Kiwi Cafe and Smoothies

Kiwi Café and Smoothies is a café on Galleria Avenue in Raleigh, built around fresh food and smoothies made to order. The owners describe it as a personal mission: they want every customer who walks in to leave eating a little better.

The menu runs to salads, wraps, and paninis, all made by hand, plus the smoothies that give the place its name. The recipes are meant to be healthy and full of flavor at the same time, which is a harder trick than it sounds.

What to know

• Ingredients are organic and natural, and no preservatives are used.
• Drinks can be built with add-ins such as inulin and L-carnitine.
• One add-in blend, sold as a fat burner, includes garcinia cambogia and chromium.