Refresh your lunch choices with our top 10 salad bars
Hitting your five-a-day has never been easierThe suggested five-a-day isn’t always easy but these ten salad bars make it easy. Whether you want to customise it with your favourite toppings or make it a combo with a soup, you are sure to hit your suggested intake after lunch at one of these healthy restaurants.
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Knead
This salad bar has a do-it yourself form that allows you to customise your salad bowl or sandwich. With over 500 million combinations, you will never get bored with the healthy options. There are four salad bases and dressings to choose from with additional toppings ranging in price.
Knead, G/F, 28 Jervois Street, Sheung Wan, 2851 7778
Supafood
Set up with a mission to re-invent fast food, Supafood delivers healthy, higher quality meals at low prices. Build your own SupaBowl with a protein, veggie mix, grain mix and sauce. The salad bar also organises its signature meals into categories depending on various health goals.
Supafood, 3/F, 35 Hillier Street, Sheung Wan, 2812 6088
Monsieur Chatté
The artisanal French shop puts a gourmet spin on healthy salads with quality its top priority. The pick and mix bar has options like nicoise salad, taboule, grated carrots, artichokes and potato salad. It even offers catering if you need a larger quantity of healthy and filling mains for a party.
Monsieur Chatté, G/F, 91 Jervois Street, Sheung Wan, 3105 8077
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Treehouse
Taking home the Best Healthy Restaurant award in our Hong Kong Dining Awards last year, this vegetarian restaurant has taken the salad world by storm with unique combinations and homemade sources. Create your own salad with its range of regular and premium toppings. Upgrade to a combo lunch deal and choose sweet potato fries or the soup of a day with a lemonade, tea or coffee.
Treehouse, Shop 1, H Code, 45 Pottinger Street, Central, 3791 2277 and BaseHall, Shop 9A-9C, LG/F, 1 Connaught Place, Central
nood food
Originally opened to cater to PURE gym members in 2013, nood food has since but has become an established venue for healthy eating. Strongly believing in the idea”you are what you eat,” the restaurant uses food without preservatives or additives to provide the best nutritional value. Mix and match its range of salads and proteins or opt for a fresh smoothie instead.
nood food, multiple locations across Hong Kong
Fresca
This neighbourhood café aims to redefine the nature of fresh food to provide nourishing and flavourful meals. Taking a farm to table approach, harvested produce is brought straight to the salad bar. Choose between a regular salad with three toppings or large with four and make it a combo with a soup or drink to complete the meal.
Fresca, 54a Hollywood Road, Central, 2770 2282
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Poke HK
Poke bowls are a great way to pack a lot of protein and vegetables into one meal. Specialising in raw fish, these customisable bowls are a great fresh and healthy option. Choose between tuna or salmon sashimi, with other options like octopus or mushroom if you don’t like raw fish. Finish your bowl with toppings including edamame beans, cucumber, shredded egg and avocado.
Poke HK, G/F, 7 Lan Kwai Fong, Central, 2323 1983 and 124 Leighton Road, Causeway Bay, 5986 6398
Mana!
Pioneering fast slow food with zero waste, this whole-food plant-based restaurant serves food that benefit the environment and your body. Taking inspiration from across the globe there is a creative range of tastes and flavours including falafel, baba ghannouj and tempeh. With over 40 toppings, build your own or choose one of its signature salads.
Mana!, 8 Staunton Street, SoHo, 5501 7583 or 8-10 Queen’s Road East, Wan Chai, 5501 7591
Kale
This healthy restaurant uses fresh and organic ingredients that cater to diets from vegan to gluten and dairy free. Its salad options include ingredients like a kale, beetroot, roasted vegetables and a weekly special. Bump your salad up with additional toppings such as falafel, nutritional yeast or barbecue pulled jackfruit.
Kale, G/F, 26 Li Yuen Street West, Central, 2511 1777
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Tallore
Although predominantly a soup bar Tallore also offers a range of daily salads to mix and match. There are options to add homemade hummus, roasted chicken or avocado to give your healthy lunch more nutritional goodness.
Tallore, 7-17 Amoy Street, Hundred City Centre, Wan Chai, 2327 8630
