Ajamo

Love this place and its owners and staff. Food and vegetables are fresh. Salad menu is creative. Staff is very pleasant and friendly. They really appreciate your business and feedback.

Delicious salads. The food is very fresh and all the dressings are unique and do not have a lot of oil. The staff is friendly and try hard to put a smile on your face. Love this place!

Ordered a chicken ceasar salad. Everything tasted fresh and you get a lot of salad. Nothing to write home about. But its a nice option in the food court.

Made my first visit to this new place in the food court. It’s a nice refreshing change to the places in there.
It’s a salad place. Make no mistake.
But that’s fine. Wide variety of ingredients and freshly made in front of you so you can tweak it how you like. Quick and friendly.
I had the Kale Caesar and really enjoyed it. Fresh parmesan was a nice touch. The kale could probably have been cut into slightly smaller pieces but otherwise, it was nice and fresh. And it’s a much better salad option than, say the It’s Only Natural place next to it.
Look forward to returning. At least when i’m trying to eat good.

I’ve been working downtown at State House Square for eleven years. During that time I almost always brought my lunch to save money (and minimize calories). Occasionally I would eat at The Natural, which is good and reasonably priced. Now I no longer bring my lunch and eat at Ajamo every day. Ajamo makes the best salads I have ever tasted. Calorie content is reasonable (and posted). There is a great variety of standard salads, plus a make your own option. The quality of the ingredients is excellent. The portion size is ample. Everything tastes delicious. I wanted to eat salad every day but was dissatisfied with the salads I made at home. Now I can eat salad every day and love it! Service is friendly and efficient. This is not a chain, folks — nothing is formulaic. I generally don’t like restaurant food — too expensive and too fattening. I am so happy to have found a restaurant I really love. I only wish they were open for dinner on weekends. If you love salads, you will love Ajamo.

Thank you Unilocal for bringing this spot to my attention!
It is in the Statehouse Square food court in Downtown Hartford, in the old Moo Yah spot. After the previous reviews, I was very excited to scope out a new vegan friendly eatery!
The ordering style is like Subway or Moe’s, and they were very well staffed. Every single person I spoke with (4 to be exact) were very relaxed, friendly and helpful. I told them it was my first time, and I would like a vegan item. The initial greeter asked another employee to help me, because she was vegan. She recommended a grain bowl, which sounded great, but I opted for a Bangkok Express Salad, with sesame ginger baked tofu, romaine, cabbage, avocado, green onion, carrot, celery, rice vermicelli, spicy Thai peanut dressing & sriracha. And it was amazing! They ask you how much dressing, and toss it. A good size portion for $ 10.
Any salad can be made into a wrap, or you can build your own salad or wrap, with a greens base and 4 toppings included. And so many interesting dressings to choose from! And they also have soups, which I will look forward to trying in the coming colder months.
And the best part, they code everything with dietary needs (Gluten Free, Peanuts, Tree Nuts, Vegetarian, Vegan), and post the calories.
Online ordering coming soon!
I know I like a place, when I’m trolling the menu for my next order while still eating. PS I’m totally getting the falafel bowl…
Update: 11÷13÷15: Today the line took forever! Not sure why, very well staffed but incredibly slow. However, the falafel bowl salad was excellent! AND the falafels are baked, not fried!

Ajamo recently opened in the SHS Food Court and I stopped by for lunch on Friday, ⁸⁄₂₁. I was greeted at the start of the line by a woman who handed me a menu and asked if I had been there before. When I said that I had not, she welcomed me and asked for any feedback — especially if I *didn’t* like my salad. I looked through the menu and chose the Baja salad with portobello mushrooms. I was surprised when the employee took the to-​go salad bowl and stuffed it full of veggies; he was extremely generous and filled the bowl to its brim. Everyone behind the counter greeted me (some had been prior employees at Moe’s and recognized me), and when my bowl reached the end of the line, they poured all of the contents into a big mixing bowl, put the dressing on and shook it up before stuffing it back into my to-​go bowl. They also included a small slice of baguette. Imagine my shock when my total cost was less than $ 10. At our company’s café, we have salad bowls about the same size, and a conservative salad, filling it about halfway, comes to about the same price as this overstuffed bowl.
But, really, who cares about price or quantity? It’s the taste that matters, and the Baja salad did not disappoint. I forgot to ask for no onions (my fault!) but was really impressed anyway. The leafy greens — other veggies ratio was good, with a forkful of leaf including lots of other veggies with each bite.
I look forward to seeing what soup options they have on rotation and what other salads they come up with, and will slowly but surely make my way through this menu. I hope they’re here to stay!