For a natural, cool meal or quick snack, Boro Bowls on the Murfreesboro Public Square offers some colorful fruit and vitamin-packed creations.
The bowls can make for an icy cold change of pace on a scorching summer day. For someone wanting to avoid a heavy, greasy lunch, try one out. They are cool, fruity, refreshing and nourishing.
Or drop in Boro Bowls for breakfast or dinner; it opens at 7 a.m. for the early workout crowd or those arriving early to the Square for business or court.
“The best place to get a nourishing, healthy breakfast,” Jonathan Bell said of the establishment.
These cool bowls start with a base of blended, frozen fruits and other natural ingredients, made into a smooth sorbet-like consistency, and topped with various fruits, granola and almond butter.
The Dragon Fruit Bowl appears very colorful and fruity, with a base of pitaya (dragon fruit), apple juice, banana, and mango, topped with granola, banana, blueberry, strawberry, almond butter and honey.
The Boro Bowls team makes this one very berry, with a rich, deep-pink/purple color in the base from the pitaya.
The Aloha Bowl has some tastes of the tropics with a base of banana, mango, coconut milk and blue spirulina providing a blue tint, topped with granola, banana, blueberry, strawberry, kiwi, mango, almond butter, honey and toasted coconut flakes.
What is spirulina? It’s an algae with antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties, for those unfamiliar.
“Our office has Acai Bowl Friday almost every week,” Boro Bowls customer Shane Pearcy said. “The ‘OG’ with extra almond butter is our go-to but they are all great!”
Bowls start at $10, but customer Caitlyn Osborne Parris said “It’s worth the price.”
Another pleased customer, Chris Lane, said “The ingredients are so fresh and the bowls have such a wonderful flavor regardless of which you chose.”
The Green Monster Smoothie, with blended spinach, avocado, banana, mango, pineapple and coconut milk, tastes deliciously sweet and coconutty, way sweeter than it may appear with its spinach-green color.
Upon further inspection, the Boro Bowls smoothies—O.G. Acai, Dragon Fruit, Green Monster, Aloha and Pina Colada—are identical to the bases for the bowls of the same name.
Boro Bowls offers more than just total health foods; some youngsters dine on Nutella toast—top it with bananas, strawberries or other fruits, or chocolate chips, even—while parents nourish themselves with cool fruits and veggies.
The restaurant also sells some excellent, filling peanut butter balls—like cookies, but sweetened with honey.
A cooler at Boro Bowls has these, as well as charcuterie plates ready to pick up. The eatery sells local honey as well.
And Jamie White said the avocado toast, with unlimited toppings, tasted great and the “lemonades are delicious.”
So if you want to try something different or need some more fruit in your life, pick up one of the Boro Bowls. They feel particularly great on a hot summer day.
“They are perfect for breakfast, lunch, dinner or a snack!” Mike O’Rourke said. “We keep a few frozen in the freezer too just in case the craving hits on a Sunday! Acai and Green Monster are my personal favorites.”
Boro Bowls
123 S. Church St., Murfreesboro
Tuesday–Saturday: 7 a.m.–5 p.m.
Dragon Fruit, Aloha, Acai or Green Monster Bowl: $11; Peanut butter bites: $5; Green Monster Smoothie: $8; Loaded Toast: $7
629-201-6953
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