FOAM — Restaurant in The Hague

2 slices of bread, extra thin layer of miso spread, supermarket quality pre-cut mesclun salad from a bag, half avocado, smoked almonds snack bar quality/carrot apple ginger ( i ordered the bread to be extra toasted since i, explained, i dod not eat soft chewy bread and extra hot ginger in the juice ) i got instead the bread not event toasted once and the additional hot ginger was not even taken under consideration by the kitchen. For as cool as Foam is being marketed, i found a lack of attention in the preparation, but mostly a supermarket quality of ingredients. The soup was bland and lacked richness in flavor. The chocolate cookies were super nice. The acoustic is bad bad, the closeness of the guests to the open kitchen and the lack of hygienic attention ( see the waitresses that did not bother to attach their hair tidy, and that cooks and waiters all were touching the ingredients without having noticed once washing their hands) personally did not give an overall impression of HACCP food safety. Despite having booked a table for 3 with anticipation, our table had been mistakenly assigned to someone else who refused to move to another table. We were finally assigned a super small table where even 3 salad plates could not be properly served.

There is plenty of staff moving around in such a small place and they all do their best to serve but given my experience today, there are areas in both the service and especially in the food preparation which...

Finally I got the opportunity to visit a fully vegan breakfast & lunch restaurant/cafe: FOAM.

I considered breaking my routine but ended up having my usual breakfast in cafes: avocado sandwich. The bread was wholegrain grilled pave with miso cream spread, wonderfully done, couldn't have asked for more for the bread or the spread! Mesclun salad was fresh and crunchy, smoked almonds were just wonderful and about avocado: I have to say that out of all the places I have visited this one had most avocado. I'm very happy about that. There was spices but no vegan mayo (or other sauce) on the sandwich, but honestly it didn't need it because the miso cream was enough. All the tastes worked well together - very well combined.

As drink I had chai latte (comes automatically with oat milk) and a berry bomb smoothie (as a dessert) - both very good. There's cute little bottles with lids for sugar on the tables - less waste with no single use packaging sugar (a good environmental friendly example for other cafes too). The berry smoothie was exceptionally soft to the mouth - some leave the mouth with a sore feeling afterwards but I guess the banana in it made it easier to handle. A real treat!

Overall I am impressed and happy with this place and fully recommend it especially to...

I had researched FOAM before going to the Hague and I was delighted we managed to make it there.

Its very cute and looks small from the front but goes waay back once inside. There's even a little garden area! The staff are wonderful and friendly and where we sat, we could see the food being made. There was such care and attention to detail for each dish, they all looked amazing!

We had a chai latte with oat milk, cranberry lemonade, BLTA, Italiaanse toastie followed by the apple & rhubarb crumble. It was all incredible, truly the best meal we had of the whole holiday.

I also got some banana bread to take away for travelling the next day and it held up great. It was very soft and moist (there is no other word for it!) and delicious.

Would 10/10 recommended FOAM to anyone heading to...