City Bowls food truck takes off with healthy options

Corey Dill, the owner of the Birmingham’s newest family-run food truck, City Bowls, said that even though they’ve only been open for about a month, they’ve been “booked out almost every day.”

“Everyone who has an acai bowl is super pumped about it because we don’t have it here in Birmingham,” Dill said. “You’ve got your typical barbecue, fried chicken, other usual options, and there’s not really a 100 percent healthy option here.”

City Bowl sells preservative-free, fresh-to-order acai bowls, which Dill explains is essentially a smoothie-like mixture, which he blends into “a thick, sorbet” consistency, and then adds combinations of fruit, protein, peanut butter, granola, almond milk and other healthy options. 

The base is made from acai berries, which he specially orders from Florida, as they are a tropical fruit. 

Even though some people think they are just a treat, Dill recommends them as meal replacements. He said they quickly fill you up. 

Along with working at a CrossFit gym in Birmingham, Dill and his wife always wanted to open a healthy option food truck.  They both loved acai bowls they had in Florida and recently decided they wanted to bring the “super fruit” meal choice to Alabama. 

A 10-ounce bowl is $7.25 and a 16-ounce bowl is $10.25. Each bowl takes about two minutes to make. Currently, they sell them during lunch and dinner hours several days a week at locations downtown, along U.S. 280, at the Summit and in Mountain Brook.

Visit their Facebook page, City Bowls, to learn more about where the truck will be selling bowls each week.