Pret A Manger

A tad expensive, but all coffee shops are pricey. You pay for the service and convenience more than anything else. Nice surroundings to plan team meetings and have that brainstorm meeting you have been putting off for ages.

Awful coffee. I was expecting something half decent as I think their sandwiches are great. It’s one of the worst coffees I have had. I drink my coffee black so no milk to mask it. It just tasted like it had been roasted either too much or too quickly as it was really bitter.
I am a bit of a coffee lover and I think starbucks and greggs are terrible, nero ok and costa half decent but pret was by far the worst I have had. It may have only been 99p but it I would have gladly paid a bit more for a cup which was better quality.

Pret a Manger, where the overpaid go to get mugged for a tenner and force-​fed a soggy sandwich as reward. I exaggerate a little!
I’m not impressed with the quality of Pret-a-Manger’s food. As I say, the bread always seems to be soggy (although maybe I’ve just been unlucky). Even the cheapest option is more expensive than the mid-​range in Greggs, and the quality is not noticeably different. The smoked salmon was good in a sandwich I had from there (in terms of flavour), but the appearance as a whole wasn’t — it looked slung together as if by a lazy student turning up wrecked to a part-​time job. Maybe it was!
I will say I have had damn good coffee from here, though, but coffee isn’t by itself enough to get me going back.

Like the rest of the franchise, this is a quality eat in or takeaway sandwich place. Pret is quite expensive in comparison to other sandwich shops, but the atmosphere inside and the quality of the food make it worth it.
For the most part, the staff are friendly and willing to help, but of course there’s the occasional bad egg!
I would highly recommend it to anyone wanting a quick bite whilst in the city.

Its tough to rate a pret, as they certainly go against the grain of disliking high street chains. However, as prets go the one in leeds is top notch, but I guess that’s just for the memories, and the amount of money I’ve spent in there. I don’t remember the books about plumbing that Phil is referring to but I definitely remember those delicious ham and eggs bloomers, and especially the extra heavy ones. It was where I started ‘eating out’, and then eating in to save the VAT. For a large corporate organisation you do get the feel that they have a little twinkle in their eye with the note on the till, something along the lines of: if you choose to eat in, we have to add on the VAT, sorry its the law. Really, they want you to join in the satisfaction of not paying the VAT and then settling down at the window to eat your food from a carrier bag.

Ah, how we used to love this place. Ham and Eggs bloomer stuffed the brim, carefully weighing each one to ensure we got the heaviest. Me and Brightwell spying on Accenture senior management reading books about plumbing over lunch. Heady days.
Like sophistar says: everyone has their favourite pret.