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• Terrible acai bowl

This review is for their acai bowl. We walked in yesterday morning during the Santa Monica Street Festival, and ooh'd and ahh'd over their dessert case for a minute. Still, no one came out to help us (and no one else was eating in their, around 9:45am on a Sunday). My husband finally had to call out for someone to come out and help us. We'd noted just a few months ago that they hadn't had an acai bowl on their menu, but saw that they recently added one. Thinking we may have finally found a good acai bowl in Santa Monica, we stopped in. The bowl came out within about five minutes. Sorry to say, but it may have been worse than the Natural Foods one down the street. It was more liquid-y than even a smoothie would be, topped with a sprinkling of what looked like bee pollen, a bit of coconut and a few thin slivers of chocolate. There was no fruit, no honey and no granola from what I could see. It was also served in a relatively small bowl. The acai itself had a hint of licorice flavor to it. We ate it because we ordered it, but we'd never go back for it again. I'd also add that we can appreciate raw and certainly vegan food (there are many vegan restaurants we love...Gracias Madre, Plant Food & Wine, etc.), but something about this place feels a bit unkempt. It doesn't fully have it all together. They do a good job of creating a low-key ambience (couches, well-cushioned seats around), but it almost doesn't feel totally clean or something. We wouldn't run back in general for other foods either.