MUNCH Saladsmith

First of all, love the food here — it’s generally fresh and healthy without lots of additives and grease. On the downside, I noticed the servers often DO NOT use gloves when serving and dishing the food — not only is this kinda disgusting but it’s a health hazard. I once asked the server to use his gloves and he ignored. Makes you wonder about management, staff training and the overall cleanliness of things you don’t actually see …

Munch SaladSmith was first established in 2005 to promote healthy and fresh food that with tantalizing tastes to tickle your palate. They have 10 outlets all across Singapore, mostly near MRT stations. The interesting thing I noted about MUNCH is that in 2014, they recently opened up a lot of shops in the CBD area! Unlike other shops that promote «healthy eating» at a either a very costly price or actually don’t sell healthy food. Munch is true to their word with their slogan «EAT NO EVIL». They do provide legit healthy options at reasonable prices. But ultimately, it is up to your own will power to decide what sides to eat. Pretty sure if they just sold pure salads, with no unhealthy options, all Munch outlets would close!
How Munch works is, you pick a protein, Chicken thigh or breast, sausage, salmon or if you’re feeling like cheating, rosti! After which you pick your side salads. A chicken with a salad is $ 9.90 and two salads is $ 11.90. You can almost top up $ 1.30 for premium sides, such as salmon caesar salad. But I realized that each outlet has different salads and even their meat can look different. It must be due to the fact that this is franchise chain.
There was smaller variety of side salads at this Star Vista I visited, compared to other outlets. This outlet is also situated in a kiosk, along a walkway, that is not air-​conditioned.
Check out their premium sides that they have for christmas!
After we had picked out protein and sides, there was a bottle neck queue to pay up as there was only two staff, one picking the food and one handling the cash register.
The chicken meat here was strangely drier than what I remembered from the robinson road and paya lebar square outlets. The chicken tasted different, even though it looked the same. The chicken breast was also juicier than the thigh. But as the chicken is cooked very well through the rotisserie, all the fats have melted off, leaving behind just a crispy and thin skin.
1. Chicken with Tuna Pasta and Green Salad
The tuna pasta was quite filling, and the staff are quite generous with the portions. There was alot of tuna and alot of pasta. Help yourself to the salad dressings in the corner, right after the cash register for your salad, but of course go easy on the dressing. Otherwise, you defeat the purpose of eating a salad altogether right?
2. Petit Threes $ 11.50
Potato salad was very nicely done. I loved the potatoes with the skin on them, along with the tuna pasta salad and greens. This was pretty high in calories and high in satisfaction value as well!
3. Chicken Thigh with Marinara Pasta $ 9.90
The pasta was good and tasted the same as I had tried at other outlets. Together with mushrooms, this is one of my favourite pastas at MUNCH! If I could go crazy carbs, this would be my choice side!
4. Chicken Breast with Brocolli $ 9.90
No carbs! Just protein! Eat no evil is their slogan! And with a juicy roasted chicken with a thin and crispy skin! This is hard to resist! I even choose to get broccoli with almond flakes and wild mushroom rather than a pasta or potato salad *pat on the back for me* eating HEALTHY isn’t always boring!
OVERALL: 1) Reasonable prices 2) A real shop that sells healthy food and really tries to promote healthy eating 3) Very Accessible 4) They do make rotisserie chicken!!! 5) Munch is a great place to grab a quick salad meal

$ 7 – 9 for a piece of meat (chicken leg, breast, or a bratwurst) and 1 – 2 salad portions, in a CBD food court.
That basically describes it. There’s nothing special about the food, the price or the location. It’s a convenient place to sit down and have a meeting when you don’t care too much about your food. It’s European motorway canteen food.
The pasta salad was, as expected, overcooked (English-​speaking countries tend to do that). The bratwurst was thinner than the ones in the German-​speaking world, but at least it wasn’t made of turkey. I don’t think they can really improve on any of the items considering the buffet-​style setup. The broccoli looked freshly cooked, not saggy, but I didn’t have it.

Munch Saladsmith is a humble salad bar that serves delicious, fuss free and nutritious food at reasonable prices.
One of my favorite salads here is the Chicken Grape Walnut salad; I thought that its creamy texture was absolutely sublime. The chicken oriental had an Indian influence to it, while the chicken pasta salad felt really average. The bacon & mash had an interesting mix of flavors between the meat and the sourness, though I felt that it could do certainly with more dressings. The tofu salad came across as refreshing, which again could do with more dressing, while the wild brown rice was too hard for my liking.
My friend had the salmon fillet with 2 salads, but I felt that the salmon fillet was overdone for my liking
Another friend had the roast chicken, which was really good. Every morsel of the chicken was thoroughly infused with rosemary and fell off the bone easily, while retaining its moisture and juiciness.
Lastly, we shared the Rosti with sausage, and the thing is that I would have preferred the rosti to be more charred. The chili flavored sausage on the side was actually pretty good, where I loved the spicy pork flavor it embodied.

This is the place to go for healthy fresh flavours. It is basically a salad bar serving yummy vegetarian food and the best thing is that they make their salads fresh everyday not like some places that keep it for a few days.
They have a variety of salads which you can choose from and it is not your typical boring salad. My favourite has got to be the roast chicken salad as although it was roasted it was still really tender and i hate it when i have to eat dry chicken. It was also infused with herb and just a pleasure to eat.
The pancakes and wraps are must tries too. The crew of people working there provide really good service and even during peak periods they still manage to serve with a smile.