Just reviewing this place from takeaway perspective... after having 2 takaways from here I thought a review was in order... it delivers Chinese style food, although this is where all similarities with other Chinese takeaways ends.
The food clearly is very fresh, top notch organic ingredients are used and it feels very healthy. Also chopsticks napkins etc are packaged by disabled people (honestly- a charity thing) and all packaging is recycled/carbon neutral... even the guy who delivered it was polite and friendly and looked like a catalogue model.
For some, good earth will be the best Chinese TA ever and they will not ever think about alternatives again.
However in my view good earth is a bit of an oxymoron. To start with I like my Chinese takeaways to be called something like happy wing tsun or sung fung etc, good earth is a bit too try hard non descript. Also there is the price, it is really expensive for what it is, for two main dishes, rice noodles and a couple of spring roles it was 30 odd quid. Portions are also on the smallish side too. Next is the fact that it is too healthy, I think takeaways should be a bit of a treat, treat because you know you can't eat such salty, fatty but tasty food everyday. However good earth is so well balanced, fresh and salt/msg free that GPs probably refer patients recovering from heart bypasses and obese diabetics. For example the sezchuan chicken was made using real chicken breast, this would have been fine if it was served at the David Lloyd cafe but in a takeaway I think obscure little rectangles of meat are best. I didn't have them but I'd imagine the pork balls are probably made from filo pastry or dusted with semolina. lastly i'd rather them knock off a few quid and ship in their chopsticks from China allowing me to get my charity feel good glow from my monthly direct debit to oxfam that I may or may not have.
So to summarise, good earth is tastey, healthy and ethical, however unless you are the sort of person who gets excited about Logan berries, reads the guardian, has shares in WWW.howtobecarbonneutral.com and regularly worries about whether you're on the latest celebrity diet... I would not bother with good earth, you may as well get Ocado to deliver a waitrose Chinese meal, it'll probably be as good and save you a few quid for a bottle of wine. read more