Pierrette in Hackney

Very poor choice of vegan food at Pierrette. Give this place a miss if your diet is vegan or healthy. Twice I visited and the only vegan food available was a cheese sandwich on white bread or a boring looking chickpea salad with a use by date for today. I don't eat white bread as it's the least unhealthy opposition and crammed full of salt, sugar and bleach. On both my visits there was an abundance of choice of hot and cold food for those that eat flesh. Fortunately there are many other food outlets in this location that offer much better food choices for those with a vegan diet and welcome vegan customers.

There is a good range of sandwiches, toasties, savoury snacks, fruit pots with yoghurt and hot food here to satisfy most people. Vegetarian and vegan options are available as well as the more usual fare of tuna, cheee, egg, prawn and chicken sandwiches, bagels and filled croissants. The yoghurt pots are tasty, made with natural yoghurt mixed with fruit and flavoured with cinnamon topped with granola. Hot food includes a variety of hot plate dishes daily and jacket spuds from the oven. Popular hot plate choices are the chicken noodles, chilli, vegetarian lasagna, cheesy pasta and satay chicken. Jacket spuds come with a choice of beans, cheese, tuna and sweetcorn and chilli. (They will also serve you a personal variant such as Branston pickle and cheese on a potato if you desire) The hot food containers are cardboard and the bags paper but they still use plastic cutlery (?). The staff are friendly and the service relatively speedy. My two gripe's are that the variety never changes. If you are stuck in the area for work sometimes you just need some changes made. For example, salads were late coming this summer and when they arrived we got feta and olive or chicken caesar, this was the same all summer. With an infinite range of salads to make it would have been great to have weekly varieties. My second gripe is the amount of salt in the hot food, surely it is better to add seasoning to taste as a customer? Sometimes the seasoning is a tad heavy handed. Mid range prices but good portions.

Looking for something to eat in Mare Street, Don’t miss this little gem ! Located next to hackney library Offers an array of freshly made sandwiches, Panninis, toasties and fantastic salads and don’t miss lunchtime if your around , freshly made hot dishes available from 11.30 -3.00 something for everyone changes daily freshly prepared at prices that won’t break the bank . MY FAVOURITE EATING PLACE IN MARE STREET !