Our History

Ben Spiers started up Spiers Salads in 2011, following in the footsteps of his mum. Mrs Spiers is the inspiration for us, since she started her own catering company in the 1970s from her home kitchen. She sourced her ingredients from premium suppliers which were sometimes delivered by train.

Ben Spiers opened up a Red Kiosk business in May 2016, serving salads to London’s workforce during the busy lunch time rush. In fact, the salads were served from a London Telephone Box!

 

 Sustainability

With a passion for healthy but tasty and hearty food and convinced that we could shake up the salad world for the better, and with Mum’s can do example in mind, in 2011 we began to sell our colourful salads at local fairs and catered events at the Lexi Cinema, Kensal. We then built a trailer (harder than it looks!) and selling the salads at markets in Covent Garden amongst others in 2015. Looking for a place to lay our mandoline we rented a phonebox in beautiful Bloomsbury Square, put shelves on the inside of the door, a fridge inside and had a successful summer in 2016. It gave us the confidence to go for it in 2017, opening at Battersea Studios and St James's Park station shopping arcade that summer. We’ve since opened a further site at Battersea Studios in 2018 and spots by the Shard and at Canary Wharf in Spring 2019. We continue to do pop-ups, weddings, cater office meetings and supply other cafes.

  • We want to look after ourselves (most of the time) but we want to have a good meal too, not an expensive, limp, miserly portion of leaves which leaves us hungry and disappointed. We enjoy creating salads with complementary flavours and textures - intestinal anti-depressants (not scientifically proven!) - incorporating family tricks, recipes, secrets.

  • We use all the best fresh ingredients to create tasty and filling salads, with fine combinations of flavours and textures. Full of proteins, vitamins and minerals, we don't undo that hard work with unhealthy dressings, rather sensible amounts of vinegars, citrus, oils and herbs. Handy if you're trying to be good.

  • We also-

    • pay our team the London Living Wage,

    • make our food locally using seasonal produce (fruit and veg from nearby New Covent Garden market),

    • serve into bio-degradable and recyclable packaging,

    • operate a nose to tail approach to our ingredients,

    • reduce, re-use and then recycle and ensure nothing goes to landfill

    • run modern LEZ compliant vehicles and plan efficient delivery routes to minimise emissions,

    • live close to our kitchen,

    • make delicious use of food in its raw state,

      etc… So we're trying to be good too.