Juicy News

7 Dallas juice bars to get your daily fix of fruits and vegetables

Sip on your juice at The Gem or grab a bottle to go.
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Le Jus pours juices for the cleanses into glass bottles.
Order Roots Pressed Juices in individual bottles or kits online, and have themdelivered to your house.
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Be Raw does elixirs in innovative flavors.
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The Juice Bar offers a variety of cold press juices, smoothies and wellnessshots.
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All the hottest celebrities — Gwyneth Paltrow, Nicole Ritchie, Miranda Kerr — are juicing, so why shouldn't we? Raw juices contains lots of nutrients but few calories, and because they are delicious, they make it easy to work in extra servings of fruits and veggies daily — and feel great.

The latest craze on the health-food scene has infiltrated Dallas, and juice bars have popped up all over town. This is where we turn to quench the thirst.

Be Raw Food and Juice
Dallas' premier raw food restaurant — where everything is made with fruits, vegetables and grains — also has an amply stocked juice bar with nutrient-packed elixirs in innovative flavors. There is the obligatory green smoothie with spinach, kale, avocado and walnuts, but also the refreshing minty hemp, made with peppermint and hemp seeds, and the decadent chocolate bliss with cacao and coconut butter.

Central Market
Central Market makes a variety fresh-squeezed juices, available in 12 ounces or 36 in the produce department. Choose from classics like orange, apple or carrot, or pick up the famous green juice with celery, cucumber, spinach and parsley. Our favorites include apple beet carrot, apple lemon ginger, and the beet veggie blend with a hint of jalapeño. Because we are daily juice drinkers, we prefer the large container, which also saves precious room in the fridge.

The Gem
This juice bar offers glow-inducing one- and three-day cleanses; individual fresh-pressed juices and smoothies; Holy Kombucha on tap; and tea and coffee. Choose a Green Glow (kale, cucumber, lemon, apple, ginger) or Princess Cut (carrots, apple, ginger), or settle in for light bites such as kale, quinoa or hummus. Sip your juice in-store, or take it on the road.

The Juice Bar
The Lovers Lane juice bar offers fresh, cold-pressed juices, blends and smoothies; Holy Kombucha on tap; and wellness shots like aloe vera, chlorophyll, vitamins B12 and D3, and glucosamine. Or try the hot shot with juiced lemon, ginger and cayenne. The Juice Bar also offers locally made Groovin' on Granola and Hail Merry snacks and three pay-per-day cleanses: Day Drinker, Freelancer and Greenskeeper.

Number One/Le Jus
Arbiter of style Brian Bolke partnered with Le Jus founder Dana Card on this boutique/cafe hybrid in Highland Park Village. Drop by for an organic pressed juice and a grain-free muffin to go, or dine in and indulge in a winter fennel salad and tomato soup. To partake in a juice cleanse — four-blend Le Club or eight-blend Le Cleanse — you must reserve 48 hours in advance. We also love to belly up to the bar for a Blue Bottle Coffee.

Roots Pressed Juices
We like the convenience of online ordering, and Roots does individual juices and fortified water, detox and cleanse kits, hangover recovery kits, and cocktail mixer kits using mostly organic produce. Our favorites are the watermelon cooler and the Refresh juice with cucumber, lime, mint, apple and ginger. The best part? Order your juices today and have them delivered — in reusable containers — to your house tomorrow.

Whole Foods
The Whole Foods juice bar offers an assortment of juices and smoothies, and you can order from the menu or build your own. (Call ahead and they will bottle your healthy libations prior to your arrival.) Among the more popular juices are The Rail (jalapeño, cilantro, bell pepper, celery and carrot), Park Lane (ginger, lemon, cucumber, apple and carrot) and The Gingersnap (ginger, lime, celery and apple).

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Market News

Small specialty grocer in Celina is a go-to for imported foods

Di Mantzios Greek & Italian Gourmet Market

There's a gourmet shop in downtown Celina offering imported European foods: Called Di Mantzio’s Greek and Italian Gourmet Market, it's a small grocery and cafe at 204 E. Pecan St., Ste. C, where it's bringing in goods you might not find elsewhere in town.

Owner Vasilios Mantzios is a native of Greece and former NATO military serviceman who moved to the U.S. in 2008. Missing the foods he'd enjoyed in Greece and Italy, he started a booth at the Frisco Fresh Market in 2015 selling olive oils, Balsamic dressing, olives, and Mediterranean salt. In late 2024, he made the move to open the storefront in Celina (coincidentally down Pecan Street from Mangiamo Italian Market & Deli, another highly personal deli and market, making pecan Street a fun destination for a foodie field trip).

Di Mantzio's carries olive oils, pizza, cheese, charcuterie boards, flour, refrigerated meals, and meatballs with a Greek red sauce, made from a family recipe from Mantzios' aunts and their grandmothers. He also imports marinated lamb and beef meatballs from Greece.

"I only have things that I would put on my table to personally eat — I pick out my items by the quality because I don't want people to have issues with the food," Mantzios says. "I have my mother test everything, so if you pass her, you're in the store."

While he does offer Greek foods such as a recent special with beef kebabs and pita bread, there's a big demand for Italian items. He has a big selection of cheese: parmigiano reggiano, feta, mozzarella, and cheese from Il Forteto. Dry goods include Molino Paolo Mariani Manitaly flour, Caputo gluten-free flour, and Hellenic Farms and Lia extra virgin olive oil.

Mantzios prioritizes small, family-owned businesses because they enjoy what they're providing to customers and value quality.

Di Mantzios Greek & Italian Gourmet MarketDi Mantzios

On the prepared food front, he does pizza using a wood-fired crust imported from Pizza Food Love in Italy, delivered to the shop every three weeks. The base can be topped with ingredients from Tuscany, Italy for a truly authentic experience. More prepared foods are one of the biggest requests he gets from customers, and it's a category he's continuing to expand, as well as adding wine and beer.

They also have cakes and desserts such as cannoli, baklava, Greek rice pudding, French macarons, and gelato from Gelatys.

The interior is neatly organized, with refrigerated foods as well as Greek and European decor such as pestle and mortar, a gladiator helmet, and Greek and Italian flags pinned to the walls.

Mantzios thrives from the personal contact he gets with customers, and they find him equally charming as well.

"The bulk of my customers come from Prosper and Celina, and Celina is the number one growing city with people coming from all around who can appreciate what we are doing," Mantzios says.

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