Leon is an award winning fast food outlet selling natural, good food, from spicy lamb wraps to mezze. The food is of a high standard and is served with the same efficiency as the big fast food chains. They also have an eat-in section, and are open for lunch and dinner.
Leon is well know for its "food that’s good for you and quickly" ethos, and much of this is due to it's founder's (Allegra McEvedy and Fred Dickieson) outlook on food.
Leon on the Stand was very handy on my way back to the hotel, and having both eaten in and taken away, I was quietly impressed. The food is really very simple, with rices and salads being very dry and not running with oils, and flavours not cluttered with 47 different ingredients. The service is super quick, partly because the majority of the food is actually cooked elsewhere and then simply constructed and heated on the premesis - but at least they are open about this unlike the majortiy of fast fooid which strives to get you to think that everything have been made there on the premises from milling the corn upwards.
The deserts are worth mentioning, as was the coffee. I had the warm lemon and ginger cake with icecream and it was mindn bendingly wonderful. Not strongly flavoured, but with a great sticky base and a texture not unlike ground almonds. My dinner companion had the lemon cheesecake, and it too was just great. A biscuity base with a couple of inches of set lemon on top, not the "shaving foam on a digestive biscuit" which always gets passed off as the real thing.
Coffee was dark and strong, smelled great and even came with the wedge of lemon I requested (yeah, know, I'm odd). The total bill, less than £30 for two people eating as much as they want, in very pleasant surroundings.
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