Eterij 'De Binnenkomer' — Restaurant in Alkmaar

My rate 4/5. It's a small but cozy restaurant. It made me feel like having a meal in a typical Dutch house: from chairs, glasses to plates. They were so cute, vintage and so Dutch. Food: although they add some Asian ingredients to their menu but it's still very Dutch to me. We ordered Bordje doe maar lekker, bigbanger burger and bavette. The starter was ok. Not bad but not impressed. Bigbanger burger was ok too. The burger was a bit dry but could be fixed. Bavette steak was well cooked as requested: medium rare. Soft and juicy. However, chili oil was not matching with the dish. If the restaurant would like to add some spicy tastes please consider something else. Because the bavette steak was seasoning with sea salt, then the chili oil was also salty so together they made the dish too salty. Mashed potatoes also couldn't go well with chili oil with peanut. For me, it's totally failed. Service: nice, kind and charming. No complaints. *Price: its reasonable, not so crazy expensive and the quality was decent too. The portions were fine.

In general, I think it's a lovely restaurant to visit if you...

A wonderful place, really. It starts by the service: the two ladies that served us were really in good mood and very welcoming and helpful. The food was great and looked great, had a good size and was very tasty. Perfectly done. The place is very beautiful: very gezellig outside with the seats and tables and very beautiful inside. The prices are fair. The only critic is that the glass of beer we got "Alkmaar Blond" (4.90 euro) was half full. It was a really really small glass and then there was inside not more than 0.15l, probably closer to 0.1l.

We can really see myself traveling to Alkmaar especially to eat there. PS: They have good vegetarian options. Not only the 'boring' stuff like...

We were strolling through Alkmaar and stumbled across this place. I have to say we were very pleasantly surprised. The atmosphere is very hipster-like with very quaint decorations all over. The food was amazing- I had the one minute steak tortilla and my husband had the BigBanger burger. For such a small price, I have to admit I wasn't expecting much but the explosion of flavours lingered on in my mouth even after we left. The homemade iced tea was also really good- they used real black tea without much sugar and paper straws! (plus point in my book). All in all, we paid 21€ for a really delicious meal. They also all spoke in English and were absolutely lovely. Would definitely...