Petit Caron — Restaurant in Amsterdam

Firstly, let me preface by saying cafe Caron is one of my favorite restaurants in Amsterdam. I’ve been over 8-9 times and same with petit Caron. The food, wine list and service has been fantastic. However this is my first time visiting the new location and I was thoroughly disappointed.

The new Lowell wine was not as good as it use to be, the previous years back in 2019/2020 were fantastic but the new one I did not understand. Secondly, the scallops came almost cold in a strange sauce that felt like it had been prepped and taken out the fridge. Tasted nothing like fresh scallops. The waiter was very attentive and apologized and gave us new ones but did not deduct the old ones from the bill. Strange service there but whatever it was good once we got new ones, but it would’ve been a bit extra to remove them. I won’t complain.

Thirdly, the chicken was fantastic and so was the sauce and salad. However the potato was one small cold piece of layered thin potato. Again: strange? It was cold and slightly too hard for being thin layered. Also who gives one piece of potato for an entire chicken thigh?

Overall it was a disappointment. I use to love this restaurant and the food, however this was just very meh. Not what you expect to receive at this price point. I was so excited and left disappointed. Staff was helpful but wouldn’t say overly friendly. That might just be Amsterdam service but I remember it much better than this.

Until next...

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