Dining Review: Breakfast bowls at Bare Naked Bowls in Manly

Forget bacon and eggs, Bare Naked Bowls only has healthy eats made with acai, fruit, superfood and lots of love.

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Breakfast is shaking off its stodgy image — breakfast served in bowls is trendy.

Add frozen foreign fruity bits and they’re popping up everywhere.

Brazilian acai is the darling of the cafe world.

This superfood packs a powerful punch with stellar line up of healthy antioxidants, protein and vitamins.

Blend it to the consistency of a smoothie, top it with a rainbow of sliced fruit and an assortment of nuts and berries and other trendy bits and breakfast has come of age.

Manly cafe Bare Naked Bowls has answered the call for low-carb breakfasts with its own light and fruity bowls.

Two of a kind: the pitaya bowl and beach bowl.

Acai (organic, of course) comes six ways.

Naked — the bowl, not the customer — blends organic acai with banana, strawberry and pineapple juice.

This purple people feeder is topped with granola, more banana, strawberry, blueberry, hemp seeds, raw cacao nibs and honey.

Go paleo and then this hard-to-pronounce smoothie is made with avocado, raspberry, blueberry and coconut water sprinkled with almonds, coconut chips, organic activated buckinis, raw cocoa nibs and goji berry.

Want to try something that could knock acai off the top spot?

Pitaya, or dragon fruit, comes from a cactus and is the superfood that’s all the rage in LA.

Bare Naked Bowl’s pitaya bowl is pink, pretty but bland, even with a flavour injection of coconut water, mango and banana.

Banana dominants all the other flavours.

Maybe that’s because it’s frozen and served ice-cold.

It comes with crunchy granola, strawberries, blueberries and chia seeds.

Think fruity sorbet and it’s certainly a different way to enjoy breakfast.

Three types of kombucha is on tap.

There’s also some slightly odd smoothies, ready-to-go bowls and coffee from Girdler’s Grind in Dee Why.

Kombucha fans have a trio of fermented flavours to try, lime and ginger is the most popular option.

Customers can even pour own their lightly fizzy drinks into jars.

Bare Naked Bowls gives back too.

Josh Porteous with wife Ashley and baby Indie when the cafe opened lmid 2015.

Cafe owner Josh Porteous donates $1 from every $10 to his charity, The International Brothers and Sisters House which helps youngsters in Cambodia, Tanzania and Nepal.

It’s nice to eat well, feel good and do just a little bit to help.

Twitter: @beverley_hudec

Essentials

Bare Naked Bowls

Shop 2/41 Market Lane, Manly

Phone: [phone]

Open: 7.30am-4pm, seven days

Go for: Superfood pitaya bowl with mango, banana, granola and chia seeds, $15; green hemp smoothie made with coconut water,$10

Coffee: Girdler’s Grind organic blend

Vibe: Bowled over

Bottom line: $49.50