Green is what everyone is talking about right now and any company seen to be advocating the green agenda is immediately imbued with an evangelical light. Thing is like anything else that puts businesses in people's good books, green means very little, anyone can say their business is green, it means nothing hoodies will stay out of it! For those tired of eating the same old hunks of meat sandwiched between a couple of soggy bits of bread that are stiff as surfboards, there is a new pseudo fast food restaurant that has began opening chains in London. Otarian are very proud of their valiant efforts to save the world, they list the CO2 output involved in the manufacture of each menu item, unfortunately, said menu items aren't great!.
Upon visiting the Shaftsbury Avenue branch earlier this week, I was somewhat skeptical about the delights awaiting me in this restaurant equivalent of the green party. Meat lovers be warned, there is very little in the way of dead animal flesh on the menu, Otarian say meat has a high carbon cost. Fisrt of all a warning to meat lovers, don't eat here, there is a distinct lack of animal flesh on the menu, Ortarian claim that meat is too carbon costly to process and transport. Veggie it is then.
Fast food outlets like Burger King and KFC are often called into question about where they source their ingredients from and how they make them, while they should indeed be questioned, I'd all like to draw attention to Otarian's Tex Mex patty, what exactly this is, Otarian don't make very clear.. To be fair the food at Otarian tastes fresh and earthy, like it should, but that's not the point. This kind of food is meant to be eaten on the go, by the time-poor or the exhausted and in this context, a bowl of soup and a Mushroom burger simply doesn't cut it, sorry. I doubt many people will be leaving with Otarian food in their backpacks
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