l'Arena — Restaurant in Amsterdam

This evening a very special dinner. Nice location and not noisy like most of the restaurants. Professional serving with kindness and smiles,guys who loves their job, not much common lately in many places.

We tasted a nice risotto with regional wine from the North East of Italy and lasagna.

Pizza margherita with fiordilatte mozzarella.

The delicious white wine Friuliano Ronca.

Ending with strawberries and red fruit tarte with creme de patisserie rounded with solid caramel.

The restaurant owner Enzo is not only a nice friend but somehow he is managing since more than 25 years this location with love and passion.

You can tell a successful result with a very good quality food.

I definitely recommend this restaurant.

Well done and...

I went to this l’Arena in the evening with my partner and we ordered a pasta vongole and a pizza recommended by the restaurant owner. He recommended our wine ( which were very good ) and took our order happily. All the staff is very kind and it was a very pleasant interaction.

Sadly I was unable to eat my pizza in the restaurant because of a hurry. The restaurant owner took it upon himself to find out why, he even offered a new pizza if I didn’t like the one he recommended. Absolute Italian kindness!

I eventually got to eat the pizza at home and it was one of the best pizza’s I’ve eaten. The entire experience and food is absolutely...

I am very puzzled as to why this place seems to be busy most nights. I came here a few years ago and didn’t like the food but thought I’d give it another chance and order pizza instead as you can’t go too wrong with pizza or so I thought. I ordered the Diavola but something was off with the salami. It smelled weird and struggled to eat it. It was terrible, one of the worst pizzas I’ve had and could only stomach a couple of slices. The service is really slow but I gave it a second chance but I will never come back here again. There are far better Italian restaurants around. Don’t waste your money here. Major...