Heartwood Eatery

237 Commercial St, Nevada City
(530) 470-6161

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Kay Sunshine

Food generally flavorful and healthy! A bit overpriced for what it is and the default lowest 18% tip is starting to annoy at places where you don’t actually get service; you order standing there, bus your own table and have to pick up your meal. What service? I get it, tips help pay the staff and so should I the owner cuz they are charging high prices.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 4

Service: 2

Patrick S. Poole

I guess this would qualify as “California cuisine”? I ordered the barbacoa bowl, and she had the sourdough toast with egg, bacon, and avocado, and a small bowl of miso. My bowl was tasty and filling. She enjoyed her toast, but felt the miso was a little plain. Very good experience all around.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 4

Service: 3

Navjot Kaur

ok, let's start with the Horchata Syrup & cinnamon cappuccino - I loved that it was already a double shot of espresso & what's more is that the woman at the register told me they use organic whole milk.

The beef barbacoa bowl was soooooooo nourishing. The beef was so perfect I didn't even need a butter knife to cut it. The avocado was the perfect science between buttery, soft & chilled.

At first I was being a bit stingy with the tip because I was like these ladies don't need my money BUTTT BAYBEEEEE they deserved every coin so I went back & tipped them all my cash because the food & experience was so nourishing & delicious. I really hope they enjoy my money as much as I enjoyed the food & cappuccino.

GO CHECK THEM OUT ASAP!!!! Go spend your money there because I told you too.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Holly Harris

Excellent food in Nevada City.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Dimitri Souffan

Great spot for coffee, toast, and, salads. High quality ingredients, chill vibe!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Brookins Delano

First time at this eatery and it did not disappoint. The food was fresh and delicious! I had the curry bowl with chicken and the drink was the fresh ginger turmeric lemonade. I will be returning.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Prasad Falke

Visit date: July 18, 2025

Lovely plave and great vibes. My friend was insisting me on visiting the restaurant and this town and that’s why I really enjoyed my 2 hours here.

They have a great variety of healthy food and coffee options. My Salmon sandwich was too good. The whole place was supporting the eco-friendly cause and that was impressive. The staff was helpful and recommended more options to try and also gave a small introductory talk about their products.

Would love to visit again..

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Garry Star

took a long time and got one order wrong

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 2

TOM LEV Benishai

Food is great and super yummy, the place feels great with good vibes and the workers are super sweet and friendly.

One very weird thing in my opinion, is that you need to clean your own table after eating. There is no service to the table and most of the time when we come in to eat the tables are dirty.
In this revolutionary way, you also serve your food to the table, you take utensil's and you take off the table plates and what you used to eat.
For long time im not leaving any tips here as there is no logic to do it.
Are you trying to educate people to clean after they eat, is it a start of a revolution or is it a malfunction of the restaurant?

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 1

Recommended dishes: Smoked Salmon

Matt Boris

Food is delicious and good quality. Atmosphere in restaurant is warm and pleasant.

Dropping to 2* because A). Food is overpriced relative to the portions for a counter order lunch spot ($37 for the sushi bowl with smoked salmon + a soda water + tax and tip), and B) The woman working the counter the afternoon of 7/12 is poorly trained in customer service. Suggestions for her: Greet the customer with a modicum of warmth (eye contact and a smile is a good start), stop looking at your phone while the customer is placing the order, continue to refrain from looking at your phone while the customer asks clarifying questions (eye contact again is helpful as it lets the customer know you're listening), offer a simple apology when the order is placed incorrectly (overpriced salmon was not added to bowl) and the customer has to return to the line to retrieve the rest of the bowl. So yeah, paying a lot of $ to be treated poorly is gonna garner a lousy review.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 4

Service: 1

Robin Brown

Came on a Sunday for dinner and ordered two main dishes to share with my partner. Nice, relaxed atmosphere and sat down at one of the tables and got water from the water station. It was taking a long time for our order to come out even though there weren't many people there. when the women brought our order she had it in a to go bag and I said we had ordered it for here, which she apologized for and looked at the receipt printed on the bag which said the same. she asked if we would like some bowls for it and I said yes and she went off and five or so minutes later she was no where to be seen, so I went to the counter to ask what happened to her and they said she went on break. they apologized and provided bowls. overall it took a long time to get our food and the food itself was nicer looking than it was tasty. it was rather bland.

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 2

Service: 1

Danyel Church

Pretty good vegan options. I always feel full and pretty healthy after leaving there

Lions Gateway (Lions Gateway)

Heartwood has amazing food… I love the toasts, salads, soups and bowls. You can tell they are focused on making healthy, tasty, and hearty meals! I love it!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Jason Lopez

Very cool spot with great food and nice people

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Joseph T

Their principle is organic fresh ingredients from the farmers of the region.
I’m not a bowl person but had succulent ones. The tastes are of course special because of organic and freshness. The team was very kind. I was on an event and didn’t actually have the time but still went there 3 times.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 5

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