Tossed Sun Street (Broadgate) — Restaurant in London

The employee who made my breakfast bowl didn’t know about the basic ingredients, which was concerning, especially for people with allergies (does the granola have raisins? ‘No.’ her colleague closeby: ‘yes it does’). She was also not friendly and rushed me even though I was the first person in at 7:30. She put in about 4 blueberries after I saw how unripe the mango looked and I was charged £0.65 for that extra ingredient. The sizes of the bowls look to have dramatically decreased with no accompanying change in price obviously, but I will say it’s actually still quite a good amount of food-they could just work on the proportions a bit. The coconut yogurt is delicious though. The coffee guy was nice and friendly, but the checkout girl was also less than chirpy. Wouldn’t go back to this location unless theres a change in attitude or staff. Lastly, the bags are designed for your item to go in sideways as if their meals don’t have yogurt/milk/salad dressing that will spill everywhere and make...

This was my first visit to Vital Ingredient and it was a huge disappointment.

Arriving just after 2pm most of the hot options were unavailable which is to be expected. I asked for the thai green curry with brown rice only to be told that the only thing left was quinoa as a base. Going ahead with that option I had to stop the server from dishing up the paltry amount of curry left as there was nowhere near a full portion amount left so opted for the chilli con carne.

Sadly my take on this is slightly different from Vital Ingredient's as I normally put beef in my chilli! Theirs mostly comprised of beans and chilli with a very small amount of mince and to make matters worse the quinoa was massively overcooked leading to it starting to either break down or stick together. I had to remove 2 big lumps which had all stuck together. Luckily I could just stab it with my fork!

Not somewhere I will be visiting...

For a fast food joint which pushes health and salads foremost, these guys do the best job they can at hiding any nutritional information. Once you do some serious digging, you can see why. Most of their salads rock in at 600+ calories. I wanted a place to grab a low cal, veg laden lunch. While I got the latter I had to skip dinner to offset the former. They get a point for being tasty.

They lose all other points because I witnessed a food contamination incident while being served. My salad containded some bacon. While being measured the server managed to spill bacon into over a dozen pots containing vegetables. No effort was made to clean this up after I was served, as I hung back for a few minutes to watch. Other customers were served from these pots. I know it's not an allergen but come on guys plenty of people avoid pork and meat will probably come...