It’s a simple concept; either choose from around 15 ready-made that day salads, or pick your ‘base’ salad up (medium, large or in wrap) from the self-serve section then go to the counter to add on your choice of the extras from a bogglingly large choice.
At Tossed it’s all about healthy-eating being fun and the décor, which either drives you into a mad rage or blisses you out completely depending on your age and taste, reflects that. More puns than you can shake a stick at mix with faux naïve graphics on industrial walls. In one corner of the the Baker Street store is an Astroturf field with picnic tables to eat at. By 1pm queues are forming and the place is getting rammed, meanwhile over in our part of the field I am peering in at my Xmas salad.
It has, deep breath, mixed leaves, turkey, honey glazed carrots and parsnips, sundried cranberries, sage and onion stuffing, chestnuts, cranberry sauce and French dressing. All this contained in a large plastic box that is made from recycled plastic, which will later go off to be recycled all over again. Circle of life, Lisa, circle of life.
Also on the Xmas menu is the Christmas Turkey sandwich with baby spinach on low GI granary bread, and the Veggie Crimbo sandwich with French Brie, cranberry sauce and chestnuts. We didn’t have those as we were still nursing our heavy balls, (if you think that’s dodgy copy then check out the Tossed menu where it refers to the staff as a load of tossers!). We did make room for the Cake and Custard Pot however, which combines Christmas cake with low fat vanilla soya custard and is worth squeezing in because it’s delicious.
New Tosseds are opening in the New Year and it’s easy to anticipate them all doing well. They prove that salads can be manly and filling and that healthy needn’t mean hair shirt. The juices and smoothies are very good, the daily soups and stews are hot and tasty and what’s more they even brew a decent double espresso too. Woohoo!