I don't know how I stumbled across this lunch delivery but I'm certainly glad I did. While there…read moreare so many options for healthy lunches in the city, I feel that a good, tasty, inexpensive salad is more of a hidden gem. The menu goes up a few days before and orders close on the Monday, for delivery on the Wednesday. Jacq comes and delivers it to your workplace and it looks like she's getting busier and busier, with this week's menu being sold out before I got a chance to order. She's definitely come up with a great idea for lunches with the focus on making healthy packages that she would want to eat. ie stuff from her 'nonno's garden'. When I first saw the lunch, I thought it was small, but my eyes were obviously too big for my stomach. Our lunch was the: TRIPLE DECKER BLISS SALAD QUINOA CRUMBED EGGPLANT - TOP layer #1 MIXED MEGA SALAD - MIDDLE layer #2 MIDDLE EASTERN RICE - BOTTOM layer #3 I couldn't get through it all, not because it wasn't tasty (it definitely was 'freakin good') but because it fills you up pretty quickly. I ended up saving some for my afternoon snack and it tasted just as good. Good Freakin Food is already on my email contact list, ready to place the orders quick smart when the menu for next week comes out.

Freakin yum, that's what! If it weren't for Jacq and her amazing lunch time deliveries, I think I…read morewould have died of scurvy by now. Well maybe not died, but I know I wouldn't be as well nourished as I am. On weeks that I get a salad delivery my boyfriend and I eat those MASSIVE lunch boxes two days in a row and my body is super happy. I love the variety - from rice balls to noodle salads, loads of mixed fresh organic veggies and usually a piece of fruit thrown in, it's always delicious and incredibly filling. Often I have to eat half for lunch and the other half a few hours later because they're so choc-ful. At $12 per salad it's an absolute bargain too, with the $20 lunchbox offering the best value. As well as the salad you get a seasonal juice and a healthy ball thing that's loaded with nuts and coconut and deliciousness.

Serene Nature House is your one stop on-line food & health products retailer that links small…read moreorganic farmers and organic produce suppliers to the Melbourne public. The proprietor Serene Teffaha is very passionate about real food, so she set up Serene Nature House to provide you access to genuinely healthy food that does not follow trends but real science. Serene Nature House products are chemical and pesticide free - some of their farmers and suppliers are certified organic- other producers simply can't afford certification but still follow chemical free farming and production processes and are deemed 'organic' without the labels. Just because something is labelled 'organic' per se does not make it healthy, therefore Serene Nature House does not supply packaged juices & drinks, puffed breakfast cereals and processed oils and the like as they are very concerned about maintaining health food standards. The owner of Serene Nature House is very passionate about healthy food and goes above and beyond the call of duty to ensure that you will get the best service possible. Serene Nature House delivers their products to all of Metropolitan Melbourne for a fixed rate of $6.99, irrespective of the weight. Serene Nature House comes highly recommended and I urge you to try their on-line shop at least once. I can assure you that after the first time you will be coming back more often.

This is one of my favourite places to eat in Melbourne. Minh is the ultimate professional who…read moreoversees high quality service and food.

Started out great, then stirring my Pho, a cockroach came up from the bottom. End of story. See…read morepics.

