Vitality Bowls San Jose - Cherry Ave.

This place is like jamba juice. If youre into jamba juice youll like vitality bowls! I like how they offer gluten free bowls :)

Always great food and service. I pulled to the side of the road to send my online order, but ended up calling it in with my ETA. My order was ready and cold, so it made it home without melting. They have delicious salads and sandwiches as well.

Many healthy choices. A bit pricey. Worth trying.

Vitality Bowls: When Fresh Pressed Juice is Vital for those with Severe Nut Allergies

Often juice doesn’t cross process with nuts, right? Nope. With the trend of almond milk and cashew milk being used liberally in raw food cuisine and juice bars, finding fresh pressed juice or smoothies that do not contain or cross process with nuts (allergy compliant, only 10% of allergen contaminate is needed to cause an allergic reaction in the average person, this is not including more rare cases that can also occur) might not be as easy to locate as one may think. Vitality Bowl makes this possible- thank you Vitality Bowl for being mindful of the food allergy niche as many of us follow raw diets or diets that incorporate more raw because of nuts contaminating much processed food. You are needed in the industry, and you are appreciated. You are seeked out by nut allergy customers, other allergy customers, and celiacs customers alike. Also by those who have to avoid more processed food (medical diets) and by those who choose to eat more mindfully alike. Thank you for including us all.

Make sure to notify your cashier or server upon ordering as they will switch out gloves and use all freshly cleaned and sanitized kitchenware to prepare your meal.

I give 4 out of 5 stars because it can be a little pricey for a la carte juices (such as only celery juice). 2 bundles of celery would cost about $2 but the restaurant charges over $6 for only celery juice. Yet the price is the same for a la carte much more expensive produce . It would be nice to have a pricing scale a little more sensitive to the cost of produce (cheaper ingredients be assigned a less expensive a la carte price). But otherwise I love this fast, casual, and mindful approach restaurant focused on clean eats, juice, smoothies, and açaí bowls.

This location is on Cherry Street (San Jose). They have a handful of locations not just this one, which is wonderful because it’s making clean food more accessible on the road, for nearby businesses, and for neighboring retail stores to have more healthy food options to choose from.

Update April 30th 2019: I met the owner at their Cherry Street Location. He is very food allergy literate, explained to me that the company was created in his son’s honor (who passed away at 20 years) due to anaphylaxis from peanuts. He ate at a restaurant he was a regular at (the ingredients and handling changed, was not updated on the menu) and he didn’t have his epi-pen with him. He died. His father and family created this company in his honor and to better serve the community and be involved in the food allergy awareness as well. Heart touching story, his humility and kind heart (wanting to better serve others in his son’s honor) really touched my foodie with food allergy’s heart.