First Impressions
It doesn't look overly inspiring as it sits in it's plastic wrapper. Some cress and sun-dried tomato peer out invitingly, but overall it doesn't look like there is too much to get excited about. Maybe a closer look inside will get me a bit more excited.
Detailed Inspection
Upon opening the baguette it looks as if this has been made in a hurry, or by someone right handed, as most of the filling is stacked towards the right hand side.
The two slices of cheese stretch across the whole baguette, but the red onion (what there is of it) is almost all up one end. The mayo is sparingly applied to the baguette, but the 3 bits of sun-dried tomato are slightly more evenly applied. So it comes as no surprise that there is virtually a whole mouthful of baguette at one end that only has Cheese and none of the other fillings. I didn't lift up the cheese to see how the pickle was spread for fear of yet more disappointment!
Taste
This is a very tasty baguette - when you happen to get a mouthful of all the ingredients that is. Due to the uneven spreading of the ingredients you can get either a lovely mouthful of tangy pickle and sun-dried tomato or just plain old cheese. The baguette itself is also very tasty - they used to advertise this as an 'artisan' baguette, but don't anymore. It still tastes the same but has a less pretentious ring to it. But it's certainly tastier than a plain old white baguette.
Verdict
This is a good baguette alright, but spoiled somewhat by the clumsy assembling of the fillings. If the fillings were evenly spread out (hopefully the law of averages would determine you would get one of these at some point) then you can see why Time Out would like it so much. Maybe I was a bit unlucky on the day and the many other Pret branches make a better job of putting this one together.
So based purely on taste I will give it 4/5 - however they need to up their baguette assembly procedures somewhat.
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