Good Stuff

 

Crush

By John Brown

It was Nellie’s birthday, and we were in Logan. One thing you need to know about

Nellie is that she likes to go on adventures. And so when we asked where she’d like to eat to celebrate her wonderfulness, she didn’t pick an old standby. Instead, as daughter number four called out the restaurants listed on her phone, Nellie picked a new place called Crush.

Daughter number four looked at the menu and discovered they featured acai bowls and toast.

“Toast?” she exclaimed. “We’re going to go to a place that serves toast?”

“And what the heck is an acai bowl?”

But the birthday girl gets what the birthday girl wants. And I think daughter number four secretly wanted to go on an adventure as well because she relented rather quickly.

So we went, and I’m happy to report that the toast was more like an open-face sandwich. Plus the bread wasn’t just any old bread—it was a fat slice of Crumb Brothers. We tried the Avo Crush (avocado), which was delicious, and the pumpkin, which half of our group liked and the other half thought was okay.

But even better than the toast were the fruit, smoothie bowls. Except they weren’t the super sweet, cavity inducing smoothies you might get elsewhere. These had the delicious flavor of natural fruit. They were thick, meaning you needed a spoon. And they were topped with all sorts of goodies.

We tried the Classic Bowl. The thick base was a blend of acai, bananas, and apple juice. For those who don’t know, as we didn’t, acai is a berry from the South American rainforests. The toppings were granola, strawberries, bananas, chia seeds, and a drizzle of local honey. I loved it.

We also tried the Pitaya Bowl, which has a base of organic dragon fruit (which is neon pink), banana, and pineapple. It was topped with strawberries, kiwi, blueberries, coconut flakes, and some granola. I loved this one too. Especially because, hey, who ever gets to eat dragon fruit, which comes from a crazy cactus?

And we tried the Peanut Butter Bowl which had a thick smoothie base of banana, cacao, peanut butter, agave, and almond milk. The toppings were banana, dark chocolate chips, Nutella, natural peanut butter, and chocolate coconut granola. Maybe a little more dessertish than the others, but certainly a winner.

So this birthday adventure turned out to be very tasty indeed. If you’re in Logan and looking for a little food adventure, I think you’ll enjoy a bowl and some toast from Crush. It’s right there on 13 W Center Street.