When the Women's Health team heard that there was a new branch of salad bar Atis opening up the road from the office, we were ecstatic.
Their new store, on Regent Street, joins existing properties in Canary Wharf, Old Street, Belgravia, Notting Hill and Borough. Like the others, it's a clean, welcoming place to eat - but it's what's being served up which really excites us.
Atis' menu is packed with healthy, fresh produce. And if you don't fancy one of their established salad recipes - Azteca, Seiz’a Caesar and Green Goddess - or a seasonal special, you can go let your tastebuds take the reins and create your own.
Here's what the Women's Health team had for lunch...
Healthy, delicious and filling. The healer salad – which includes quinoa, spinach, chickpeas, pickled red onions, sweet potato and a gorgeous tahini dressing – is the epitome of health in a bowl. I topped mine with harissa honey chicken, and honestly, I now need the recipe – the perfect balance between savoury and sweet.
Alice Barraclough - Nutrition Editor
I knew from the moment that I saw the Azteca salad on the menu - a bowl packed with my favourite flavours, pickled red onions, edamame, avocado, feta, spinach, charred corn - that I had to try it. I enjoyed mine with a fillet of sweet chilli salmon, which added even more protein to this super filling, bean-based salad. I'll definitely be ordering it next time too, but I'll switch up the dressing for a bit of variety.
Emma Gritt - Multiplatform Director
Flipping any notion that salads are a mundane lunch-option on its head, the Azteca bowl from atis resembles a deconstructed burrito, layered on a healthy dose of greens. I’m a sucker for anything charred, so the blackened chicken and seared corn was a real winner!
Thrown in with the black-eyed beans for an extra boost of protein and fibre along with a scattering of feta and dollop of avo for those healthy fats, this well-balanced bowl will keep you fuelled right till dinner with no qualms. If Mexican flavours have you in a chokehold, this is the salad you’ll soon become addicted too!
Izzy Shury - Deputy Social Media Manager, Wellness
I had the harissa cauli plate with harissa honey chicken - the whole meal was absolutely delicious and I polished the entire thing in 5 minutes. Every element was so flavourful and I very much enjoyed the added sauce. Not stingy on portions either, 100% recommend.
Mared Parry - Acting Deputy Social Media Manager, Women's Lifestyle
I can safely say the green goddess salad is a lunchtime winner. After seeing the viral dressing a million times on my FYP it was only right I finally tried it myself. A mix of leafy greens with broccoli, edamame, peas and slaw, it’s summer in a bowl and it left me feeling satisfied but not overly full - ideal for office lunch breaks. I also loved the miso tofu; its soft and salty texture will surely convert any tofu-haters out there.
Amy-Mae Ellis, SEO Manager, Wellness
I opted for the Atis SEIZ’A CAESAR with sweet potato, and as a self-proclaimed Caesar connoisseur, this really took the top spot for my recent London recs. This salad bowl is made up of a bed of kale, cabbage and chopped lettuce, finished with crunchy rosemary breadcrumbs, creamy dressing and parmesan crumb, it's the perfect combo for a healthy, filling lunch. You can opt for chicken, but I was craving extra carbs, so the salty, tangy sweet potato was the tastiest addition. Already counting down the days until I can head there again…
Jess Bantleman, Social Manager, Women's Lifestyle
So many greens, so little time! My Green Goddess salad crammed full with baby spinach, chopped romaine and roasted broccoli made my soul happy with all the iron, magnesium, potassium and vitamin C, D, E and K I was getting. Harissa honey chicken really sweetened the deal, complementing the crunch with some tender and yielding succulence. Top it off with some high-fibre edamame beans and you're meeting (some of) your legume quota for the day! Yay.
Kate Cheng, Health and Fitness Writer
