Downtown — Restaurant in Amsterdam

Do not eat here. They will try to lure you in and make false promises like “if you don’t like it you don’t have to pay for it” and then give you completely sub-par food and really terrible dessert and argue with you after they made you wait for 10-20-30 minutes. The staff were rude, inattentive and unhelpful. Very hard to get a hold of our waiter and when we did it was very hard to communicate our displeasure with the food. When the waiter first came by I thought they asked “was it good” to which I said “no sorry” and they walked off. We thought it was strange, after a while, an hour, (the waiter walked past us multiple times and glanced at us and at one point looking at their phone.) they finally stopped by where we again informed them that we did not like the food, she said something none of quite heard and wakes off, we thought they might get the cook, manager or anyone but no. We didn’t see them again, 30 minutes goes by and a new waiter appears we tell them the same tale we told the last one, a bit of back and forth and they take our plates. (In retrospect we should’ve taken a picture of the food) And then we waited again. Then a man comes out and tries to convince us that it was our fault because we didn’t say anything earlier(we tried) and that the food was half eaten. (I had two bites of that awful red velvet cake and gave a taste to my friends to have them confirm that there was definitely something wrong with it. Because the waiters were so slow the ice cream and cream melted.) He was so unhelpful and rude, we ended up paying for the mid food and got one dessert taken off the bill. I’ve never experienced such disgusting service anywhere. When we were leaving we saw another touristy couple and we warned them to not eat there. To which the same man came up to me and told be that what we did was disgusting to which I replied that what he did making us pay for that food that and with that service was disgusting. I do not care if I’m blacklisted from that place because I truly believe they shouldn’t be up and running.

Do not eat here, I cannot stress this enough.

TLDR: Awful and shady service Sub-par food Terrible desserts Tourist scam Do...

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