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Piccadilly Circus (Piccadilly, Bakerloo)
Tottenham Court Road (Central, Northern)
Oxford Circus (Bakerloo, Central, Victoria)
- Hours:
Mon-Fri 9:00 - 19:00
Sat 12:30 - 18:30
- Price Range:
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££
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Attire:
- Casual
- Good for Children:
- No
- Delivery:
- No
- Take Away:
- Yes
- Wheelchair Accessible:
- Yes
- Outdoor Seating:
- No
3 reviews for Food Secret
All Reviews
Please don't tell my husband, but I'm IN LOVE!!!!!!!!! I've walked past Food Secret a million times but never gone in. I popped my head through the door on a whim today and I suddenly found myself in the land of sexy granite tabletops, biodegradable take-away cutlery, grab-and-go gourmet lunch items, and the most amazing make-your-own salad bar I've ever laid my eyes on. The service was friendly, my salad was delicious, and the price was right. As I said, I'm in love.
The first completely remarkable and brilliant thing I noticed about the Food Secret fare was that every single item is labeled with nutrition facts. Easily readable labels, all pointing forward, tell the reader the ingredients of their selected item as well as the daily percentage of protein, carbs, fibre, saturated fat, and unsaturated fat contained in the item, demonstrated in a simple bar graph for men and for women. I grabbed an extra sandwich to take home with me for dinner tonight, a delectable-sounding combination of parma ham, baby spinach, and grilled onions because it sounded so amazing. There are also pre-made salads and containers of soup-ingredients--raw veggies and spices: just add hot water and stir and you've got freshly made soup! Yummers!
Beyond the grab-and-go fridges is the make-your-own counter. There are what seem like MILLIONS of little containers of ingredients to choose from. I selected baby spinach, pearl barley, red onions, peas & broad beans mix, "Food Secret sprouting mix" of legumes and lentils, marinated tofu, chicken, feta, and balsamic vinaigrette. (Other ingredients include seared tuna, rare steak strips, and some killer looking grilled salmon.) As the guy is making the salad, each item pops up in sequence on the little computer monitor things on the counter so the customer can see their salad's inventory and cumulative price. What I received was a bowl that weighed at least a pound and will take me at least three meals to eat. And, OMG, it is DELICIOUS.
When your salad is done, a unique little itemized receipt gets printed out for you, listing the ingredients and the nutrition facts for your salad. I learned that my salad contained 242% of my daily value for protein (!!!), and if I ever crave that salad again in the future, I can store this receipt away in my wallet and just hand it to the chef guy next time I come in.
This is pretty much the lunch spot I've been dreaming of. The salad I got cost less than my typical lunch at Leon, so I've finally found somewhere that will help me break out of my boring ol' lunchtime routine. I love, love, love this place, and boy are they going to get sick of seeing my face everyday!
My girlfriend has written a review on this place for a magazine and has since been bugging me to go check it out. I kept telling her that I would but never really wanted to go because it sounded all healthy and stuff, which isn't my thing. Not because I'm a fat bastard, because I'm not, it was because I always think that healthy food is boring and served in tiny portions.
Well Food Secrets, despite my prejudices against healthy food, definitely exceeded my expectations.
You walk into what looks and feels like a clean cut hotel or modern health spa and can select your meal from a range of pre-made sandwiches and salads. Alternatively you can have a sandwich or salad freshly made for you using whatever fillings that take your fancy.
I opted for a Chicken, Avocado and Lime sandwich which was truly amazing! I absolutely loved it although it was, as my prejudice against healthy food predicted, a tiny portion. It would have been perfect had it been a little bigger.
I also got some old fashioned Curiosity Cola and a slice of okay tasting banana cake. Pricing wasn't bad either. My freshly made sandwich was about 3 quid, although I spent about £7 in total trying to fill myself up.
New place on Broadwick Street (corner of Marshall St) doing the usual Soup/Salad/Sandwich deal. Opening offer of 4 pounds for any salad with as many ingredients as you like. Good dessert (3 pounds). Yet another restaurant that doesn't explain the concept or even how to order....
