Pret A Manger Classic Super Club Copycat Recipe
Chicken, bacon, egg mayonnaise and tomato on soft malted bread. Fifteen minutes if the chicken is already cooked, and…
Cooking Pret A Manger at home, and what its menu costs
Lunch as a subscription - and a handful of dressings and soups worth reverse-engineering.
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The Pret A Manger recipes on this site
Not every menu item has a recipe here, and that is deliberate - We write a page when there is something genuinely worth saying about how to make the thing.
What Pret A Manger food actually tastes of
Pret's mayonnaise-bound fillings are looser than home versions, and this is the single biggest difference. More mayonnaise than feels sensible, whisked with a little lemon juice before the tuna or chicken goes in, so that it coats every piece rather than binding some of it into clumps and leaving the rest dry. Under-dressing is why a home version tastes worthy rather than nice.
The bread is a soft malted brown or a seeded wholemeal. Not sourdough, not plain white, and never crusty. The bread is there to hold the filling and disappear, which is the opposite of what a good bakery loaf is designed to do.
Herbs go in generously and raw. Fresh coriander, basil and chives are doing a great deal of the flavour work, and they go in at the last moment - Pret's kitchens assemble in the morning for that day only, which is a luxury a long-life sandwich does not have and a home kitchen does.
Everything is seasoned, including the vegetables. A pinch of salt on sliced tomato and cucumber before they go in is a small thing that is obvious by its absence.
About Pret A Manger
Pret A Manger is the British high-street lunch, and the reason it appears on this site is arithmetic rather than cooking. A sandwich and a coffee every working day is a four-figure annual sum, and almost nothing in a Pret sandwich is technically difficult - it is good bread, generous filling and a dressing made that morning.
The company's model is built on making everything in the shop each day and giving away what is left at closing, which is genuinely unusual in food retail and is why the food tastes fresher than the format suggests it should. It is also why the menu rotates constantly and why the item you liked has often disappeared.
What is worth writing down are the components people cannot quite place. The dressing on the chicken and avocado - lemon, herbs and considerably more mayonnaise than looks sensible. The way the tuna mayonnaise is bound, loose rather than clumped, because it is whisked with lemon juice before the tuna goes in. The cheddar and pickle, where the pickle is doing more work than the cheese.
None of it is difficult and all of it depends on quantity: Pret's fillings are more generously dressed than a home cook's instinct, and under-dressing is the commonest reason a home version tastes worthy rather than nice.
What Pret A Manger charges, from the menu we hold
116 priced options across 44 menu sections, as last recorded in United States. Prices move and vary by outlet, so treat these as a reference point rather than a quote.
Half the menu sits between $6.50 and $13.00. Here is the whole spread:
| Position | Item | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Cheapest priced item | $3.85 | |
| Middle of the menu | $8.00 | |
| Dearest priced item | $21.00 |
Pret A Manger changes its prices without telling you. We read this menu once a month and keep the reading – have the changes emailed to you, free, one click to stop.
Every reading we hold is on the Pret A Manger price history. The full list is on the Pret A Manger menu page, and the 1 item we have rebuilt at home is listed here.
What Pret A Manger charges in 5 countries
The same item, priced from each country’s own menu and converted to one currency so the columns can be read against each other. Pret A Manger sets prices per market, so a gap here is the chain’s pricing rather than an exchange rate artefact – and the widest gap on this list is Latte, which costs $6.50 in the dearest market and $3.47 in the cheapest.
| Item | 🇺🇸 USD | 🇬🇧 GBP | 🇨🇦 CAD | 🇮🇪 EUR | 🇭🇰 HKD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $5.50 | $5.03 | $2.77 | $4.71 | $5.22 | |
| $6.50 | $5.56 | $3.47 | $5.49 | $5.86 |
Only items Pret A Manger prices in at least 5 of the markets we hold are listed, because a row with three figures in it is a gap rather than a comparison.
What Pret A Manger sells nearly everywhere
Ranked by how many of the markets in our price data carry the item with a published price. This is computed from the menu tables, so it reflects what the chain actually sells rather than what it advertises.
| Menu item | Markets priced | Recipe |
|---|---|---|
| Americano | 5 | - |
| Latte | 5 | - |
| Hot Chocolate | 4 | - |
| Chocolate Croissant | 4 | - |
| Iced Latte | 4 | - |
| Flat White | 4 | - |
| Cappuccino | 4 | - |
| Mocha | 4 | - |
| Chai Latte | 3 | - |
| Almond Croissant | 3 | - |
| Iced Americano | 3 | - |
| Peppermint Tea | 3 | - |
Build your Pret A Manger order, see what it costs
Tick what you would actually order. The total runs as you go, and where we have built the item at home you will see both figures side by side.
Other coffee chains
What else people compare Pret A Manger against, and what we hold for each.
Starbucks
6 copycat recipes
Dunkin'
2 copycat recipes
Costa Coffee
1 copycat recipe
Black Canyon Coffee
1 copycat recipe
Coffee World
1 copycat recipe
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