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Fast Fresh Foods
Category: Restaurants Sandwiches Sandwiches [Edit]
79 Yonge StToronto, ON M5C 1S8
Neighbourhood: Downtown Core
(416) 916-7264
- Price Range:
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$$
- Attire:
- Casual
- Good for Groups:
- Yes
- Good for Kids:
- Yes
- Takes Reservations:
- No
- Take Away:
- Yes
- Waiter Service:
- No
- Outdoor Seating:
- No
- Good For:
- Lunch
- Noise Level:
- Average
- Ambience:
- Trendy
- Has TV:
- No
- Caters:
- Yes
9 reviews for Fast Fresh Foods
9 reviews in English
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Review from Zaid S.
Toronto, ON
4/26/2012
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. -
Review from Melanie W.
Toronto, ON
4/19/2012 7 Check-ins Here
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:) -
Review from Michael M.
Toronto, ON
3/3/2011
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! -
Review from Marie M.
12/14/2010
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. -
Review from Angela H.
5/4/2009
Fast Fresh Foods is a complete ripoff of the beloved Sandwich Box...but not nearly as great as what SB is. FFF don't have as many bread selections as SB does, which sucks because I am very particular about needing something soft enough to bite through (teeth issues), and all FFF's breads are crusty! Not cool. Also, their grilled chicken is sliced, unlike SB who give you a hunk of grilled chicken breast. The salad that comes with your sandwich is weird too - the dressing is tasteless and as we described it today was 'more of a lubrication than a dressing'. Ew.
FFF should have focused on trying to become a new and different sandwich place, rather than blatantly copying SB, who are already mega-popular and perfect.
Sandwich Box fans - do not accept this imitation! -
Review from Denise S.
6/29/2010
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.Listed in: An Apple a Day...
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Review from Mike S.
Toronto, ON
9/26/2008
They say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery and if that is the case then Fast, Fresh Foods thinks very highly of the Sandwich Box (http://www.yelp.ca/biz...) unfortunately Fast, Fresh Foods is not as good as the Sandwich Box because they lack many of the things that make a sandwich special missing is my delicious pancetta and my wide selection of breads. Fast, Fresh Foods is a sandwich store, where you get to choose from a selection of gourmet toppings. The selections are somewhat varied, but they lack the variety and choice that comes at Sandwich Box. I don't recommend Fast, Fresh Foods only because they are an inferior copy of sandwich perfection, go if you must, but Sandwich Box is better.
Like the review? Check out the link to my blog on my profile. -
Review from Barb G.
Toronto, ON
3/23/2011
I have been a devout, weekly customer of the Fast Fresh in Commerce Court for about 3 years now - needless to say I was surprised to see the negative reviews. My regular sandwich of chicken breast on olive bread, with roasted red pepper spead, asiago cheese, caramelized onions and arugala is amongst the best takeout sandwiches ive ever had - period. However, after readng all the reviews about how great Sandwich Box is I decided to give it a try and walked to the store on Richmond. Firstly, the service was bordering on chaotic - you basically order your sandwich and then pray you get the right one (at FFF you take a number, then wait until they call it out.) The sandwich itself was good, but they were missing my red pepper spread and I had to go with an inferior artichoke spread. Also, the lady told me she would charge me an extra dollar for some arugula! Thanks very much but Ill stick with Fast Fresh and let all the yelp reviewers get pushed around at Sandwich Box.
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Review from Kolleen J.
Toronto, ON
9/20/2008
This is a great sandwich/salad place on Yonge. Again, went here due to a recommendation. The salads and sandwiches are mostly build-your-own style and since they have a good selection of deli/veggie products, I think you can make something quite nice, like my favorite: olive bread, sundried tomato spread with prosciutto, asiago and tomato. The salad was ok. The trouble with buying salad is that there will almost always be some wilty lettuce. I'm not 100% sold on the salads, but they are fresh and fast. Out of all of the sandwich/salad places around work, this would definitely be my first choice.
