola flavor - tastes almost exactly like Coke (needed more ice though).
The Chocolate Vanilla Layer Cake is very rich and I think this would balance beautifully if the vanilla layers were simply a heavy whipped cream, with the thick layer of vanilla cream on the top, so reversed, or maybe alternated. Otherwise, it is very moist and chocolatey.
Overall, all of the food is quality, cooked to perfection, and delicious!
I recommend Urban Plates 100%.
