Session's breakfast fried rice. As seen Monday, August 8, 2022. (Stephen M. Katz/The Virginian-Pilot)

VIRGINIA BEACH — Restaurant menus usually read typical — a set of edible items and ingredients packaged together with a price. At its most basic, a menu is the “grocery list” of the establishment. It’s fascinating (to me, at least) when a place goes the extra distance to make its menu more interesting than the literal sum of its parts.

You could call Session, a corner in Lynnhaven Colony Shoppes, a health food spot and be done with it. They have all the ingredients for such a moniker: smoothies with oat milk and spirulina (that magical protein-packed algae), tempeh, fresh greens, and house-grown broccoli sprouts. But also, there’s this breadth, this range making them much more sunnily approachable than your neighborhood juicer.

Sessions' smoothie called "Money Green Leather Sofa. As seen Monday, August 8, 2022. (Stephen M. Katz/The Virginian-Pilot)

Maybe it’s the décor — a green leather couch sticks out to the left when you enter — and a little speaker beside it for musical chats (one guesses). Green is everywhere, actually. Bright banana leaves wallpaper a back wall and gives a viridescent glow, illuminating the door to a well-intentioned (small) patio. Musicality is everywhere — even in the table tags. Ask for a Prince.

Maybe it’s the food? Do you remember the album “The Blueprint” by Jay-Z? Here it is in smoothie form (back to that menu thing) with ripe blueberries, the barest hint of mango, oat milk and the aforementioned spirulina. It’s a bluish (you guessed it) milkshake with panache banishing any thoughts of a powdery health drink. “Aquemini” is OutKast’s album but it’s Session who uses this as a tag for child-sized smoothies — the banana and cocoa powder joint is so simple but so good for you. You’re a “street scholar majorin’ in culinary arts,” Session.

Sessions' The Bagelette breakfast sandwich. As seen Monday, August 8, 2022. (Stephen M. Katz/The Virginian-Pilot)

The hits keep coming too (had to, y’all) like Money Green Leather Sofa, a smoothie with spinach (right on the nose) and coconut and C.R.E.A.M. — cold brew, peanut butter and vanilla oat milk. The Bagelette, a portmanteau (somebody get this reference, please), and the best breakfast sandwich I’ve had in recent memory; it’s as if a properly toasted everything bagel mated with a properly cooked quiche. The result adds up to stellar with less egg and more cleverly packed greens, mushrooms and onions. If you do meat, an add-on of their turkey sausage is a real pro move here.

Breakfast Fried Rice is a delicate tightrope of scrambled egg, crispy brown rice, finely chopped broccoli, carrots and electric pickled red onions. A lunch chicken salad sandwich sports shredded carrots and greens (sneaky, sneaky) on a toasted sesame roll. The 808 is shareable — a salad with arugula, pepita-crusted goat cheese balls and a tangy Dijon vinaigrette. If there was a complaint, it’s that the thicc bacon (Session’s spelling), an add-on, isn’t all that thick.

Otherwise, Session has health full, as owner Kevin Warren stated when delivering our meal, “dialed right in.”

Session; 2973 Shore Drive; 757-904-1492; www.sessionvb.com

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