Café 't Hooischip — Restaurant in Amsterdam

This place is on my way home and, as I am often deserving of a tasty sweet treat, I go here quite a lot. Usually I have coffee and apple pie. Occasionally — if I’ve been a very good boy — I have an Irish coffee.

Café 't Hooischip is another great example of gezellig Dutch horeca — the food is good, the atmosphere is great, the service is mostly excellent, although some of the younger staff are not very attentive, at least not to a greying, increasingly invisible old man like myself. No wonder I drink.

Inside in the winter, nice and warm; outside in the summer, preferably sitting in the evening sun, it’s all good. Lunch menu available. Beer too. What more could you ask? Just one thing: not to be repeatedly ignored by the bar staff....

Horrible customer service. Blonde lady that was working at the bar was very rude. She waited 10 seconds for us to make a decision and left and said that we can come down to her to order bc we were wasting her time. Then she came back with 2 drinks for the others and I tried to order my drink again now that I was ready and she said no I had to come down to the bar to order anything in a very rude tone. We picked up our stuff and left. If I were the owner of the bar I would definitely FIRE her. I think she didn’t like us bc she heard that we were Americans. No other explanation. Every Dutch person we had met previously was incredibly nice. She was absolutely horrid. Would give zero...

THE WORSE SERVICE AND STAFF!!! DO NOT GO!! We walked in, asked for tap water and the blonde lady, who wasn’t nice at all from the start, brought us bottled water. We checked the menu and saw that the 25cl of water was €3 each. We did not touch the water and decided to walk out. The woman came running out and grabbed me by the arm shouting and swearing saying that we had to pay and threatening to call the police. She kept saying that tap water doesn’t exist in “this country” and that we don’t know because we are “not from this country“. Honestly I can’t stress enough how much I DO NOT RECOMMEND THIS PLACE AT ALL. FOREIGNERS STAY AWAY! WOULD GIVE ZERO...