A Loja Portugese Delicatessen Haarlem — Local services in Haarlem

For tourists: Probably ok. For portuguese: Don‘t go there. It wasn’t a Portuguese lovely place. We went there as a Family. Two adults and two child’s (2&7) We want to (Matar as saudades) eat a typical Portuguese ham and cheese sandwich/Tosta Mista (not complete typical, cause we want cheese and iberico ham) The Bread have nothing to do with Portuguese bread habits. Portuguese toasts was made of white toast bread. This “Sandwich” was made with slices of cereal Bread with olive oil on it. Portuguese use butter (Manteiga) Not very nice toasted. Seems to be from the day before. At all. The best was the drinks. Sumol (very good orange or ananas drink) For the rest? Never will go there again. It was the worst i find in „portuguese places“. Also the women working there can’t spell Portuguese 🥲 After this worst meal we went one street further and find a Vlaamse Friet De Haerlemsche Vlaamse That was the best frites I have for long. Until I eat the frites they went mayo. They put Many on it. This was a dream. Very very good. So I recommend to go to the...

Maybe our experience is not representative for Loja but our lunch was a disappointment. Even after we cleared our table from left overs our table was not cleaned by the waitress.

One of the sandwiches we had ordered was supposed to have cheese, marmelade and rocket salad. After we received our sandwich, the waitress excused herself that it had no rocket salad. I think it would be better to mention that upfront or offer an alternative. Rocket salad is one of the things that can make a sandwich tasty. There were no other things on the sandwich than a not interesting tasting cheese and marmalade. We also had mackerel sandwich. It tasted a bit dry. A little addition of olive oil, lemon and capers would have made that much better. The sandwiches did not taste very fresh either.

To mention a few positive things. Loja looks very nice and they seem to have nice...

After searching different locations for a good pastel de nata, i have finally found it! This is the real deal for anyone looking to try a Portuguese pastel de nata. Got there today end of day and the lady was very friendly and still had some pastel de nata on the shelf which was surprising and she told me they keep making them every couple hours so they are fresh. Took 2 home with me to try and......are...