{"id":575916,"date":"2026-07-08T23:25:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T23:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/575916\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T23:25:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T23:25:18","slug":"new-healthy-eatery-sage-berry-opens-at-oak-park-mall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/575916\/","title":{"rendered":"New healthy eatery Sage &#038; Berry opens at Oak Park Mall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Hamdia Mohammed took a step back from the restaurant business, she wasn\u2019t expecting to return to it.<\/p>\n<p>For a decade, she owned and operated Greek eatery Never On Sunday in Kansas City, Missouri, before stepping away from the restaurant to go back to school. But in the past year, she said, she found herself missing the hustle and bustle of the hospitality world.<\/p>\n<p>Now she\u2019s back in the thick of it, but this time, things look a bit different in more ways than one. Her customers are now enjoying healthy eats like a\u00e7ai bowls and avocado toast \u2014 and they\u2019re doing it on the other side of the state line.<\/p>\n<p>The new venture, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DZHPQDlu0d6\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Sage &amp; Berry<\/a>, opened last month inside the Oak Park Mall in Overland Park.<\/p>\n<p>Sage &amp; Berry opened at 11149 W. 95th St.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The eatery occupies a space at the food court on the upper level of the Oak Park Mall.<\/li>\n<li>The space was previously occupied by Kansas City-based eatery <a href=\"https:\/\/johnsoncountypost.com\/2025\/10\/14\/taste-of-brazil-oak-park-mall-270703\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Taste of Brazil<\/a>\u2019s \u201cexpress\u201d location.<\/li>\n<li>Sage &amp; Berry\u2019s regular hours are from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Saturday, and 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sage &amp; Berry serves a\u00e7ai bowls and other healthy eats<br \/>\n<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-290638 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Sage-Berry-drinks-714x476.webp\" alt=\"Sage &amp; Berry\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\"  \/>An array of drinks (mojito lemonade, berry smoothie and strawberry matcha) from Sage &amp; Berry. Photo credit Lucie Krisman.<\/p>\n<p>At Sage &amp; Berry, Mohammed said, a\u00e7ai is the star of the show.<\/p>\n<p>Customers can either create their own a\u00e7ai bowl by mixing and matching bases with toppings, or choose from the menu\u2019s creations.<\/p>\n<p>The Sage &amp; Berry \u201csignature\u201d bowl, for example, comes with an a\u00e7ai base and is topped with blueberries, strawberries, granola, bananas, coconut flakes and honey.<\/p>\n<p>Outside of a\u00e7ai bowls, though, Sage &amp; Berry serves other healthy eats like avocado toast and Greek salads \u2014 the latter of which Mohammed is \u201ckind of addicted to\u201d, she said with a laugh.<\/p>\n<p>The menu also offers beverages like fruit smoothies, matcha lattes, and flavored lemonades.<\/p>\n<p>Sage &amp; Berry aims to fill a local demand<\/p>\n<p>When it came to the mall, Mohammed said, a big part of the appeal was the fact that nothing else like Sage &amp; Berry was there.<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019d originally expected to bring another Greek eatery to the mall, leaning on her roots from before. But the space she was offered inside the mall lent itself better to a streamlined, counter-service concept.<\/p>\n<p>Due to her daughter\u2019s love of a\u00e7ai bowls, she also knew that dish is on the rise \u2014 and that no one else in the mall was serving them.<\/p>\n<p>Within its first few weeks, that demand has proven itself. Some Sage &amp; Berry customers who work at nearby stores in the mall have already returned for their next fix; in some cases, multiple times in one day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just wanted to bring something healthy to the mall,\u201d she said. \u201cThat\u2019s what\u2019s most exciting to me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Want more food and drink news?\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/johnsoncountypost.com\/2026\/07\/06\/ars-open-leawood-290371\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Locally owned brunch spot AR\u2019s debuts third location in Leawood<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When Hamdia Mohammed took a step back from the restaurant business, she wasn\u2019t expecting to return to it.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":575917,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[277],"tags":[18,135,19,17,508,80433,4612],"class_list":["post-575916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nutrition","tag-eire","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-nutrition","tag-shawnee-mission-area","tag-top"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116886944416447368","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=575916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/575917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}