Restaurant Wolf Atelier — Restaurant in Amsterdam

Absolutely outstanding!!! - Having been a regular at restaurant Envy, I was an enormous fan of Michael Wolfs incredible approach to food. When he left and the chef Bobby Rust took over, I feel he single handily ruined the restaurant.

I was therefore so excited when I heard that Michael Wolf had opened his own restaurant - Wolf Atelier. This absolutely did not disappoint!

The location is stunning and easily accessible to anyone as it is close by Central station. Then you have the building itself which is absolutely stunning :) It is modern, has huge glass windows which provide views over the water which makes this absolutely beautiful. I was curious whether this would detract from a cosy feeling. ABSOLUTELY not! The vibe inside the restaurant is cozy, professional and aesthetically beautiful.

The service is outstanding, each member of the team was warm, welcoming and so knowledgeable about each dish, and recommending wines to go with the food.

NOW to the food.... This was even better than what I was used to at Envy. My friends and I chose the 5 course taster menu. I am vegetarian and he eats both fish and meat. Both of us were blown away by the incredibly high standard of each dish. The variety of flavours and textures were incredible. Each dish looked beautiful, the presentation is outstanding, and the taste and thought behind the differing textures and combination of ingredient's was incredible for each dish :)

I cannot recommend this restaurant enough.. it is an ABSOLUTE must!!! Compared to other restaurants the prices are so reasonable when the quality is of such high quality.

Michael Wolf - you are a legend and have created the best restaurant in Amsterdam :))) I will be coming back and recommending this restaurant to everyone I know.

Thank you again to the whole team for a...

A lovely meal overall, and a fun experience - my husband and I opted for the 15-course experience, and I’m truly glad we did. I don’t know that I would repeat it next time.

In choosing this experience, you are given a pencil and a list of the 15 courses and are encouraged to rate/comment on each dish - a chance to be a food critic! And granted while it was fun, I know how much work and creativity goes into each dish. That said, the dishes ranged anywhere between 3* and 5*. The majority of the first half of the menu were soups - all of which were delicious, but a variety in types of dishes would have been fun. The watermelon tartlette was a phenomenal start to the tasting, though the gazpacho wasn’t my favourite… the subsequent dishes were mostly soups or soup-like, save for the North Sea Crab dish - one of our favourite dishes of the night.

Other honourable mentions: the Jeruzalem artichoke soup, the gin tonic palate cleanser, the roquefort tartelette and the strawberry tonka bean dessert.

We wish the A5 wagyu course was a little more substantial - would have preferred thicker/bigger slices… the thinness and the size of each piece of meat really made it hard to experience what wagyu is. Still good, though - hard to mess up A5.

The servers were great, although they asked the same question after each course - it got a liiiiiiiiittle old after the 7th ask. And by the desserts, I couldn’t come up with...

An absolute roller-coaster of an experience. We came for one of the inventive fine dining + dance music events during ADE and the the night was riddled with miscommunication and hostile staff.

When a bartender realized she brought the wrong beer, she brought back the correct one after a friend had started drinking it, responded to us joking about getting both (industry standard) with "nope!", snatched up the initial cup and went to pour it out.

Later after we had left, we realized we left an important item at our table, so we went back to see if they had found it. One staff member said he had seen it on the table and referred us to work with the beer stealing woman to find it. She interrogated a girl in my party ruthlessly, demanding to know who told her they had seen it (we wouldn't know the names of her colleagues) and pushing repetitively to know if it was "actually important", hoping to excuse herself from even trying to find it. Even when she had pushed my friend to tears she still guilted her every step of the way as they looked through coat check and inevitably did not find it.

The food was good, although expensive compared to other incredible food in the city. The shallot was the favorite across the table. Having employees in the service industry with 0 empathy or concern for the customer experience is a dealbreaker, and I wouldn't be able to recommend Wolf Atelier...