BROCKTON—Finding a nice, quiet place that serves health-inspired food may be hard, but we’ve simplified your search by finding some for you.
On this installment of Brockton Eats with Alisha, we’re traveling the city to explore five places with delicious food that’s good for your health. Brockton has recently been a hub of new businesses. Let’s go see what Brockton has to offer.
These weekly lists of tidbits and food finds are not restaurant reviews but go beyond a bare-bones round-up. Staff writer Alisha Saint-Ciel gives tips and takes to help Brockton-area foodies find those mouth-watering hidden gems, old favorites, and exciting new offerings.
Power Up Nutrition is nestled right in the back of the courthouse, serving “energizing nutrition” with bold flavors. The Ecuadorian-owned business is showing Brockton how healthy choices can also taste delicious. The menu is filled with waffles, crepes, acai bowls, smoothies, and herbal life products. You can indulge in the flavors of hearty chicken soup, pancakes, protein waffles, protein donuts, and much more. The owner has been in business since 2005 and just recently moved to the Belmont Street location.
Popular items include passionfruit smoothies, pink drinks, iced coffee, and fat-burning tea.
Mother’s Daughter Juice, a sister store of The Farmer’s Daughter, a local farm-to-table breakfast spot in Easton, is now open. The new juice spot offers the city freshly pressed juice with zero refined sugar.
Kwench is a Haitian-owned business serving freshly-pressed juice, acai and pitaya bowls, and wellness shots. The company opened in June 2021 and is still here, blending delicious smoothies. My favorite thing to do is visit Kwench and put in a juice order while visiting their next-door neighbor, La Baguette Divine, and ordering a Haitian patty. The family owns both businesses.
Some popular items on the menu are named after influential people and places from Brockton: Rocky Marciano: beet, carrot, celery, ginger, lemons and hemp; Marvin Hagler: apples, cucumber, carrot, lemon, wheatgrass and bee pollen; Campanelli Stadium: apple, mint, pineapple kale, spinach, wheatgrass and spirulina.
A fully vegan restaurant offers a full vegan menu of pizza, burgers, wraps, tacos, and Jamaican and Haitian patties in six flavors.
The health food business offers a variety of soaps, herbs, beauty items, smoothies, pressed juice, and wellness shots.
The menu is filled with belly-filling items, including the tacos that come in three flavors:Steak tacos — Pico de gallo spinach, cheddar cheese and limeBeef tacos — Pico de gallo, spinach, corn, cheddar cheese and limeVeggie tacos — Avocado, pico de gallo, spinach, corn, pineapple glaze, lime and mozzarella
Some of the popular items include:Merry Berry — Strawberries, blueberries, blackberries, raspberry and agaveGo Green — Avocado, banana, kale, celery and agaveTop Notch — Mixed berries, mango, pineapples and agaveSunrise — Carrot, pineapple, orange and watermelon
Cabo Vegan – 20 Main St., Brockton
Cabo Vegan is the first entirely Cape Verdean vegan business in Brockton. It’s different from your average vegan restaurant. The company prides itself on unique flavors filled with bold seasonings that are healthy for you and good for your budget.
Inside the restaurant is a small organic vegan marketplace offering health and beauty products such as soaps, oils, moisturizers, supplements, international snacks that can’t be found in ordinary stores, meat substitutes, sea moss, and kombucha.
Dive into the menu with 100% vegan options, from twin lobster-less rolls with chips to a “Turki” sandwich, a pesto artichoke panini, a falafel burger, parmesan truffle fries, and more.
