Beef Chief North (at Oedipus) — Restaurant in Amsterdam

The bar is an industrial warehouse style place with folding tables and bench seats dotted around.

The music inside is loud to the point that you really can not conduct a conversation without shouting. Think nightclub loud.

Outside is quieter, and there is plenty of seating but only worthwhile during the warmer months. In October, it's already too windy and cool to be comfortable for long.

Service on Friday at 6.30pm was fast and friendly. Bar staff set expectations by informing us that food could take 30-40 minutes. In fact, our wait was less than 15 minutes.

Now, the burgers are tasty but badly constructed.

Yes, a good burger is often sloppy and messy to eat, but theirs is way too messy! The burger bun and the wrapping paper had completely disintegrated by the time we got it to the table! It was impossible to pick up without the patty and fillings sliding out! The bun is so soft and soggy that your fingers just rip through it just by holding it.

They should take a leaf from Five Guys and wrap it in foil as this will allow for holding the burger while eating it. They should also look at finding a bun with a little more integrity or reducing the amount of sauce as the bun was like tasty soggy cardboard falling apart.

Second issue is that the patty, sauce and cheese are very tasty, but it need some lettuce or something to provide some textural contrast. My daughter said the burger was tasty but her taste buds got bored as it was like eating a liquefied homogenous burger where every bite tasted the same with no contrast in taste or texture.

We ordered two magnificent and one kimchi burger, fries and chicken wings and 4 soft drinks total, including 10% tip was €76.

The fries are crunchy but a little over salted. The chicken wings are actually very good but the blue cheese dip wasn't flavourful enough and tasted a little meh!

They also need to change the sink in the men's toilet. It is so small that when people wash their hands, water just sprays all over the floor, making it look like the toilet...

We’ve been loyal customers of Beef Chief Noord for over two years, coming nearly every week for the burgers never once needing a reservation. But tonight at 8:00 PM was a shockingly poor experience that left us questioning whether to return.

Upon arrival, we were told that without a reservation we could still sit at a table in the corner which we gladly accepted. We ordered drinks while waiting to order food, and after trying to get the attention of 3–4 staff members, someone finally acknowledged us and said he would come back after taking terrace orders. We patiently waited.

Fifteen minutes later, the same staff member returned only to tell us after all that time that the kitchen had an issue and burgers were only available for guests with reservations, and that we could only order snacks.

Why wasn’t this told to us at the start? We clearly said we didn’t have a reservation. Had we known, we wouldn’t have stayed we came specifically for burgers, not snacks.

To make matters worse, the staff showed zero accountability instead of an apology the server gave us attitude and insisted we pay for the quarter of a drink we barely touched while waiting for a food order that would never come. We refused. This was not our mistake it was theirs for not communicating basic information!

Honestly, this place has always been about the burgers if you’re not serving them to walk-ins, say so clearly. Wasting 20+ minutes of a regular customer’s time without a single apology is unacceptable.

There seems to be a real management problem on busy nights and weekends a we come during the week and the staff is attentive.

Hopefully this gets sorted out because the food is...

A resident kitchen at Oedipus Brewery Taphouse The Beef Chief gets a lot of press for their smash burgers on a housemade bun, Simon Parrott plan to build the Netherlands best Burger seemingly successful to the tune of two locations that remain busy from open to close.

Quite literally just a window inside the sizable complex, outdoor seating quite popular during long summer days while the inside is filled by youthful residents sipping Beer or Wine, arrival just an hour after opening finds everyone in jovial spirits and staff quite pleasant.

Originally gaining notoriety for the Kimchief, Parrott’s fondness for fermented Cabbage immediately evident on the menu, “Fry Me a River” takes on the popular “Smashburger” without over-flattening things and the result is a juicy mix of MRIJ Beef and Bone Marrow whose intrinsic flavor holds up well to condiments including Cheese, Pickles and Sauce.

Sporting a fluffy but generous Bun, the attention to detail evident across Beef Chief’s menu, Fries or Wings prove popular and look well-made but should not take the place of “Crucial cauliflower” that sees the Crucifer lightly fried but perfectly tender in a sticky Korean lacquer with Sesame Seeds, a side of Kimchi and...