Top 8 takeaway salads tested

BENCHES outside shops; tables and chairs outside cafés and bars, filled not just with smokers — and we know summer is here. It’s salad time!

I recently noticed one of those benches outside the Lettercollum Kitchen Project shop and deli in Clonakilty where you can buy the freshest of salads from produce grown in the owners’ garden.

In Waterford there is Ardeen Stores; in Galway, McCambridges; in Midleton, the Farm Gate; and in Nenagh, Country Choice. In Dublin the selection in Fallon & Byrne is hard to beat, but there are other excellent deli’s in and around the city.