![]() With a somewhat overwhelming menu of more than 100 items, everyone will find something to eat, even if it takes them 20 minutes to decide.Ī top seller is the zucchini spaghetti bowl. It’s a good place to bring your friends for lunch when you can’t keep track of who’s wheat-free and who’s soy-free and who’s allergic to shellfish and who’s on the paleo diet. Just about everything is gluten-free, too, and sandwiches can be prepared using gluten-free bread or wraps at no extra charge. Most items on the menu are vegan with the exception of a few dishes that include honey. “I thought about doing a raw foods restaurant like they have in California, but people here aren’t ready for that yet,” said Toppa, who deliberately avoided labeling the restaurant as vegan or vegetarian in hopes of attracting a wider clientele, since his goal is to get folks on Aquidneck Island to eat more healthfully. It has an extensive menu of soups, salads, sandwiches, rice bowls, snacks, and desserts served from 7 each morning until 10 at night. Raw Power Juice Bar isn’t just a juice bar. ![]() So hoping to provide a healthier alternative, he opened Raw Power Juice Bar in the Bellevue Plaza in Newport in August. He regained his health, lost more than 25 pounds in the process, and knew he couldn’t go on advertising 2-for-1 pizza specials. Getting ill motivated Toppa to change his diet, which meant giving up meat and dairy and eating only natural, unprocessed foods. Thirty years later, he’d developed health problems as a result of a career spent working and eating in pizza restaurants. Chris Toppa started working in the restaurant industry at the age of 8, unloading trucks at his family’s business, Toppa’s Foodservice in Middletown.
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