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featured dining guide story Advertorial Feature BY KAREN RICE | NoRthwEst ARKANsAs DEmoCRAt-GAzEttE 42 What's up! april 2-8, 2023 Spring flavors are here At your neighborhood First Watch restaurant, each season brings enticing new menu items with the freshest, most flavorful ingredients from their bakers, makers and growers. Right now you can enjoy some great seasonal favorites for breakfast, brunch and lunch made to order. Spring Seasonal Menu First Watch's vibrant seasonal menu features Crab & Avocado Toast and Bananas Foster French Toast, along with Tacos Al Pastor Hash and a Tropical Sunrise from the juice bar. The Crab and Avocado Toast is a seaside departure from First Watch's classic Avocado Toast. Wild-caught lump crab and fresh smashed avocado is featured on top of their whole grain artisan toast with house pickled red onions, extra-virgin olive oil, fresh herbs and Maldon sea salt. Served with two basted cage-free eggs. Their Bananas Foster French Toast is a treat that will make your day. Thick-cut, custard-dipped challah bread is griddled and topped with fresh sliced bananas, pecans and caramel sauce and lightly dusted with powdered cinnamon sugar. For a spicy twist, try their Tacos Al Pastor Hash – two cage-free eggs any style atop fresh, seasoned potatoes, crispy pork al pastor, pineapple, fresh avocado, house pickled red onions, Cotija cheese, cilantro and lime crema. Served with a side of warm tortillas. And you'll be transported to a sunny beach with their Tropical Sunrise juice, featuring exotic mango, pineapple, strawberry and lime. Golden Glow up One of this season's featured fresh harvested ingredients is fresh-cut pineapple. It gives First Watch's Tacos Al Pastor Hash and Tropical Sunrise juice notes of sweetness and just enough tartness to transport you to paradise. Pineapples take 18-20 months to harvest, with their peak season lasting from March to July. Squeezed Fresh. Every. Day. In addition to this season's juice masterpiece, Tropical Sunrise, you can start your meal off with one of First Watch's other juice creations. There's Purple Haze: A refreshing and magical blend of lemon, cane sugar, butterfly pea flower tea, and a hint of lavender. Or try a little Morning Meditation: Orange, lemon, turmeric, organic ginger, agave nectar and beet. Or treat yourself to the classic Kale Tonic: Kale, Fuji apple, cucumber and lemon. You can even boost your juice with a wellness shot of vitamins B3, C and D, zinc, echinacea and elderberry. Farm to Fork Freshness There are so many inventive and intriguing dishes to explore at First Watch. Corporate chef Shane Schaibly is always keeping things fun and fresh from farm to fork. Everything is made in-house and from scratch, from their French toast batter and baked goods, to veggies sliced and juices squeezed fresh every day. "Having the fresh food focus just feels right. It feels good to me," said Amanda Lehmann, director of operations. Lehmann can be found cooking, hosting and guiding her staff in best practices at any time in one of her numerous First Watch locations – two in Springfield, one in Joplin, one in Lake of the Ozarks, and three in Northwest Arkansas. "Serving people is the best part about working for First Watch," she noted. "I love being in customer service." Healthy Options At First Watch you are always welcome to swap out toast with fresh, seasonal fruit; choose egg whites for your omelette; or substitute gluten-free toast. And the regular menu offers wholesome options galore. Take for instance the Healthy Turkey Omelet, an egg white omelet with turkey, house-roasted onions, tomatoes, spinach and feta cheese. Served with First Watch's whole grain artisan toast and all-natural house preserves. Or the Sunrise Granola Bowl: Non-fat, vanilla Greek yogurt layered with fresh, seasonal fruit and their housemade granola with almonds. Served with a freshly baked muffin of the day. Get going with a bowl of First Watch's steel-cut oatmeal: Made to order with berries, fresh sliced banana, pecans, low-fat milk, brown sugar and a freshly baked muffin of the day. At First Watch, a new season means a taste of paradise with every bite