Bastion
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Perch in a cozy window seat and sip healing elixirs like triple berry smoothies and “Cocoa Magic” (bananas, tart cherry, cacao powder, reishi mushroom, dates, and coconut milk) at this spot specializing in seasonal, plant-based fare. You can boost your drinks with beneficial add-ons like beet powder, matcha, lion’s mane, maca, and spirulina for even more healthful vibes.
Sellwood-Moreland
Best Friend
At this friendly juice bar’s two Southeast Portland locations, a Division Street truck and a Gladstone Street brick-and-mortar cafe, the menu is mostly vegan and uses house-made oat milk in several items. Best Friend’s array of smoothies is delicious, but the real standouts are the smoothie bowls, which feel more like a complete meal than a power-packed drink. The bowls offer colorful concoctions of blended and whole fruit topped with “superfood” granola. PORTLAND MERCURY NEWS EDITOR COURTNEY VAUGHN
Creston-Kenilworth, Hosford-Abernethy
Carioca Bowls
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Billing itself as Portland’s first authentic açaí cafe, this Brazil-inspired spot offers a variety of customizable bowls. Pick one of the four açaí blend bases and load it up with toppings of your choice, including fruit, toasted coconut, granola, peanut butter, maple syrup, bee pollen, goji berries, and Honey Mama’s cocoa truffle bar pieces.
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Harlow
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Mercury contributor Brian Yaeger wrote of this primarily plant-based restaurant, “Take it from a carnivore: Harlow serves straight-up amazing food. This mostly vegan, gluten-free café serves jalapeño cashew cheese instead of pepper jack. Kale is listed on the menu as often as pork belly appears on most others…And lest ye think there’s no room for decadence, hidden among the spirulina and echinacea juices and smoothies is the Stumblebee, a hedonistic mélange of chocolate, peanut butter, and banana. Then again, cacao nibs are a superfood.” Other refreshing options include the “Liquid Sunshine” (orange juice, basil, pineapple, mango, coconut oil, and amla), the “Tealy Dan” (coconut water, pineapple, spinach, banana, E3Live blue Majik spirulina, and shredded coconut), and the “Super Greens Lemonade” (house-made honey lemonade with cucumber, spinach, kale, and chlorella).
Richmond, Nob Hill, Alberta
Kure Superfood Cafe
Recharge with green juices, ginger shots, meal replacement shakes, açaí bowls, and smoothies at this superfood-focused cafe chain. The popular “Bowl of the Gods” comes with peanut butter, açaí, banana, strawberries, vanilla lucuma protein, oat milk, crushed almonds, goji berries, coconut flakes, granola, cinnamon, and a drizzle of maple syrup.
Hawthorne, Pearl District, Lake Oswego
Moberi
Founded in 2011 and named for owner Ryan Carpenter’s pet turtle, this playful vegan smoothie and açaí bowl destination originally used bike-powered blenders and was featured on Shark Tank. While the blenders no longer rely on human horsepower, the smoothies and bowls, with ’80s pop culture-referencing names like “Fresh Prince of Brazil,” “Uncle Jesse,” “Juice Springsteen,” and “Rainbowl Bright,” remain nourishing and flavorful.
Slabtown, Hawthorne, Mississippi, Cedar Hills, Lake Oswego
Tita’s Juice Bar
Inspired in equal measure by the flavors of Lima, Miami, and Portland, this cafe, which operates locations inside Troutdale Station and Pine Street Market, serves up fresh juices, smoothies, protein shakes, açaí bowls, crêpes, waffles, and frozen yogurt blended with real fruit. If you can’t make up your mind, grab a flight with four juices of your choice for $15. Pro tip: You can add the tangy, sour-spicy-sweet condiment chamoy to the rim of any smoothie for $1.50.
Old Town-Chinatown, Troutdale
Xocotl
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Devotees flock to this juice bar for traditional and cold-pressed juices, smoothies, and bowls. Choose from menu items like papaya orange juice, champolas de coco (a smoothie with soursop, coconut cream, ice, vanilla extract, and coconut milk, topped with coconut flakes), pineapple mango chamoyadas, and tropical fruit bowls topped with granola. Their slushies—cucumber nojitos, strawberry watermelon, and diablitos—would be particularly welcome for the balmy summer weather.
Richmond
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