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Loco Coco brings superfood bowls and smoothies to Venice By Oliver Grynberg oco Coco, a New York City staple that sells superfood-focused bowls and smoothies, has arrived in Venice. The bright pink solar-powered house with a quaint garden lining Abbot Kinney matches trendy flair with the utmost attention to quality in its vegan offerings. “I couldn’t find anything that met my needs,” said Max Alcobi, founder and owner of Loco Coco. With extensive dietary restrictions and a decade-long interest in superfoods, he set out to create a product he would want to purchase daily, and New Yorkers were quick to bite. Between the colorful bowls, intricate matchas and slew of energizing smoothies, there is something for everyone at Loco Coco. The tiny location on the Upper East Side was soon
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Loco Coco is a new sustainable vegan, superfood-based bowl and smoothie restaurant on Abbot Kinney in Venice.
“doing numbers on a per square foot basis that retailers like Chanel could only imagine doing,” Alcobi said. “New York really needed the product we provided.” “LA claims to be one of the epicenters of health and wellness in the U.S., but a lot of the establishments here are not up to par with my personal standards,” Alcobi said. Loco Coco brings a degree of transparency that is unique to restaurants of its kind, while also providing customers with the information needed to understand the supplements and products they sell. It might seem trivial, but “a big differentiator for us is that we don’t use ice in any one of our products,” Alcobi said. This way, smoothies and bowls never separate. There is an obsession with actuality when it comes to ingredients, so that everything involved in
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