Pressed Juices - Bondi Beach

Old unwashed produce used, smells off and expensive for the amount offered. Buy yourself a juicer and don't give businesses like this your money!

While on a holiday thought I would pop in and give this juice place a go. Ordered the pear smoothie and it was fine. Staff were friendly but a little pushy to sell some juice.

I visited two of the Pressed Juices locations - Bondi Beach and George Street. The staff members of both were lovely and were both willing to chat with me for a while about the healthy food scene in Sydney. The stores are small, but make great use of space with minimal seating (they're not really designed to be an eat-in place).  First up I tried the espresso almond mylk (filtered water, almonds, espresso, dates, vanilla bean, sea salt) which had a nice flavour to it but an awful texture - I was hoping for smooth and velvety and received closer to a gritty texture thanks to the vanilla bean. It wasn't particularly pleasant. The strawberry mylk was much the same (strawberry, almond mylk, cashew cream vanilla bean) and was a bit of a let down. Either they don't make these drinks with a very strong blender or they just don't blend them for long enough to get 'em silky and smooth.  I tried their spiced pear smoothie (almond mylk, pear, blackberry, dates, vanilla bean, flaxseed, cinnamon, star anise) which I really didn't enjoy at all - it had an odd flavour and an awful, gritty texture. That same day I also tried the black lemonade (alkaline water, lemon, activated coconut charcoal, cayenne) which predictably tasted like sh*t but it's good for us, right? I was quite keen to try their banana salted caramel smoothie but felt like at almost 500 calories per bottle it probably was a bit excessive - as clean and healthy as the ingredients list may be, always remember that nobody is immune to weight gain through overeating healthy foods! I drank their "Zest 4" juice (coconut, cucumber, lemon, pineapple) on the way to the airport - not the tastiest thing but it sure did hydrate me for the flight. What really stole the show for me, however was the antiox. 3 juice (blood orange, acai, passionfruit lucuma). Honestly takes the cake as the best juice I have ever had! 10/10 for that one, that's for sure!  We did also pop by the George Street store for a quick lunch one day - luckily they had one salad left in stock! I tried the Mexican salad - not bad, but probably not nutritionally sound as a meal (I was hungry an hour later). It was essentially some dry greens with a "mince" on top presumably made of walnuts and sundried tomatoes, with a cashew cheese on the side. It definitely needed a lot more to make a meal. recoveringraw.com

I visited two of the Pressed Juices locations - Bondi Beach and George Street. The staff members of both were lovely and were both willing to chat with me for a while about the healthy food scene in Sydney. The stores are small, but make great use of space with minimal seating (they're not really designed to be an eat-in place).  First up I tried the espresso almond mylk (filtered water, almonds, espresso, dates, vanilla bean, sea salt) which had a nice flavour to it but an awful texture - I was hoping for smooth and velvety and received closer to a gritty texture thanks to the vanilla bean. It wasn't particularly pleasant. The strawberry mylk was much the same (strawberry, almond mylk, cashew cream vanilla bean) and was a bit of a let down. Either they don't make these drinks with a very strong blender or they just don't blend them for long enough to get 'em silky and smooth.  I tried their spiced pear smoothie (almond mylk, pear, blackberry, dates, vanilla... read more

This is the place I go when I want to pretend my body is a temple and I still want my food to taste great.