Everbowl brings "crafted superfood" bowls to Ladue

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Everbowl, a California-based restaurant group that specializes in "crafted superfood" bowls, made its debut in the St. Louis area on August 12. The location in Ladue (1516 S. Lindbergh) is the first store in Missouri. (There are currently 40 other locations, 38 in California.)

The St. Louis franchise is owned by a mother-and-son team, Kirkwood resident Annie Horton and her son Jake, who lives in San Diego. Annie has spent her career in one type of food business or another, from working as a hostess in her teens to a role as sales manager for a major distributor. But it was Jake who discovered everbowl while living in San Diego. “One of the first locations I went into is actually down the street from one of my businesses, and I just loved it at first taste,” Jake said. When they heard everbowl was franchising, Jake said he and his mom were all in.

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The next step was finding a suitable location. Annie was looking for a spot close to her home in Kirkwood, “because I know the kind of hours and time it takes to open up a business.” The space also had to meet everbowl’s preference for franchises to go into existing restaurant spaces. When a former FroYo space became available at Lindbergh and Clayton, it checked all the right boxes, with bustling neighboring businesses. “We love this corner,” Annie said. “Our next door neighbor Starbucks is probably the busiest one in all of St. Louis. I just thought it was a fantastic spot.” The Hortons plan to open two more St. Louis-area locations, neither of which has yet to be finalized. 

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An interior wall at everbowl in Ladue

Everbowl’s approach to eating is grounded in a concept it calls “unevolve” – eliminating processed ingredients and going back to basics by building meals from “stuff that’s been around forever.” The restaurant’s bowls are based on superfoods like acai and match, as well as fresh fruits, berries, and nuts. “Everything that we have is something that's straight from the earth,” said Annie.

Annie said the space’s transition from frozen yogurt to healthy bowls reflects a generational shift in dietary preferences. Everbowl uses only vegan products like coconut milk, almond milk, or coconut cream in place of dairy milk or cream. People are now reconsidering dairy, she says, and "to live vegan or vegetarian might sound a little bit healthier to all of us. I think everbowl is the next phase in healthy eating that tastes good.”

The restaurant's variety of health-driven bowls are the big draw here. There are a number of “local favorites” with preset ingredients, each combining multiple flavors in one bowl. Alternatively, you can build your own bowl. Start by choosing the size bowl you want, small (12 oz, $9.75), medium (16 oz, $11.75) or large (24 oz, $13.75). The menu offers a calorie guide to give you a ballpark sense of how much you’re consuming in each portion size.

The next stage is choosing your base. The options include superfoods like acai, pitaya, chia pudding, matcha, “Cacao Wow” (raw cacao and coconut cream) and “Blue Majic” (which includes mango, pineapple and blue-green algae) and you can mix and match any and all of these. Should any of these ingredients be unfamiliar to you, everbowl offers free samples to bring you up to speed.

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Once your base is settled, choose your toppings, which include a variety of berries, granola, nuts and seeds. Everbowl heaps these layer upon layer to build colorful and nutritious meals or snacks. Reusable coconut bowls (pictured at right) are available for $12, which can be refilled at a 10% discount off future purchases. 

The restaurant also offers what it calls “craft superfood coffee” – Guatemalan or Colombian coffee served iced or hot and blended with more of those superfoods like acai, spirulina, cinnamon, and MCT oil.

Orders can be placed in store or online for pick up or delivery via DoorDash and UberEats. Ordering will soon also be available via everbowl’s app.