Recently we asked you where the best places to eat on Lamb­ton Quay are, and nat­ur­ally, the inter­net word-of-mouth answered: Kapai Salads in Lamb­ton Square.

There’s plenty of reas­ons to love Kapai, includ­ing:

• Whānau: Every­one knows someone who knows the own­ers, hence the mass emails and bul­let­in board post­ings about the shop.
• Mata: Your salad will be freshly made right in front of you, and you will get to choose the ingre­di­ants your­self. No droopy lettuce and skanky­ass grated cheese here, no no.
• Tai­ao: The soup is served in bowls made out of bread, while salads are served in potato­paks (which you prob­ably would­n’t want to eat, although tech­nic­ally they’re safe enough to), min­im­ising envir­on­ment­al dam­age. Plus, the cof­fee’s fair trade.

We’d like them to offer lists of avail­able ingre­di­ants and make it a little clear­er which are the gour­met ones that’ll set you back an extra $1.50, but when you can get a roc­quette, falafel and feta salad with aioli in less than five minutes and feel good about doing it, you’ll def­in­itely be going back.