De Brabantse Aap — Restaurant in Amsterdam

The service is cartoonishly horrible!

We arrived with 5 people. Outdoor tables only seat 3. I looked for a waitperson for a few minutes to ask if we could move tables together but there was no one coming. So my group pushed 2 tables closer to each other.

A few minutes later when the waitress arrived, I asked in Dutch if it was ok that we put 2 tables together. "What do you care, you've already done it," she said icily in English for my group to hear. I said in Dutch again that if it was an issue, we could put them back. She tole me it doesn't matter anymore. I said, clearly it does as you seem quite upset. She told me I should have asked first. I explained there was no one to ask when we arrived and so the group slide them together not impacting any other guests. She shook her head and asked us to order.

Later, she accidentally spilled a beer on my friend's elderly father. Accidents happen. It soaked his trousers and shoe. "Don't worry, don't worry", she said, "It's no problem." She used a dirty dishrag to try to sop up his trousers. But it was a problem for him with wet beer stained clothes. No apology, no offer for something for his trouble.

It's a good spot to sit outside - if you come and be prepared to see Amsterdam service at it's most...

We ordered two meals, the cheese burger and a regular nachos, and specifically asked that the nachos would be not spicy and to remove the pepper. Our food came and they did a mistake with both orders. They gave us a chicken burger instead of the cheese burger we asked, and the nachos came with spicy chicken!! We told them and the waiter came again to take are order, we told him again and even showed him the meals we wanted in the menu. The second time the food came, we got cheese burger but the nachos came wrong again! It was with chicken!

I returned it once more and shows them the meal I wanted. About 20 min passed, my partner finished his burger and the nachos didn’t come! I said to manager that I no longer want the nachos because I will not eat alone. The manager refused to take it out of the bill because they made it twice and sent the third time to kitchen.

We were shocked with the way the manager said it was our responsibility and we should pay for it.

We will never come back and I really advise everyone...

Right from the start, the waiter was confrontational and aggressively unfriendly, seemingly intent on picking a fight. The fries were cold and bizarrely seasoned with oregano, creating a truly awful taste. All the ordered snacks—nuggets, frikandel, kaasoufle, and bitterballen—tasted distinctly "old"; frankly, we are worried about food poisoning. The attempt to pay the bill culminated in another display of extreme rudeness from the waiter; it genuinely seemed as if he was part of a "Karen's" restaurant. I don't know if he was having a terrible day or actively trying to provoke someone, but I absolutely will not be returning. I strongly advise walking a bit further down the street to any of the numerous other bars. One last thing: if you insist on trying this place, ensure you sit indoors, or you will endure deafening Amsterdam trams rumbling by mere feet...