Café Nieuw Amsterdam — Restaurant in Amsterdam

Incredibly terrible. We have been working our way through Amsterdam's Sunday lunch offerings, just when we thought we had found the worst we visited what looked like a swanky eatery. Service was great, however the despite the classy looking venue this did not extend to the food. Tell me more about the food I hear you say. 28eu x2 set meal, this gets you and your friend: deep fried chicken, deep fried pork belly, deep fried crispy potatoes, 12 not deep fried brussel sprouts which makes up the sum of all the vegetables on offer. Then there is a side dish of beef cheeks in baked beans which, for which I shall award 1 star, the rest is all negative stars.

The food, if you want to call it that, was served on a single normal plate from which we had to share onto these ridiculous little plates, the gravy / food was so salty I was drinking water for the rest of the day. The venue was so loud you could barely hear the other person, hint ... buy sound absorbing noise boards.

I just don't understand how whoever owns this place, which is clearly very nice has no understanding of what a Sunday lunch is, has not heard of vegetables, treats all their meats like a FEBO snackbar, and has never thought it might be an idea to dampen the noise with some modern solutions.

And to top it off, when I passed the feedback to the waiter, in typical Dutch fashion, they went straight on to the defensive and made...

We went to Café Nieuw Amsterdam for a friend's lunch. The atmosphere of the building is undeniably impressive. The staff is amiable even though they are all over the place running up and down, while the staff ratio to guests was perfectly fine. Most of us ordered a sandwich with the expectation of receiving a proper sandwich. Unfortunately, the size was relatively small, too small for a lunch dish. It would have been great if the staff had informed us as we would have ordered two each—a missed opportunity to make some profit for the restaurant. The food was delicious and would definitely be a reason to come back if it wasn't for the poor, poor, poor furniture. The furniture was horrific and should not be in any restaurant as it was impossible to sit on it properly. Furthermore, the tables had a bar at the bottom, making it impossible to stretch your legs. No restaurant should have this quality of furniture! The wine we ordered was great, and we would have ordered another bottle, but as mentioned staff was all over the place—another missed opportunity. We'll give it some time before we return in the hope there will be improvements to the furniture and the waiting qualities of the staff even though they were...

FOOD POISONING! AVOID! My partner and I went for dinner on a Friday evening, there was a private party happening in the back so the staff were clearly busy with that and I could see other customers looking annoyed when I walked in. The waitress was really moody and didn’t seem to care about serving us, took ages to bring menus, take drink orders etc. Still we were there and decided to order oysters, mussels, and a prawn special. When the food eventually arrived none of the fish tasted particularly fresh but I wasn’t prepared for what happened that evening. We both came down with severe food poisoning which lasted the whole weekend. I wrote an email to management, no reply, sent a follow up email, no reply. Over two weeks later and still no reply, which I find frankly disgusting. My partner could not work the entire weekend from being so sick so not only did we pay a fortune to the actual restaurant (this place is extremely overpriced) we also lost 2 days salary because of it. Obviously we won’t be going back. Awful experience that I never want to go...