What is it with the trend for Southern American food at the moment? Are people watching 'Here Comes…read moreHoney-Boo-Boo' and thinking "Yeah, that's something I'd really like to emulate,"? Are they looking at the people on Maury and saying "Whatever they're eating is working for them, where can I get me some of that?"? Have the nasty images on cigarette packages finally put people off the durries and now they need to get their smoke-fix from food? Or are we, Melbourne as a collective, just determined to find a way to get more artery-clogging meatgoods into our bods? I just ate lunch delivered by Bourbon Street Melbourne. Correction: I just ate half of a lunch. The rest now inhabits the kitchen bin along with all of my hopes and dreams for decent southern style food delivered to my office. And a copy of 'The Celestine Prophecy' but that's a whole other kettle of fish (I was going to say "that's a different story" but 'The Celestine Prophecy's isn't a story, it's an abomination and an insult to bound paper). My junior colleague discovered BStM yesterday while searching on line for something that I'm sure was definitely work related as she claims. She ordered the BBQ beef in a bowl (instead of sandwich, $13.50) and I ordered the Chilli Sin Carne (also bowl, $11.50). Colleague then proceeded to get so excited about Tomorrow's Lunch that we had to put down plastic on her office chair. Seriously, it was out of control how psyched she was: anyone would think the Commonwealth Games were coming or something. Because no one should be excited about that either but there you go. 12.15 today: delivery time. Colleague had to be sedated. The delivery girl was very nice but she over-charged me by a dollar. That's ok, mistakes happen and I'm sure she didn't do it on purpose, like she has some kinda scheme going where she steals a dollar from every second person on her lunch route then at the end of the day she buys a ... I don't know, an elephant. Where would she get an elephant? Or keep an elephant for that matter? It's an absurd notion, let it go. $12.50 is still a good price for lunch and I would have been happy to pay it for good food. Sadly this was not the case. I'm not a huge eater, but this was a little serving (see photos). It was also cold but I can understand that food does get cold when being transported across time and space (I believe that is what they call entropy. Thanks Mr Campbell, year 11 chemistry!). The beans were dry and uninteresting. If you think you can't make beans interesting, you're wrong. I've done it and so has just about every Mexican in the world and there are over 110 million of them. Couldn't you have asked one of them, BStM? The 'brown' rice was actually white rice made brown with spices. Disguising something white as brown is blackface and that's racist and not cool, BStM. Brown rice is also super healthy, white rice is not. It came with cornchips that were stale. Literally everything about this dish was a fail. Colleague's BBQ was a bit less tragic - it was a fair bit bigger and came with coleslaw, and a pickle. Where's my pickle, dammit? WHERE?? For the extra dollar I really should have forgotten about how adorable cows are and ordered beef and gotten a pickle. In fact if my disappointing chilli had come with a pickle I'd probably be doing some actual work right now instead of writing a bad review of BStM.

This place and idea is amazing. Food delivery to your work, or home. Free delivery and nice tasty…read morefood. I have used this service a couple times now. Its so convenient and great for a nice lunch. The experience overall is great, From the cute delivery guy, to the last bite of the roll. I've tried the pulled pork (YUMMMM) and the Chili Sin Carne. They are both amazing. They also do kale chips, which i am yet to try.

What is Culinary Carton? A weekly box of fresh produce, pre-prepared by Melbourne chefs (including…read morePaul Tyas of Grosvenor Hotel) with easy to follow recipe cards so you can create delicious meals in under 30 minutes.You can choose meat or vegetarian or a mix of both.I found the meals quick & easy to make & really tasty I choose the #vegetarian box Use my special code Melbourneyum for $30 off any subscription or week trial

The Daily Kitchen is a catering company, but it also has a little storefront on Little Collins with…read morea bunch of ready-made meals, salads, and sandwiches that are intended to be grab-and-go. I go here a lot to get their Ancient Grains salad, which is vegan and yummy and perfect for lunch. The Daily Kitchen storefront is really intended for take-out, although they do have a few tiny tables inside if you want to sit down. What I really like about this place is they have little labels on everything marking it vegan, vegetarian, gluten-free, etc. so you know right away what you can and can't eat. What DOES annoy me about this place is that so many of their vegetarian options could easily be made vegan and aren't. For example, their avocado sandwich is vegan except for the tzatziki (which contains non-vegan mayo), and given that vegan mayo is super cheap and easy to come by (Praise 99% Fat Free Mayo, hi) -- well, this sandwich would be super easy and cheap to veganise. Ditto their hummus salad. It looks SO SO yummy but it has yoghurt mayo in it. Breaks my heart. There's also a falafel protein box. Totally vegan except for the egg. Arrrrgh!!! There are plenty of other sources of protein that are vegan that could replace the egg! Given that nearly half of vegetarians these days actually identify as "vegan," I think with a few tweaks, The Daily Kitchen could easily veganise their vegetarian options and open up their products to a whole new market of customers. Lots of vegans working in the CBD, yo. I personally would eat here like 2-3 times a week if they veganised the three options I mentioned above. Will also say The Daily Kitchen is a little overpriced, but they're catering to the busy professional who just wants to eat at their desk, so I kind of understand. They also have a few breakfast-y things (yoghurt, muesli, etc.) if you want something in the morning. They have a vegan mango thingie that I had once for breakfast but I wasn't a massive fan. They also have raw vegan desserts if that's your thing.

From the owner: We've all got busy lives and we know no-one wants to wait in queues for their food to be made and…read morethat most 'fast food' options are either incredibly unhealthy, boring or simply bad. So, we developed our food especially for you, the time-poor food-lovers who love life and would rather spend their lunch breaks in a park in the sunshine than in a queue waiting for their food or their latte.