Salad & the City

The Bilderdijkstraat is getting hotter day by day. I already bought pasta at Portami Via and lunched at Meneer en mevrouw Keus. Since a couple of weeks ago I score my 5-​spices pork belly at Happy Happy Joy Joy and my avocado salad at Salad & the City: lettuce, rocket, avocado slices, walnuts, egg — semi-​firm — and cherry tomatoes drenched in a honey-​musterd dressing. The most addictive ingredient is on top. I mean, who can resist ultra thin home-​made cheese cookies? Thank god the salads on offer are not all about lettuce, but contain lots of more interesting ingredients, be it cheese, fish (salmon, prawn) or meat (smoked chicken, ham). The compositions of the salads will change each season, bestsellers excluded. The owners, Mirjam and Judith, are energetic and hospitable — ‘Have some water with lemon while you wait’. When both had office jobs (an university, a real estate agency) they hungered for healthy takeaway food. Now they deliver portions of vitamins by bike or make it for you behind the counter. Shake their hands and dance to their music.