Fast Fresh Foods

Was ok, but I think it’s a bit misleading to advertise their salads as «load on ingredients! over 40 ingredients to chose from!» but then when you get served they tell you that you can only have four ingredients and anything more is an extra $ 1-​$ 1.50 per item. I fully understand that some ingredients should have an extra cost (protein, some cheeses etc) but the basics should be unlimited.

sooooooo bad. service sucks, salads poorly mixed, and staff clearly don’t care.

Pretty much a popular lunch spot for those working in the Financial District. They have separate lines for salads and sandwiches, which are customizable. They have quite a wide selection for bread and 2 choices for soup. I love how they have an avocado spread. My turkey-​avocado-​mushroom-​tomato-​mozzarella grilled sandwich was delicious and came with a free side of garden salad. Seating is limited but turnover is quick.

This place is sufficient and fairly good for the days I forget to bring my lunch to work. The food is fresh and seems a bit more ‘homemade’ and not as preservative ridden as many of the deli’s around. The sandwich spreads are a change from the normal mustard and mayo and the cheese, bread, and topping options slightly more artisanal.
You pay the general «I forgot my lunch» premium of $ 10.00 for a sandwich and small side salad you could have made yourself for half the price. But still this $ 10.00 sandwich is a little more tasty than other financial district lunch sandwich/​salad spots.
Verdict: Sandwiches are tasty but salads, while options are a plenty, are kind of forgettable.

Although this place is expensive for a sandwich and a small salad ($ 11), I still crave it.
Their sandwiches taste so fresh, my regular is a grilled chicken on rosemary focaccia with Brie cheese, Goat cheese, avacado spread, roasted red pepper spread, tomatoes and mushrooms.
The salad is small, however, the dressing on it is yummy! There is always a line up and I despise that they only take cash between 11am and 2pm — so inconvenient!

I don’t like this location as much as the other two but at least they have private seating (not in a food court). The space feels a bit uninspired and institutional. They provide nutritional info on their website, which is more than I can say for most places. I wouldn’t go out of my way to eat at this location, but if you’re in the area you could do worse.

The price is a tad on the steep side ($ 9.50 for a sandwich) but if pressed I’d say it’s worth it, at least once in a while if you want something better than Subway. I usually go with a vegetarian sandwich on rosemary focaccia with smoked cheddar, caramelized onions, arugula, tomatoes and roasted red peppers with a garlic aioli spread. The bread, the fixin’s, everything is very good and really does come to more than sum of its parts. The side salad that accompanies it is decent but I wish I had my choice of dressing… not a huge balsamic vinaigrette guy.
The salads are equally good and can be a meal unto themselves, especially if you go with a large like I do and add some protein. Great selection of fresh toppings, salad bases and dressings. My go-​to will usually be their house blend (equal parts romaine, spring mix and spinach), with broccoli, carrots, cherry tomatoes, chick peas, mixed peppers, red onions and roasted corn, with perhaps tofu or avocado added on. I’ll finish with a mostly ranch dressing with just a touch of poppyseed added for flavour. It’s all very good but be careful if you started adding things like Tofu, Avocado or sun-​dried tomatoes… they’re all extra and you’ll soon end up with a pretty expensive salad.
So while it definitely is fast and fresh, not to mention healthy and tasty, it can be a little dear if you get carried away. Enjoy but be careful if you’re like me and enjoy a salad with lots of toppings.

Pro tip: This location doesn’t have the crazy line that the location in Commerce Court does. Sure you have to go outside, but it might save you 20 minutes from standing in line. Oh, they also take debit during the lunch hour as opposed to the Commerce Court location which cuts off debit at lunch.
The salads here are a little pricey and they’re huge. Even the regular size is more than you’ll probably need. You can choose one if their pre-​built options and tweak as you like or just make up your own from scratch. I usually go with the chicken caesar with spinach instead of romaine, which always seems to throw them off for some reason. Either way, it’s delicious and filling.

Great for what it is, which is a spot to grab a quick and healthy lunch. I go for the salads mostly instead of the sandwiches and there is lots of variety. I tend to stick to more or less the same combination (spring mix with corn, broccoli, beets, chickpeas, couscous and tuna) but it’s always tasty and the assembly line set-​up gets you in and out quickly at lunch time.

I eat here a lot. What can I say? It’s a decent custom-​salad place. I’ll give ‘em a higher rating since they’re open pretty late. They got lots of great sauces, custom options. Had a sandwich once or twice from them and the bread is crunch and good.
If you want no-​guilt but quick, tasty lunch, then come here. For what it does, it does it pretty well.

