Sweetlife grew from a neighborhood jam for its first two years in Dupont Circle into a major music festival at Merriweather Post Pavilion. (Photo by Owen Paterline)

The music and salad hullabaloo known as Sweetlife is returning to its root (vegetable) as a neighborhood jam, with an evening block party in Dupont Circle on July 15.

As the fast-casual restaurant Sweetgreen grew from a handful of D.C. stores into a national salad empire, its low-key Dupont music festival scaled up—way up—too. By 2015, Salad Fest the Sweetlife Festival spanned two days at Merriweather Post Pavilion, with headliners Kendrick Lamar, Calvin Harris, Charli XCX, and The Weeknd.

And then, like the salad dressing you left in the office fridge, it semi-mysteriously disappeared. The company and co-producer I.M.P. announced in January that the 2016 edition had been Sweetlife’s last, seven years after it first started. They cited a simple change in direction, though the Washington Post fingered the culprit as the increasingly competitive D.C.-area festival scene.

“These guys have always wanted to do things differently and, when it became apparent that festivals around the country started looking the same, they didn’t want to just be this area’s edition of that,” I.M.P’s chairman Seth Hurwitz, told the Post in January, about the reasons for pulling the festival’s plus.

And so they’re returning back to where they started, outside the Dupont Circle Sweetgreen outpost, without the huge names, multiple stages, and roaming crowds of flower-crown-wearing children. It has been re-billed the Sweetlife Block Party, with the headliner Blood Orange, Dev Hynes’ musical project. For some reason, there will also be a group meditation.

The Sweetlife Block Party takes place from 5:30-9:30 p.m. on July 15. Free tickets are available online, with the option to make a donation to Freshfarm Markets.