Sprout is a grab-and-go food retail store, but it isn't your normal fast food joint. All of their dishes are clean, fresh and healthy. They carry zero percent preservatives and 100 percent nutritional benefit. I loved that we finally got our own fast health grocer in Makati, and it seemed to play its part well until I actually tried the food.
My companion and I ordered the Salmon Miso Salad, Tuna Chirashi and Quinoa Miso Salmon Rice Bowl for our meal. For drinks, we tried the Narbana (orange, lakatan banana, calamansi) and Sour Patch (calamansi, star anise, basil, lemon.)
We tasted something insufferably funky and spoiled in the salmon miso salad, enough to make me retch and gag a little. I avoided certain ingredients one by one just to single out the culprit, but to no avail.
The tuna chirashi was disappointing, the viand tasted good enough but it was but a small island in a sea of rice.
The only meal I was a fan of was the salmon quinoa, but even that was a little bit dry, and you really can't cross me with quinoa. I've witnessed a lot of healthy restaurants and meal services accomplish great-tasting healthy food, but the salmon seemed to have that disappointing cardboard-like taste and texture.
I very much enjoyed the Narbana, though. It was thick, rich and pulpy, slightly bitter, more sweet and tangy. I can't say the same for the Sour Patch though, it was just plain... Sour. Not my style.
There have been better pressed juices, and better organic, healthy meals at the same price points.
Still, the idea of a healthy convenience store is something I am all about, and I'd like to give this place another chance, maybe try other things in their menu! I kind of just wish the way it looked (sooo adorably designed) matched the way it cooked. But alas, I still really support its objectives and will definitely be back to try its other offerings. Plus, I love how they display calorie content. Helps the slightly meal-OCness in me. read more