SLA — Restaurant in Amsterdam

We recently had a late dinner at SLA on Westerstraat. Opening hours 11am to 9pm daily. This is a neat little cafe in the Jordaan District serving up salads, vegetable bowls, smoothies and other related food and drinks for those looking for a healthy meal.

There is a small seating section upstairs or just take your food orders and enjoy them elsewhere. Orders are prepared using fresh ingredients and taste pretty good.

During our visit we tried the Bibimbap Bowl that was decent. Vegetable ingredients tasted just fine. The Kimchi was light and the creamy red hot chili was quite tame compared to what we are used to with proper Korean food. This didn't measure up to our Korean style bowls back home but was still ok.

Much more preferred was the Hummus Avocado Bowl that was more flavourful. The dish was better seasoned, the tahini in particular giving very good taste to the couscous and lentils. This was a tasty bowl, one we'd happily reorder.

Overall, SLA is a good restaurant option especially for the health conscious. Give their website menu a look if interested in dishes served up here. What we served looked just like the images...

Hipsters targeted place, with very few sitting spots on the first floor, and you have to bring your meal and drink upstairs on your own. Only salades, as the name says, nicely mixed but full of leaves instead of the other ingredients announced in the menu. The worst is the service, careless of the customer experience. They admitted us 40 minutes before closure with bad faces, it took +20 minutes to have a couple of salades with the bar empty, they refused to serve us a soup (already cooked, just to rewarm), and finally they kicked us out at 21.10h because they wanted to close... Sadly I understand that those employees are badly paid and/or they just don't care about the business, and they lack of kindness. But this is the owner responsabilty. It is a good concept but it should be managed...

Vegan salad bar. And not your boring tomato, cucumber iceberg salad. Hearty, filling salads of tempeh, marinated and baked vegetables, quinoa, sweet potato, brown rice, crispy chickpeas. Everything you want in a salad. Went here for lunch, and had to order a new salad as take away for dinner because it was so good! And the prices are very good, 10-13 euro for a big portion. The only negative thing is that it is very cold, and a bit sterile. And also, I ate here with 3 others and the size of the salad was a little varying. Me friends got topped bowls, while mine was more flat, and I had room for more food when we left. But the portion I ordered for take away...