After years of teasing San Antonio with social media hints, Austin’s JuiceLand will soon make its San Antonio debut. The wildly popular juice and smoothie chain is squeezing into Alamo Heights at 5300 Broadway.
According to company lore, entrepreneur Matt Shook got the idea for JuiceLand after visiting a shop called the Juice Joint near Austin’s Barton Springs Pool. He applied for a part-time job at the shop and soon learned the business from the inside out.
He took over the business, which became JuiceLand 10 years later in 2011. Now the chain has 52 locations in the Austin, Dallas, and Houston areas — many of them near or inside H-E-B stores.
The concept is most known for, well, juice, pressed on site or cold-pressed into bottles. Its menu extends to fruity staples like smoothies and açai bowls, as well as caffeine energizers, lattes, wraps, salads, pasta, and sweets.
Everything is plant-based, including the smoothies, which are made with nondairy almond milk. And the menu items have oddball names such as the Wundershowzen (a shake with banana, spinach, hemp protein, and peanut butter) and the Ninja Bachelor Party (a juice mixing pineapple, celery, kale, parsley, spinach, jalapeño, and sea salt).
JuiceLand also gets creative with the ingredients themselves. The Mannawich is a vegan Sloppy Joe made with pecans, cacao, goji berries, agave, vanilla, and cinnamon. A bánh mì wrap uses “meat” made from shitake mushrooms.
A request for timeline information was not returned in time for publication, but Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation project details say the renovation will be completed by June 2026. State records are subject to change and are not always reflective of actual opening dates.