Venue: Mizuna Salad, Charlotte StreetFood: Salads (and a whole lot more...Jackets, Sandwiches, Lasagne....)
Cost: £3.75
Rating: 79%
Mizuna Salad may not look like too much from the outside, but do not be fooled. The choice and value for your pound is mighty impressive. A family owned little gem set on fashionable Charlotte Street, Mizuna is the place to come for a hearty salad, but also offers anything from sandwiches and jacket potatoes to specials including lasagne and curries.
Entering Mizuna it is abundantly clear the place is not quite big enough for a comfortable fit. Slightly cobbled together, but in a way that gives it a real home-made feel, the till is plonked smack bang in front of the entrance, around which customers mill about and bump into each other awkwardly.
After you have shuffled your way through bodies, and somehow without ever really joining a defined queue (although I am sure the intention is one queue for salads and one for everything else), you reach the well-marshalled serving counter.
Although I have sampled most options, I am always drawn to the salads and in particular the chicken Caesar salad, rustled up from scratch in no time at all. Generous in size, a good mix of ingredients, certainly tasty and with the added bonus of a sense of healthy eating, regardless of the levels of Caesar dressing!
Be sure to bump into a few more customers while deciding on an appropriate waiting spot - I once had to shift my position four times during one such wait - and then inevitably a few more on the way to the till, before paying a very reasonable £3.75 (or something similar for any other selection).
Mizuna Salad could be described as ‘the people’s takeaway’. In short, it represents good quality at an affordable price for under-pressure media types.
Taste 8
Portion size 8
Service 7
Speed 9
Originality 7
Choice 10
Workability 8
Office response 7
Value for money 9
Brand 6
Overall: 79%
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