Viva Bowls

Address: 280 E Main St #110, Newark, DE 19711

Hours: 9am to 8pm

Viva Bowls is a restaurant that has recently been added to Main streets long list of restaurant choices. It offers acai bowls, smoothies, pitaya bowls, and coffee. The menu includes smoothie bowls with options of acai, pitaya, banana, or green base with varying fruit, granola, and toppings on top.  In addition, the atmosphere is vibrant as well as cute and inviting.   When you walk in you see a chalkboard to the right to display their menus, as well as lots of posters/ fruit around the store. In addition, they are environmentally friendly selling boxed water and using wooden spoons.

I have a very positive opinion about this café. I am always welcomed by friendly workers. The bowls may be on the pricier side, but are very filling. Furthermore, I would say that the bowls are worth the money.  A favorite bowl of mine would have to be the mighty hen. It starts off with an acai base topped with granola, bananas, blueberries, pineapple, and nutella drizzle. Some differences between the acai and pitaya bases are that the acai base tastes like blueberries and strawberries, and is very refreshing. The Pitaya base it dragon fruit and mango, the base does not have as strong of a fruit flavor but is still refreshing. I asked worker Jules Pipinos about what it was like working there and about the food in general.

She confirmed that all the fruit used in bowls and smoothies are fresh and not frozen. All of the fruit is from local markets and cut each day. They clean the store very frequently due to the fact that fruit causes the café to get dirty often. The workers also wear gloves when they are making the bowls so the food and store are sanitary. On Yelp there is an average 4.5 stars out of 5. There are about 11 reviews having mostly positive thing to say about the café. Trip advisor has only two reviews but both of them being excellent or very good. They have 5 starts for value, food, and service.