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I know you wouldn't think Steak Shapiro was a candidate to search out
the city's best fruit salad, but then again you've never been to LottaFrutta.
LottaFrutta serves fresh-cut fruit cups, exotic fruit smoothies, Cuban-inspired grill
sandwiches, fruited salads, homemade Mexican popsicles,
you name it. Anything fruit we do here fresh.
Down home, down in the border of Mexico, fruterias, or fruit houses, they're a dime
a dozen. You can find them everywhere.
And the one thing that I was missing when I moved here to Atlanta was I couldn't
find it. So I thought, well, why not open up one for
myself. When we were looking for a location to open
up, the Old Fourth Ward just seemed perfect,
perfect place.
What I love about LottaFrutta is the interesting fruit
in the fruit cups and the fun sandwiches. Most popular item on the menu I would have
to say is the Cremolatta, the fruit cup
with the fresh-cut papaya, fresh-cut strawberries, grapes, bananas, all the melons,
and layered with homemade coconut cremma. So it appeals to vegans, it appeals to people
who are just dairy-free, and everyone else in between.
I have a lot of food allergies, so it's really hard to go eat anywhere,
so this is the only place I know that I don't have
to ask any questions about what's in the food.
My favorite item on the menu is the Limonatta. I can have that one for breakfast, lunch,
dinner. A fruit salad for dinner?
Let's find out what's in that bad boy. Right in the middle we put in some chile guajillo.
This is a Mexican medium pepper. It's kind of like the equivalent to cayenne.
It heats up the throat, it's warming, it's really, really nice.
And it just plays so well with sweet fresh-cut fruit.
There we go. Now, the two finales, fresh-cut coconut.
We love it because it's so nutty. This is the only fruit cup that comes with
the fresh-cut coconut. And then last, fresh, fresh limes.
It has to be fresh limes. It cannot be bottled.
Squeeze everything on top, and then top it off
with your chile guajillo.
The feeling afterwards is really nice. The food's always really kind of light,
so you don't feel like too heavy when you're leaving.
The reason why I feel like we have a lot of return customers is just because our food
is very fresh and it's a happy environment. So they really like to come back and just
enjoy that experience one more time.
One thing that sets LottaFrutta apart, their loyal customers spread the gospel.
I bring friends, I bring associates, I bring everybody that I can come close to.
They love it. They come back every time.
Literally every time I come in here, it's with a new person.
They're blown away by the colors on the walls and our fruitology scrubs and all that.
And the whole experience combined just makes them happy.
All these healthy eats remind me I should be eating right.
And I will. Starting tomorrow.