Chicken, brie and rocket roll - tip: add avocado and yummmmm!…read more Got this for my train ride down the coast and it was the perfect light dinner on the go! Friendly and efficient staff as well :)

Love this place! They have great options no matter your dietary needs. The soups and sandwiches are…read moregood too!

I've been trying to eat healthier lately. So when I was taken to lunch the other day at the…read moreWintergarden foodcourt, I opted for what looked like the healthiest option there. Greenbean is located close to the Queen St Mall end of the Wintergarden foodcourt. Hop on the escalators down and turn right. If you're coming up from Elizabeth Street, stick to the left side of the thoroughfare. Beware the dreaded peak lunch hour, though, you might need a buddy to table-hunt while you order. Ambience *** While I hate crowded places, I have to admit, the handful of tables and chairs directly left of Greenbean is PERFECT for me as they were only half full around peak hour meaning they're easily missed by those looking directly into the main table maze. There's a crowd of people hanging around and you don't know if they're waiting to order, waiting for food, waiting for friends, and that's partly because there's no glaring sign saying 'Order here'; the cashier is the only obvious service point, so my advice is to just walk right up to the other end of the tall glass benchtop and wait for someone to serve. Which they will, pretty quickly. I got the feeling, watching like a noob while hubby ordered, that I should figure out which of the hundred or so fillings I wanted in my salad because it looked like a tornado of activity behind the benches. The ingredients are all displayed behind glass (think along the lines of Subway) so you can see what you're going to get, just make sure you check both sides or ask if you don't see something you want. The staff have VERY smartly opted for tong service, meaning they never have to rip off or pull on gloves, and your food is selected and tossed by stainless steel instead of grubby hands. Service *** Watching what hubby ordered, I turned my order into a mantra in my head because these guys are very fast; I was already feeling like I was in the middle of a salad-marathon nightmare and when it was my turn to be served I spilled the beans in one long stream of ingredients. Luckily, the server was ready for my panicked verbal diarrhea and got my order spot on. He even asked me 'is that enough chicken?'. Who does that?? The food turnaround is high here, so don't expect to grow a relationship with your server unless you maybe arrive early in the morning or later in the afternoon. They're all business in the middle of lunch. Except the cashier, who seemed pretty relaxed compared to his busy comrades. Food **** While on the menu, there are 8 or so 'salads', the fun part of Greenbean is to create your own from the selection in front of you. I opted for a baby spinach base, plain chicken, mushrooms, celery, boiled egg, greenbeans (of course!) and balsamic dressing. While in retrospect I needed something salty to counter the somewhat bland taste, for around $9-, I got a good amount of all the fillings and didn't finish and took the rest back to work. Hubby wanted me to note that anchovies are part of the caesar and you don't pay extra, and as with mine, he was asked if he'd been given enough. The salad tasted fresh, the spinach, beans, and celery crisp, the egg boiled right and the mushrooms mushroomy. The chicken was a bit 'wet' in texture, but better that than dry. The balsamic cut right through everything, and although it was seasoned with S&P, there wasn't enough salt in it to cut through the balsamic. Which is my fault, because it was my own creation. Note to Jen: next time add bacon. Everything's better with bacon. I saw on the menu you can also get your salad as a wrap. I'm not sure what the price difference is, but I'm sure you couldn't smush all that food into one wrap (unless they have magic hands... and they just might). You can order a drink (check the corner of the outlet for the display), but the choice is a bit limited. I think I paid $1- for a bottle of water - not bad at all, considering how inflated bottled water prices can be. Dessert is Greek yoghurt, in small to large sizes in a few different flavours. IF you can fit it in. Additional Notes I really urge anyone who wants to visit Greenbean to check out the website. If you order your lunch online before 10am, you get 35% extra at no extra charge and you don't have to worry about how busy it is when you pick-up. Also check online for promotions, or pick up a flyer at the cashier when you visit. If the guys have a few seconds here or there, I would suggest either slowing down on service a touch, OR making that endless bounding energy into 'fun' energy with some tong-flare, or in-staff joking. It just looked like they need an injection of chilled happy into their hyper activity to keep their customers from getting caught up in the hurried atmosphere.

Super delicious, extremely fresh, and the menu varies. It seems expensive when you look at the…read moreprices for the portions but it's extremely filling and ends up being excellent value. Beautiful cupcakes.

