Chapel Hill’s Staple for Açaí, Coffee, & Healthy Eats

Fresh. Local. Sustainable.

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Gilland family, who owns The Purple Bowl

It Started From a Trip to California…

We fell in love with açaí bowls on our family trip in 2016. Once we returned, we made them from home because there were no options in Chapel Hill to buy one. We knew we had to bring our own version of an açaí concept to downtown — after finding a space on Franklin Street, that dream became a reality.

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A man and woman look at each other wearing Purple Bowl hoodies. The man is wearing a heather gray hoodie with The Purple Bowl printed on it, and the woman is wearing a navy hoodie with The Purple Bowl's building graphic on the back.
Two smiling people holding T-shirts with the logo and address of The Purple Bowl, a local eatery in Chapel Hill, NC, standing in front of a light-colored vehicle.