Soul Origin - Melbourne Central

Really lovely staff members, but dear Soul Origin, if you’re going to charge $5.70 for a regular coffee with a milk alternative, please make sure that your baristas are adequately qualified because for that price I’m expecting one of the best coffees I’ll ever have. Nearly $6 for a disgusting coffee that I had to bin after two sips is ridiculous. I’ve had lovely coffee from Soul Origin before but it’s definitely a hit and miss and definitely not worth the risk for that steep price.

There are a bunch of different salads to choose from so there is a huge variety, including vegetarian and possibly vegan options. I ordered the regular size and picked three different salads (max amount) including the chicken avocado, crumbed chicken pasta and the falafel salad. The avocado was smooth and creamy and the chicken was still crunchy in the salad. The flavours blended very well together and you can choose balsamic vinegar, lemon and other dressing options on top too for extra flavour. However, the majority of the salad was green leaves and very few falafel on the falafel salad and same goes with the chicken pasta, very few chicken pieces but a lot of creamy pasta. I think this is something they can definitely improve on as their salads aren’t exactly cheap (around $10) so they should definitely add more meat instead of filler ingredients, then I may consider going back if they improve on this. Otherwise, its not worth it and I don’t think I’ll be going back again. Great service! The lady serving me was really bubbly nice and friendly and explained how the process of picking three different salads work. She did say she gave me a fork in the bag but when I check there was none, so luckily I went back as I hadn’t gone far, but this was just an accident on their part and things like this happen. There was also not enough avocado for a salad called avocado chicken it was mostly green leaves so wont be back but the service and flavour is still good!!

So disappointed this time.. I expected there would be a big bowl of meat but finally i got a bowl of veg...as the first time i tried this at southern cross station two days ago, i was so surprised that i could get such delicious meat salad with only $10, can‘t help waiting to try the second time… but…