CoreLife Eatery serves up nutritious foods at new Greenville spot

A new, well being-targeted quickly-informal restaurant, CoreLife Eatery is now open up in Greenville. The place at 1174 Woodruff Street is one particular of 10 that franchise proprietor Jon Wooden strategies to open up in South Carolina. Wooden, who still left a background in business real estate to attempt his hand in the restaurant small business, acquired the rights to all of South Carolina.

He sees potential for at minimum 3 spots in the Greenville area.

CoreLife, which began in Syracuse, New York in 2015, marries wholesome feeding on with speedy support, Wood stated. The restaurant started in 2015 and has because developed to 60 areas, but the enterprise plans to open as lots of as 300 far more destinations in the following 5 a long time.

For Wood, the appeal was the food.

“I’m a large eater,” he said with a chuckle. “I like foods.”

And with CoreLife, he additional, he can consume a great deal and still experience relatively virtuous.

The bulk of the CoreLife menu is designed to increase taste when also maximizing health and fitness rewards. Client Experiences not too long ago acknowledged the brand for its healthful foodstuff choices.

All those choices include healthful greens and grain bowls, broth bowls as very well as protein plates, and new this 12 months, tacos, all produced from scratch.

The menu spans a variety of flavors from a Thai hen and rice noodle bowl and a sriracha tofu historic grain bowl to a Mediterranean salad bowl with falafel and a Korean BBQ pork bowl.

“Our restaurant is not an uncomplicated cafe to operate due to the fact we have a scratch kitchen,” Wood claimed. “It’s intentionally balanced. A whole lot of it is sneaky healthier since it’s also so delicious.”

In other phrases, it is not just about salads listed here, despite the fact that you can get some delicious types. The cafe serves ahi tuna, grass-fed steak, antibiotic-free of charge chicken, complete grains, contemporary veggies, and bone broth. Even the mac and cheese is gluten-no cost and designed with a cauliflower puree.

“You would under no circumstances know when you are feeding on it,” Wood assured.

Wooden signed the deal with CoreLife in spring 2019, settled on the site in Greenville in Summertime 2019, and was set to get started construction in March 2020. And then, well, we all know what occurred then.

The pandemic has slowed things a little bit, but not by a great deal. The quickly-relaxed construction, which lends itself quickly to takeout and shipping and delivery aids.

The 3,400-sq.-foot area in Greenville also options a sizable outside patio, Wooden added.