The Green Cart

Austin, United States

4.3

20 reviews

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+1 512-389-0018
Website:
www.thegreencart.com
Address:
6319 El Mirando St, Austin, TX, 78741
Nearby public transportation stops & stations:
1.3 miUniversity Village Apartments
1.4 mi1501 Crossing Place/Faro
1.4 mi1500 Crossing Place/Faro
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Local time (Austin) 15:02 Tuesday, 24 June 2025

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The Green Cart caters healthy, tasty wraps, sandwiches, sides and more. Call us for your corporate lunches, baby showers, and family events… we’ve done it all since 2005. We’re veggie /​vegan-​friendly, too!

Look for Green Cart products at organic markets like Whole Foods and your favorite cafes, too.

Meet the Business Owner

Jeff J.

Business Owner

The Green Cart began when Jeff Jackson used a credit card with a high spending limit (ahhh… how credit flowed back in 2005…) to build a humble food cart to provide an organic option on the drag for UT students.

And… it didn’t work at all!

Under-​capitalized and overworked, Jeff couldn’t manage a retail food establishment in addition to hauling a cart to and from the sidewalk every day. In a last act of desperation, he approached Farm to Market Grocery and asked them if they would give him a shot at selling healthy sandwiches to them wholesale. They did. Jeff saw a light at the end of the tunnel, and started working. By himself at first, he slowly added kitchen staff, a delivery driver, a van, and finally, a manager and his own commercial kitchen.

Which brings us to today. Now Jeff and his team, led by Andrew Minter and Justin Owen, have a kitchen and delivery route that operate 7 days a week. You can order The Green Cart to your office or party on demand!

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20 reviews of The Green Cart

