Rozey Amersfoort — Restaurant in Amersfoort

A delightful and delicious experience! Be prepared as far as the cost - it is on the expensive side, but it is for an all-inclusive meal (drinks, too). And be prepared to spend several hours here. The “tasting” concept is lots of fun. You use a check list to check the numbers of the items you want: up to two from each course. The courses are soup, cold dishes, hot dishes, desserts. The portions of the soups, cold and hot dishes are small, and, actually, after my hot dishes I still felt hungry and had commented to my companion that everything is delicious, but such a tiny portion of the heavenly melanzane is not enough, and therefore I’d give 4 stars. And then, when the waitstaff came to clear before dessert she said: now order as many as you want from the hot dishes. That’s the surprise! We’ll, I tried one other hot dish and also had refills (new little pans) of the melanzane. Then, feeling truly satisfied, we ordered desserts. Unfortunately, I have to keep my carb intake low, so I only ate a little of the very good cheesecake, but my companion had a feast. I topped it off with a good cup of Pukka tea, also included. We are teetotalers, so did not avail ourselves of the wine and beer included in the meal price. The meal takes time because you do need to wait until the next course arrives, but it is so much fun that we didn’t mind at all. The waitstaff are amazing, carrying out all of the dishes that people order. We visited Amersfoort because of the picturesque old city and city gates, but it is worth coming to Amersfoort just for this restaurant. Not the kind of place I’d go once a week - too expensive for that, and it would detract from the delight of trying all the dishes. But if I lived up to an hour train ride away, I’d come...

As a vegetarian i loved the concept of an all you can eat vegetarian tapas bar. Usually every tapas restaurant has a bunch of different options, but they are quite similar: olives, peppers, creamcheese etc. At Rozey i was really excited about the creativity of some of the dishes. Not your standard go-to veggie tapas, but an actually creative lets-make-a-carpaccio but from celeriac type of food.

Taste wise we enjoyed most dishes. There were some dishes that i would not chose next time due to the flavor (seaweed bitterballen) and some dishes that lacked a bit of flavor (rettich carpaccio), but the majority was enjoyable.

In addition the seating was quite nice. I usually prefer round tables over square ones and was pleasantly surprised that they seated us at a round table that was just the right size for a party of three.

The drinks being included in the price also makes it easy to split the bill if you'd want to at the end.

The only downside atmosphere-wise was the location of the toilets. The two toilet doors are located directly in the seating area. There is a wall that covers the doors for most of the restaurant, but it is still an open entrance. The toilet was scented...

Coming in the atmosphere was immediately nice. It looked nicely decorated - until I looked at the ceiling. The yellow carpet looks like mold and isn't exactly encouraging my appetite.

The food is generally good. Some things, like the melanzane and the flammkuchen, were absolutely amazing, but the gyoza was a bit dry and sour, so it left me disappointed.

As for the glasses and cups: 3 of our glasses were chipped in a way that could lead to harm (I slightly hurt my lip on one) and some of the mugs and plates were also chipped. It takes away from the otherwise nice presentation and food. When I brought it to the attention of the staff they were very friendly about it and said they'd throw the glasses away immediately.

On the topic of staff: all the ladies who took our orders or brought out our meals/drinks were super friendly, polite and looked cute! No complaints here whatsoever.

The toilet looked clean and the soap smelled...