L-Eat Express
410 Adelaide St. W. (near Spadina)
416-601-9226
leatexpress.com
Rating: 2.5/5

• Reservations: Yes
• Lunch with co-workers: Yes
• Social lunch: Yes
• Quick solo lunch: No

L-Eat Express caters to both quick take-out and luxuriating over a meal in the bright, open space.

Eating in doesn’t necessarily get you made-to-order fare, though. Ordering a salad, I am prompted to the already packaged ones and the sandwich too is pre-made, then simply heated on the grill.

The Roast Beef Sandwich ($7.50), according to the menu, comes with horseradish cream and caramelized onions. After close inspection, only microscopic bits of onion are found underneath the mound of arugula.

Asian Chopped Salad ($9.50) features a soft, plump, sliced sesame chicken breast, an absurd amount of napa cabbage, but almost none of the listed mango, snow peas or carrots. The sesame dressing is flavourless.

But the Soup ($3) today, a lovely mix of broccoli and cauliflower, is beautifully orchestrated and full of fresh flavours, accompanied by a slight heat.

The problems here are fixable. In the meantime, have some soup.