Eat

I'm a bit of an Eat soup fan. You can't beat the Chicken Pot Pie soup - as they say, it's an Eat classic. The soups tend to vary from really good like the chicken pot pie to disappointing like the soup resembling bovril with prawns floating in.

The sandwiches are pretty good, better than Pret in my opinion, but Pret wins the dessert battle. Like Pret, Eat is pretty expensive. You can easily spend over a fiver on a small lunch.

The service at this Eat is quite good, although sometimes its like a cattle market, what with people not knowing where to queue. The servers are nice and pretty quick, but never look particularly happy to be there.

All in all, it's a good place to get your lunch from!

On recommendation from Rik I went with him to Eat one lunch time to have their chicken pot pie, and I admit, it was nice. It turned out to be high quality home made style with a real pie (pastry) inside. What I wasn't too happy with was paying for a relatively small amount of soup at the prices they were charging...and having to pay extra for bread.

The food is nice but I shan't be going back again. I don't want to spend that much on just lunch food.

My collegue Rik's interest in Eat Soup borders on the obsessive, however, his enthusiasm has spread throughout the eMomentum office quickly and he has managed to convert half of us (including me) to the ways of Eat Soup which is super tasty. From chicken pot pie to red lentil dhal, I haven't tried a poor Eat soup yet.

Eat seems to be carving a similar niche a la Pret in the 90's serving up no-nonesense, tasty lunch take-out at affordable prices. They are rapidly to be opening new stores acrossLondon at the moment, so I'm sure that MacDonalds will buy them soon.

Eat is a take away cafe, which offers the usual hot drinks, sandwiches and salads. I prefer Eat to other similar cafes; they do delicious oats, yogurt and fruit compote, and a great Thai noodle salad.

Getting lunch from here quite a bit recently as it's close to work. The the sandwiches are pretty decent and the soups range from being very tasty to distinctly odd.

The only downside is the speed in which you're forced to make your purchase (due to the numbers of people they herd you in and out at a suprising speed) and the cost, which is comparable to larger lunchtime grub at most other places.

A tub of soup, some bread, drink and a bit of fruit can be six quid, which makes this an occasional 'lack of time' lunchtime option only.