Maple & Fitz opened in Fitzrovia on 2 March 2015. The new eatery and Fitzrovia’s first cold-pressed juice bar is focussed on healthy yet satisfying food and offers substantial salads, grain bowls, the very best in-house cold-pressed juices, and guilt-free treats that nourish customers from the inside out.
With the option to eat-in or takeaway, the new ‘London local’ provides well-balanced, colourful and wholesome dishes to satisfy ‘real food’ cravings.
Set up by Canadian chef Adria Wu, Maple & Fitz offers a regularly-changing menu of simple but delicious food that makes you feel good. Following successful careers in engineering and then management consulting and finance, Adria chose to turn her life long passion of cooking into her dream job. Adria trained at the world- renowned culinary school Le Cordon Bleu London and obtained her Cuisine Diploma in 2014. She also completed a course in nutrition, learning to make delicious dishes that are genuinely healthy.
Menu
The menu offers filling breakfasts through to hearty salads and grain bowls with add-on proteins for lunch, all with a focus on fresh and wholesome ingredients.
Adria has created new dishes and put her own twist on classics such as Caesar and Waldorf salads: the Julius Caesar mixes shredded kale and cabbage, romaine, mangetout, buckwheat, gluten-free croutons, Pecorino and a Dijon-lemon yoghurt dressing and the Lady Pom salad combines whole grains, pomegranate, toasted
walnuts, tarragon, shredded cucumber and granny smith apple, diced celery and tangy tahini pomegranate dressing.
Newly created dishes include the Mexican Standoff containing bulgur wheat, black beans, grape tomatoes, organic cheddar, fresh jalapenos, red onion, avocado and coriander lime pesto dressing.
She also makes reference to her Asian heritage through the Samurai Slaw which includes soba noodles, shredded cabbage and carrots, mint, coriander, sesame, spring onion and a miso sesame soy dressing.
One portion costs £6.95 and can be a mix of up to three salads or grain bowls, and all come with the option of an add-on protein of either free-range chicken, salmon, tofu, tempeh or avocado and poached or hard-boiled egg.
Cold-pressed juices
Maple & Fitz also offers a range of cold-pressed juices which have been created with different benefits in mind and are made fresh each day. Little Miss Sunshine has been designed to energise by blending grapefruit, orange, lemon, ginger and cayenne and After the Disco hydrates by mixing coconut water, pineapple, lemon and romaine.
For the healthy but sweet-toothed among us, Adria has developed guilt-free snacks such as One-Bite Everything Cookies containing coconut, hazelnuts, pecans, oats and dark chocolate, Gluten-Free Salted Caramel Brownies and Raw Power Balls which are made of Medjool dates, almonds, raw cocoa powder and chia seeds.
The cosy and welcoming space spans two floors with downstairs seating for 12-15 and space for al fresco dining in the summer months. Simple and warm, the Maple & Fitz design is inspired by the maple tree which symbolises generosity, balance and promise – and takes aspects from the creative and artistic Fitzrovia neighbourhood. The use of natural materials for the décor and photography from the surrounding community is what brings Maple & Fitz together.
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36a Berners Street, W1 (entrance on Mortimer Street)
Instagram & Twitter: @mapleandfitz
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