Lunch times can be such dreary affairs, especially if you’re on a deadline and are stuck at your desk with only a sandwich and a Styrofoam cup of soup for company.
Happily for Londoners, UP Box is set to break the mould with its brand of up-market take-away boxed meals, all priced at £6 each. The unbleached, recyclable (but stylishly sturdy) cardboard box flips open to reveal a main course, salad and dessert with recyclable cutlery. Styled after the Japanese bento sets, the menu changes weekly, taking in a delicious spread of global cuisine – Turkish, Mexican, Thai, Moroccan, French, Indian and Italian being an amuse bouche of what’s on offer. For those with easily bored taste buds, the menu is a God-send.
Chef Ines Alfille and her former investment lawyer husband, Nick are the brains behind UP Box (the letters stand for Urban Picnic). Their MO is healthy, low-carb meals made, where possible, with seasonal, locally sourced and non-GM produce. Our recent lunch of a tasty barley salad studded with sweet radish sticks, and skinless chicken wrapped with smoky strips of eggplant had us already looking forward to the next day’s meal.
Meanwhile, UP Box’s flagship Ludgate Circus store is a soothing mix of smoked oak, blues and whites; and while it’s a pity that there is no dine-in option, the prospect of seared tuna with Thai pepper crust will hopefully take the sting out of that desk-bound lunch.
@Source: http://www.wallpaper.com/food_drink/urban-picnic-lunch-box/2555
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