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Place rating: 4
Austin, TX
Green Cart makes my favorite tofu sandwiches– tofu is my favorite food.
But I am making part of my review critical because the green cart sandwich I just ate wasn’t a tofu sandwich– it was a celery sandwich with tofu sprinkles. I was pretty bummed to receive a celery sandwich masquerading as a tofu sandwich this time around.
However, out of 15+ great sandwich experiences, one bad experience isn’t so… bad.
Place rating: 5
Pflugerville, TX
Andrew always comes through! These wraps are unparalleled by any other. You can find them at many convenience stores and coffee shops or they will deliver to your location, ON TIME! Huge wraps will satisfy any appetite. The selection will appease the most picky palate. If not, they will custom prepare to your liking. They are constantly experimenting with new ideas and combinations. You will not regret using The Green Cart for your next meeting or event. Eat no evil!
Place rating: 5
Austin, TX
Every sandwich I’ve tried has been amazing and fresh. Must try!
Place rating: 5
Austin, TX
My work catered in from them for lunch one day. The curry sandwich was amazing. It’s one of the best sandwich I’ve ever had.
Place rating: 1
Clinton, MT
too many annoying radicals whoot on the book im reading, bumper sticker. One day they brought in a pc, a printer/​scanner to prinnt radical flyers. the management did nothing. i stopped going a long time ago
Place rating: 4
Austin, TX
It’s vegan and it actually tastes good? Count me in. I normally don’t like wraps, but the Sol Rojo won me over. Guacamole, hummus, corn, black beans, carrots, brown rice, soy sauce. Yum. They sell them at the state capitol and at coffee shops around town!
Their other sandwiches are good too, but thank goodness for their wraps when I want something healthy at work.
Place rating: 5
Austin, TX
I can remember the first time I tasted an Aegean on the drag circa 2007. Fan ever since! I just tasted the new TacoBot breakfast tacos the other day and I was impressed, especially blk_​bn bot.
Place rating: 3
Austin, TX
I do really like your wraps (especially El Sol Rojo) and I’ve been eating them very consistently for the last 3+ years — mostly at Dominican Joe’s. I do have a complaint though. I’m not sure when it started, but I’ve noticed lately that there is a lot more rice and less of everything else… It seems like I’m eating a rice wrap with a few beans and a little gauc.
PLEASE add more beans — at least in the ones going to Dominican Joe’s. I need protein! Thanks! Yummy stuff!
Place rating: 5
Austin, TX
These are the best vegetarian wraps I have ever tasted!
Vegetarian selections: Brahman, Lo Pan Delight, Aegean, and El Sol.
I love the Brahman (brown rice, curry hummus, spinach, carrots, roasted onions, sun dried tomato and corn) and the Aegean (brown rice, spinach, roasted onions, sun dried tomato, Kalamata olives, and cream feta).
YUM-​O!
Place rating: 5
Austin, TX
Green Cart wraps are the bee’s knees. Especially the vegetarian wraps — love ‘em! And, you can find them all over Austin in some of my favorite coffee shops for cheap! I like the El Sol Rojo — it’s guacamole, hummus and black bean deliciousness all in one wrap. If you haven’t experienced them yet, DO it.
Place rating: 3
San Francisco, CA
Ok — this is really tough for me to give only 3 stars… but hear me out.
When I first had green cart, the veggie wraps (I’m a vegetarian) were freaking awesome. But as awesome goes, awesome gets old after a little while. So, one day green cart came to conjunctured and demoed some new veggie sandwich options that included tempeh and other ‘faux-​meat’ type protein fillings. These sandwich samples were AMAZING. As a vegetarian, I would gladly snag these sandwiches ANY TIME since it’s kind of hard to find veggie protein filled lunches.
Anyhow, the day I see the veggie faux-​meat sandwiches is the day I figure out how to hack
and give Green Cart 6 stars.
Place rating: 4
Austin, TX
The sandwiches here are good. The ingredients are fresh and the combinations are a bit more interesting then the standard deli meat sandwiches. I do find that it can be inconsistent on how much contents are between the slices.
For instance, sometimes there is a slice of turkey in the sandwich and other times there is three.
You can find these sandwiches at cafes and groceries around Austin. I know when I am picking up one of these, it’s sure to be pretty good.
Place rating: 5
Madrid, Spain
Holy cow, these wraps are delicious. I tried their new wrap called Lo Pan’s Delight and it was SO TASTY. It has brown rice, toasted white corn, carrots, a bit of cilantro and ginger, and a thai peanut sauce wrapped in nori, wrapped in a flour tortilla. Basically stuffed sushi in a tortilla. Sort of a Mexican-​Asian fusion thing but definitely one of the best wraps I have ever stuffed into my mouth. Jeesus Christ it is good. I know I’ve had some of their other wraps but they’ve really outdone themselves with this new addition.
I always see these wraps at Fresh Plus across the street from my apt but when I shop for groceries I usually try to avoid pre-​made foods, cuz I like to cook. Today I was lazy so I gave in. Best choice I’ve made all week!
Place rating: 4
Austin, TX
Yep, this stuff is goooood! My favorite is The Brahman wrap. Seriously, I was like, «I’ve had these before… they’re tasty, affordable and convenient» then I took a bite into the Brahman and looked down at it… like, «Really?! You are SO GOOD!» Then we cuddled for a bit.
Anyway, I get these from the Hideout on Congress and they make me happy.
Place rating: 4
Austin, TX
Trying to live a low-​maintanence lifestyle where I have to leave the house to borrow some bandwidth migt prove to be costly if Café Caffeine keeps stocking Green Cart sandwiches. I had the Chicken Curry last week which was mild and delicious. Today I’m eating the Basil Chicken Salad on focaccia bread, even better. But at 5.50 a pop, even once a week, it might be cheaper to invest in a DSL line. Thank goodness one of my girlfriend’s is in town trying to «get away from her kids.» She likes to pay.
Place rating: 4
Austin, TX
Okay, so this might not totally be the Green Cart’s fault, but I had a pretty nasty El Sol Rojo the other day. The guacamole was brown it was so old or improperly preserved. Just watch out for the sell by date I guess.
Place rating: 4
Los Angeles, CA
El Sol Rojo got me through winter finals this year at Flightpath and Epoch. The Brahman also makes me tingle in the bad place. I don’t know what happened to the catered Food Heads stuff that some of these places (e.g., Flightpath) used to serve – I heard they stopped catering, but don’t know. Thing is, I don’t care – Food Heads is good at the café, but the wrapped sandwiches were mediocre. Green Cart wraps are much better, and probably more healthful (even though they ARE being sold, at least by Flightpath, at a higher cost than the Food Head’s sandwiches were).
Place rating: 5
Austin, TX
I’m always delighted whenever I see Green Cart sandwiches and wraps on display at a coffeeshop I’m at for the first time. (Mozart’s needs to sell these in addition to all those delicious but unhealthy desserts.) Anyhow, the few Green Cart wraps I’ve had have been tasty. My favorite is the Aegean which has Mediterranean stuff inside. I’ve also had the Brahman (Indian theme), and the Saigon (Vietnamese theme). Both were good.
The prices at coffeeshops are usually from $ 5 to $ 5.50, which at first glance may seem expensive for even Austin. However, once you unwrap one and bite into it, you’ll see it’s pretty dense and will fill you until the next meal.
Place rating: 5
Austin, TX
You can now buy Green Cart sandwiches in the deli section at Fresh Plus in Hyde Park. These are the best sandwiches ever! I think you can also get them at Café Caffeine as well.
There are some really interesting flavors, Turkey and Basil, Turkey with Cranberries, and also Curried Chicken Salad. Those are the three I tried and they were all wonderful.
Place rating: 5
Austin, TX
Jeff Jackson used to run the Green Cart, a modular organic sandwich cart, on the Drag. People loved his sandwiches, but not enough to keep his business running, so he turned over to catering and wholesale. Instead of sandwiches, he does wraps now (it’s the Austin thing to do), and they are the tastiest and most unique wraps I’ve ever had.
He makes four different kinds: a southwestern, a japanese, an indian, and a greek wrap. Each has its own distinct flavor — it’s like a different part of the world wrapped in recyclable foiled paper. You can go buy them at Whole Foods, Café Caffeine, or the Whip In, but if you like them so much and want to serve them at your party, give Jeff a call.
El Jefe makes muy bueno wraps!