Selyus Healthy Mediterranean Food

Selyus is by far my favourite lunch spot in Covent Garden, possibly even the whole of London!
I can’t believe how good it is for £4. The first time I went I was a little confused by the process but saw someone else go up and ask for «everything but red cabbage please». So up I walked and asked for the same as they proceeded to fill a large plastic box with everything from the counter. They have:
Pickled red cabbage
A three bean salad (kidney beans, butter beans, and chick peas) in a coriander/​parsley spice mix (not spicy)
Cubed potatoes with herbs and spices (again, not spicy)
Cous cous (tomato based I think, whatever it is its delicious!)
Tomato /​cucumber mix in herbs
On top of that, they have an additional extra every day, still included in the £4. Sometimes in cucumber in a mint yoghurt dressing, othertimes its an egg salad in spices etc.
Now that might sound a lot, but its not even half of it. You get a big dollop of houmous on top, a scoop of sundried tomatoes, a vine leaf with minted cous cous inside and then a choice of olives — either chilli and garlic, coriander and garlic or sun dried tomato. Finally you are presented with a choice of freshly baked bread the size of a house brick — tomato, garlic and onion, olive, brown or white, which they put in a seperate bag.
Every time I go I think to myself, «he’s never going to be able to put a lid on that» but somehow they do. There is hardly ever a queue, I usually just walk straight up. Its all in the box before you know it and you’re away — a very quick, tasty lunch that at £4 is simply incredible value. Dont let the fact its all veg put you off, like I almost did. Give it a go!

veg street food cart. great value (4 pounds for a ‘salad box’ full of olives, hummus, cous cous, stuffed leaves, bread etc), friendly service, good quantity but i just wasn’t crazy about the food – not as flavorful or spicy as i would have liked. granted as an american, my taste buds may or may not be operating on a different litmus test (preservative-​spiked) but selyus wasn’t for me.

Now this is an eye popping mouth watering salad bar if ever I saw one! For £4 you can fill your little box to the brim with couscous, veggies, stuffed vine leaves, olives hummus and more. Not only that but they’ll let you walk away with a choice of bread that is more of a wedge than a slice.
This food stand is wonderful, bringing in fresh salad stuffs everyday the selection remains the same but they let you have EVERYTHING in your meal. It’s great value for money and even when there is a queue it never takes long and the service is soooo friendly. In summer it’s ideal, you can sit yourself in Seven Dials and eat your box of yumminess while people watching.
They dont do drinks so you may want to grab a Monmouth coffee before you settle down for lunch!

Oh. my. vegetarian street food cart.
Delicious! Cheap! Amazing!
Situated on Earlham Street on the end closest to Shaftesbury Avenue, Selyus is a little street food cart that serves up vegetarian Mediterranean food in a plastic box packed to the brink of explosion once its cover is fastened in place. £4 will get you this box of veggie heaven AND a hearty portion of bread (four different types to choose from on my visit). I assume the veggies rotate, but a sampling of the shmorgasboard from my box today included stuffed grape leaves, corn and bean salad, dressed potatoes, amazingly seasoned couscous, yoghurt cucumber salad, dressed red cabbage, a healthy slathering of hummus, sun-​dried tomatoes and your choice of olives, prepared three ways.
The food cart is conveniently located nearby the sun dial in the middle of the Seven Dials, so as long as it’s not raining outside, you have an area nearby at which to sit down and enjoy every single bite of your veggie hoard.
It couldn’t possibly get better than this.

This is the best darned salad in all of London!
They can also be found on Goodge Street, just down from Charlotte Street.
They get the Vegan vote too. An absolute treat for veggies!