Sweetgreen, the eco-friendly salad and fro-yo shop founded by local Georgetown grads, celebrated the opening of their second location in Dupont Circle Thursday night. Sweetgreen is a little bit like Chop’t meets TangySweet — the restaurant offers a selection of signature and design-your-own salads and tart frozen yogurt with fresh fruit toppings. The restaurant also lives up to its name by using biodegradable/compostable dishware and utensils, recycled napkins, and reclaimed wood. Still not enough for you? Sweetgreen is also a certified Green Restaurant and is powered by 100 percent wind energy. To top it off, the take out menu is studded with seeds that will sprout into actual flowers if planted.

Last night’s opening party featured samples of Sweetgreen’s signature salads, frozen yogurt (dubbed “sweetflow”), and Honest Tea cocktails. We enjoyed the “Guacamole Greens” salad, a mix of mesclun, avocado, tomato, onion, chicken, and cilantro-lime dressing. It tasted remarkably like a bowl of guacamole but looked remarkably like a salad–in other words, a great excuse to eat guac for dinner. The “Chic P” (pronounced “sheek-p”), a combination of chicken, mesclun, spinach, roasted bell peppers, chickpeas, cucumbers topped with hummus lemon tahini dressing and pita chips, was a bit of a letdown. Although the pita chips added nice crunch, the chicken was dry, and the entire salad needed more dressing to pump up the flavor. One of Sweetgreen’s signature salads will run you $8 or $9, or you can build your own starting at $6.