Top Tier Fruit & Juices

 

Located at 104 East MLK Jr Drive in Downtown High Point, Top Tier Fruit & Juices offers smoothies, juices, and fruit bowls. It is open from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily. Online ordering is available.

While I was sorry that Penny Path Café never reopened, Top Tier has been able to make great use of this space. It’s still small, but it’s brightly colored and inviting. If that doesn’t make you feel welcome, then the gracious and helpful owner (Jonita?) will. I stopped by not long after Top Tier opened its doors, curious but ready to cut a new business some slack while it got its bearings. That slack proved entirely unnecessary here (it helps that this was a mobile business beforehand).

Top Tier offers about a half-dozen smoothies as well as teas, juices, and other drinks, but the menu is only the beginning. They also offer a lot of customizability, from fruits to sizes and more. I came in with vague notions of a green smoothie, heeded a few recommendations, and ended up with a thoroughly delicious apple/kale/pineapple/honey concoction. The ingredients are fresh – no powders or concentrates in evidence – and, given the quality, not too expensive.

If Downtown ever manages to shed its image of “furniture and little else,” it will be because of businesses like Top Tier: tasty, healthy, and well-run.  

OrganicAF Juice Company

 

Located at 120 West Lexington Avenue in High Point, OrganicAF Juice Company offers juices, smoothies, smoothie bowls, coffee drinks, and more. It is open seven days a week (7 a.m. to 6 p.m. on weekdays and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on weekends), and online ordering is available.

 

Let’s dispense with this place’s only drawback: OrganicAF is pricey AF. The ingredients are quality (and fresh), but you’re still paying $8 to $9 for a smoothie (or more for a bowl). For the budget-conscious, there are other local smoothie options.

 

That aside, OrganicAF has everything you could want from a local juice/smoothie shop. Staff are friendly, and online ordering is convenient. While you can customize with add-ins to your heart’s content, the preset smoothies are so good that you may not want to. The HulkAF (spinach, kale, mango, wheatgrass, banana, maple) inspires satisfaction rather than rage, and the coffee drinks (try the caramel-laced BlissedAF or the chocolatey RichAF) will stack up well against your favorite frappes (and at $4 or so, may actually be cheaper). The smoothie bowls, topped with fresh berries, granola, coconut, and chocolate chips, are delicious but can be a bit messy to eat (and should be handled/transported with care, as I unfortunately learned from experience).

 

Making OrganicAF a regular breakfast stop may be cost-prohibitive, but when you want something tasty, healthy, and refreshing in the morning, look no further.