Eat

23rd July. Staycation. I have some leave to use up, and luckily today is a good day to do it. Visited the Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy and the museum/legacy collection of the Association of Anaesthetists. Late lunch at Eat on Regent's Street on the way back to the tube. At 1430 Eat is pretty much empty, and their shelves of Sandwiches the same. They say that they make fresh each day, so the shelves may be sold out. Ruth had a chicken and mayo and I decided to be different and tried their retro chicken curry soup. The sandwich was judged average (Pret seems to be the winner at the moment) and the soup was hot (8 on the CHOF scale) and spicy, but seem to have its legacy in a tube of curry powder rather than original taste. Perhaps that is what they mean by retro. This is what their web site says: 'Retro Chicken Curry
It's curry sauce exactly as you remember it...cooked with chicken and peas to make a mildly warm soup.' 
Well, that is probably not far from the truth, but in temperature it was actually hot, and in spiciness I would put in in mulligatawny but not Madras. I think it was fair value for money, and 2 coffees, a sandwich and the soup cost £9.30. I will probably use them again, but Pret is winning the battle of the light lunch at the moment. Service was good, and the staff greeting was appreciated.