CAVA Makes Waves with Debut of Glazed Salmon — Its First-Ever Seafood Protein

A new, craveable, protein-packed main featuring bold Mediterranean flavor — and endless ways to make it your own and elevate your meals — arrives this spring

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--CAVA will be introducing Glazed Salmon, its first seafood offering, to its menu on Monday, April 20, bringing a bold, feel-good protein grounded in a defining Mediterranean tradition, where seafood isn’t just a staple, but a fundamental way of eating.

With this launch, CAVA continues to deepen its Mediterranean roots, highlighting the bold, vibrant flavors that define the cuisine. Glazed Salmon reflects that brand’s commitment to expanding its menu with ingredients that balance quality, flavor, and nourishment - delivering a new way for guests to eat well without compromise. The result is a protein-packed option with omega-3s and essential vitamins like B12 and D, delivering both flavor and nourishment in every bite.

CAVA’s new protein is a delicious fillet of salmon marinated in a house-made pomegranate glaze and roasted until caramelized and flaky. The glaze features pomegranate molasses - a tangy-sweet cornerstone of Levantine cooking - bringing depth, brightness, and a distinct Mediterranean point of view to the dish. The pomegranate molasses is proudly sourced from Just Date, a female-founded company, and made with just organic pomegranate juice and organic dates, serving as a key flavor to the new protein.

“At the Mediterranean table, seafood is enjoyed everyday, it’s not only reserved for special occasions,” said Ted Xenohristos, Co-founder and Chief Concept Officer at CAVA. “Bringing salmon to our menu isn’t about just adding another protein, it’s about expanding how people experience Mediterranean food at scale. We took the time to get this right, from sourcing to preparation, so it delivers on both flavor and quality in a way that feels true to who we are.”

Designed to pair seamlessly with CAVA’s lineup of bold Mediterranean ingredients, Glazed Salmon builds on the brand’s signature combinations of grains, greens, dips, and toppings, making it easy to create a balanced, flavor-forward meal.

Guests can enjoy Glazed Salmon in any build-your-own bowls or as part of two new seasonal Chef Curations:

• Salmon + Strawberry Sesame Bowl – A classic pairing of salmon + tzatziki — served over brown rice and spinach — amped up with new tart strawberry sesame dressing. Also featuring: roasted red pepper hummus, Persian cucumbers, feta, tomato + onion, and sumac slaw.
• Salmon + Yogurt Dill Bowl – Glazed salmon served over arugula and saffron basmati rice, with a dream team of accompaniments: traditional hummus and Crazy Feta® for bold flavor; fire-roasted corn, tomato + onion, and Persian cucumber for vibrancy; and yogurt dill dressing to bring it all together.

With Glazed Salmon marking the next step in CAVA’s continued expansion of Mediterranean ingredients and flavors across its menu - bringing greater depth, variety, and everyday relevance to the fast casual space, it will be available starting April 20 at CAVA restaurants nationwide and can be ordered in-restaurant, online, or through the CAVA app. From May 4-11, guests can also engage with a salmon-themed in-app experience celebrating Mediterranean flavors, with exclusive rewards.

For more information, visit CAVA’s website and follow @CAVA across social channels for the latest updates.

About CAVA

CAVA is the category-defining Mediterranean fast-casual restaurant brand, bringing together healthful food and bold, satisfying flavors at scale. Our brand and our opportunity transcend the Mediterranean category to compete in the large and growing limited-service restaurant sector as well as the health and wellness food category. CAVA serves guests across age groups, genders, and income brackets and benefits from generational tailwinds created by consumer demand for healthy living and a demographic shift towards greater ethnic diversity. We meet consumers’ desires to engage with convenient, authentic, purpose-driven brands that view food as a source of self-expression. The broad appeal of our food combined with these favorable industry trends drive our vast opportunity for continued growth.