I could literally eat here everyday! Some weeks, I nearly have. While there are umpteen options available to any hungry downtowner, I’m a serious creature of habit here. I usually get one of two things
MY salad:
large spring mix with chick peas, beets, cherry tomatoes, roasted eggplant, feta, sunflower and pumpkin seeds with balsamic vinegar and olive oil — $ 8.25
or
MY sandwich:
roasted turkey on rosemary focaccia with sundried tomato spread, goat cheese, roasted red peppers and arugula. (always comes with a huge portion of greens with balsamic vinaigrette) — $ 9.00
Kids, this place is the answer to your healthy lunching dreams! Totally reasonable pricing for what you’re getting, and it is indeed fast, fresh food.
Occasionally, you’ll get a trainee fixing your food and they might be a bit on the slow side, or screw up, but really, if that’s the worst thing that happens, you don’t have much to complain about. Beats greasy, carb coma-​inducing Chinese any day.
Looking forward to more outlets opening around town. This business is already catching:)

I’m surprised to see such mediocre reviews. The sandwich I had was among the best I’ve ever eaten. (Perhaps partially due to my ingredient selection ;) The accompanying salad was a welcome surprise. One of my office mates got a salad the size of his head and could barely finish it.
However, now that I’ve heard of Sandwich Box, I’ll have to check it out to compare!

Okay, I’ve never been to the Sandwich Box, but now that I see that people are calling Fash Fresh Foods a rip off of it, I totally have to check it out.
I was working late on Bay Street tonight and as usual, I found myself hungry and stressed because I had alot of work to do and it always frustrates me when I have to find food to eat while working late because there’s never anything closeby to eat on Bay Street after 5PM –all the food courts close and the restaurants are too far away from the towers. When working OT, the key is to grab something quick and get back to the desk up in the office tower and work work work until the job is done done done.
Since the Path is completely useless at 7PM, I took my 15 minute food adventure to the surface, outdoors, with the falling snow. As I ran towards the Hero Burger near the corner of Yonge and King, I saw the sign for Fast Fresh Food, so I opted for that instead. Hero Burger is great, but it would take them forever to make me a veggie burger, a salad would just take seconds.
It was my first time here but the chalkboard menu was really easy to understand: you either build your own salad (regular or large sizes to choose from) or you order one of their salad designs or you order one of their sandwiches. Having virtually no time to scan through the list of ingredients of each of their salad designs, I went ahead to build a regular salad. My salad consisted of:
–mixed greens
–capers (what was I thinking? it was a sans salmon salad!)
–chickpeas (gotta have some sort of protein if I don’t want my hair falling out)
–olives (kalamata olives, full, non-​pitted –i hate spitting the pitts out of any fruit/​veggie, but I love olives and couldn’t resist)
–roasted eggplant (love marinated veggies!)
–cherry tomatoes (i wanted chopped ones, but they didn’t have any)
–balsamic vinegar
–salt and pepper to taste
It was a good salad, but nothing too special. The only thing special about it is that I built it. There are some things I wish they had considered:
1. Have chopped up options for tomatoes and olives. I really believe that veggies should be diced up in a salad, not thrown in whole like the cherry tomatoes and kalamata olives.
2. Have more veg protein alternatives: Tofu and avocadoes don’t cut it.
And they should do something with the Tofu, I’m not paying $ 1 extra for plain tofu!
3. Consider not charging $ 1 more for veg protein, it costs way less than meat protein. Stop trying to rip off vegetarians/​vegans! Life is hard enough in this meat-eater’s world already! There’s no need to further punish us for our healthy life-​style choices!
All in all, despite some minor setbacks, it was a good salad and kept me satisfied until OT was done. If I’m working OT next, I think I’ll pack an extra lunch so I won’t have to go through the stress of figuring out what and where to eat after all the foodcourts close along the Path. But if I forget to pack an extra lunch, I might just come back here. The service was meh, but it was quick, and speed is very important when working after hours.

Meh. I have to echo everyone’s comments… this place totally copied The Sandwich Box, right down to the size of the paper boxes and everything.
So this pick up place has probably only survived because of convenience and proximity to many offices. When I went this afternoon it was full of people in business suits picking up dinner to bring back to work. I don’t know when they close, but by 5:30pm they start wrapping everything up and seemed irritated to have to unwrap them for me (even though there were lots of other customers after me).
There are 2 sections: salad bar and make your own sandwich.
The salad bar looks pretty standard. The woman in front of me got one and I must say they are HUGE. I don’t know how it could be eaten in one sitting. If you don’t want to build you own salad, you can also get a set combination. They are very predictable and standard — chicken caesar, nicoise, greek.
I opted for a sandwich instead. For $ 9 (incl tax) you get a sandwich with 3 toppings (1 meat, 1 cheese, 1 vegetable) and a small side salad with balsamic vinaigrette. The bread selection is okay, not great. They did use a lot of ACE bakery breads. There are a bunch of spreads. I tried the apple curry, but it was a lot more bland than it sounded. Do not get the grilled eggplant! It is salty beyond belief and then you can’t taste anything else. Just looking at the vegetables behind the counter, I was not impressed. The tomatoes were very unripe and yellow/​orange-​y. It was an okay sandwich, but I could fix up something better at home.
They also sell hot soups, brownies, fruit, and chewy bars.
Seems this place is popular, despite its mediocrity. I saw that during busy hours they had to organize 2 separate lines for salads and sandwiches. They also have the option of phoning in your order ahead and picking it up. For people in a real hurry, there are pre-​made salads in a fridge by the cash ready to go.