The Fresh Factory — Restaurant in Nijmegen

Stumbled upon this place on Monday evening, I was looking for somewhere with fresh vegetables and no meat. After looking through the big touchscreen menu I went for the poke bowl with cold noodles and a load of fresh vegetables topped with some Japanese mayo and a vinegar dressing. I got a fresh pineapple drink which had a hit of gember in it. The poke bowl was really good, so fresh and full of flavour and colour. You wat with your eyes they say and this was a feast and more. I said I'd be back in Nijmegen on Wednesday and I f I was able I'd be back to try something else Wednesday came (today), left my work in Groningen and headed to Nijmegen, parked at the hotel checked in and dumped my bag in the room. Earbuds a s put on some "Hamish Hawk", I great band from Edinburgh I've only recently discovered after seeing them play in my home city of Edinburgh in Bonnie Scotland....but I'm getting of topic here although the music did fitvin well with a walk through the beautiful old town of Nijmegen. Anyway, the food, I found my way back to "The Fresh Factory" and again looked at the big touchscreen menu and made my choice, the truffel burger with cheddar cheese jalapenos tomato and lettuce and probably a few more green things. Can't remember the sauce I choose but it was perfect. My drink tonight was a strawberry banana shake built on a base of Greek yoghurt. The burger was really really good, I've had a few vegetarian and vegan burger's on my nest free journey over the years and this was the top one fo me. The burger was great, it was exactly the way I wanted it, full of flavour with that jalapeno kick and the sauce I choose but can't remember!!!! The shake, I liked the shake. I like strawberrys, I like bananas and I like Greek yoghurt. It couldn't fail but it all has to come together in the right ratio and the mix was good. No it was very good. Very enjoyable with my burger. I like how everything it's made fresh to order. You can see the staff working away putting your chosen meal together, no hiding here. The staff where great, chatty and friendly. The bad bit then, yeah it's not perfect... It's in Nijmegen and I live on Delfzijl, that's a 2½ hour drive!!!! Looks like I'll be back in beautiful Nijmegen with the wife in tow to try more delights on the menu If you want a fresh freshly made full flavour lunch it drink or whatever this is a must. Funky cool relaxed and tasty and if you play some "Hamish Hawk" you'll thank me. Looking forward to going...

Really good food! The vegan sweet potato soup was literally the best soup I've ever had. We also had the vegan sweet potato fries which were great and the vegan wrap was surprisingly good (you know how wraps are usually just OK at places). We had the vegan panini with courgette as well which was good. We tried the Make Your Own smoothie and had an Iced coffee. The caramel and chocolate was not marked as vegan and placing your order on the screen sort of discourages asking questions to the staff so that was sort of a bummer. It would be nice if they had some drinks marked as vegan on the menu. Also they were out of the vegan burgers which was a bummer so if you're planning to go for that, maybe call ahead to make sure it's in stock. The seating was a bit odd. They only had either two very tall bar-like tables or very low lounge seats with low tables (good if you're just having drinks and a snack but not great for a meal). If they had some better seating inside, it would have...

Okay, so the sweet potato fries are pretty cool. The burger however is very chewy and tastes like dogfood. Even chicken nuggets arent as processed as this slab of "meat". Pretty confident these are from those €3 for 15 burgers box from the freezer at albert heijn. The sauce tastes cheap and flavourless as well Smoothie was okay. I really needed food at work and was desperate. I hope to god not to be this...