Healthy Restaurants in Charlotte

We track 23 restaurants in Charlotte. The single highest-protein dish across all of them is a tie: Chipotle Mexican Grill's Double Chicken Bowl and Viva Chicken's Whole Chicken both list 68g of protein. Viva Chicken's version gets there in 10 fewer calories — 480 versus Chipotle's 490 calories.

Viva Chicken is also where the best protein-to-calorie ratio in the city shows up, and it isn't in the whole-chicken orders — it's the smaller portions. The 1/2 Chicken - White Meat is 240 calories for 36g of protein, and the 1/4 Chicken - White Meat scales down proportionally to 120 calories for 18g. Both work out to about 0.15g of protein per calorie, better than anything else we have logged in Charlotte. The Roasting Company's Chicken Breast Plate is the next best at 320 calories for 46g of protein.

The takeaway: when a restaurant sells the same protein in multiple portion sizes, the smaller cut is often the more efficient order if calories matter more to you than volume. Compare the per-portion numbers before assuming bigger automatically means proportionally more protein for your calorie budget, whichever restaurant you're ordering from.

Featured healthy restaurants in Charlotte

• Ilios Crafted Greek
• Barcelona Wine Bar
• Salata
• Sweetgreen
• The Roasting Company
• Mezeh Mediterranean Grill
• Yafo Kitchen
• Kid Cashew Wood Fire Grill
• Viva Chicken
• Clean Eatz
• Flower Child
• Chipotle Mexican Grill
• Pure Green
• CAVA
• Naked Farmer
• Zeitouni Mediterranean Grill