Freshii

Leshii I was feeling all fly looking like peshii
Wanting something to eat that was freshii
It was good and so so tast-​shii
Inside was gush-​ii but outside was leaf-​ii
It had beans, cheese, rice and shit-​akiis
I had to get it down my deep throat like my name was lex-​ii
One pump two pump three pump and it got mess-​ii
So juice-​ii that it stained my kha-​khiis
I was satisfied the long thick wrap was in my bell-​ii

Never get their green juices. Its pre made and placed in the fridge for purchase. The juice was bland and it tasted like something I could make at home. For almost $ 7, it is not worth it at all.

This was a fall back place for my workplace crew. Recent changes to the menu, dumbed down in choice and also in flavour. My favourite lemongrass, spicy Thai soup is now a flavourless assembly of ingredients. Spoonful of chicken or tofu, mushrooms, sprouts-​check. Sprig of coriander-​check, cup of noodles-​check. Delicious lemongrass broth, sorely missing.
Big change, amazing how you can just sense the change of quality in the change of décor.
Not sure why, new ownership maybe? I’m curious because The Loving Hut which is at essentially the same address has also changed — for the worse. I’m going to have to find out if one owner took over both places, they are franchises after all. Super disappointed.

The letter I wrote to Fresshi on St. Claire
«I was appalled to learn that for the same reason why I walked into your establishment for its health-​branding and use of healthy ingredients there was no connection to sustainability as a factor. How could a company like yours use a plastic bag with each order to make a simple wrap or salad just for the purpose of mixing the ingredients? How much plastic do you throw out in a day? A week?
There are other ways to mix ingredients that require plastic bags for each order, like a bowl. Please reconsider this practice, because it not only hurts your brand, but has very devastating consequences on the environment, the same environment that sustains your life and mine.»
yeh so no.

Wow. Wow. Wow. Was loving Freshii until today when, just for kicks, I decided to look up the nutritional information. SODIUM OVERLOAD. I don’t understand how they can put so much sodium in some of these menu items. I don’t think I could, even if I tried. Some items have twice as much as the recommended daily dose.
I was actually looking for sugar content and funny enough, it’s not even listed. I wonder why?!

I came in for a smoothie. There was no one else there besides a quiet couple in the corner already eating. I ordered and paid. One staff member did the cash register and the other one made the smoothie — SLOWLY. After paying, everyone just kind of stood there for 30 seconds and I thought maybe no one was going to make my order. I looked around and saw a juicer. The girl s-​l-​o-​w-​l-​y made her way over. She leaned over to the recipe lists posted on the wall by the machine and inspected the one for the smoothie I’d ordered. After studying it, she moved a dirty stepladder stool out of her way, touched her hair, opened a big food cover thing, and started full on grabbing handfuls of veggies and shoving them into the machine — GROSS. Not only did it take forever, but it was unsanitary as well. Eventually she finished and handed it to me — it was warm. I took a tiny sip just to get a taste, in case I came across another location one day and wanted to try it again. It was awful.

Its a nice place to grab a quick and relatively healthy lunch/​dinner. Nothing fancy.
Love their smoothies.
Noodle & rice bowls are OK for a quick bite.

I got a custom salad from here for lunch and it was pretty good but pricey for what you get. Really light on the Chicken considering you pay $ 2 for it. Actually, everything was pretty skimpy, the salad overall was pretty small. It did taste good though, the ingredients were fresh. The chicken was the only thing that wasn’t that great… reminded me of fast food chicken kind of.

This is the second time I’ve eaten here and I really don’t know how it’s busy all the time. Today I ordered the Asian fresh bowl. The description sounded delicious — chicken, cucumber, edamames, peanut sauce etc. Ok… the chicken was hard to find, all 3 ½ pieces of it. Great potion of noodles — can’t complain there. The sauce was pretty much non-​existent. I’m happy I grabbed a hot sauce on the way out the door to help choke down the dry noodles. Rest of the ingredients were skimpy — I noticed as soon as they handed me my order and just hoped the middle was filled with goodies. Would I go back? Yah probably, but just to try one of their soups. Would I order a fresh bowl? Hell no. First time I ate here I ordered a salad. It was ok… nothing special, skimpy on the topping’s and paying 10 – 12 bucks for a lightly dressed bowl of lettuce is not my idea of a great lunch.

+ Their smoothies are DELICIOUS! I love the green smoothie (kale, avocado, yogurt)
— Rice bowls are OK… the noodle bowls are a horrible, clumpy mess.

Lately I’m favouring the brown rice chicken teriyaki bowl from Freshii for lunch. It is a very large portion for under $ 8, and they keep portions of sriracha at the cash — get one and add it into your bowl, it adds some very necessary heat! Without it the dish is very one note, sweet teriyaki is all you taste.
I love this option which is just as tasty as Teriyaki Experience but even healthier due to the brown rice (which in my opinion tastes even better and nuttier!) The veggies it comes with are broccoli, carrot and mushrooms but I sub edamame for the mushrooms. Yum!

