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Doc’s Juice and Smoothies

Mike Valente’s tiny Bucktown take­away offers not only an all-organic roster of smoothies but also soups and pastries. Among customers’ smoothie favorites, he says, are a vegan strawberry-peach-mango smoothie with apple juice, a raspberry-banana-mango combo with pineapple and fat-free yogurt, and a blueberry-peach-strawberry number with blueberry and apple juice and frozen yogurt. Juices are all fresh squeezed. Homey soups, made off-site, include vegan black bean, vegan wild mushroom, and a creamy chicken-broccoli soup made with free-range chicken.  2246 W. Armitage, 773-278-5600, docsjuiceandsmoothies.com. —Kate Schmidt

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Jamba Juice

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