• CLOSED: Acai Brothers

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  • White Vegetarian
Vegan-friendly
Lacto
International
Western
Juice bar
Honey

Franchise chain of acai and smoothie bars founded 2014 and has outlets in multiple cities. Offers acai bowls with a variety of different toppings as well as cold pressed juices, coffee, tea, raw treats, and coconut yogurt. Also has a warm menu that includes vegan loaded hotdogs, nachos, sandwiches and more. Reported to serve honey and/or dairy milk from July 2023. This branch is reported to offer dairy milk and honey on request. Reported closed March 2024.


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10 Reviews

First Review by TillyWardale

YohanⓋ

Points +6056

Vegan
16 Jan 2024

Delicious toastie but average and pricey açai bowl. Not a vegan establishment.

I really enjoyed my beetroot toastie. It was very tasty. The only letdown was that it took sooooo long to be ready and it wasn’t busy.

Update. They use cow’s milk and honey on request, but still believe they are vegan because they are add ons only.

Today they gave me the wrong açai bowl and it was just ok. Not great.

Updated from previous review on 2023-04-22

Pros: Tasty , Nice staff

Cons: Too slow to make the food , A bit pricey

GraceEvelyn

Points +25

Vegetarian
06 Jul 2023

Love the açai bowls

Have been getting bowls from here for years, always made fresh and is really filling. Only downside is it’s become pretty expensive.
Have not tried any drinks here so cannot comment on that.

Pros: Made fresh, Tasty af

Cons: Pretty expensive , Service is sometimes slow

AnitaSutherland

Points +33

Vegan
18 May 2023

Service is slow

Food and coffee were good, but I asked for a simple breakfast vegan pesto sandwich and oat latte and there were no other customers it took 35 minutes to serve. I needed take away and had to jog to the conference.

lostwithsam

Points +160

Vegan
16 Jan 2023

Not sure about the 100% vegan claim.

Staff confirmed when I asked, that everything was 100% vegan. However honey was listed on the menu, as well as an ‘extra’ charge for plant milks, I’m not sure how you can charge extra if that’s all you offer?
But there was two open bottles of *cows milk* on the bench.

We only ordered two hot chocolates on soy, neither of us enjoyed them and they got binned unfortunately, but I’m a lot more concerned about the vegan claim of the place, than the quality of it.

Updated from previous review on 2023-01-16

YohanⓋ

22 Apr 2023

Hi Sam. I have also confirmed that they offer cows milk and honey on their website. I have submitted this to the happy cow team so they can change the listing. Thanks for informing of this!

AimeeJadeExley

Points +159

Vegan
02 Oct 2022

Good açai bowls and coffee!

A 100% vegan cafe making it super easy to order as don’t have to swap things as everything is plant based by default. I got the AIN’T NOTHIN’ BUTTER açai bowl, and got 3 free fruit toppings (regular $18 I think?) and was a generous serving. The coffee is also really good as well! They have vegan toasties which look really good so a perfect breakfast and lunch option!

Pros: All vegan! , Lots of variety , Good servings

Cons: Not the best Açai bowl I’ve had , Not lots of seating

JSanders94

Points +278

Vegan
11 Sep 2022

Good acai bowls, fruit was very fresh

Loads of nice options for açai bowls. Can build your own or choose from a few different options. They also have a load of different toasties as well

Pros: Fresh fruit , Tasty bowls

l.Richard

Points +334

Vegan
11 Sep 2022

Great açai

Lots of options of açai bowls, smoothies and toasties. You can also build your own bowl with a variety of toppings. Reasonably priced too.

Pros: Good food , Quick service

Iellwen

Points +81

Vegan
08 Sep 2021

Much better since going to an 'all vegan' menu

Love that they are an all vegan cafe right in the civic centre building. Very handy, love the toasties especially Besto Pesto. Acai bowls quite expensive and have frozen pureed berry mix which isn't the best in winter but sure it would be nice in summer. Also they have delicious cookies and a decent range of vegan pies and a sausage roll.

Only real con is the service which can be a bit slow to get your meal out, as it's usually one or two people in the kitchen and they are always serving a full house as well as online orders so it's understandable, be great if they could get a bigger kitchen for more people but the location is working for them. Be sure to not go there if on a short lunch break unless you have ordered online beforehand.

Pros: Extensive vegan options , Toasties are reasonably priced and filling, Yummy cookies and good coffee

Cons: Acai bowls and 'avo' on toast very expensive, Can be slow as small number of staff

britmahe

Points +44

Vegetarian
01 Sep 2019

Impressed

Finally a great açai place in Canberra! Huge range of options and you can customise your bowl. There are also heaps of hot food options, and a few cakes/slices, was very impressed!

TillyWardale

Points +46

Vegan
27 Aug 2019

Acai Heaven

Canberra finally has an acai bowl bar!! You get to choose which base, ranging from plain acai to all sorts of different fruit smoothie bowls, and then choose 3 fruits to top. There are specialty bowls as well that have additional toppings like peanut butter, raw treats, sauces, coconut yoghurt
There’s so many choices and each bowl is custom made to order so you can get whatever you want and it’s all made fresh!




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