You heard it here first: Red Hill is about to become seriously cool. Secretly I've always thought…read moreit already was. I think I was already in lust with Botanica before I walked through their doors with perfectly spaced and aesthetically pleasing typography, but it was definitely love when I walked out with a fresh loaf of sourdough and freshly-made-that-morning Beetroot Slaw. The brainchild of two ex-private chefs for the Packers amongst other Australian celebs, Botanica is about one thing: Real Food. Daily made fresh salads, fresh loaves of bread, and small cakes. All take-away and all presentable on a dinner plate to either proudly boast where acquired or past off as your own divine creations. My small beetroot slaw was a neat $10 and fed two as a dinner side as well as enough left over to make friends with an egg and some fetta this morning for breakfast. Best of all they're open til 7pm, meaning you can pop in on your way home for those times when cooking seems too much but a oil deep fried takeaway dinner is equally lacking in appeal.

Just went here for lunch and am raving to all my work mates about their salads. There are three…read moresizes for takeaway salads and you can choose a combination of two salads. I just had a potato and feta and chicken pasta salads. Delicious. The service is also very good with two people working the front which means you never have to wait long. It's on the top floor of the MacArthur Centre. Will be back.

I never know what to eat for lunch in the city since the options are quite limited, especially on a…read morestudent budget, and it always ends up being sushi rolls. Today, we decided on Vege Rama, a vegetarian place down Adelaide street. They offer a variety of pre-mixed salads, as well as Mexican and Indian vegetarian options. While I'm not much of a salad person, I do enjoy a good salad once in a while, so I went for the chickpea pesto salad and the sesame BBQ. I got a small salad combo (5.5), and while the two salads got mixed up, I'm pretty sure the sesame BBQ was the one that was more flavorful and stood out. I couldn't really taste the pesto salad dressing, possibly because it pooled at the bottom, but the two mixed together wasn't bad! The ingredients taste fresh, and the service is pretty friendly and fast. My only complaint is that they don't have much seating, so be prepared to take-away!

Yum yum yum. I ate here twice while I was working in the Brisbane office, and both times was…read moresuper-impressed by the food. There are a few Vege Rama locations around, but the Post Office Square one is really close to my office so that's where I went both times. Basically, you have your choice of whatever hot food, burgers, salads, or "bakes" (like lasagna, casseroles, etc) they have on rotation. Just pop up to the counter and see what they have in their display case. They also have a few dessert-y type things if you are so inclined. Everything is vegan. (I think some of their other locations have a few non-vegan options with dairy, so just ask to make sure.) Both times I went, I got a combo meal with a bunch of different curries and things like that. Your choice of brown or saffron rice is included. Their Thai curry with pumpkin is one of the best curries I've had in my life, although it's definitely sweet so just be aware if you don't like sweet things, but it's absolutely amazing. This place gets bonus points for being pretty inexpensive as well. A large combo will only set you back $10-12, depending on what you get (bakes vs. curries, etc.) and their burgers are only $8-9. The portion sizes are huge, almost a little too big for lunch, so you definitely get value for your money. The Post Office Square location is reallllllllly small, with no interior seating and only a smattering of tables and chairs outside. This is really a take-away place, and there's always a lunchtime queue. (Like almost everyone else, I got take-away both times.) This place is so good I'm almost glad I don't live in Brisbane because I would seriously spend my money eating at Vege Rama for lunch every day. Every. Single. Day. Go. Whether you're vegan or a devoted carnivore, you will not be disappointed by this place.

Great value breakfast or lunch!! This is a terrific option…read morefor a healthy, budget friendly lunch in Brisbane's CBD. There are plenty of delicious options on the menu, you can select a pre-made sandwich, wrap or roll from the display cabinet or you can fill a small, medium or large container from salad and hot food buffet! My friends and I really enjoyed our lunch!!

Situated on Edward Street, Brisbane, La Luca is a great lunch break destination. The cafe is warm…read moreand inviting, and very clean. A selection of gourmet sandwiches and burgers are available as well as cakes etc for the sweet tooths (sweet teeth?) and a lunch hot & cold buffet. I'm a sucker for a buffet, and this one was packed with delicious looking salads and hot meals. I chose a medium container and stuffed it with broccoli salad, pumpkin salad, beef lasagne, chicken and ham pie, and penne. Let me tell you, that was one very full container. It's a little on the pricey side, with the medium container costing me $9.95, but the food was excellent and there was no trace of the staleness you can sometimes detect in hot box food. Pay La Luca a visit next time you're lunch-hunting with a howling belly in the CBD.

Such a great little vegan place. Delicious food that even a non vegan would enjoy. And to top it…read moreoff, even the desserts are vegan! So yummy!!

In a surprisingly competitive marketplace for cheap all-vegetarian restaurants, this mall food…read morecourt location of Vege Rama was the best I've tried so far, as they produced an absolutely fantastic dosa with pea-laden potato masala. They had numerous options to build a meal with curries as well, and a selection of salads and (often vegan) desserts as well. They don't have the student discount of their neighboring competitor, but at $9 for a made to order meal, it certainly wasn't expensive. I have yet to try their nicer sit-down restaurant in West End, but after seeing how good the food court one is, I'm eager to.