I eat here all the time and nearly always 100% impressed. Sometimes there is not enough dressing and their lines are not organized, but I love their food and it’s as tasty and fresh as you can get in Toronto. I wholly recommend this place to anyone who is trying to eat healthy, or just wants a delicious lunch. I wish they were open later because you could definitely eat there for dinner.
Wish I could give it a 4.5÷5, but since it’s not perfect i have to say ⁴⁄₅. Definitely go!

Quality is fine but I’m not ever again paying $ 14 for a salad and a water. Effen ridiculously overpriced.

I have a love hate relationship with Freshii. When they get it right, I love it. When they get it wrong, i hate it — and to be honest, they get it wrong a lot.
Pros: Convenient, fast, you can customize your salad/​wrap/​bowl with a plethora of fresh ingredients and sauces that fits any craving, Price is about right compared to paying by weight for salads in a lot of similar restaurants.
Cons: Inconsistency. When I’ve paid $ 11 for a noodle bowl and I get a huge, heavy clump of noodles with no sauce and barely any ingredients, I’m annoyed. And as I say, it happens a lot.
For me, I stick to the salads which tend to be more consistent although the dressing disbursement can be the inconsistent factor there. Sometimes not enough, sometimes drowning — depends who makes your salad.
You probably won’t be amazed if you go here on a regular basis but the pros do outweigh the cons a decent percentage of the time for me so as long as you manage your expectations, it’s ok.

Who knew a salad could be so bad? This was one of the poorest and overpriced salad experiences I’ve ever had. I think my children could’ve prepared a better salad.
My ‘Protein Salad’ ($ 10.50 incl tax) consisted of spinach, a paltry amount of tuna, a pathetic sum of apple and cucumber, and tasted unbelievably boring.
Don’t bother with this place when there are so many other great places (eg. Fresh on Spadina) so close by. Argh.

I ordered a frozen yogurt. The taste is quite nice, it comes in one flavour (tart/​vanilla), but the one flavour in my opinion is really good. The price point for the small and the large is pretty reasonable given the portion size.
So why only two stars — service. For how much ballyhoo Freshii makes about its being an upscale urban franchise, they apparently don’t care that much about who is their front line servers. No thank you, no hello, complete disdain for customers is what I saw from my own service and the service I observed before and after mine.
I do give props for what appears to be a good recycling program.

I had a major love affair with this particular Freshii location when I first started going (a mere six months ago), but I’m quickly falling out of love.
I do love the seemingly endless amounts of options. I love that I can walk in, take my time pondering a plethora of various toppings, and hand in my order form when I am ready to order. The servings are large enough to fill me up for lunch (sometimes with leftovers), and I LOVE that I can get gluten and dairy-​free meals without worry.
However, I hate, hate, HATE how often they get things wrong. When you pay $ 2 to add chicken or $ 3+ to add bacon and egg whites to an already pricey salad/​bowl/​soup, it is completely unacceptable to get your food back to the office and discover that your protein is missing. I also hate how often I find stuff in my dish that I didn’t request. Most of the time it’s OK, but I feel like people go to a place like Freshii because they trust them to be careful, especially where allergies are concerned.
I am over paying $ 10 for a completely mediocre meal served by someone who never smiles and thinks her phone call is more important than ringing up your order.
If you are going to check out Freshii, wait until after 2:00. The lunchtime rush is unbearable at this tiny restaurant.

You get what you pay for.
If you want a salad that fills you up and is more than just spinach leaves, you might end up shelling out more than $ 10. Protein portions are so small, if you’re doing P90X, you probably need triple protein, but double protein will suffice. Egg whites as a topping option, so P90X-​approved.
I do like the options, and have gotten some really good salads. The rice bowls are decent, too. Calorie counts are available online, if you are eating a salad, this is probably important to you. And this might make you reconsider all the toppings that make many of the Freshii salads upwards of 800 calories.
I’m so proud that this was a Toronto start up that made it big (albeit after he move to Chicago).

I eat here a lot because it’s hard to find healthy vegetarian food that has protein in it. I love the concept of Freshii and the service here is always fast.
I do agree that sometimes they add ingredients that you did not indicate that you wanted, or forget ingredients that you did want. I usually mark off almost everything that is not extra charge and sometimes one thing from the protein category. If you get too many extra things, your order will get really expensive.

I’m dieting right now, so my review will reflect how difficult it is to eat out in the city, without restaurants hating you.
the staff is kinda … (i’ll say it .) RUDE.
They always make me feel bad for special requests (ie. NO NUTS or oils) or quizzing them on the exact contents of my meal.
I need to know what I eating. So don’t make me feel bad for asking.
It’s also expensive.
$ 14 for shredded zucchini with a few bits of bitter sun dried tomatoes?
Yucko.
I wish they had sizes for the fresh drinks.
The generic ‘one size’ is too big.
Oh, and it cost me 8 bucks!
Last time I ate in, I was served my meal, but my smoothly hadn’t arrived at my table yet. :(
IMHO, this place is completely over rated.
The food is bland, and not worth the price they charge.