SaladStop! & Electric Studio: A healthy fit
It’s a marriage made in heaven: SaladStop!, your one-stop salad destination, joining hands with Electric Studio, the country’s first indoor cycling boutique, for a cycling party at Bonifacio Global City. Yes, they’re partners in fitness and in health ...
The absolute adrenaline rush is unstoppable as the first wave of guests is whisked inside Electric Studio’s workout room where they mount their bikes for the ultimate sweat fest.
Some fast facts about Electric Studio: Founded by an innovative team of fitness professionals, Electric Studio aims to revolutionize the fitness culture. Using specialized stationary bicycles, indoor cycling offers all the pulse-racing delights of outdoor cycling — except that you do it indoors. You don’t need any cycling experience for this and you can do it regardless of your fitness (or un-fitness?) level as classes are designed for all fitness levels. Your ride pretty much depends on you as you’re in control of your bike. You’re bound to like this bike ride as it energizes and challenges you physically (to find your power and push yourself beyond your comfort zone) and strengthens you mentally.
Of course, to go to your cycling class, make sure you’re properly attired in sportswear or tight leggings — or anything you don’t mind sweating in. If you don’t have Look Keo pedal-compatible shoes, there are biking shoes available. But don’t forget to bring your own socks.
After about an hour, the cycling party-goers emerge from the studio all sweaty but happy. If there’s one word — make that two — to describe the party, it’s sweat success!
Iron “Wo” Man Salad: Baby spinach, feta cheese, roasted pumpkin, yellow raisins, toasted almonds drizzled with raspberry vinaigretteEverybody makes a dash for the showers which, by the way, are stocked with bath and body products so no need to bring your own.
And what comes after a good sweat? Good, healthy food, such as what you’ll find at SaladStop!
To refresh their weary bodies, there’s no stopping our cycling party from indulging without guilt in the fresh offerings at SaladStop! with its new Burgos Circle branch, a mere strolling distance from Electric Studio.
“After operating for over a year and a half, we now have seven stores,” says Jose Miguel Tantoco, SaladStop! business development manager. “We’ve had a few salad changes, just to cater to the Filipino market. We added new salads that are cheaper than a facial, we have two new smoothies (Berry Grape-ful and Yellow Mellow), and we’re looking to revamp our pastries.”
A hot favorite — you’ll go bananas over it — is the banana bread.
Berry good: Berry Grape-ful SmoothieFounded in 2009 by the Desbaillets family, SaladStop! started as a family venture offering healthy alternative meals in frenetic, fast-paced Singapore using fresh ingredients and healthy recipes.
It’s a lifestyle, so Jose Miguel declares. It’s about being good to your body and to everything around you.
For those who think their salad days are over, hear this: At SaladStop! there are over 60 ingredients, 35 free toppings, various cheeses and nuts, and 18 homemade dressings to choose from. Ninety-five percent of the ingredients are locally sourced from different suppliers.
“The olive oil-based dressings are high in calories but these are good fats,” Adrien Desbaillets, managing director and co-founder of SaladStop!, told us at the opening of the SaladStop! store in Legaspi Village, Makati last year.
Your one-stop salad destination: SaladStop! is now open at Burgos Circle, BGC.For the calorie-watchers, each salad’s calories are listed. You get morsels of vital info, too, on the health benefits you can derive from what you put in your salad bowl and into your mouth. For instance, cherry tomatoes are chock-full of nutrients and anti-cancer properties. They help lower bad cholesterol and improve heart health. On the other hand, soba noodles help absorb excess cholesterol. Sunflower seeds help ease stress and migraines, and prevent bad cholesterol from sticking to the arteries.
I remember Adrien giving us this delicious tip: “Get a good balance of the flavors. Get some ingredients with protein, veggies, a light vinaigrette and even some croutons.”
“We have a nutritionist on board,” Jose Miguel discloses. “We work closely with Singapore, but yes, they do allow us to come up with our own creations on top of the signature salads.”
Like there’s Sunshine Manila, a refreshing medley of romaine lettuce, tuna flakes, brown rice, cherry tomatoes, crispy lumpia skin, drizzled with tamarind citrus vinaigrette.
“It’s really the salads and wraps that bring everyone to the store,” Jose Miguel shares. “The kids love our salads even without the dressing because they’re tasty enough.”
Now that’s a wrap!
SaladStop!’s signature Omega 3 Baby Salad has rocket and romaine lettuce, smoked salmon, broccoli, cherry tomatoes, beetroot, red onions, sunflower seeds with balsamic soy vinaigrette.* * *
Specialty Food Retailers, Inc., a member of SSI Group, Inc., is the official franchise holder of SaladStop! in the Philippines. SaladStop! is located at Central Square, Power Plant Mall, OPL Building in Legaspi Village and Glorietta 2 in Makati, The Mezzanine at Ayala Tower One, Burgos Circle in BGC, and Greenhills.
Electric Studio is located at 2/F 8 Forbes Town Road, Forbes Town Center, BGC with telephone numbers 833-6051 and 833-6056, mobile numbers 09178438424 and 09152124929.
