I discovered recently that the trendy, 'fast food that is healthy' chain Leon has an extensive breakfast menu.
Besides a variety of porridges, yoghurts, fruit and smoothies, they also sell a sausage bap, a bacon bap, a mushroom and tomato bap and an 'I Love England' bap which is basically all of the above combined into one sandwich.
Naturally, I went for the sausage bap:
What we have here is a wholemeal bun encasing a couple of thin pork sausages with a homemade-style tomato sauce.
The bread was quite dense and I'm not sure its musty, wholemeal taste combined very well with the tomato sauce. As for the sauce, it lacked the tartness you normally get with ketchup and seemed a little watery.
The sausages themselves were pretty good but were small and their flavour was drowned out somewhat by the sauce and the bread. All in all it was just a mush of flavours that didn't really compliment one another.
It felt healthy but was a little unsatisfying. The concept behind Leon is that you order your food at a counter and get it quickly - like a fast food restaurant - but the dishes themselves are designed to be as unlike junk food as possible (healthy, made with fresh, natural ingredients etc.).
So if you want to eat healthily, I think Leon is a great choice but I sometimes find their food lacks the taste hit that makes 'bad' fast food so popular. Their evening menu looks a little more promising.
If you want a sausage sandwich from a chain such as this, I would recommend Eat's toasted sausage muffin instead.
2.5 out of 5. Guilt-free but not very tasty.
