Restaurant Black — Restaurant in Amsterdam

A restaurant with seating inside or outside. We sat inside due to the chilliness of the evening. The decor inside was hip and an eclectic vibe. Leather and velvet seating with table or booth like seating with fun pillows of different fabrics and colors at the bench seats. Wooden beams on the ceiling, brass lighting with shades on the wall with bohemian looking ceiling lights. Walls adorned with pretty wall paper and wainscoting. 😎 After being seated, we had a reservation, it did take a little while to get our drinks ordered. I believe it was lack of staff. I felt like there were two taking orders, one food runner and the bartender. That being said, I requested a drink that wasn’t on the menu and a drink that isn’t difficult if the bar has the ingredients. I also like my drinks on the sweet side. Request was made and perfectly might I add; Peach Cosmopolitan 🍸. Our orders were taken and food brought out in a timely manner and prepared to perfection. Tuna tataki for starter, dinner was tenderloin of black angus & cooked mussels. An excellent cup espresso ☕️ to finish our dinner. The servers were a little on the cool side at first but I feel as though it was due to be overwhelmed with customers outside with running in and out constantly fulfilling drink orders. The service was fine once our meal orders were placed. Staff seemed to warm up after they seemed less overwhelmed. I would definitely recommend this restaurant for the drinks, food and atmosphere …… even the service as long as the restaurant as workers to fulfill the load...

My food here was superb: no exaggeration when I say it was the best bruschetta of my entire life, and let me tell you I eat a lot of bruschetta. I had a Cornish hen for my main and that was equally exquisite, and a lovely wine with a fair markup when I googled it but I was only googling to see what it was to buy myself some for at home.

The main reason I would make the stop for this restaurant again is the staff: I'm travelling alone and they've been so friendly, so helpful and so so welcoming. I felt more at ease here than I have anywhere else in the city so far and I got a tattoo four hours ago.

Beyond this next to me were some awful customers. I'm talking "look for problems" type customers, talk to each other before acknowledging the staff's question type customers, the kind of customers who aren't smiling when there's a problem to be polite: they're smiling because they wanted there to be one.

The waitress who first dealt with them, a kind seeming brunette woman, was to the point and handled their snark well. The second, a gentleman with long hair, seemed to solve problems they hadn't even occurred to them, kept his composure against their bile and found a solution quickly and easily. I'm writing this hoping you see this, and to apologise for my fellow English tourists.

Reader visit this restaurant if it's in budget. This was a stunning meal with stunning staff and an atmosphere I wish I...

I came to Black already many times and this last time was for a special dinner with family and friends, that I booked in advance. What happened was: It took almost 30 mins for someone to ask us for drinks. When we ordered the drinks it took 1 hour (for real) for the waiter to tell us that it was not possible to make a drink since they didn't have ingredients. The waiter was very nice but clearly with no service experience. He gave us in replacement some free drinks, which is nice but it didn't stop there, more issues happened. Each one of us ordered a dish and it was clear in the menu that each dish would come with fries and salad. What happened was that they gave us half of salad and fries to share. And since it was not my first time there I knew it was the same portion as usually comes individually. After we ate - by the way the food was good - the waiter never came back to our table, we could literally have left without no one noticing us.

As a customer that was used to always visit your restaurant I strongly recommend you to train your waiter and to pay attention to small things, link letting us no if you are running out of something as soon as possible. Hope it serves as motivation for improvements and I'm happy to be back to see if...