Restaurant JOOST — Restaurant in Amsterdam

I arrived at the restaurant and waited to be seated. The concierge of the hotel appears and asks me "can I help you?" And I answered, "can I get a table for 1?" And he answered back by pointing to all the empty tables at the restaurant (the restaurant was empty). I took a table and the waitress followed with the same question "can I help you?" To what I answered "dinner?"

The food was good, however, I think it is obvious that if you are at the entrance of a restaurant, it is OBVIOUS that you want to be seated, and most importantly if you are at a restaurant you want to have dinner.

It didn't surprise me to see bad reviews of the restaurant with...

Fantastic breakfast and very friendly staff. We weren’t guests of the hotel, - found this place on google when looking for early breakfast after our 6 am landing to Amsterdam. Wonderful place to spend some time and enjoy simple and delicious food. The buffet had variety of cold cuts, cheeses, breads. Hot mushrooms, scrambled eggs and I believe sausage was there too. Cereals, yogurt and variety of fresh juices and coffee options. Quality of food was very delicious. Cozy...

The food is excellent. We wanted to try some Dutch food and there we are. Service is excellent the waiter is very helpful explaining the menu since it wasn't translated. As heard from previous reviews we were prepared to wait till the kingdom comes but still it would be nice to serve both parties at the same time with their main dish so one don't have to stare jealously at the other. They are recently renovating the entrance so enter from the hotel next to the...