Hanlees

Hanlees sits on Bedford Street in Exeter, between the office district and the High Street, and takes its name from its four founders - Hannah, Lee, Matt and Rachel. The concept is "quick food for foodies": a salad bar with more than fifteen individual dishes that customers mix and match into their own box, alongside homemade soups and broths, jacket potatoes, gourmet sausage rolls and a hearty chilli and rice.

There is a changing pasta of the day and a range of artisan sandwiches made with locally baked bread, served toasted or cold. Breakfast covers porridge and oats, freshly baked pastries and breakfast sandwiches for anyone passing through before work. It is built for speed without cutting corners on ingredients, the kind of place office workers build a lunch routine around rather than a special-occasion sit-down. The location in Princesshay puts it right in the middle of Exeter's shopping and business streets, an easy stop between meetings or on a High Street walk.