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A couple of weeks ago myself and James were invited to try out tibits in London. Luckily we knew we would be visiting London on our holiday down south, so I was very excited to be able to experience this vegetarian restaurant just off Regent Street.

tibits is a high class, fast food, vegetarian restaurant. There are several tibits locations in Switzerland as well as the venue I visited on Hendon Street, just off Regent Street in London. I was actually quite surprised at how quiet and peaceful the area around the restaurant was considering how close it is to busy Regent Street.

The restaurant itself is very stylishly decorated – for a vegetarian restaurant I think this is really lovely. I have been to a few veggie cafe’s and although they have been nice, I don’t think I would be be able to describe most of them as stylish!

The central focus of the restaurant is the food boat which features a range of hot and cold dishes and salads and desserts.

They also have a great drinks menu including fresh juices and teas. The way the restaurant operates is that you fill your plate or take away box and then take it to be weighed – price is based on weight, a bit like the Whole Foods salad bars.

James is not vegetarian, and not even that used to eating vegetarian dishes, so I was a bit nervous about how he would get on. Luckily he was fine! We went to the restaurant on a lunch time so it was busy with workers who seemed to be catching a quick bite to eat or shoppers like us.

I started with a fresh carrot, apple and ginger juice and a well filled plate from the food boat:

The choice was wonderful. I had a pumpkin salad, honey chickpeas, Italian tofu salad, olives, curried cauliflower and a quinoa salad.

James had the Vitamin Juice which was orange and blackberry and a plate with spicy potato wedges, curried cauliflower, salads, cauliflower cheese and quinoa (!) salad. I still can’t quite believe he had quinoa!

For dessert we had some sticky toffee pudding and a berry crisp with vanilla cream:

I’m getting hungry just looking at those pictures again! Sticky toffee pudding is one of my favourites!

Everything was absolutely delicious and I really couldn’t fault the range of dishes available, in fact I wish I had gone back for a second plate! All the dishes are clearly labelled if they are vegan, gluten free etc.

I also thought that the prices where pretty decent considering that it’s in Central London and the fact that is a fairly high class place to eat. It certainly blows the ‘hippy’chic vegetarian restaurant stereotype out of the water.

The only negative thing I could say was that the staff weren’t the friendliest. Apart from the duty manager that welcomed us and was extremely helpful, the other staff weren’t as pleasant. We also had to wait quite a while for James juice but as they are all made fresh that is fair enough. So to be honest I can barely fault this place!

tibits serve my favourite kind of food – healthy, fresh and delicious. I only wish it was an all you can eat buffet ;-) I will definitely be visiting again when I’m next in London and would highly recommend it to anyone looking for fresh tasty food, vegetarian, vegan or other wise!

Have you visited tibits before? Does this sound like the kind of place you would go to eat? What do you look for in a restaurant?