A new fast, casual and healthy Italian restaurant has a few things missing from its menu: pizza, pasta, and bread. Prima opened last Wednesday on Bethesda Row, serving free bowls to the public to sample and crowding the restaurant. It took over the corner Taylor Gourmet held.

The Italian restaurant is a part of the restaurant group of Boston-based celebrity chef, Michael Schlow. Schlow has appeared on Top Chef and The Tonight Show, and he’s won 13 prestigious awards. The James Beard Foundation has declared him the best chef in the Northeast U.S.